"We will require a resolution that balances the needs of both with respect for the national identities and the religious beliefs of both." "But I'm telling you, there can be no lasting peace, no regional stability without a strong secure Israel, and there can be no lasting peace without a sovereign, viable state for the Palestinians." "Good morning, let me give you a brief rundown of what's happened so far at Camp David." "The Israeli and Palestinian delegations arrived yesterday evening, the parties convened at 10:20 this morning, and the President will be meeting privately with the Chairman and Prime Minister Zahavy at 12:00." "C.J.!" "The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Alexander, will make a statement, after which he'll take questions." "General." "Moments ago, FA-18 Hornets off the Abraham Lincoln in the Persian Gulf struck the Ein Hawa terrorist training camp," "32 kilometers southwest of Damascus in the kingdom of Syria." "Whether you choose to do this today or ten years from today, you will face the same geography, the same neighbors, the same ancient animosities." "More years of bloodshed and pain will not change those facts." "The only path to a real and lasting peace is through negotiation." " Toby." " Sir." "The parties have agreed to break into subgroups this afternoon, after Chairman Farad, Prime Minister Zahavy and President Bartlett meet to agree on topics of discussion." "Excuse me, Toby, if I may." "You'll be hearing this news shortly, but our FBI has identified the group responsible for the deaths of Americans in Gaza, and we've launched an attack on their camp in Syria." "Gentlemen, if you would join me on the Aspen Terrace at noon." "Thank you." " No, no, no, no, no, no." " They're not getting Jerusalem." "We say that in our opening," "Farad's not going to be here long enough to unpack his toothbrush." "Go back to your opening list, again." "Farad gives security guarantees and takes tangible action against Hamas." " And he ain't getting Jerusalem." " Enough with Jerusalem." "Kate?" "Israel allows the Palestinians to form a viable, sovereign state in the territories." "We need to discuss the right of return..." "We aren't going to get a deal on refugees." " They have to go somewhere." " There's room in Montana." "They can rent a cabin and try to secede from the Union." "Can we go inside?" "I got flies or little gnats or something." "We need something on Jerusalem." "So, do we finally have a draft?" " No." " Yes." "The Israelis aren't going to give up Jerusalem." "Palestinians aren't gonna make a deal without it." "We're back where we were last night?" "Delegation's on their way." "We punt on Jerusalem this morning, tackle it later, agreed?" "Mr. Share-your-gum-with-everyone over here." "Yeah." "We need Leo up here." "This President has a solemn duty to help the only true democracy in the Middle East defend itself against murderers." "Murderers of Israelis, murderers of Americans, murderers of..." "Josh lands in an hour." "CNN's got the Speaker on an endless loop, like a Pink Floyd concert." "It's their way of punishing us for cutting off access to Camp David." "Natives restless?" "There may be a mutiny afoot." "I heard a couple of them plotting to throw our Mr. Coffees into the Potomac." "Speaker's on his way over." "Doubt he'll miss the cameras on his way in or his way out." "You were looking for me?" "We're losing the media war." "I want us on the morning shows, Crossfire, Dateline." "Book This Old House if we can figure out an angle." "Who goes?" "You, me, the Assistant Deputy Secretary for Fishery Exploitation." "I don't care, we got to get our message out." "What is our message?" "Shut up while we're trying to get them stop killing each other." "Mr. President, how are your children?" "Your grandchildren?" "Everything's well I hope." "They're all very well." "Thank you, Mr. Chairman." "Please." "Annie started high school last week." "I've ordered some tea." "Would anyone like something else?" "Tea is fine." "Thank you." "We need to agree on the topics of discussion for the subgroups." "I've taken the liberty of coming up with a few things to help us get started." "First, security for Israel after withdrawal from the territories." "We will need to maintain a military presence in the Jordan Valley." "What sort of a message this sends to my people about sovereignty?" "Please, excuse me." "Discussion of these issues is for the subgroups." "We're only suggesting topics now." "Thank you." "Second, disposition of the settlements and the land apportioned to them." "Third, right of return for refugees." "No, there's no right of return, it's a claim of return." "Fourth, how the Palestinian Authority will go about dismantling terrorist groups." "Well, that's four topics." "I guess we can catch a double-feature now." "What about Jerusalem?" "I thought we would put off discussion of Jerusalem until after we've..." "Israel will not give up control of Jerusalem." "Jerusalem is central to our topics here." "Gentlemen, please!" "Let's begin on the four issues, see if we can't..." "We should start with Jerusalem." "If we can't resolve that, why we spend time on the little things?" "Little things?" "Like denouncing terrorism, the security of Israel?" "Our capital must be Jerusalem." "Israel will not give up Jerusalem!" "Then why are you here?" "Why are any of us here?" "For once, Mr. Farad, you are right." "My apologies, Mr. President, there is no progress to be made here." "I should have never accepted your invitation." "Please, sit back down, Eli." "No, we will not negotiate sovereignty over the Temple Mount." "The Dome of the Rock stands on the site where the Prophet Muhammad..." "Stop it!" "Both of you!" "Gentlemen, I have staked my personal credibility and the credibility of the United States on suggesting, perhaps foolishly, that the Israelis and the Palestinians are reasonable people who would like to at least try to resolve their differences peacefully." "No one is going home after one hour of talks." "Now then, the subgroups will begin on these four topics after lunch." "Thank you." "Thank you." "Excuse me." "That went well, don't you think?" "I've got you booked on Meet the Press, Crossfire, and Taylor Reid." " Taylor Reid?" " Nobody else'd do it." "Now that's good staff work." " Hey." " Hey." " How's Donna?" " She threw me out." "Her mother's driving her crazy and her IRA boyfriend is plotting sedition, or maybe it was seduction, probably both." "The dashing photojournalist?" "Yeah." "I think the professional term is "wanker."" "Listen to you." "Too much BBC." "Too much sauerbraten." " So, Leo's still down here?" " Yeah, he's in his office." "Why isn't he up at Camp David?" "So, where do you want me?" "How's Donna?" "Better." "May be able to fly in a few days." "Get up to Camp David." "Toby's climbing the walls." "Thinks the President's gonna give away the store." "When are you coming up?" "Tomorrow maybe... the day after." "Everything okay?" "Syrians are blowing enough gaskets to open a new subcontract." "They want a resolution at the UN." "I'll stop by my apartment, pick up some clothes." "I'll drive straight up." "Margaret." "Have we heard anything from the President this morning?" "No, sir." "You want me to call Debbie?" "No." "Thanks." "Good afternoon." "The President, the Prime Minister and the Chairman met successfully this morning over coffee at Aspen to finalize the topics for today's discussions." "Following lunch, the delegations are breaking into subgroups for this afternoon's talks on a variety of mutually agreed upon subjects." "While it's too early to comment upon the direction and tenor of the talks," "I can tell you the luncheon buffet of Maryland crab cakes, baked New England cod, and Washington State apple brown betty was a hit..." "We must have a military presence in the Jordan Valley to secure the borders." "And how would that be different from the current occupation?" "How are we a sovereign nation with IDF units in our streets?" "We're going to have four million Palestinians living next door." "Israel could be cut in two by tanks and artillery in about 15 minutes." "What tanks, what artillery?" "Even if every Palestinian man, woman and child were given an Uzi, they'd be no match for your military." "And we have no intention of allowing that to change." "We must be allowed to defend ourselves." "Defend yourselves... from who?" "How about Hamas?" "How are we expected to argue there is no longer a reason to fight when your Army is still there, exactly as before?" "We cannot support a withdrawal from the territories without assurances of our security." "And that, gentlemen, means our troops." "A million Palestinians were being expelled from their homes..." "Closer to 700,000." "And they weren't expelled, they left after being urged to do so by..." "We were being terrorized by Zionist troops who were threatening to torch every Arab village in the Galilee." "If you'd accepted the partition plan in '47, not a single Palestinian would have..." "I'm sorry, if I might interrupt..." "Palestinians were being massacred." "Even Israeli historians admit this." "It was war." "Only three years after the Holocaust." "If we had lost, there would have been another wholesale slaughter of Jews." "Mr. Chairman, Madame Ambassador." "Excuse me." "It may be more productive to turn our attention to current problems rather than the events of 50 years ago." "If there is room for a million Russian Jews in Israel, why isn't there room for Palestinians who simply wish to go home?" "Good afternoon." "Let me give you a brief rundown of what's happened at Camp David this morning." "The delegations continued to meet to discuss a number of issues." "They will begin at 10:00 and will resume again after lunch." "They will end early as it is Friday and Prime Minister Zahavy has invited the President and First Lady to join the Israeli delegation for a Shabbat dinner." "I'll take a few questions." "C.J.!" "Can you tell us what issues are being discussed and is progress being made?" "The talks include a broad range of issues." "And getting Israelis and Palestinians to sit in a room together without a combat unit or a trial attorney is progress." "Israelis'll turn over the territories, but they want a military presence." "Palestinians don't get how it's gonna be their house if it comes furnished with Israeli tanks." "You mentioned Germany?" "We've had troops there for 50 years." "They ask how many British troops were still stationed in Philadelphia after the American Revolution." "Plenty, but they were, you know... shackled to the wall." "What about settlements?" "Israelis are hinting they'll abandon everything in Gaza, but they want 75% of the West Bank settlements to remain." "Mukarat might go for it if he gets Israeli land in exchange." "Sounds promising." "Only Mukarat wants twice as much area as the Israelis say the settlement actually sit on." "How's he justifying that?" "Says the Israelis took the best land, wants two for one in exchange." "Dismantling terror?" "The Israelis want Farad to denounce terrorism, but in Arabic on Al Jazeera." "And they want more than just a promise to disarm Hamas." "They want it happen before they leave." "What do the Palestinians say?" "That Farad's renounced terrorism." "Is that why he keeps calling for that blood of a million martyrs in all his speeches?" "Maybe there's just a problem with the interpretion." "Right of return?" "Farad wants the right of return to apply to all Palestinians." "The Israeli's are understandably concerned about 3 million Palestinians moving back in." "Gallup did some polling in the West Bank." "Found that while refugees wanted the right to come back, most wouldn't." "That's great, then they won't be disappointed." "Look at the bright side;" "nobody shot anybody else the first day." " Okay." " Good shot." "We start small." "See if we can get an agreement on anything, no matter how inconsequential." "Something we can build on." "I'll continue to sit it out so I can jump in later." "But one small move is all we need to get things rolling." "Thanks, guys." "Thank you, Mr. President." "Sir, is there anything else I can be doing to help?" "Go with Toby and Will." "I think they need some positive reinforcement." "Sir, should we be here?" "Glad you're back." "Yeah." "Yes, sir." "Mm..." "Jed?" "Where's Leo?" "The Palestinians only became refugees when our Arab neighbors refused to accept them." "800,000 Jews were similarly expelled from Arab nations." "600,000 of them were resettled in Israel without compensation from Arab countries." "Madam Ambassador, you bring up the issue of compensation." " Would Israel be prepared...?" " We are not asking for money." "We want the right of return." "We can't allow three million refugees the right to freely reenter." "Of course not." "Since the 19th century," "Zionist leaders have advocated a transfer of Arabs out of Palestine." "We cannot accept an unlimited right of immigration." "Perhaps we should take a break." "If the Arab population had not been uprooted, no Jewish state could have resisted." "So it was all right for Palestine to be cleansed of its native population to establish a Jewish state?" "We are prepared to sacrifice, but not to formalize our dispossession." "Excuse me." "An abrupt removal of our forces from the territories would create a power vacuum." "How are we to prevent rocket attacks from Palestinian-controlled areas?" "It will be our responsibility to gain control over our militants." "We've tried that before." "You've never given us enough time to assert ourselves before you come rushing back in with your tanks." "It's almost 4:00 and we had asked to end early this evening for Kabalat Shabbat." "Right." "Why don't we meet back here tomorrow morning at 10:00?" "Yeah, thank you." "They've done everything in their power to undermine moderate leadership." "Don't they understand that when they blow up leaders of Hamas with bombs, and bulldoze Palestinian homes, they only make them stronger?" "Boys and girls, they no longer want to be doctors, teachers, engineers." "Now they all want to be martyrs." "So, there's an opening on compensation for refugees." "Maybe, but Israel's not gonna agree to an unlimited right of return." "There might be a pitch for most of them going to the new Palestinian state and Israel agreeing to take in a few." "Something like the 9% who told Gallup they might want to go." " Okay, work on that." "Toby?" " Not much on security." "The Israelis aren't ready to leave a West Bank that isn't protected militarily." "And we're still far apart on any kind of land swap for the settlements." " Mukarat's sticking to 10%." " Israelis are saying 3%." "Any ideas on how to break the logjam?" "Too bad Congress isn't here." "They'd just cook the books and hold a press conference." "Mr. President, you should get ready for dinner." "Okay." "We need some suggested solutions on security and settlements." "That's tonight's homework." "Okay." "Rosebud after dinner." "We solve world peace." "How's it going?" "Yeah." "Are you going to talk to him?" "Somebody better do something or this time next week, we're gonna be the ones who lose our right to return." "It's beautiful, isn't it?" "The Salah." "They have to do it five times a day." "The tragedy is the Palestinians and the Jews are so much alike." "How's that?" "All through history, no one's wanted either of them." "Good morning." "Let me, as has become my custom, give you a tantalizing yet maddeningly generic rundown of what's gone on since yesterday afternoon's briefing." "The President had a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Zahavy." "I think this was sometime after 10:00 p.m." "This was at the Prime Minister's cabin." "The President then hosted Chairman Farad at his cabin." "I won't say whether they played the obligatory game of Twister." "Fixed positions won't work." "How long would they be there?" "I don't know." "Four years?" "Farad's gonna hate it." "Zahavy's gonna hate it even more." "Do you have a better idea?" "Yeah." "Wait till they die." "I'll be free the whole millennium." "Two old paleo-nationalists who've been clawing each others eyes out for 50 years." "They don't want a deal." "What are they going to do for fun, swap recipes for Matzoh brei?" "I hear the lawn bowling's great in Tel Aviv." "With human pins apparently." "How's it coming?" "Are you alright?" "You're looking a little..." "Those leftover taquitos Will found in here last night..." "Anybody got an antacid, or maybe an aunt who knows how to cook?" "Keep it." "I've got more back in the room." "So?" "Kate has an idea on security." "Israelis pull out of the West Bank." "but get to keep troops in a fixed position for three or four years." "After that, they fall back to Israel, but get to keep some sort of early warning posts for monitoring." "Okay." " Excuse me?" " I said okay." "Where were you for the last three hours?" "Let's take it out for a walk." "Walking a dog is a perfect analogy." "Toby's not a fan." "Zahavy may go for it." "But every time we begin to get anywhere, Mazar jumps in." "The Defense Minister?" "Then split 'em up." "How're we supposed to do that?" "I don't know." "You'll think of something." "I've always wanted to try skeet shooting." "You shoot often?" "Yeah, you know, once or twice a week when it's in season." "Here we are gentlemen." "So tell me, Toby, how exactly does this work?" "Well, they hurl a couple clay pigeons, we shoot 'em." "Unless they hurl the wrong direction, then we duck." "You know how to fire a gun, sir?" " Yeah, I'm fine." " Ready, Mr. Minister?" "Pull!" "How long were you in the Army?" "I still am." "Every Israeli citizen is in the reserves." "Your turn." "You're sure you know how to do this?" "I know back in Israel you play this game with Cobra gunships, but I'm fine." "What?" "You may not want to rest like this." "You have to stand you know, more firm." "Yeah, well, this is the way we do it in Brooklyn." "Pull." "Fixed positions in the West Bank for four years?" "Maybe less if things go well." "Then how many monitoring sites after?" "Two or three." "So you can keep an eye on the Jordanian border and the Palestinians." "It could be more than four years if that's what..." "We would need a mechanism to deal with emergency developments." " He'll do it?" " Some version of it, yes, sir." " And Farad?" " Farad'll be the last to sign on." "Mukarat will probably support it if we can get him away from Farad." "Where are we on right of return?" "Israelis won't do an unlimited right." "Farad is standing on principle." "I can work on him." "I think he likes me." "Josh, Will, get back in with Zahavy before Toby has to start feeding the clay pigeons, and get him to commit on security." "Okay, let's go." "We may just have our tennis match." "You don't think so?" "We haven't gotten to the tough part." "We're making progress." "Yes, sir, you are and that's laudable." "Laudable?" "You make it sound like an honorarium from some two-bit chiropractic college in Arizona." "When are you planning to discuss Jerusalem?" " That'll be the last thing." " Because it's the only..." "Damn it, don't you think I know that?" "!" "I'll go see if I can get Galit to give us a number on compensation." "Mr. Chairman, I know how difficult it would be for you to even appear to be abandoning your principle." "But it's just not reasonable to ask that the Israelis allow an unlimited number of refugees to return." "I was born in the city of Safed." "Do you know Safed?" "It's in the mountains of upper Galilee." "I was eight years old when the British left." "There were 52,000 Arabs in Safed, only 1,300 Jews." "Within a month, the Haganah had taken over the city." "My older sister Amira was killed." "The body of my brother Aziz... was found hanging from a burned Cyprus tree." "We fled to Syria, lived in tents," "ate United Nations handouts and surplus American cheese." "I still remember the view of the valley from the roof of our house, the smell of the pomegranates... the sound of children playing in our orchard." "The home of my father, of my aunts, my uncles, they are now art galleries and bed-and-breakfasts." "Will I get to go home, Ms. Harper?" "No, sir, probably not." "But is that worth not having any home at all?" "You got Farad to go along on right of return?" "I think it's doable." "I'm taking her with me next time I buy a car." "That leaveus with the big one." "Any chance we can just give Jerusalem to the Swiss?" "So, who goes in?" "I do." "Shared sovereignty of Jerusalem is the only realistic approach." "No." "If anyone led you to believe that we could agree to anything less..." "Mr. Chairman, do you really want to see your people oppressed for another generation?" "Shared custody of the city and its Holy Sites is..." "Why do you continue to support Israel?" "Hatred of America grows because of this." "And not just in the Muslim countries." "I've done more to support you and the Palestinian cause than anyone who's ever sat in my chair." "The Haram al-Sharif, the Dome of the Rock, stands on the site where the Prophet Muhammad landed in his divine journey from Mecca to Jerusalem." "Mr. Chairman, there isn't a single member of your delegation who doesn't think turning down the U.N. offer of a Palestinian homeland in 1947 was lunacy, a colossal mistake." "Please... do not make the same mistake today." "He's not gonna do it." "Farad's elevated being a victim into an art form." " What?" " Nothing." "Come on, you're not starting to buy what he's selling, too." "He's a terrorist." "With some legitimate grievances." "Please." "What, now suddenly you're Jewish?" "I don't remember seeing you at temple." "1938." "Millions of men, women and children running for their lives from gas chambers tried to seek refuge in any country that would take them-- nobody would, including America." "So they settled in the middle of a region that still believes in public stonings and harems?" "Palestinians are the Jews of the Arab world." "Even with the bombs, Israel is the one place it's okay to be Jewish." "And here." "German Jews in the '20s were mighty comfortable." "Well, this isn't Germany." "This is America." "Yeah, home of the KKK." "Where you and I work in the White House, to make sure the Justice Department rips their Jew-hating hoods off." "Bartlet got to Farad." "The general principle would be that Arab areas are Palestinian and Jewish areas are Israeli." "Israeli sovereignty over the Western Wall;" "Palestinian sovereignty over the Haram." "There would have to be a firm commitment from both parties not to excavate under the Haram or behind the wall, of course." "You have kept us here for five days, negotiating, cajoling us into things we didn't want to do." "But we have tried, struggled, to find a common ground because we value your friendship and that of the United States." "But..." "I have taken a solemn oath, before God and my people, not to give up Jerusalem!" "I told you that on the first day." "I told you, and yet you continued to talk and to talk." "You have not been listening." "Uh..." "Mr. President, my... my right eye will fall out... my right arm will fall off, before I ever sign a document giving up Jerusalem!" "Mr. Prime Minister, please listen." "No." "There have been enough words, Mr. President." "We are going home." "Thank you." "No, no, no, no." "They're not gonna go for it." "They might." "They won't." "We go to Mukarat, convince him... to take something less than sovereignty over the Arab section of the city." "Something less, like what?" "I don't know." "Some sort of custodial arrangement." "How about a floral arrangement-- "Best Wishes for the 93rd Intifada."" "State put off the Israelis' departure till 8:00 in the morning." "What'd they tell them?" "That the state police needed ten hours to secure the route." "Call C.J., tell her there'll be an announcement in the morning." "Yeah." "Have we started working on a statement yet?" ""A cycle that cannot be broken overnight." "A step toward..." "insert-your-favorite-platitude-here."" "There's always "regional calamity."" "All right, everyone... let's all get a good night's sleep." " Thank you, Mr. President." " Good night, sir." "I'll have C.J. work on some postmortems, get our side of the story out." "Maybe a one-on-one with Time or Newsweek?" "They weren't ready." "Good night, Mr. President." "Cell phone service sucks up here." "Yeah, not many good spots." "This is usually one of them." "Who you trying to call at 2:00 in the morning?" "Someone you hate, I hope." "Germany." "It's morning over there already." "Your assistant doing better?" "She may fly back on Wednesday." "It's a search for two freedoms." "For Israel, the freedom from terror;" "for the Palestinians... freedom from Israel." "That's what Efraim Nachum called it." "His book on the Six-Day War is pretty..." "What?" "Boring?" "Overwritten?" "Find Toby and Will." "I'll meet you at Aspen." " What?" " Get Toby and Will!" "After the Six-Day War, the Israelis offered to give the U.N." "diplomatic status and immunities in the Holy Sites in Jerusalem." "So?" "So if they were willing to do it in '67, why not now?" "They give the Muslim Holy Sites the status of diplomatic missions." "The Israelis can keep all the sovereignty they want, they still can't enter without permission from the Palestinians." "So the Palestinians would have a sovereign-like state that was inviolable, like a foreign embassy." "Palestinians'll love it, 'cause it gives them the same custodial status over the Haram that the Saudis have over sites like Mecca, Medina." "There's only one catch." "When the Israelis offered it the first time, they wanted peacekeepers as part of the deal, in Jerusalem and throughout the West Bank." "The U.N. will cough up peacekeepers if it will solve the Middle East crisis." "It can't be the U.N." "U.N. peacekeepers have no credibility with the Israelis-- they let Egypt attack Israel through the Sinai in '67." "It's gonna have to be us." "How many troops?" "Israelis have around 20,000 in the West Bank and Gaza right now." "The Europeans will probably pitch in, maybe contribute ten percent." "18,000 American troops patrolling the PLO's backyard?" "Where the hell is Leo?" "How are the other Arab nations gonna feel about this?" "King of Jordan will put up with some new neighbors." "It'll give him peace and quiet in his own backyard." "And folks in the West Bank are just gonna roll out the welcome mat for GI Joe when he climbs out of his Humvee in Ramallah?" "Well, if we're gonna stay up all night," "I'm gonna order some coffee and get dressed." "Is this really our job?" "Sending American teenagers into that breach?" "What're we talking about?" "About putting an American peacekeeping force in the territories." "And we think that's a good idea?" "Some of us do." "The Palestinians want the Israelis out of the territories, and the Israelis don't want to leave the Palestinians there alone." "They'll need an outside force to secure the borders, to ensure a smooth transition." "You think Congress is gonna authorize that?" "They've been asking for a show of force." "We'd be throwing ourselves into a conflict we don't understand." "It'd give religious fanatics even more to scream about." "Not to mention political capital, economic costs." "It shouldn't be our job, but no one else can do it." "Could I speak to you privately for a moment?" "I can't support this decision." "For a short period we may be welcome, but what happens when we have to start kicking in doors, declare martial law, enforce curfews?" "Once they establish a rule of law and their economy settles down, they'll be fine." "This isn't a romp in the desert." "You're committing American lives to something that may go on for decades." "How are we not involved now..." "We can't keep having this argument." "No, sir, we can't." "If my counsel is no longer of use to you, perhaps..." "So if I disagree with your advice, you have to threaten me?" "This is your own League of Nations... and it'll ruin you, like it ruined Wilson." "Okay." "I'll need your successor in place before you leave." " I'll get you some names." " Yeah." "Is everything all right?" "Yeah." "He's still gonna do it?" "You should get back in there." "Find out what the President..." "You sure you're okay?" "I just need some air." "Go." "Go." "Just a second, Mr. President." "Thank you." "Zahavy..." "Good morning, Mr. Prime Minister." "Mr. President." "Thank you for seeing me." "Of course." "Can we take a walk?" "Eli, I had another thought last night, the difficulty..." "Good morning, everybody." "If you could settle down, please." "I'm pleased to announce that this afternoon at 2:00" "Prime Minister Zahavy, Chairman Farad and President Bartlet will hold a joint press conference in the East Room to describe a tentative accord that's been reached between the parties." "Congress won't approve it." "They don't have to approve it-- we're not declaring war, we're not even trying to build one of those aquatic history museums." "They still have to fund it." "It'll never get that far" " Farad'll find some way to trip over his own shoes before we ever get a chance to resole 'em." " No round-trip on Marine One?" " Yeah, what a shame." "You talk to Leo this morning?" "I couldn't find him." "He must've headed back early." "Any idea how he wants us to handle this?" "No." "I'll try calling him."