Context: A Zorg agent handed over a bag of trash containing some of President Lindberg's personal effects.
The contents of the bag were a sudoku, a recipe card, a page from a photo album, a crib sheet with the names of the Mondoshawan ambassadors, and the transcript of one of the President's phone calls.
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TRANSCRIPT: President Lindberg's latest "Reactor-side Chat" Caller: a woman identified only as "Mrs. Dallas" |
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Dallas: | "President Lindberg. You don't deserve that title. You couldn't even win the popular vote in your first election." |
Lindberg: | "I know that you have not elected me as President with your votes, but I ask that you confirm me with your prayers." |
Dallas: | "Way to pour out your insides, there, like you did onto the Prime Minister. That's your idea of foreign relations." |
Lindberg: | "I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in 5 minutes." |
Dallas: | "Oh, that's rich. The only bomb you care about is that blonde bombshell who you had an affair with." |
Lindberg: | "I did not have sexual relations with that woman!" |
Dallas: | "Bullshit. You told Playboy that you had lusted after women who were not your wife. You'd probably do..." |
Lindberg: | "Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country." |
Dallas: | "The question is, what can you do? What does a former movie star know about being the leader of the free world? You support violent rebel factions. You sell weapons to brutal regimes that don't give a damn about human rights." |
Lindberg: | "America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, human rights invented America." |
Dallas: | "Yeah, like the right to break into your opponent's hotel room and wiretap it. That was really classy." |
Lindberg: | "Read my lips..." |
Dallas: | "I don't trust anything you have to say. I don't trust your reasons for going to war. Hey, hey, President Lindberg! How many kids will you kill today? You're dishonest." |
Lindberg: | "I am not a crook!" |
Dallas: | "Right. That's why you pardoned your crony right when you you got into office. You sweep the past under the rug." |
Lindberg: | "Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose." |
Dallas: | "Funny you should say that, since tomorrow's your impeachment hearing. I'm done with you. I'm hanging up." |
Lindberg: | (long sigh of relief) "Mission accomplished." |
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