EXT. CAPITOL DOME WASHINGTON D.C. - ESTABLISHING -- DAY The seat of Congress.

Today

INT. CONGRESSIONAL ASSEMBLY -- CONTINUOUS A Senator delivers an impassioned speech. An ELDERLY MAN, RKO (80's) watches from a wheelchair in the balcony. A Congressional Aide slides in next to him. AIDE Nice speech. RKO Thanks. AIDE You think he's really against the war? RKO Who knows? Today, politically, for him... it's the right position. AIDE Honestly sir, I don't think any of them would put their career on the line if it meant they'd lose votes. RKO turns and looks at him. RKO You're not afraid to speak your mind. AIDE Not about this. Besides I can't remember anyone who ever would. RKO I knew a guy once... been President. A beat. AIDE And? RKO he could have

And what? AIDE Who was he? RKO Joe Kennedy. Joe? AIDE The Old Man? Wasn't he a Nazi?

RKO (laughs) No, but... AIDE But what? RKO He was really... AIDE Really what? RKO What he was. DISSOLVE TO: EXT. THE AMERICAN AMBASSADOR'S RESIDENCE WINDSOR - DAY A DIGNIFIED THIRTY ROOM MANSION in the English countryside. SUPERIMPOSE: "The American Ambassador's Residence, Windsor, England. Saturday May 7th, 1940." INT. LIVING ROOM WINDSOR - DAY A much younger RKO watches Rosemary Kennedy, (22). She is delightfully innocent and emotionally immature. She is rambles, talks to herself as she strolls along. ROSEMARY (holding a shell up to the light and then to her ear. footsteps; audible) Somebody's coming.

(she hides the shell under her dress and starts to rock. She listens) False alarm. (she rises and straightens furniture. she picks up a note pad.) (reading) "Don't talk to me in front of her." ROSEMARY (CONT'D) "Don't talk to me in front of her." A beat. ROSEMARY (CONT'D) Why would somebody write this? Who would write it? Okay, somebody is... doing something... hiding something... and they don't want(footsteps; audible) Shit! (she sits, puts the shells under her dress and rocks back and forth. she listens; (nothing) This is exhausting. RKO retreats behind a curtain. ROSEMARY (CONT'D) (loudly) If you're coming in! (lost) Well, where was I-? (sound of birds chirping. She looks out left) Oh, birds. Hello little bird. Rosemary makes the bird noises. Clare Luce and Eddie Moore walk up behind her. She stops talking. CLARE She's beautiful.

EDDIE We have to give her chemicals to control her upsets. CLARE I don't believe in using drugs to control emotions. EDDIE Where did you say you are going? CLARE Meet up with Joe at the Admiralty. EDDIE Joe's at the House of Commons for the debate. CLARE He said he had to see Winston.

Eddie and Clare look at her occasionally when her voice rises, but otherwise pay her no attention.. ROSEMARY (gradually faster with purpose and passion) Anyhoo... There's something going on about the "Jewish" problem. My Daddy is Joseph P. Kennedy, he's the Ambassador and he's going to fix it and send them Africa or someplace. Uncle Eddie said nobody gave a shit about the hundreds of thousands of dead Irish that fled the famine to the America, so many he said that you could walk to America on dead Irish bodies if you laid them end to end. Anyhoo... Daddy says the British dragged us into the last war and what did that accomplish? The next world war will bring end...the end of... Civilization. Or at the least... An-Anarchy as we struggle to survive in its... Af-Aftermath.

(She is quite pleased with herself) EXT. AMERICAN EMBASSY IN LONDON - EST - DAY - STOCK Sights and sounds of London, Spring, 1940. INT. AMERICAN EMBASSY CODE ROOM - DAY Tyler Kent (33) appraises the fit of his Italian suit as he moves silently to the door of the Ambassador's office and enters as Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy (50) makes notes while he listens on a short wave radio. KENT We've received another cable from the "Naval Person". KENNEDY With glass in hand leading us to extinction. KENT Toward a world war where men have decided to die together because they are unable to live together. Kennedy looks up. KENT (CONT'D) One of your speeches. We do keep a file copy. KENNEDY I find them very interesting, that's all. For my own information. (Herschel Johnson exits from a very noisy office upstage.) Make me a copy. (Johnson and Kent exchange a look.) JOHNSON Four hundred people outside for visas. KENNEDY Only the beginning.

Kent slips in an extra carbon and a second sheet of paper. He types with great speed and when finished he folds a copy and slyly places it in his pocket. JOHNSON Ten thousand Americans pouring into Brussels afraid to cross the Channel. We've been telling them to leave for months. KENNEDY If they get here we'll ferry them to Ireland. The rest will have to get to Lisbon. JOHNSON How's the boy from Moscow? Kennedy frowns. Kent. JOHNSON (CONT'D) How's he working out?

KENNEDY Does his job. A beat. JOHNSON Terrible about Norway. KENNEDY No plan. JOHNSON Regrettable non the less- About Chamberlain I mean. KENNEDY They'll throw him out. JOHNSON Winston too you think? KENNEDY It was his plan. Had me sell it to Franklin. JOHNSON

We have some more information on the sinking of the Athena. We think it was- we can't be sureKENNEDY Will you get to the God-damned point? JOHNSON We think it was a Polish submarine under British command that sunk the Athena. Think? A beat. KENNEDY (CONT'D) Did or didn't? Who's your source? JOHNSON A member ofKENNEDY Who? JOHNSON Intelligence. They work under EarhardtKENNEDY Intelligence? Unless someone is willing to put their name on it just file it. Under "rumored to have been". Kent gives Kennedy a copy. Kennedy doesn't look at him. Kent re-enters the code-room. He takes out a handkerchief and mops his brow. EXT. ADMIRALTY ESTABLISHING - DAY A prestigious building. Taxis. Horns. KENNEDY Twenty seven Americans dead.

INT. ADMIRALTY - MOMENTS LATER Coleville, Churchill's secretary escorts Clare Boothe Luce, (37) into the office of Winston Spencer Churchill, at this time First Lord of the Admiralty.

CHURCHILL You look wonderful, my dear. CLARE (kissing his cheek) I feel like I've been around the world on a camel. Winston bounds to the drink tray. CHURCHILL Drink? CLARE Somewhere in the world it must be five o'clock? CHURCHILL That's the spirit. Scotch? CLARE Neat. CHURCHILL You were in Italy? CLARE I saw Count Ciano. In France I was adopted by a group of Legionnaires. I am their God-mother. The French tell America they have anchored five thousand canons in five hundred million dollars of concrete, but in Poland it was a war of movement. And concrete is very... CHURCHILL Immobile. CLARE An old man walked twenty miles to get me roses. The Band of the Legion played "The Star Spangled Banner" on fifes and drums and battered trumpets and I thought that I hope they are right that this war isn't about liberty and justice because if it is then how will we answer? That is what

America is about. They just wanted to see a woman. I cried a little. CHURCHILL How is the Count, the son-in-law of the Great Mussolini? CLARE He says they'll be in ten to fourteen days after the Germans attack. CHURCHILL As soon as the carcass begins to smell. CLARE He said no one in Italy wants war except Mussolini, but he's the majority. Ciano's a playwright you know. CHURCHILL Did you know Ciano ordered the bombing of Valencia in the Spanish Civil War? Good of you to see me. CLARE How is Randolf? CHURCHILL Still has a picture of you next to his bed. Clemmie took off you know. Around the world tour- that sort of thing. Didn't think I was going to get her back. CLARE Winston? CHURCHILL Mr. Kennedy. CLARE Joe? CHURCHILL He says the most ghastly things. Defeat is inevitable. He should never have uttered that terrible word.

CLARE Joe loves the English people. CHURCHILL (laughing) If he doesn't start acting like it we'll have to treat him as an enemy agent. CLARE He thinks if the Germans start bombing English towns which some cities in America are named after, Americans will want to get involved. CHURCHILL (refilling his glass) How's your drink? CLARE Are you painting? CHURCHILL I am building a wall. CLARE I was there when you started it. CHURCHILL How much influence does he have? CLARE Quite a lot in some circles. CHURCHILL And when he returns to America? CLARE Probably go back to making money. CHURCHILL You know what we're up against. just have to win him over. I'll

There is a knock at the door and Harry Luce, (40's) enters. He is a large man, well over six-foot tall with large square shoulders and the confident grace of a speeding freight train. HARRY

Winston. CHURCHILL Good to see you again. HARRY Just came from the House. They're giving Chamberlain a beating. I think he'll be calling for a vote of confidence. CHURCHILL How does he look? HARRY I've never seen him like that. CHURCHILL You're off to the front. HARRY Nothing like seeing it first hand. CHURCHILL A drink? HARRY Scotch. CHURCHILL We were just talking about Mr. Kennedy. HARRY Joe. CHURCHILL Do you think there is support for our cause in the states? HARRY Strong support, but until very recently even the Secretary of State was opposed. CLARE Roosevelt replaced him. CHURCHILL

How do you feel about Mr. Roosevelt? They laugh. CLARE Differing opinions related to issues of trust. HARRY I think heCLARE Is waiting for public opinion to lean toward becoming involved. CHURCHILL How long could that take? HARRY If something were to happen... it would just be a matter of time. The telephone rings. CHURCHILL Oh very good. (he listens) He did what? CLARE What is it? CHURCHILL Mr. Kennedy is here. CLARE What's the matter? CHURCHILL He went to the King. Joe enters. KENNEDY Harry! HARRY Joe.

Clare.

KENNEDY Winston.

CHURCHILL Ambassador Kennedy. KENNEDY Ambassador Kennedy? When I first got here I put my feet up on my desk and told a bunch of reporters I wasn't going to get too worked up over formalities. HARRY I'm trying to get Winston to write something for Time. KENNEDY When the bombing starts they'll be plenty to write about. CHURCHILL And if bombs devastate some cities that in America bear the same names perhaps they will be encouraged to join us in the fight. KENNEDY (to Clare) I have had that thought myself on occasion. Clare shrugs. HARRY We're off. KENNEDY Off? HARRY Back to the House to follow the debate. KENNEDY I ran into Lady Astor and Beverly Baxter. He was very happy I wasn't sore at him for that article I told you about. He got a lot of letters from

the states saying it was a bad way to treat someone who had done as much for England as I had. HARRY Baxter. CLARE Worked for Max Beaverbrook at the Daily Express. Used to be the editor. KENNEDY I told you- the guy who criticized me harshly because I wouldn't tell America what England's war aims were. HARRY Right. KENNEDY I told him that would be the job of the British Ambassador. HARRY Well, we've got to be going. CLARE Good bye, Winston. CHURCHILL Take care of yourself. If I can be of any assistance call me at any time. HARRY You'll pick us up? KENNEDY I'll send my car. They leave. Kennedy hands Churchill an envelope.

CHURCHILL There is good reason to believe that this war will carry over to America. KENNEDY I don't see how. CHURCHILL

Perhaps you will not have to see it. I pray you do not. KENNEDY Winston, you're fighting this to protect your Empire and I've got no objection to that. You've got every right toChurchill goes to the drink tray. CHURCHILL Clearly we have a difference of opinion. Care for a drink? KENNEDY Water? CHURCHILL Of course. KENNEDY They're giving Neville the old heave ho. Laying it on pretty heavy. He's calling for a vote. CHURCHILL I should be getting over there. It wasn't his decision. He approved it of courseKENNEDY These things blow over. CHURCHILL Losing our strategic position in Norway will blow over? KENNEDY You know what I mean. CHURCHILL I'm not sure I do. KENNEDY Ultimately your mistake in the Dardenelles didn't hurt you did it? I mean politically. When you look back on it.

CHURCHILL Forty-nine thousand men died because of that decision. I don't take the death of brave men lightly. KENNEDY Save the oratory for the gallery Winston. I'm immune to emotional appeal. Kennedy gets ready to leave. KENNEDY (CONT'D) Well, that's the latest from the Boss. I'll be getting over there to catch the action. CHURCHILL Yes. A beat. CHURCHILL (CONT'D) Well, good day Ambassador Kennedy. Thank you for bringing it by. KENNEDY Anytime. He leaves. Churchill pours a stiff drink and Coleville enters. COLEVILLE Lord Halifax would like us to set up a meeting with the Soviet Ambassador. CHURCHILL (slamming the desk)) Grovel, grovel, grovel! First to the Indians, then to the Germans, now to the Russians. What did he do? COLEVILLE He told the King that he was sympathetic, but as England must feel herself part of Europe and has taken on the task of being policeman and defending the smaller nations the United States is not faced with the

same necessity. The King said he was very worried that we and the United States will be broke at the end of this war. He said Ambassador Kennedy seemed overly concerned about money. CHURCHILL The King? COLEVILLE Sounded very depressed. CHURCHILL We must do something about him. A beat. CHURCHILL (CONT'D) There was something else. COLEVILLE He told the King that he knows that there are people in England, in high places, who do not want this war to continue. CHURCHILL Did he say who? COLEVILLE No. CHURCHILL Did he use the word surrender? COLEVILLE I believe he did, sir. CHURCHILL (almost to himself) He can not be allowed to continue. INT. WINDSOR - LIVING ROOM - THE SAME DAY. RKO (30), Harvey Klemmer (30), and Arthur Houghton (55), listen as Clare relates her story of the Maginot. CLARE

...so they played for me on fifes and drums and battered trumpets. They just wanted to see a woman. KLEMMER You're certainly that. CLARE They wanted to hear a chortle or a gurgle. Conversation wasn't necessary. RKO Clare? ARTHUR What's a chortle. RKO What's a gurgle. ARTHUR Clare, honey. Give us a gurgle. CLARE Oh, fuck you guys. Working. Where's Eddie?

RKO Somebody has to. RKO hides her box of

Rosemary observes Clare from a distance. shells. Klemmer looks on.

Harry and Joe enter from a courtyard dressed in riding gear. ROSEMARY Where are my shells? shells? RKO hands them to her and bows. ROSEMARY (CONT'D) (instantly) Oh thank you, Sir. You are most kind. She spins around and standing behind her... Where are my

Joe looks down on her. She smothers him with kisses. KENNEDY Not now Rosemary. He tries to break from the embrace. Quite suddenly they begin to dance the tango. She is delighted. Clare, Harry and RKO exchange embarrassed looks. After a while Joe has had enough. Rosemary kisses him repeatedly. Everyone applauds. He pulls her arms away.

KENNEDY (CONT'D) Rosemary, stop it! She runs from the room. Joe shrugs helplessly.

KENNEDY (CONT'D) (launches into a speech) We think nobody can stop this war. I tell you nobody even knows why they're fighting it. HARRY I think it is to preserve the territorial integrity of the nations of the world. And to make the world safe for Democracy. KENNEDY They used that in the last war. "Safe for Democracy" was a propaganda angle for the hillbillies, the great masses, a moral reason, a crusading idea to get us into a war to protect our overseas investments. The War of 1918 was about freedom of the seas. CLARE When FDR pulled us out of the World Economic Conference in '33 he paved the way for the German Revolution of Adolf Hitler. The British want FDR elected because he really "wants us in

the war" but can't say so because he's "waiting for the people to want to get in", according to the British, which means of course Great Britain understands the President, or America does, and the only one who can clear it up isn't saying anything. KENNEDY I have conducted my stay here on the one directive Franklin gave me, "keep us out of any foreign war". CLARE Count Ciano said the only one who wanted war was Mussolini, but he was a majority. KENNEDY What did you think of Ciano? CLARE Handsome, amiableKENNEDY Slippery? RKO What about Adolf? CLARE Didn't meet him. The French believe we will repeal the Neutrality Act when we realize this is "our war". KENNEDY Our war? ARTHUR You know what they say about Italy? She is not for saleRKO Only for rent. CLARE It is an amazing thing to me that long after Hitler had blown Mr.

Chamberlain's umbrella inside out he was still holding the twisted framework over his head for protection. ARTHUR You know what Chamberlain said when he first came back from meeting Hitler? RKO (bad impersonation) "Well, you know he's not a bad fellow." ARTHUR It is unlikely that in Birmingham Mr. Chamberlain has met anybody who in the least resembles Adolf Hitler. RKO The French say America made France dance like a kept woman. The French blame the English for the war- how do they feel about us Clare? CLARE The French love Roosevelt and hate America. One night I sat next to Ambassador Bullit. He was promising Deladier clouds of aeroplanes. I asked him where we were going to get them. ARTHUR What did he say? CLARE He kicked me under the table. KENNEDY That's what I mean. He and that other asshole in Warsaw have been trying to drag us into this GodHARRY If you really believe that it is your duty to bring it to the people back home.

KENNEDY I will. Believe me I will. By occupying Norway and Denmark Germany has absolute control of Sweden and already has under her control their submarine and air bases on the Atlantic facing England, all their mineral productionRKO The armament industries of Austria and CzechoslovakiaKENNEDY He made peace with RussiaClare joins Rosemary who has returned and has been watching her. CLARE They're amazing aren't they? ROSEMARY I have to go to my room. CLARE I can see you. ROSEMARY I have to go. CLARE Want to play a game? Clare reaches out and strokes her hair. CLARE (CONT'D) You have lovely hair. ROSEMARY You like it? CLARE Yes, I do. ROSEMARY Do you think I'm pretty? CLARE

Oh, yes. Look at them. They are so determined to make their point they don't even see us. We have become invisible. She walks over to Joe and waves her hand in his face. He moves her hand and continues speaking without interruption. ROSEMARY He didn't see you? CLARE You pretend to be invisible, too. ROSEMARY Why do you say that? CLARE When you were talking to the birds we walked in and I saw you get as small as Alice in Wonderland. ROSEMARY I have that book! I have trouble controlling myself. I do things sometimes that- I don't know why I'm doing them. CLARE When I was very young I cut up all my dresses and sewed them back together the way I wanted them. ROSEMARY Did someone yell at you? CLARE They said something was wrong with me. ROSEMARY Was there? CLARE No, but I decided if they thought so I wasn't responsible. ROSEMARY For what?

CLARE For anything. But then I realized I wanted to be in control. ROSEMARY How? CLARE I took their power away. ROSEMARY How? CLARE I stopped feeling sorry for myself. ROSEMARY They always tell me that. CLARE They say those things to control us. To save them from embarrassment. They don't know how wrong that is or how bad it makes us feel. We love them and we depend on them and when they yell at us and tell us we are stupid, orROSEMARY Insane? CLARE What do we do? ROSEMARY Do? CLARE We believe them. Rosemary considers this. Then suddenly.

ROSEMARY "Stop it you're embarrassing me!" CLARE "What will people think?" The men stop for a moment, look around and then continue.

ROSEMARY I never want to embarrass daddy. CLARE There is a way to please them and when you find that way then you can become what they want, change into that, pretend to be that to them and that is how you can command them and manipulate them and they will give you what ever you want. ROSEMARY Anything? CLARE (laughing) Anything. ROSEMARY (hugging her) I wish I was you. CLARE I'll show you something. She takes her by the hand and leads her away. KENNEDY He has the ability to close the Baltic. Fifty-five percent of Rumanian oil, no enemies to the south. HARRY I feel like I'm at a pro-German rally. KENNEDY Goering said I was the best Ambassador in Europe. HARRY I wouldn't brag about that Joe. KENNEDY Who got Toscaninni out? Clare and Rosemary return a moment later wearing African dresses and holding masks.

KENNEDY (CONT'D) Listen. Hitler has one hundred and seventy divisions, a superior air force- he can send twenty divisions to the Polish front to keep Stalin quiet and still have fifty divisions more than the Allies to fight them from Holland to North Africa. Do you know how many divisions the United States hasNo, Joe. HARRY How many?

KENNEDY Five. Do you see why I am pleading with them to negotiate? RKO Churchill ordered the fleet back from Trondheim before the Germans had their big guns in placeClare takes off the mask. CLARE I still can't figure out how the Germans took Norway with fifteen hundred men and three brass bands. RKO The Expeditionary Force was not ready to go to Norway because the Finnish Expeditionary Force of which it was composed had never been assembled. KENNEDY The little countries don't want to be protected by the Allies. Look what happened to Poland and Norway. They believe the war will bring about the unification of Europe. Clare rejoins Rosemary. CLARE Same as you I drifted in and out. didn't even see me. They

ROSEMARY Teach me to be brave and fearless like you. CLARE Tonight, my darling. Tonight.

She puts her arm around her and lays Rosemary's head down in her lap and strokes her hair. CLARE (CONT'D) Tonight I'll show you how to get them to give you anything you want. KENNEDY The Germans tell them they know where they are going for the next thousand years. France, England, Holland, America don't know where they're going tomorrow. HARRY I can't make an argument with you JoeKENNEDY Denmark didn't defend herself. Norway inadequatelyRKO And permitted treason in high placesHARRY It's just something I feel that somehow they'll win. KENNEDY Every battle except the last. HARRY Something like that. KENNEDY The Brit's never know they're licked. Into the valley of death even if it is a lousy peace of strategy. HARRY

When Sumner Welles went back to the States he told FDR no one had conveyed any peace proposals to him. KENNEDY He might have gotten a different answer if he bothered to ask anyone before he left. Bullit scares me. Clouds of airplanes- French and British intelligence can't function in Germany because of the Gestapo so they're playing their hunches. ARTHUR As I see it the Allies have three choices; Union Now, warring to death or give Germany some Belgian and Dutch Colonies and buy off Italy with Yugoslavia. RKO Is it true that the Italians believe FDR is a Jew? CLARE Yes, they think his real name is Campo di Rosa. KENNEDY Harry, you are a student of history. What do you think the Germans have taken that wasn't taken away from them in the last war? HARRY PolandKENNEDY You know they are actually considering giving them back their colonies? HARRY Who? KENNEDY Reasonable people in the government. HARRY

Really? KENNEDY Yes. It's one of many plans of people who are working for peace. HARRY You talk as if some people actually want this war. KENNEDY Don't be naive. You Journalists. You think I don't know what I'm doing. Goes to desk and takes out an envelope. KENNEDY (CONT'D) I saved this. It's what my friend Boake Carter wrote to me in 1938. (reading) "The job of Ambassador to London needs not only honesty, sincerity, faith and abounding courage-it needs skill brought by years of training. And that, Joe, you simply don't possess. He says in so complicated a job, there is no place for amateurs." RKO Did you say he was your friend? A beat. KENNEDY Since then I have negotiated a new Maritime treaty, a film exchange agreement, and I would have gotten them to call off this God-damned war if it wasn't for Hull and the rest of those assholes in the State Department. HARRY JoeKENNEDY Did you know that in 1939 I had an opportunity to meet with Goering?

HARRY No. KENNEDY Morganthau and Frankfurter put the kibosh on it. HARRY Max Beaverbrook said you that revealed the General's plot to assassinate Hitler. KENNEDY Of course I did. His own people would have gotten rid of him in time. If we kill him whose going to stop the God-damned Russians? I tried to float a five-hundred million dollar gold loanHARRY To the Nazis? KENNEDY Of courseHARRY Joe, I believe that it is our duty as the richest Christian nation in the world to protect the people of the world fromKENNEDY HarryHARRY I've l-listened to your evaluation of the situation in Europe all morning please let me finish! They react to Harry's outburst. HARRY (CONT'D) It may be possible to avoid entry into this war. I'll know more when I get a look for myself, but if it isn't then I think we better gear up for the most colossal undertaking of war we have

ever seen. Build planes, build ships, build an army and do it now. The men applaud. KENNEDY I don't disagree with that one bit, Harry. All I was saying is don't do it under the English flag. They've got their own agenda and their hands are full and right now it's their war. And I don't have much faith in their leadership. I think he has an ancestor complex and he's not much of a tactician. Look at the Dardenelles and Norway, my God. You know in Turkey when he sent all those men to their death. HARRY Well, yes onlyKENNEDY Only what? HARRY It's just not right to talk about it that way. KENNEDY What? HARRY I din't know. Their dead? KENNEDY What possible difference could it make to them? HARRY To their memory. KENNEDY Oh Jesus. I've spoken to the King. Talk about a stutter. He's getting better though. I'm not entirely without conscience. For nearly a year I worked on a plan to get the Jews

out of Germany- settle them in Nigeria orRKO Costa Rica. KENNEDY I figured out what it would cost and I let them know, discreetly, what that dollar figure would beHARRY "The Kennedy Plan". KENNEDY Not one country, organization, or group came forward to foot the bill. Harry, not even their own people. HARRY If Hitler wins here it is only a matter of time before they turn and attack us. KENNEDY Bullshit. I'm sorry Harry but that's just crap. Have you considered what it means to move troops and ammunition over 3,000 miles of ocean and maintain it? I cannot understand why the tale of a great military machine three thousand miles away should make us fear for our security. Let America devote herself to arming herself. I have little doubt we can be secure against any power or group of powers in the world. INT. AMBASSADOR'S RESIDENCE, WINDSOR- NIGHT A PARTY. STREAMERS. MUSIC OF THE BIG BANDS. A man dressed like Winston Churchill backs into the room from the party and takes off his mask. Klemmer dressed as Harpo Marx enters the room and "honks" his bicycle horn. ARTHUR (pulling off mask) I can't breath in this thing.

RKO (as Rhett Butler) Did you see that Lady Diana Dame? What a dish. Makes me want to join the party. KLEMMER Nazi's are scum. RKO I'm not going to join the party. Just wear the arm band and get a little action. Clare emerges from some curtains on an upstairs landing wearing an African Dress and holding a mask. RKO (CONT'D) I'm goin for itKLEMMER She's married to that Mosely guy, be carefulRosemary emerges from the opposite landing dressed exactly like Clare holding an identical mask. CLARE (whispering loudly) Watch me! KLEMMER What for? ARTHUR What? KLEMMER You said watch me. ARTHUR I did not. Clare whispers something to the piano player who begins to play an African Tribal melody. Clare dances provocatively into the room. The men watch intently. Rosemary observes from above.

Clare moves up to Klemmer and thrusts her pelvis out in forceful bursts. At every advance Klemmer jumps back. She circles around RKO. He responds to her favorably. There is a scream from the ballroom and Lady Diana dressed as Little Orphan Annie runs in chasing her pet WHITE RAT. The men dive at the rat and fall to the floor. The rat gets away as Lady Diana steps on their outstretched backs and chases after it. In the ensuing action Rosemary replaces Clare. RKO You okay? ARTHUR I feel like Poland. Rosemary moves awkwardly at first, then with Clare's encouragement she throws herself into the dance. RKO What's got into you Clare? The music changes. RKO and Rosemary dance closely.

RKO (CONT'D) Are you going to take off that ridiculous mask? She shakes her head. RKO (CONT'D) You think you can do things with that mask on that you can't do with it off? She nods her head. RKO (CONT'D) How far do you want to take this Clare? She takes off his scarf and ties it like a bandanna around his eyes. RKO (CONT'D) Oh. She pulls him into an alcove and kisses him.

RKO (CONT'D) Clare. She takes off her mask. RKO (CONT'D) (pulling off bandanna) What are you-? A beat. RKO (CONT'D) Rosemary! She laughs and runs out into the garden. Joe enters. KENNEDY Where's Scarlet O'Hara? RKO Who? KENNEDY Rosemary. Joe goes back to the party. A MAN IN A BLACK CLOAK enters. RKO stands stunned.

KLEMMER Who are you supposed to be? The man removes his hat and cloak. He is completely bald and dressed in black pants and red tunic, the uniform of a General in the Italian Army. He looks exactly like Mussolini. KLEMMER (CONT'D) You're notDUKE (thick Italian accent) I am not supposed to be anyone. the Duke del Monte. KLEMMER You look exactly likeDUKE

I am

Seignior Ambassador? RKO Have you seen(registering shock) Mussolini. KLEMMER It's not- it's a Duke. RKO Have you- Did you see me with Rosemary? KLEMMER No. RKO Did you see me with Clare? KLEMMER How do you want me to answer that? RKO Truthfully. KLEMMER You bastard. RKO Good. I don't mean good- I mean that's fine. KLEMMER Fine? Harry Luce owns Fortune, Time and Life Magazines he can't only destroy you in a second but he'll screw Joe for sure if he finds out you're fooling around with his wife. RKO Harvey, Harvey, Harvey I don't know what's going on. It's justHe looks up and sees Rosemary beckoning from the balcony. RKO (CONT'D) (to Rosemary) What's going on?

He follows her to a stairway and up. KLEMMER What's going on is we're on the edge of a precipice and hell is on the other side. Lady Astor enters made up as Jean Harlow. LADY ASTOR You. Young man with the horn? you seen R.K.? KLEMMER R.K.? LADY ASTOR Whatever you call him. RKO? He shakes his head. Have

Klemmer takes her in like sunshine.

LADY ASTOR (CONT'D) Then can you help me? My strap keeps falling. Klemmer looks at RKO and Grouchos over to Lady Astor and hands her his horn. They engage in a Harpo routine. She takes the horn. He takes it back. She reaches for it again and he gives her his leg to hold. She holds it then throws it down. He hands her the horn and so on. INT. ROSEMARY'S BEDROOM - NIGHT In her room Rosemary removes her African outfit. Underneath she is wearing a corset and garter belt, silk stockings and spiked heels. She is standing in front of a floor length mirror examining her body. RKO bursts into the room. RKO RosemaryHe stops in his tracks. RKO (CONT'D) (faintly) Oh-my-God.

He races out, slams the door and leans against the other side. RKO (CONT'D) Rosemary what are you doing? clothes on. Put your

ROSEMARY I thought you would like to see me in this. RKO No. Yes. I mean no, I don't want to see you in your underwear. ROSEMARY (admiring her reflection) If you don't like it I can take it off. No! RKO Don't- I have to go. He leans on the other side.

She stands against the door.

ROSEMARY Why R.K.? Why do you have to go? When you kissed me I thought you liked me. I do. RKO I do like you.

ROSEMARY Do you want me to be your girl? RKO I gotta go. ROSEMARY You want to leave me R.K.? to go away? You want

RKO I want you to come to your senses! What's come over you? ROSEMARY You don't want me.

RKO I want to protect you. ROSEMARY You want to protect me? From who?

RKO From me. From yourself! I've never looked at you as anything but Joe's daughter. ROSEMARY And now? RKO And now I- IROSEMARY Look at me differently? RKO Look at you differently. ROSEMARY Do you want to hold me? RKO Rosemary! ROSEMARY No? RKO Yes. She touches her head. She thinks.

ROSEMARY What do you want from me R.K.? She opens the door. He turns.

ROSEMARY (CONT'D) Who do you want me to be? INT. WINDSOR, A ROOM ADJACENT TO PARTY -- MOMENTS LATER Joe is on the telephone. The MUSIC plays LOUDLY.

INTERCUT TELEPHONE CONVERSATION: Churchill answers telephone. Hello. KENNEDY (Shouting into telephone) Winston! Winston, can you hear me? Winston can you hear me? CHURCHILL Yes, I said. Yes! Oh the hell... KENNEDY I told you you'd get it and you did and you owe it to me. CHURCHILL What do I owe you? KENNEDY (shouting) What? CHURCHILL (shouting) What do I owe to you? KENNEDY Hence Norway, Hence Prime Minister! CHURCHILL What does that mean? KENNEDY Because of Norway. Mining the Norwegian waters. Trying to prevent Germany from getting iron ore caused Germany to attack Norway. The Germans beat you to Norway by twelve hours. Anyway mining the waters was a mistake and I got you the President's approval and it cost Chamberlain his job and you got it. He is in bed smoking a cigar.

CHURCHILL

Churchill writhes with fury. He throws his tray of drinks and food against the wall! He whips the bedclothes off, and stands erect. KENNEDY (CONT'D) Winston did you hear me? CHURCHILL I heard you quite clearly, Mr. Ambassador. KENNEDY I can't---oh well, anyway, congratulations. (Churchill coldly smashes out his cigar.) CHURCHILL Thank you, Mr. Ambassador. night. What? KENNEDY Oh, yes, good night. Good

INT. THE LIVING ROOM AT WINDSOR -- MORNING Arthur, Klemmer and RKO are sitting around drinking champagne and reading papers as they listen to the radio reports from Arthur Shirer at the front. RKO (V.O.) The following day the war broke out with a fury. The Germans invaded Holland and Belgium and just when the world was waking up they cut through the Ardennes and invaded France. The people in Washington got the news from the Charge d'Affairs in Holland and when Joe woke up and answered the phone and told them he didn't know anything, the Secretary of State hung up and said Joe Kennedy's mind was as blank as uninked paper. Clare had gone to report on the war and I was alone with Rosemary. She was beginning to feel different about herself. Really different.

KLEMMER You think this is it? ARTHUR The big push? Sounds like it. (pouring champagne) Is this the last? RKO You're joking. KLEMMER There are twenty cases downstairs that won't fit into the cargo hold. ARTHUR (pleased) Really. KLEMMER Joe bought it off some Earl that wanted to clean out his cellar before the Germans got here. Rosemary enters. There is something different about her. Her walk is different. The way she carries herself. The way she moves. She tries to make eye contact with RKO but he avoids her. The other men sit up and take notice. Klemmer google-eyes her. bottle of champagne. He rushes out and returns with a

ARTHUR (popping the cork) Would you like a glass Rosemary? PARESCI (sitting up) A refill? A small man rises from the couch and takes a glass. PARESCI (CONT'D) I would love a glass. KLEMMER Who the hell are you? RKO

This is Mr. Paresci the Italian Press Attache. I'm sorry Mr. Paresci but the party's over. PARESCI A shameTaking the bottle from Klemmer and looking Rosemary over lustfully. PARESCI (CONT'D) What a beautiful site. I think I am in heaven. Rosemary looks him over. RKO takes him by the arm.

RKO I'll call you a taxi. Rosemary picks up a glass and holds it for Paresci to pour. Delighted. Kennedy! PARESCI The Ambassador'sRKO Daughter! PARESCI Really. RKO This way Mr. Paresci. Rosemary takes his other arm. ROSEMARY (throwing RKO a look) Paresci. That sounds... Italian. It is. PARESCI Yes, bella Segniorena. ROSEMARY PARESCI Miss? RKO

Would you like something to eat? PARESCI (eyeing her) Perhaps... Arthur and RKO rise and move toward him. PARESCI (CONT'D) (seeing them) -another time. (producing his card) I am at your serviceThe men lift him by the arms and carry him toward the door. PARESCI (CONT'D) (exiting) -anytime. KLEMMER Would you like me to refreshen yourROSEMARY Oh, Harvey. KLEMMER What? ROSEMARY You're too easy. KLEMMER Easy? Harvey? ROSEMARY Tell me about Clare.

KLEMMER Clare? Well, she didn't get a chance to work on Life Magazine which was her idea in the first place when she was with Vanity Fair. ROSEMARY But, that's her husband's magazine isn't it? KLEMMER

Maybe that's why. ROSEMARY (impersonating Clare) I-like-the-way-she-talks. She moves sensually and provocatively. Klemmer laughs encouragingly. KLEMMER That's good. He sits next to her on the couch and freshens her glass. KLEMMER (CONT'D) She can manipulate people. ROSEMARY What does that mean, exactly? KLEMMER (moving closer) I heard a story once... that she got a woman drunk and had her take off all of her clothes. ROSEMARY Why? KLEMMER She walked up to her and gazed at her breasts and said... she just wanted to see who had a better body. ROSEMARY What else? KLEMMER Well, this is terrible but when she got home from the hospital after having a miscarriage... her husband raped her. ROSEMARY Mr. Luce? KLEMMER Her other husband.

ROSEMARY (she mouths the word "raped") Sounds bad. KLEMMER I heard her once say... she resented being a deposit for men's sperm. Arthur and RKO return. ARTHUR The Italian press. what he heard? Jesus, I wonder

RKO We weren't talking about anything. ARTHUR The champagne? RKO Okay, what's Joe's response. KLEMMER (jumping up) To the champagne? No, stupid. Harvey? RKO The invasion of France.

KLEMMER I was telling Rosemary about Clare. RKO Why? KLEMMER Because she asked me to? ARTHUR Clare Luce is one of the most talented, fascinating women in the world today. ROSEMARY Do you know her Arthur? ARTHUR

By reputation. RKO We all know her by reputation. ROSEMARY What kind of a reputation does she have? They exchange a look. ARTHUR I know that she had been hurt very badly in her first marriage and vowed never to be hurt again. KLEMMER She took that guy's job at Vanity Fair after he fell in love with her and killed himself. RKO Harvey? KLEMMER She said she wanted to know. ARTHUR She's like Mary Pickford. ROSEMARY Mischievous. RKO Hopeless. KLEMMER Tender. ROSEMARY Harvey said she resented being a deposit for men's sperm. RKO looks at Klemmer who shrugs. ROSEMARY (CONT'D) Has she had a lot of affairs? They go quiet.

ROSEMARY (CONT'D) With a lot of important men? They look away. ROSEMARY (CONT'D) With anyone I might know? RKO She's a terrific writer- Pulitzer wasn't it? KLEMMER She's a feminist. ARTHUR (coughing nervously) Bernard Baruch said she reacted automatically to any injustice. RKO She seems to desire a purpose in her life. KLEMMER She wants a cause to fight for. RKO She wants a cause to attach herself to. ROSEMARY Do you think I am that cause? The men look at each other. Maybe she is.

INT. THE APARTMENT OF TYLER KENT - DAY Kent is in bed with Irene Danischewsky, late twenties, a very beautiful curvaceous redhead. Kent lights a cigarette. KENT Afraid of what? She strokes his hair. KENT They followed me Moscow. We had, outside Moscow. (CONT'D) all the time in no I had a duchy About thirty miles.

The KGB would throw girls at us. They thought we didn't know they were spying on us. Pretending they couldn't speak English. We used them- I could have had hundredsIRENE Tanya? KENT Put it over on everyone and now with Anna and Captain Ramsey I'm getting in with the right people. Tanya? IRENE Am I as pretty as she? KENT (thinks) No. She lights a cigarette. IRENE You're cruel. KENT Because I said she was pretty? She was beautiful. I was making the point, if you'd listen, that I am not afraid. I've done it before. And in Moscow they can act very... uncivilized. IRENE I don't want anything to happen to you. KENT Did I tell you what IIRENE The Ambassador? KENT He probably hates them as much as we do. The British got away with centuries of genocide in Ireland because there never has been an

appreciable number of Jews in that unhappy country. That the powerful international Jewish propaganda organizations have never taken up the hue and cry of genocide in violation of human rights with respect to British rule in Ireland demonstrates that the vaunted Jewish "humanitarianism" is limited to members of the tribe of Israel and is by no means as altruistic or international in character as their leaders claim. IRENE You really hate them don't you? KENT I do. IRENE (slowly) What if I told youKENT That you were Jewish? joke. She laughs. Don't even

He picks up a newspaper starts reading.

IRENE No, of course. Just a bad joke. She turns away. KENT No. I'm in with him I can tell- the British, he's got no use for them either(He sits up in bed.) My God! He's bombed the Ruhr! That bastard! IRENE Who? KENT

Churchill. He's sabotaging German Peace Initiatives. IRENE Hitler wants peace? KENT Hitler would offer peace terms. Churchill's making sure he can't. IRENE Do you really care? I mean. About any of it

He puts the paper aside and pats the bed for her to return. KENT What do you think? IRENE That you are a self-centered ego-maniac. She jumps on the bed and kisses him over and over. IRENE (CONT'D) And I love you. INT. THE OFFICE OF THE FIRST LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY - NIGHT Churchill sits weighed down in thought. He rises to freshen his drink and staggers slightly. His secretary Coleville turns away. The phone rings. COLEVILLE He's here. Churchill downs his drink. Kennedy enters.

KENNEDY Evening Coleville. Winston. CHURCHILL Mr. Ambassador. Coleville takes Kennedy's hat. CHURCHILL (CONT'D) Have a drink?

KENNEDY Oh, no thank you. Churchill seems disappointed. KENNEDY (CONT'D) I see you offered Neville a place in your cabinet. CHURCHILL Yes. KENNEDY Damn nice of you. CHURCHILL Th French need some help. KENNEDY The French? CHURCHILL I'm going over tomorrow. hold on. Joe watches him. KENNEDY Nice speech. CHURCHILL England will fight on. KENNEDY I was wondering if you would sign a few copies. Kennedy takes out papers. CHURCHILL Sign? KENNEDY Autograph them. For my boys. CHURCHILL Of course. Coleville produces a pen. Get them to

CHURCHILL (CONT'D) Holland... has surrendered. KENNEDY And Mussolini? CHURCHILL The Blackguard. A beat. CHURCHILL (CONT'D) There is no hope? KENNEDY (thoughtfully) I have never given to one single person any hope what-so-ever that at any stage or under any circumstances could the United States be drawn into the war. A beat. CHURCHILL The boys are putting up a heroic fight. Coleville looks on anxiously. CHURCHILL (CONT'D) Can nothing be done to help the Battle of France? KENNEDY For the life of me Winston, I don't know what the United States could do that wouldn't leave us holding the bag for a war which the Allies expect to lose. CHURCHILL We'll take the Fleet and sail to Canada. KENNEDY That's what I would do. CHURCHILL If I am still empowered to do so.

KENNEDY Let's pray that you are. CHURCHILL If God wills otherwise and others come in to barter among the ruins I can not speak for those whose only bargaining chip might be the Fleet. Coleville is shocked, visibly moved. KENNEDY In those unhappy circumstances no one could hold that against them. A beat. CHURCHILL It will not be a happy future. KENNEDY In my opinion it will be the end of European civilization. Coleville finds a chair and sits. CHURCHILL We need planes. KENNEDY We don't have them to give you. CHURCHILL Paris will be delivered a mortal blow. KENNEDY I heard that Germans wearing Dutch uniforms crossed over to prevent the bridges from being blownCHURCHILL If your President could releaseKENNEDY There aren't going to be any planes. CHURCHILL The planes, already produced, which are on delivery to your Army could be

replaced with the ones under construction that we have on orderKENNEDY Winston. CHURCHILL That are already paid for! KENNEDY I think you do not see... do not grasp how adamantly neutral my country is. And how an act like that could be interpreted as aiding a belligerent. CHURCHILL Not if your President declared Non-belligerency. Churchill turns away and pours a drink. CHURCHILL (CONT'D) I received a call from Reynaud. road to Paris is open. A beat. CHURCHILL (CONT'D) The bridges, yes, they wore Dutch uniforms. The night before the border was besieged by German tourists and in the morning there were, on the streets of Holland suicide gangs of teenage children. Churchill finishes his drink. Kennedy watches Coleville. The

CHURCHILL (CONT'D) Are you sure you won't have one? Coleville will not make eye contact with Kennedy. KENNEDY No thank you. I've heard the teenage gangs story was a fabrication of French journalists to account for their defeat. CHURCHILL

The French have not been defeated! No. KENNEDY Of course not. Sorry.

CHURCHILL Luxembourg, Holland, Belgium smashed up like match-sticks. Joe gets restless. CHURCHILL (CONT'D) Never in the dark, lamentable... Joe looks at his watch. INT. THE AMBASSADOR'S RESIDENCE IN WINDSOR - DAY

RKO sits in the sofa drinking a cocktail and voraciously reading a newspaper. Rosemary hovers behind him. ROSEMARY I'm going to take you to bed. RKO spits out his drink. He jumps up and grabs her.

RKO Rosemary don't talk that way. ROSEMARY I want to be a slut like Clare. RKO You don't even know what those things mean. You know very soon with my help your father has a very good chance of becoming President of the United States? ROSEMARY Will that be good for him? RKO To be President? Of course. He has already achieved the highest post of any man of Irish- Good for him? ROSEMARY

He says that people say very bad things about him. RKO Because of his position on the war which he won't change. He's meeting with Churchill now. ROSEMARY Won't? RKO Support the Allied cause. Support England. England's chances of surviving. ROSEMARY Surviving or winning? RKO (laughing) There's not much chance of winning. ROSEMARY Why? RKO Because the Germans have thisROSEMARY Machine. I know. But, it's not always like that, is it? RKO Napoleon said God was on the side of the biggest artillery. ROSEMARY And Hitler has the biggest artillery? RKO No, actually he doesn't. ROSEMARY He has the most tanks. RKO Well, no, he doesn't have that either-

ROSEMARY Then I don't see why England doesn't have a chance. What could Daddy do to help? RKO I'm not sure. ROSEMARY I think he should do what is right. RKO And that is? ROSEMARY Something worth finding out. RKO gets closer to her. RKO How did you change overROSEMARY The Pope gave Daddy a letter that said that Hitler wasn't just a dishonest man, he was a wicked person. Wicked, that's evil and I think Daddy should fight against evil. RKO Evil? We hang Negroes for using the same bathroom. We don't want women to vote. We sell arms to fascist regimes. ROSEMARY Regimes? RKO Other foreign powers. ROSEMARY We do? RKO Yes... yes. She closes the book she had been holding.

ROSEMARY I think he should do what Mr. Churchill wants him to do. Joe enters with Eddie Moore, Arthur and Klemmer. KENNEDY They dragged us into the last one and what did that accomplish. Sixty thousand dead on the first day. He watches Rosemary as he speaks and notices something different about her but can't put his finger on it. She watches him expectantly but he makes no comment. ARTHUR Once more into the breach, dear friends... Eddie pours a drink for himself and Arthur. KENNEDY Last year I'm sure he was responsible for putting a bomb on the Iroquois. ARTHUR What bomb? EDDIE Somebody in Berlin called Washington said the Brit's had planted a bomb and when it went off it wasn't them. KENNEDY They searched it in Newfoundland and found nothing. Rosemary laughs. They all turn.

ROSEMARY I'm sorry. "New found land" and found nothing. Just sounded funny. They pause, exchange looks, go on. EDDIE We need to make a statement.

RKO Sure, boss. RKO follows Eddie and Joe into the next room which is Eddie's office. Klemmer steals up to Rosemary who is looking out the window. KLEMMER You look very beautiful tonight. She does not turn. ROSEMARY Do you think it is about domination? KLEMMER What? ROSEMARY War. KLEMMER Most certainly. He reaches out to touch her. She turns and sees his interest. He tries to embrace her. She laughs and spins away. EDDIE (off-stage) Harvey! Klemmer jumps back. EDDIE (CONT'D) Get me a copy of the President's Gainesville speech. Hi Rosemary. ROSEMARY Hi, Uncle Eddie. Eddie reacts to something different, but makes no comment. Klemmer exits as RKO enters. RKO Did he? ROSEMARY He likes me.

RKO So do I. ROSEMARY You're different. He reaches for her. She spins away. He pursues her.

ROSEMARY (CONT'D) What do you want from me? RKO I just want you to know that I am crazy about you and I think I'm falling for you and I just want what's best for your dad. ROSEMARY So do I. I just don't know what it is. RK? RKO What? ROSEMARY What's going to happen now? RKO Well, there are going to be a lot of bombs falling... on London, but we should be safe here. ROSEMARY Are we going to stay? RKO Your Father doesn't want to leave now. It wouldn't look good. ROSEMARY Aren't the other Ambassador's leaving? RKO Yes Biddle in Warsaw and Bullit asked to leave Paris. ROSEMARY Why not Daddy?

RKO He can't. ROSEMARY Why are they doing it? RKO It's like your Dad said that men would rather die together than find a way to live together peaceably. Klemmer comes back in. KLEMMER Boss wants you this time. RKO Me? KLEMMER Dictation. RKO What's your specialty? KLEMMER Proof reading your speeches. your mistakes. RKO Back in a jiffy. RKO exits. Klemmer watches Rosemary awkwardly. eyes. He doesn't know how to react. Oh, Harvey. ROSEMARY You're just so easy... She bats her Finding

She gives him a peck on the cheek and dances away. He stands there holding his cheek. Joe walks in followed by the others. KENNEDY What would I pay to stop this? I would give up half of everything I own if I could be guaranteed under law of keeping the other half. What's wrong with you Harvey? Got a toothache? EDDIE

That's not going to sound too great in the press. ARTHUR Sounds too much like having your cake and eating it too? EDDIE We're writing statements not speeches. RKO The press will run with it anyway. ARTHUR They're warming up the frying pan now. EDDIE Nothing like a little disaster to start shooting a few Micks. RKO We ought to counter this Pro-Nazi stuff and the bootleggingBullshit. EDDIE Half the people like it.

KENNEDY Okay, enough for tonight. I'm gonna get a piece of apple pie and a glass of milk and go to bed. EDDIE We'll keep working on this Joe. some sleep. Joe exits. EDDIE (CONT'D) There's something going on at the embassy. Johnson's ducking me. Talk to your friends at the Foreign Office. They're keeping a file on Joe. The call it "Kennedyanna". RKO What's in it? Get

EDDIE Just dirt. Stuff about him being a Nazi. Crap like that. Rumors. Maybe more. I don't know. See what you can dig up, 'kay? RKO Gotcha boss. RKO meets Klemmer on the way out. KLEMMER You're hot for her. RKO Can it. KLEMMER You wanna bang her. RKO Shut up and go to bed. What difference does it make to you, anyway? KLEMMER I'm in love with her. RKO Oh my God. INT. JOE'S BEDROOM - NIGHT

Joe is in bed eating a piece of pie when the telephone rings. INT. CHURCHILL'S BEDROOM - NIGHT Churchill in bed smoking a cigar. INTERCUT TELEPHONE CONVERSATION: Yes? KENNEDY Put him through.

CHURCHILL Sorry to call you so late Mr. Ambassador. KENNEDY

What's wrong? CHURCHILL Just a friendly call... about our meeting tonight... are you there? KENNEDY Yes, I'm here. CHURCHILL The thing is... I would say the most important thing is... to keep up a good front. You know what I mean. KENNEDY I think I-yes, of course I know what you mean, but Winston I can't help knowing what I know. CHURCHILL Well knowing and saying what you know or think you know are- they are two different things. Wouldn't you agree? KENNEDY In my experience Mr. Prime Minister good will, good intentions and even good thoughts do not change facts. CHURCHILL No, of course not. Have you heard from the Barbary Coast Pirate? KENNEDY The who- Oh, Mussolini. No.

CHURCHILL I am appealing through the Pope to ask him to intercede with him not to let our countries be divided by bloodshed. KENNEDY I will call our representative at the Vatican as soon as I hang up and find out the progress of your appeal. CHURCHILL

I understand you have some influence there. KENNEDY Maybe a little. CHURCHILL We have come a long way since our first meeting in thirty seven. KENNEDY If I remember correctly that is when you proposed an alliance between our countries that we should rule the world. CHURCHILL I think I may have had a little too much brandy that night. Joe mouths the words "that night". CHURCHILL (CONT'D) Well, keep up a good front. Nothing to be gained by looking glum. KENNEDY Do you think, really think you have a chance, Mr. Prime Minister? CHURCHILL 'Til my last dying breath. A very long pause. CHURCHILL (CONT'D) Good night Mr. Ambassador. KENNEDY Good night Mr. Prime Minister. They both hang up. A beat. Churchill picks up his phone and dials. CHURCHILL He won't come round.

INT. THE AMBASSADOR'S RESIDENCE AT WINDSOR. SATURDAY NIGHT. Joe and Clare are having dinner. She is dressed in unwashed khakis. Joe is reading a communique. RKO (V.O.) On Thursday, May sixteenth German tanks were eighty miles from Paris. A SERIES OF SHOTS - STOCK The French Army in retreat. RKO (CONT'D) The French Army was withdrawing. In Paris Mr. Churchill launched into an exhortation to fight that lasted until one in the morning declaring England would fight until the U.S. came to their aid. INT. ADMIRALTY - NIGHT Churchill sits at his desk. RKO (V.O.) In the evening back in England his secretary Coleville said he was very depressed. FDR had refused his appeal for destroyers saying it was not wise at this time to bring this suggestion before Congress. AMBASSADOR KENNEDY EXITS THE ADMIRALTY - STOCK Joe tips his hat to reporters. RKO (V.O.) (CONT'D) Joe assured Mr. Churchill that it was all the President could do at the time. THE GERMAN ARMY ON THE MOVE - STOCK RKO (CONT'D) The Germans had captured a hundred thousand men and a hundred French tanks with the loss of only one officer and forty men. On Friday the Germans occupied Brussels. The German Army

had turned Northwest toward the Channel Ports. The French were relieved they had turned away from Paris. Clare was back from Belgium exhausted with exciting stories to tell and Joe's political future was about to be destroyed. KENNEDY (folding a telegram) The German Army is closing, encircling the British Army at Dunkirk and Calais. CLARE Outside Brussels I saw a girl saying good bye to her lover under the jagged remains of what once had been a train station. Something about it told the whole story of war. Maybe I've got too many pictures in my brain. KENNEDY From life? CLARE The magazine or the living breathing one? What's wrong? Joe touches the back of his neck, touches his chest. KENNEDY I don't know. Something funny. Got a sudden chill. Like someone walked on my grave. (shaking it off) CLARE You Irish. What were you saying about Roosevelt? KENNEDY That FDR can carry the common guy. The have-nots who have nothing to lose. They have no stake, no real property to speak of. You're serious? Harry thinks I've got a

chance? Not just with the Catholic vote, but the rest of the country? CLARE Why do you think he writes all those articles about you? You've been on the cover of Fortune twice and he has you and the children in Life at least once a month. I didn't think you two would hit it off. KENNEDY You mean the Gloria thing. Well he shouldn't have considered it in the first place, not for his kind of magazine. It was an expose. I don't know whose idea it was but when I pointed it out he canceled it. CLARE Was that before or after you threatened to buy up all the outstanding stock and take Time Magazine away from him? KENNEDY He told you that? CLARE Yes. KENNEDY I wouldn't have. Shame he couldn't come back with you. Where were you whenCLARE Harry had just opened the windows over-looking the square and was taking a big breath of fresh air when boom! (Laughing) The bomb exploded right in front of him! My God. KENNEDY Why are you laughing? CLARE

It blew him all the way back into the hall. He's such a big ox. KENNEDY He's alright though? CLARE Straight back to New York to drum up support for rearmament. KENNEDY I can see headlines now. DECLARES WAR!" "LUCE

CLARE He was wounded in the other one you know? KENNEDY What I always wanted to knowCLARE Lyla would tell you a different story, but he was actually the first guy that really ever wanted to engage me in a conversation that wasn't a prelude to sex. KENNEDY He was married to Lyla at the time? CLARE They had two boys. KENNEDY Worked your spell. Drove him crazy. CLARE You were once too. KENNEDY Not crazy. CLARE Cold and methodical. KENNEDY But enthusiastic at the same time.

They laugh.

She takes his hand. CLARE

Joe. KENNEDY Where from here? CLARE They wanted me to go out from Bordeaux, but I have a seat on the Clipper in June. I just wanted to see you. KENNEDY That's what I wanted to hear. stay here. CLARE Joe. A beat. CLARE (CONT'D) It's going to be awful isn't it. KENNEDY I just want to keep my boys out of it. Eddie enters with Stevens who is carrying a telephone. Rosemary starts to enter but holds back and watches Clare. Joe? EDDIE You got take this call. You can

KENNEDY We can still catch Gielgud in "King Lear". CLARE Bombs going to drop any minute yet London is full of night-life, bars, nightclubs. KENNEDY This is Joe Kennedy. CLARE I think someone should- in the government I mean. Say something.

KENNEDY (signaling Eddie to get rid of Clare) What sort of problem? EDDIE Stevens has drawn you a bath and we'll have your clothes brought up. CLARE You are an angel. EDDIE Always for you Clare. Joe asked me to get you something special. So I got you something special. CLARE Music? EDDIE And something to wear. KENNEDY Alright, tomorrow then. Clare exits with Stevens who sees Rosemary duck away as he and Clare pass. Rosemary follows them up the stairs. EDDIE How serious is it? KENNEDY Problem with security. Get everybody in here right away. He's coming down tomorrow. Eddie takes the phone and starts dialing. EDDIE He didn't tell you to come right away so he needs time to cover his ass. KENNEDY God-damn Foreign Service assholes. What's he up to? EDDIE Who is it?

KENNEDY He said Kent. EDDIE The guy in the code room? KENNEDY What could he be doing? Helping the Russians? Russians are always trying to buy information or plant spies. EDDIE They have a Non- Aggression Treaty. Stalin could be feeding Hitler information about England's weaknesses, making sure he keeps heading this way. KENNEDY A Communist conspiracy? In my Embassy? God damn it. You put the movie on? EDDIE Yeah. KENNEDY What is it? EDDIE "Last of the Mohicans". They laugh. KENNEDY Perfect. The boys come in. EDDIE There's a problem at the Embassy. KLEMMER Which embassy? RKO Ours, stupid. KLEMMER

Just asking. I've been visiting a lot of them lately. KENNEDY Alright knock off the bullshit. RKO The Germans are cutting through France like a knife through butter. KENNEDY They'll be here in a couple of weeks. EDDIE Joe got a call from Johnson. He said there is a security problem. KLEMMER Meaning what? One of us? KENNEDY No, internal. One of his people. EDDIE And he's not running down here with a fire extinguisher so that meansRKO He needs time to cover his ass. ARTHUR Who is it? KENNEDY Kent. KLEMMER The guy in the code room. EDDIE Harvey, can it. KLEMMER Excuse me, but problem with security and code room? KENNEDY Kent came from our embassy in Moscow so get on to your friend at Whitehall Shit!

and call Kirk- No, wait who do we have at the Embassy? Who can we count on? EDDIE Nobody really. Not the regulars. ARTHUR Gowen. Yeah. EDDIE Nothing too deep. Kent's file and not to say

KENNEDY Tell him to look into see what's there and anything to Johnson.

Arthur goes to the phone starts dialing. EDDIE What did you get from your friend at Whitehall? RKO They got this fileKENNEDY What file? RKO It's just things you've said at cocktail parties. "Lord so and so confirms Kennedy said such and such". KENNEDY About what? RKO About the British losing. KENNEDY They will. RKO Sure Joe, but they don'tDon't what? KENNEDY Approve of my language?

EDDIE What is it? RKO It's this thick and it has every meeting you ever took from Von Dirkson to how you revealed the identities of the Generals who were behind the plot to assassinate Hitler. Your meetings with German Emissaries before the war to stop the war. KENNEDY That's all true. RKO Like I said each piece, but all together... KENNEDY Makes me look Ant-British? RKO Yeah. EDDIE But not Pro-Nazi. RKO holds his hand out and gestures "it could be either way". EDDIE (CONT'D) But did it say he actually did anything? RKO The guy that showed it to me got scared. Told me to come back. I only had five minutes to look at it. KENNEDY So they don't like the way I conduct my office. I told them they wouldn't. Thanks, RK. What about Kent? EDDIE Johnson knows Kent did stuff for you, he would have to contact his people at State and find out what he should do

and how much trouble he would get into or how much of this was going to fall on him. Kennedy begins to stew. RKO That's Johnson's problem. problem? What's our

EDDIE What would be the impact on Joe if they discovered a spy at the embassy? INT. AN UPSTAIRS BEDROOM AT WINDSOR - CONTINUOUS Rosemary peeks through door. out a PAIR OF NYLONS. Well. Clare unwraps a present and takes

CLARE I've heard about these. Rosemary sneaks in.

She undresses and gets into the bath.

INT. WINDSOR - DEN - MOMENTS LATER - AS BEFORE Arthur joins the brainstorming session. ARTHUR I got the dope from Kirk. He was almost fired for smuggling furs and jewelry when he was in Moscow. KENNEDY Why wasn't he canned? ARTHUR Bullit saved his ass. Bullitt? KENNEDY What do they have in common?

ARTHUR He's a blueblood. What else? KENNEDY Is he a fruitcake? ARTHUR

He's a whoremonger. RKO Arthur you crack me up. KLEMMER Who isn't? KENNEDY Well, I hope you aren't. ARTHUR He got into a car accident just before he left, ran into somebody and the police brought him in for questioning. RKO Police equals KGB. ARTHUR It's a serious crime in the Soviet Union, but he got off with a fine. RKO I know who this guy is. We call him the mouse. Snappy dresser. KLEMMER Manicures. Really. ARTHUR Got that close?

KLEMMER I think I shook his hand. ARTHUR Give you a feely? KENNEDY That doesn't tell us a lot except that he's shady. Unless... EDDIE It's a ruse. To draw you out. If they suspect you're up to something. KENNEDY

I'm up to plenty. Maybe it's my meeting with Halifax. RKO You have made it public that you would be a conduit for any "Peace Initiative". KENNEDY No one has come forward yet. ARTHUR Maybe they think someone has. EDDIE Arthur's right. RKO And they want to get a look inside the embassy. KENNEDY Who's coming to the movie? EDDIE Clare's here, Lady Astor, Lady Diana. God. KLEMMER I'll be driving all night.

KENNEDY I've got to make some calls. Work something up. Is Kent really a spy or is he just out to sell information? If others are involved who are they? What do we do if they are just saying it's Kent when it's me they're after? Or, if this is all bullshit and they're really up to something else. I don't want to be caught holding my schwanz not knowing what to do if this thing blows up. EDDIE Sure Joe, KENNEDY Did you get the record?

EDDIE Yeah. KENNEDYO Put it on will you? EDDIE Sure Joe. Eddie goes to phonograph and puts on a record. Jimmy Dorsey's band, Frank Sinatra sings,"I'LL NEVER SMILE AGAIN." The boys begin making notes. RKO Churchill's party was losing an election in 1924. KLEMMER And? RKO They let out that the guy had been receiving mail from the Communist International. Cost the guy the election. KLEMMER What he gets. RKO No you don't get it. The guy wasn't a communist. Churchill's party was sending him the mail. KLEMMER You're saying this could be nothing to lose sleep over. RKO Yeah, it might be a lot of crap. KLEMMER Has there ever been a spy at a U.S. Embassy? RKO I don't think so. Benedict Arnold?

INT. WINDSOR - GUEST BEDROOM - NIGHT

Clare is in the bath. a noise. On the bed. Rosemary reacts.

Rosemary bumps into something and makes CLARE

CLARE (CONT'D) Did you hear me? On the bed. Can you hear me? Rosemary enters. CLARE (CONT'D) Rosemary!

Hello?

ROSEMARY I'm not going to take my clothes off. CLARE What? ROSEMARY I'm not going to take my clothes off. INT. LIVING ROOM WINDSOR - MORNING - SUNDAY MAY 19, 1940. Joe reads a report. Johnson closely. Johnson stands next to him. Eddie watches

KENNEDY How'd they find out? to him? A beat.

What put them on

KENNEDY (CONT'D) Herschel? JOHNSON They overheard him talking to a woman, Anna Wolfopf in Russian. Overheard? Johnson looks away. KENNEDY While he was on duty?

KENNEDY (CONT'D) Jesus Christ you let them tap the God-damned phone lines? Who do you work for Herschel? JOHNSON It seems they have been watching him for a while. KENNEDY What's a while? JOHNSON Since he got here. KENNEDY How long? JOHNSON He was transferred here in October. KENNEDY More than six months. now? They waited til

JOHNSON (Clearing his throat) What would you like me to do? KENNEDY Give them anything they want. JOHNSON: They want to search his flat. KENNEDY Really. He looks at Eddie. Let 'em. JOHNSON There is the question of immunity. has a diplomatic passport. Eddie shrugs. He Eddie nods. KENNEDY (CONT'D)

KENNEDY If he's up to something this isn't going to reflect on me. JOHNSON (closing his attache case) If there's nothing else? KENNEDY No, Herschel. Johnson exits. They watch him go.

KENNEDY (CONT'D) Six God-damned months? EDDIE The boys have worked out some responses. Eddie hands Joe some papers. KENNEDY Whose suggestion was this? EDDIE That's Klemmer's. KENNEDY "If he's guilty shoot him"? EDDIE It all hinges on what they find in his flat. Joe, and Eddie join Clare, RKO, Arthur, Rosemary and Klemmer in living room. Churchill's speech on the radio. CHURCHILL (V.O.) "I speak to you for the first time as Prime Minister. I look forward with confidence to the situation in France's rescue from soul destroying enemy and barbarianism.... Arm yourself as you men of valor..." ARTHUR Henry the Fifth.

KENNEDY An appeal to the masses to throw themselves on the God-damned sacrificial fire. EDDIE Not the aristocrats. CLARE They're making up their spare bedrooms for their German cousins. RKO Mussolini's coming. ARTHUR The Germans are pressuring Franco to invade Gibraltar. EDDIE It's only a matter of time before the authorities begin rounding up everyone who might be in a position to help the Krauts. RKO Chamberlain suggested taking complete control of property, and businessARTHUR And labor. CLARE That makes a completely totalitarian government. KENNEDY Same thing would happen if it came to America. ARTHUR The train stations and ports are jammed. They're seeing a hundred thousand refugees from Belgium alone. RKO Did they count Clare? of baggage. She had a lot

CLARE I got here with the shirt on my back. You would not believe what it's like. Dive bombers fitted with sirens come screaming down on you. Joe has a reaction to this. ARTHUR (reading from newspaper) The remainder of the French Army are now commanded, if you can call it that by Marshall Petain. KLEMMER He must be in his nineties. CLARE He's eighty four. RKO and Rosemary rise and walk to the breakfast tray. RKO You've been avoiding me. ROSEMARY Clare said I should keep my distance and toy with you. RKO You're not supposed to tell me that. ROSEMARY Why? Someone puts on the Sinatra record from the night before and the music plays in the background. RKO Nevermind. ROSEMARY You didn't sit next to me last night. RKO Paresci got there ahead of me. ROSEMARY

He's very nice isn't he? RKO He's a creep. Listen to me Rosemary. She reaches out and touches his mouth with her finger. ROSEMARY Let's go somewhere. RKO You mean like upstairs? ROSEMARY I mean like outside in the garden. It's so beautiful. It's spring. EXT. WINDSOR GARDENS - DAY RKO takes Rosemary's hand and they stroll out into the garden past the war that is raging in the living room about the war that is raging in Europe. Eddie and Clare take note of their departure. They walk to the garden and talk and talk. INT. CHURCHILL'S OFFICE - NIGHT Churchill finishes a telegram and hands it to a courier. CHURCHILL Here's a telegram for those "Bloody Yankees". BIG BEN STRIKES MIDNIGHT - STOCK INT. U.S. EMBASSY CODE ROOM - NIGHT The night porter hands Kent a large manila envelop addressed to Herschel Johnson. He opens it. INSERT "A PERSONAL MESSAGE FROM WINSTON CHURCHILL TO PRESIDENT FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT." BACK TO SCENE

Kent immediately takes his pencil and copies it. Then he starts to code the message. As he does Second Secretary Schoenfelt enters in a frenzy and snatches it from him. RKO (V.O.) Second Secretary Schoenfelt was upset that Kent had the telegram. But, later that night Churchill had the telegram recalled. I guess you could say the trap was set. INT. WINDSOR - LIVING ROOM - NIGHT Joe hangs up the phone. KENNEDY Scotland Yard Detectives are going to arrest this Anna Wolkopf at eleven o'clock. At the same time Frank Gowen will go with another group to enter Kent's apartment. EXT. AMERICAN EMBASSY LONDON - MONDAY MORNING MAY 20, 1940. Hundreds line up at the entrance. British soldiers stack sand bags. In the distance barrage balloons. - STOCK INT. THE AMBASSADOR'S OFFICE, AMERICAN EMBASSY. - DAY Johnson looks across at Joe seated behind a large desk. There is a large red short wave radio with microphone and earphones in an open closet. A picture of the Roosevelt on the wall, a photograph of the Ambassador's family. Adjacent to the office is the ante room where Eddie, Harvey, RKO and Arthur wait. There is a door to the right that leads to a small office. INTERCUT ACTION: RKO (V.O.) By the morning Kent's fate had been sealed. At least that's what they thought. Joe had decided to send him back. JOHNSON His father was in the Consular Service.

KENNEDY In China. JOHNSON He comes from a very fine Virginia family. KENNEDY It's in his blood you mean. You needn't bother. He's a petty thief. Phone rings. Johnson answers. Joe clicks on the intercom.

In the anteroom the boys jump to the desk and listen. JOHNSON It's Frank Gowen. He's in the flat. There is a woman. KENNEDY Foreign? English. A van? JOHNSON There are... a lot of documents. Trunks full. There is a plate. KENNEDY A plate? KLEMMER A plate? RKO A photographic copy of something on glass. KLEMMER For? RKO To make copies. JOHNSON JOHNSON They want a van. KENNEDY

(listens) ...a copy of a telegram from the President to Churchill. KENNEDY Tell them to stop examining it and bring it here. Joe walks to the window. Oh my God. KENNEDY (CONT'D) Call Washington.

Joe exits to the ante room. KENNEDY (CONT'D) Did you hear that? They nod. KENNEDY (CONT'D) I'll bring it in here. You look it over. INT. AMBASSADOR'S OFFICE, LONDON EMBASSY - MOMENTS LATER Boys listen. Joe and CAPTAIN MAXWELL KNIGHT of the British Secret Service center. Kent, Earhart and Gowen wait in the outer office. INTERCUT ACTION: KENNEDY Have you looked through these files? KNIGHT Briefly. Joe himself carries the boxes to the ante room. EDDIE Let's not everybody fall apart. You're pros. Start an inventory. RKO and Arthur search through files. EDDIE (CONT'D) Looks like he copied every God-damned communication since he got here.

KENNEDY Jesus. Joe regains his composure and returns to his office. ARTHUR (counting) Thirty file folders. RKO "Confidential". "Secret". Signals to Washington from embassies in Europe. Everything routed through London. ARTHUR There must be two thousand documents. KLEMMER Shit. ARTHUR From January 1938 to May 20, 1940. RKO A copy of a message dated last night. EDDIE It's in pencil. Look in the one marked Churchill. RKO One, two, three, six "Most Secret" or "Top Secret" messages between Roosevelt and Churchill. A copy of Joe's recommendation that he added to Churchill's request for destroyers on the fifteenth. Call Joe. Eddie buzzes. Joe enters as Klemmer is reading.

KLEMMER Churchill's request for a loan of forty or fifty of our old destroyers, anti-aircraft guns blah, blah, blah. Here "...believe Britain is on the verge of collapse. If we had to fight

to protect our own lives we could do better fighting in our own backyard". Joe reacts, takes a breath, re-enters office. KENNEDY What's that? Knight is holding a large Red Ledger. JOHNSON It's locked. Knight takes out a tool from his pocket. KNIGHT Ledger of some sort. I open it? KENNEDY I have no objection. In the other room. ARTHUR Tin with note cards. Women. Addresses. Do you mind if

KLEMMER Letters. Here's one from Barrett to "Portia". It's a shopping list. EDDIE His friend at the Moscow embassy. KLEMMER Wants jewels, furs. EDDIE Find out what these keys fit? In office. KNIGHT They appear to be rather highly placed names. This belongs to Captain Archibald Maule Ramsey, a member of Parliament.

KENNEDY I know who he is. KNIGHT This is the Crown's property. In ante room. Buzzer sounds. KENNEDY Excuse me. Knight looks at material on desk. KNIGHT Mr. Ambassador? Could you bring back the plates. They are, I believe, the Prime Minister's correspondence. Joe enters Eddie hands him the photographic plates. EDDIE Joe. A beat. EDDIE (CONT'D) We're dead. RKO Joe. KENNEDY What? RKO This might be good. KENNEDY What? RKO This could good. This could get you into the White House. KENNEDY I'm sending the bastard back. RKO Good.

EDDIE For three months they did nothing? Joe re-enters office. KENNEDY Sorry. Joe hands Knight the plates. JOHNSON The only possible reason for making negatives is to produce prints. KNIGHT But where are the prints now? Who received them? In other room. KLEMMER The Germans of course. They look up. RKO He knows that. In office. KENNEDY Send the traitorous bastard in! Kent is propelled into the room by Detective Inspector Pearson. Kennedy glares at him. KENNEDY (CONT'D) From the kind of family you come from, people who fought for the United States one would not have expected you to let us down. This is a serious situation you have got your country involved in. KENT In what way? KENNEDY

You don't think you have? What did you think you were doing with our codes and telegrams? KENT They were for my own information. Joe stops. KENNEDY Your own information. A beat. KENNEDY (CONT'D) Why did you have to have them? KENT Because I thought them very... interesting. Kennedy watches him coldly. KENNEDY You did, did you? Kennedy realizes he is using his own words. KNIGHT I'm talking to you now by invitation of your Ambassador. I think it is just as well you should know you can be proved to have been associated with this woman, Anna Wolkopf. KENT I don't deny that. KNIGHT I am in a position to prove that she has been a channel of communication with Germany. That she has used that channel of communication with Germany; and that she is involved in pro-German propaganda and having found documents in your private apartments to which your Ambassador considers you have no proper title. You would be a very silly man if you

did not realize that conclusions might be situation. It is for explanation, and not Kent does not respond.

certain drawn from that you to offer the us.

Knight picks up the leather bound book. KNIGHT (CONT'D) What does this contain? KENT (shrugging) I don't know. KNIGHT Who gave it to you? KENT If you opened it you would probably find out. KENNEDY By whom was it given you? KENT Captain Ramsey. What it contains I do not know. He asked me to keep it. KNIGHT Don't you think it's strange that a Member of Parliament came to you, a clerk in an embassy, and gave you a locked book to take care of for him? Kent looks at Joe standing at the window. at him. Kent shrugs. Joe turns and looks

KENT I do not know why Captain Ramsey entrusted the book to me. Joe shakes his head. KNIGHT You are adopting a sort of naive attitude that fails to deceive. You're either hiding something, or-

KENT Obviously he gave it to me for safe-keeping. KNIGHT Did you know that Captain Ramsey was associated with Anna Wolkopf? KENT If by Associated you mean that he knows her. Knight produces a piece of paper from his pocket. KNIGHT Here is a letter that she wrote to Anna Wolkopf on March 21st, 1940. KENNEDY May I see that? Joe exits to ante room. KENNEDY (CONT'D) Something's wrong. He's not afraid of anything. What was the word they were using to tie me in with those boot-leggers? EDDIE Association. Guilt by "Association". KENNEDY I'm not going to let him go. pulling his ticket. RKO No. Wait. KENNEDY I'll be back. KNIGHT In this letter he writes about coming back from the Easter holiday, at a time when "I hope to see you and make the acquaintances of more of your I'm

interesting friends". Who are these "interesting friends"? KENT I was talking about Captain Ramsey, who I found interesting because we share a similar point of view. KNIGHT Similar point of view about what? KENT The powerful Jewish propaganda organizationsJoe and Knight exchange a look. KNIGHT The first time that you came to my attention was in February of 1940 when your friend Anna was telling people that she had made an extremely useful contact with a young man at the American embassy. Now, on April 16th, 1940, it was reported that she was telling some close associates in the Right Club, you know that the Right Club is? KENT I've heard of it. KNIGHT (turning to Kennedy) She was telling her a story purported to be based on an interview, that you had Mr. Ambassador, with Lord Halifax. It concerned the landing of the Germans in Norway and the difficulties that had been encountered by the British Navy in connection with that. I don't know how you are prepared to explain how Wolkoff should know that, even if you claim you didn't tell her. KENT I don't remember what I said in a conversation in April of 1940.

KNIGHT You have a very good memory for what you have not said but not very good memory for that which you have said. Knight pauses. KNIGHT (CONT'D) I talked to you this morning about this man Mathias who we know to be an agent of the Gestapo. You were in a restaurant with Mathias on Eight, October 1939. He then went and paid a short visit to your room at the Cumberland. Upon leaving, Mathias was carrying an envelope approximately ten inches by sixteen inches, which he was not carrying when he went to the hotel. KENT Certainly I don't remember that incident that all. I am guilty of one thing, that I brought through British Customs a box of cigars, which were subsequently lost, and that was the subject of his visit to my room. KNIGHT You had dinner with Anna Wolkopf at the Russian Tea Room on April 12th? KENT I had dinner there a great many times. I don't remember the dates. KNIGHT In the conversation you had with her she claims you gave her confidential information regarding the North Sea Battles which had been greatly exaggerated. It was propaganda designed to cover heavy British losses. Then followed the conversation on the version given your Ambassador by Lord Halifax. Joe excuses himself. Entering ante room.

KENNEDY They're on to me and Halifax. (to RKO) Why is it good? RKO If you send him back he'll do everything you've been unable to. KENNEDY I can't send him back. He's not credible. He's a God-damned anti-Semite. RKO Who gives a shit? KENNEDY He's a fanatic. A Jew hater. I'm not going to have him steal from me, go back and spout a bunch of hate and make it look like I sponsored it. He betrayed me. I can't use what he did to betray Franklin. RKO Well you think it over real good because if he goes back and tells what he knows Roosevelt will be out in November and you might be in. KENNEDY No. RKO Why? Joe looks at Eddie. RKO (CONT'D) I don't understand how a person like you can be so practical, so objective about everything else and so blind and stupid about this. EDDIE Watch it.

RKO Maybe he could be made to keep quiet. KENNEDY About certain things. RKO Yes. KENNEDY And shoot his mouth off about the rest. RKO Explains the road FDR is taking us. "Keep us out of the war at any cost". KENNEDY Not this cost. You're suggesting sending back to America a known felon, a thief, a dealer in pornography who stole government files while he was entrusted with our secret codes. You are suggesting sending him on a mission that will keep us out of this war. I'll tell you what will happen. The backlash from the poison he is capable of spreading will get us into the God-damned thing. (turns to leave) Think of something else before Sherlock Holmes in there gets lost in his interrogation and Kent jumps out the window. He exits to office. RKO He's crazy. EDDIE Loyalty. RKO What? EDDIE It's what his Old Man taught him.

RKO You'll let him do this? opportunity? EDDIE I will. RKO Loyalty?

Miss this

EDDIE He would never betray Franklin. he won't change his mind.

And

RKO The fallout from this will kill his career. EDDIE Probably. KLEMMER A Nazi spy in his own embassy. Who'd believe he didn't have Joe's blessing? Knight is continuing the interrogation. and Johnson looks on. Earhardt takes notes

KNIGHT On 21st of April, Anna Wolkopf visited you at your rooms. When she came out she was in possession of information about correspondence between officials in the British government and officials in the American Embassy on the subject of the purchase of certain technical radio apparatus. KENT (nervously) There may be something on that in some of those papers. KNIGHT What about Lord Haw Haw? KENT Who?

KNIGHT Lord Haw-Haw. KENT Isn't he supposed to be some sort of Irishman. KNIGHT Don't play games with me boy! You know exactly who Lord Haw-Haw is! Joe looks at Knight incredulously. KENT (appealing to Joe) Oh, yes, of course. Joe rolls his eyes excuses himself goes to anteroom makes strangling gesture. KENNEDY Find something I can use. He goes back in. KNIGHT I think we've got him where we want him. Joe nods like he's talking to a crazy person. KNIGHT (CONT'D) Your explanation about this appears to be extremely unconvincing. Your explanations on every point raised are unconvincing. KENT Well, give them to me again and I will try to be a little bit more clear. You mean the fact that I had the documents at all? KENNEDY That is my interest. And you don't expect me to believe for one minute you had them for your own entertainment. KENT

I didn't say entertainment. interest.

I said

KNIGHT You don't impress me by your cocky manner. KENT I haven't been making any attempt to be cocky. The reason is as I stated. KENNEDY You know, of course, that it is against the law for you to have these documents? KENT I'm not aware of that. KENNEDY Well let me assure you that it is. KNIGHT Do you consider Anna Wolkopf a loyal British subject? KENT If you mean that she holds some views that are apparently at variance with some of the ideals of the British Government, that is quite true; but that doesn't mean she is not a loyal British subject. KNIGHT Would a loyal British subject communicate secretly with the enemy? KENT No, but I have no personal knowledge of that. This is the first I've heard of it. If he said that she is in communication with the enemy, then of course she is not a loyal British subject; but when you put the question to me this morning I did know that. Joe walks to the window and stares out.

KENNEDY If you prove that she is in contact with them she is more less a spy. If the United States government decides to waive any rights they may have, do I understand that they might make Kent part and parcel of that? Knight utters a sigh of relief. KNIGHT Subject to the production of evidence under the law, yes. KENNEDY I think honestly that nothing very useful is to be got by caring on this conversation. Knight gathers up the pieces of evidence. He pauses.

KNIGHT You have removed some... articles. KENNEDY I have a call in to the State Department. You will have those articles necessary to prosecute. Knight starts to protest. KENNEDY (CONT'D) You have my word. Knight relents. KENT What do you think you are you doing? The buzzer on Joe's desk buzzes. of the scene. Joe relieves Kent of his passport. KENT (CONT'D) That's a Diplomatic passport. KENNEDY It continues until the end

It is... whatever the God-damned hell I say it is. KENT It is my passport. KENNEDY Not any more. Kent is led away. Knight gathers up the evidence in a pouch and watches Joe as he moves toward the window that overlooks the park. RKO (letting go of the buzzer) If you could sum up a life in a moment. Joe stares out. lost. In his eyes it is clear all that he has just

RKO (CONT'D) ....this is it. A long pause. KENNEDY The God-damned Son-of-a-bitch. He turns and looks at the stack of papers. The boys come in followed by Rosemary. ROSEMARY Daddy... KENNEDY Get this shit out of here. KLEMMER Out of the Embassy? KENNEDY Out of the God-damned country. ROSEMARY Daddy-

KENNEDY Not now Rosemary. Churchill believes an American commitment will make the French fight. Rosemary puts her arm around him. He pushes her away.

KENNEDY (CONT'D) Rosemary? What I'm talking about you can't possibly understand. ROSEMARY I understand you are very upset. KENNEDY If we can't stop Churchill from pulling us into this our country is going to declare war and a million young men will die. Do you want one of them to be your brother? Rosemary covers her face and turns toward the door. and dries her eyes. ROSEMARY (calmly) Which one? Because sometimes Bobby really pisses me off. Joe stops and looks at her closely. A long beat. KENNEDY Sometimes he does me too. He looks at her as if for the first time. from the stack. He picks up a paper She doesn't flinch. She stops,

KENNEDY (CONT'D) In this document and a hundred more just like it I tell Franklin that the British are going to lose and to ignore Churchill's desperate pleas for help. ROSEMARY Are those the documents? KENNEDY

Yes. ROSEMARY Daddy? When they ask for them, don't let them have them. (Joe looks her over and appears pleased.) KENNEDY (to Klemmer) Get hold of one of those ass-holes at Whitehall and tell them... tell them you're not sure, but you think I might be coming around. KLEMMER Really? KENNEDY No, just tell them that. Have the switchboard transfer all Kent's calls to Frank's office. Tell Gowen to pretend he's Kent and get something. RKO (V.O.) It was a complete history of our diplomatic correspondence since 1938. It was appalling. Hundreds of copies of true readings of dispatches, cables, messages. Some months every message going in and out of the London Embassy was copied. Our secret code was no good any place. It meant not only that our codes were compromised. So was every diplomatic maneuver exposed to Germany and Russia. It was a major catastrophe. And Joe saw immediately that Churchill had by this one single stroke... completely destroyed his political career. INT. WINDSOR - NIGHT A formal dinner. Guests come in and out. The table seats twenty but, only Joe and the boys are present. There is music and dancing. Joe is uncharacteristically tipsy. KENNEDY

This is really a fine champagne. I thought we sent it all back. How much is left? RKO Only what you're saving to give to Lord what's his name. ARTHUR That's what I like about this place everybody's got a title. Shut up. EDDIE You're drunk.

KENNEDY Anthony Eden got a call from the British Commander saying the French Army had melted away and asked permission to withdraw to Dunkirk and fight with his back to the sea. EDDIE What did Churchill tell him? KENNEDY He told him it would put them in a bomb trap and their annihilation would only be a matter of time. He told them to attack southwards. EDDIE Brilliant strategist. ARTHUR Wants us to trust his judgment. EDDIE Like he knows what's best for the world. What's their strategy? ALL Lose every battle but the last. ARTHUR Into the valley of death. KLEMMER Here, here.

KENNEDY Every time I trusted someone who thought they were better than me it was bad. The Brahmins want you to buy into their system but it doesn't mean shit and they're not going to let you in anyway. EDDIE Big shots on Wall Street said we'd never go bust. ARTHUR It's all bullshit. To the delight of all Arthur rises and belts out an "Irish diddy" a song, accompanied with a dance. ARTHUR (CONT'D) (sings) "I tried to join the social club, it was nothing but a trick. They rubbed down with sandpaper of course I had to kick. They told me for to use the soap, t'was nothin but a brick. They told me I had to fight fifteen rounds and do the best I could. But the gloves I had were buckskin and the gloves they had were wood. I couldn't join the social club cause I couldn't take a joke." They all laugh and applaud. He falls.

KENNEDY There are no logical reasons for war. RKO Unless you are attacked. KENNEDY Unless you are attacked. I read the God-damned German White Paper. I know Bullitt and Franklin told the Poles not to negotiate and if they resisted we'd back them up. I also read Hitler's second book. He doesn't want to fight England he's

only beating up France to bring England to her knees. Well, I don't want to get in. I don't want to join their club. I don't want to take part in their "Great Adventure". No American in his right mind would either. EDDIE In five months they'll bring you back to the states, (imitating FDR) "Joe today... I'd like you to go out and bring in the Catholic vote." KENNEDY Combining the Defense position with Prime Minister gave him the power. ARTHUR Just like Hitler. EDDIE Shut up. You don't know what we're talking about. KENNEDY Somebody tell me what the difference is between the colonization of Asia, Africa, and IndiaARTHUR The world. KENNEDY What? ARTHUR The world. Remember, "The Sun Never Sets on the British Empire". KENNEDY Okay, the world, and what Hitler is trying to do in Eastern Europe. RKO It's the way he treats the Jews.

KENNEDY Do you know what Churchill called Ghandi? A God-damned yellow devil of the worst kind. What did you say? RKO The difference between England and Germany is the way they treat the Jews. KENNEDY I tried to relocate them to Central America, Africa- nobody will take them. Before the war broke out I had a deal with Goering to let them goRKO If they paid four thousand dollars to pass the border and gave up all their possessions. KENNEDY They would have gotten out alive. I did everything I could- they even named the God-damned plan after me. Look, I've got nothing against a race of people. I set up lectures at Harvard. I brought the heads of the studios there. For Christ's sake they were all Jews. Do you know what Jessy Lasky and Louis Mayer and the rest of those bastards said to me? RKO I know Joe, they were honored and that's not the point. EDDIE What is the point? RKO The point is that some day Joe will have to answer for it. EDDIE For what? RKO For being anti-Jewish.

KENNEDY Horse-shit. I have had close working relationships and friendships with Jews. Morganthau, FrankfurterARTHUR Some of your best friends areEDDIE Shut up. KENNEDY I am just against any man who uses the line that you should help him because his people have been discriminated against. That's a tired excuse that they lacked the talent or the stomach to make it in this world on their own effort. ARTHUR We're supposed to be fighting for liberty and the result will be to turn the last of the democracies into totalitarian states. (he takes a big drink) Tell meKLEMMER You said we. Why did you say we? They all stop. RKO Is it because all of us somehow do feel that this is our war? Joe stands. He looks at the group and then he turns his glass upside down and exits to the patio. EDDIE You dumb son-of-a-bitch. RKO Sometimes I don't understand you guys. EDDIE

It's the family. The family. The perpetuation of the God-damned family. We survived the Irish Plague, and the wars they sent all the other dumb Irish bastards to fight in. People have no conception of what it meant to be Irish in America when he was a kid. "Irish need not apply"! Monkeys. That's what they called us monkeys. Had caricatures in all the newspapers. Cartoons. Do you have any idea of what it means to the Irish people to have him Chair the Securities and Exchange Commission? Become Ambassador to England? ARTHUR After robbing the system for all those years? EDDIE To cross over to respectability only to have some asshole with an ancestor complex decide that on Joe's watch he was going to over-ride his President and pull us into this thing. Leave it alone. It's inevitable. RKO What's inevitable? EDDIE The Russians will fight the Germans. They are diametrically opposed. Why do we have to do it? Gallantry and bravery and medals and charging into machine gun fire for the glory of it? It doesn't make sense to him and it doesn't make sense to me. What's left after all this? Will we manipulate the rubble? Sell pieces of a street, a torn piece of pipe? Pieces of bodies? You tell me when he kills Hitler or Hitler kills him and the survivors are standing amidst the gutted cities full of dead what do you want us to do?

RKO Rebuild it? EDDIE (passionately) Why do you have to destroy it in the first place? INT. AMBASSADOR'S OFFICE, LONDON - TUESDAY MAY 21ST. - DAY Standing in walk-in radio cabinet Joe listens on the large red shortwave radio with via a headphone held to his ear. Eddie, Klemmer and RKO are seated around his desk. KENNEDY Churchill is cheerful! He insists the situation is no worse. Attack South will prevail. Stalin! He's going to Stalin. He's going to ask Stalin to sell fighters to China. Then China can sell them to England. EDDIE He'll make a deal with the devil himself. KLEMMER Who's he talking to? Eddie puts his finger to his lips, and mimes the monkey "hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil". KLEMMER (CONT'D) (whispers) I think somebody is sending him intelligence. EDDIE Really. KLEMMER Yes. RKO I think the question has always been... is he sending anything back? KENNEDY

Churchill says in all the history of war he's never seen such mismanagement. He's going to Paris again to stiffen the French resolve. Alexander tried to encourage him to show some goodwill towards us, but he didn't think of wholesale offer of military secrets will account for much at the moment. Johnson enters and hands Joe a list. and closes the cabinet. Joe replaces the earphones

JOHNSON Sir Norman Kendall is taking over the case. He's given me a list. Copies of the files Kent copied so that they can charge he and Anna Wolkopf with espionage. KENNEDY (looking at list) They're connecting Ramsey to the Italian Embassy through Kent. Why these specific files? (To Arthur) Who do we know at the Italian Embassy? RKO Paresci, Press Attache. house the other night. KENNEDY Get him. EDDIE Tell him we are looking through them now and will send them when we're sure it doesn't violate our National Security. JOHNSON You said give them everything they want. ARTHUR Herschel? KENNEDY He was at the

Just tell them what I said. Did you get a response from Paris on the message we sent via the Naval Coding machines. JOHNSON Nothing. KENNEDY They're too God damned slow. Bullit on the line. JOHNSON An open line? KENNEDY Unless you have a better idea. JOHNSON A man named de Courcey wants to speak with you. He came here this morning and camped out in the lobby. He says he won't leave. He claims he knows a way to stop the war. He's with the a bunch of extremists. They call themselves the Imperial Policy Group. KENNEDY Send him up. Johnson stares at him. KENNEDY (CONT'D) Give me five minutes and then send him up. Johnson removes a magazine from under Arthur's feet and dusts it off as he exits. KENNEDY (CONT'D) Stop the war? That's the last thing we'd want to do. What do we know about them? ARTHUR Did you know that Standard Oil has a deal with I.G. Farben not to produce high octane airplane fuel? Get

RKO They have a paper(grabs notebook) "The Intelligence Digest". There's something here about Chamberlain... EDDIE What's happening with that Mussolini deal for the Brits give up Suez and Gibraltar? KENNEDY Check with Galeazzi in Rome. Phone rings. ARTHUR (Covers phone makes limp wrist gesture) It's Offie. KENNEDY Hi Carmie, it's Joe. What's up with the machines? (standing) He did what? (covers receiver) Bullitt burned all the code books and the Naval Coding machines. Carmie, Carmie- put Bill on. Bill, what the fuck are you doing? How are you going to get messages through? I know they're eighty miles away! Yeah, yes(Joe holds the phone away from his ear. Hysterical screaming comes out of the receiver) Okay, we'll send them by courier! Call me later. Bill! I'll call you back. Bye. Jesus. EDDIE (reading ticker) The State Department now believes that a German victory is possible rather than a negotiated peace.

There is a knock at the door and it opens tentatively. Hugh de Courcey (60) enters. Joe rises and greets him. KENNEDY Mr. de Courcey? DE COURCEY How do you do? (He looks around the room) I came with a... (he stops) KENNEDY My close associates. complete confidence. De Courcey shakes his head. KENNEDY (CONT'D) Would you gentlemen mind if we take a break. I'd like to talk with Mr. De Courcey alone. They have my

Kenneth

As they go Joe reaches over and snaps on the intercom to the ante room. As they enter the ante room they go immediately to the intercom and listen in. INTERCUT ACTION: Thank you. DE COURCEY Hmm. Where to begin?

KENNEDY Let's just try beginning. DE COURCEY I know that you are a man of peace. A beat. DE COURCEY (CONT'D) I carry a message. It has a stamp of approval from a highly placed representative of this country and that of another in Sweden.

Joe offers him a cigar.

He declines.

DE COURCEY (CONT'D) I wish to present Adolf Hitler with a proposal similar to the one your President Wilson presented to Germany prior to the Great War. He hands Joe a folded document. DE COURCEY (CONT'D) (slowly) There will be a truce and both sides will lay down their arms. A Peace Conference is to be called. If the Germans do not attend the United States will come into the war on the Allied side. They would bring sanctions requiring German withdrawal from the occupied portions of Western Europe and Polish independence of some kind. Also, it involves giving Germany control of the mouth of the Rhine. Joe takes the document and walks to the window. KENNEDY A threat. To become involved when we are not involved. DE COURCEY It is a way to stop the war. KENNEDY We would be committed to honor our pledge. DE COURCEY Or not. In the other room. RKO Where is the mouth of the Rhine? They search for a map. KENNEDY

Who do you represent? DE COURCEY I can not say, exactly. Someone who cannot speak to you directly. It is someone you know quite well and his assistant. They, like you, are men of peace. KENNEDY If it is who I think it is I speak to him every day. DE COURCEY Not about this. KENNEDY The rest of the cabinet? DE COURCEY Only one opposes. KENNEDY (looking out the window) And Hitler? I presume you ran it by him. A beat. Joe turns. DE COURCEY He only wishes to be the person credited with dictating the terms of peace. KENNEDY Of course, he's a dictator. Sweden? De Courcey nods. The King? Hitler? Personally. KENNEDY KENNEDY (CONT'D) And he'll present it to DE COURCEY And in

Then I would have to say that this is a most intelligent idea. KLEMMER Does this mean what I think it does? EDDIE I think so. Klemmer starts to utter a scream of delight, but RKO immediately covers his mouth. They start dancing around silently like Indians slapping each other and performing a sort of victory war dance. Suddenly a siren sounds. KLEMMER Jesus, what's that? RKO Air raid. KLEMMER I hope this isn't another false alarm. RKO (as they rush out through Joe's office) You mean you hope they're really bombing us this time. DE COURCEY Are you not going to seek shelter? KENNEDY (he lights a cigar) No, I don't believe I will be killed by a bomb. You are welcome to join them though. EDDIE Joe? No thanks. KENNEDY I'll see you in an hour.

EDDIE Mr. De Courcey? DE COURCEY

Yes, thank you.

I think I will.

He rises and exits and the sirens wail and Joe smokes his cigar with satisfaction as the sound of footsteps fades in the background. RKO (V.O.) A British attack with two battalions, supported by sixteen tanks and light armored French units that almost cut off German infantry from their armored divisions by nightfall had failed. German bombers dropped leaflets over Paris telling the French to abandon their British allies and make peace. At the next days cabinet meeting Churchill gave instructions to Chamberlain to order the roundup of fascists and German Sympathizers. INT. THE AMBASSADOR'S OFFICE. - DAY - WEDNESDAY 22ND. The scene is the same. Food cartons in evidence. coatless, ties loosened. Men are

Rosemary is asleep on a couch. Arthur walks to the window and winces as the light streams in. ARTHUR I feel like Count Dracula. is it? What day

RKO searches through dispatches and messages. RKO It's Wednesday. this. Come here look at

KENNEDY (on red short wave radio in closet) Winston was up at dawn, took off for Paris in the rain. He's encouraged! The French Army under Weygand plan to pinch off the German infantry from rear. Churchill is promising air support! He's agreeing to a British

attack South West with the French attacking North. RKO I don't get it. I'm looking at these messages between FDR and Churchill and I don't get it. ARTHUR Get it? RKO Why are we always told to send these messages in the grey code? That is our lowest form of code. ARTHUR If we sent them in a higher code and the British have the original message it would be easy to break our codes. Which now everybody knows. RKO But they didn't know then. During the Maritime Treaty negotiations you said they "had the brown anyway". KENNEDY They knew our every move. RKO Why were they sending them through us at all? They could have sent them straight through from the Admiralty to Washington? ARTHUR He didn't want his people to know. Know what? friend? Eddie enters. EDDIE A woman named Enid Riddell. They found out Kent was going to meet her RKO That Roosevelt was his

and have dinner with a Duke del Monte, an official at the Italian Embassy. KENNEDY (on the red short wave set) A bill for taking complete control, to do anything required with persons or property is passing Parliament with Royal Assent to deal with any person known to be an active member of an organization that may have hostile associations or is subject to foreign control.. Ramsey had been engaged in treasonable practices in conjunction with an employee of The U.S. Embassy. Guess who? Churchill's using Ramsey's association with Kent and Anna Wolkopf's message to the Duke del Monte at the Italian Embassy to send the copies out of England. They have proof that the copies of the telegram were transmitted to Berlin from Rome. RKO Say goodbye to who's ever name was in that red book. KLEMMER The package. The one the Gestapo agent Mathias got from Kent. Could they have been using the Ledger? To prove there was support? What was in the book? KENNEDY A lot of names. RKO dumps the contents of the box on the sofa and hands the empty box to Klemmer. RKO Harvey, take my car and drive around London and see who follows you. What? KLEMMER I don't get it.

RKO We're not going to give them the evidence. Klemmer still doesn't get it. KENNEDY We're giving them Kent. The papers belong to me. They implicate the Boss. Klemmer stares at the box as if it was a terrible disease. RKO (Impersonating an M.I.5 interrogator) Where are the rest of the files and telegrams? ARTHUR (Effeminately) You can't have them. RKO Sorry, Old Man. National Security, you know. Sure you understand. Need to know and fuck you. ARTHUR You call them "Official Secrets". We say, "In the interest of National Security." KLEMMER They'll do anything to get them. KENNEDY We'll just keep them moving. KLEMMER Can't we just take them? Diplomatic Immunity. They all look at him. RKO So did Kent. KENNEDY We have

They'll pass it tonight. Some of the people in the Red Book are members of the government I might have been able to go to. KLEMMER What names? KENNEDY I don't know. KLEMMER Didn't you look? KENNEDY How could I? KLEMMER You should never have let them search his flat. RKO You're out of line. What was he supposed to do? Tell them, yes he is a spy, but no I can't let you take a peek? KLEMMER It's all his fault. They tricked him. He gave them the book! It was him copying the files that got us in to all of this in the first place! RKO punches Klemmer in the face. on him. Joe and Eddie pull them apart. KENNEDY Stop it! EDDIE This is no time to come apart. KLEMMER He struck me. RKO He falls back and RKO jumps

I'll kill you- (stops) Sorry. sorry.

I'm

KENNEDY You see what"s happening? One incident. One provocation. An attack on us, and bang we're in this war. Now think. What are we going to do? EDDIE It was the book they were after. It connected Kent, Wolkopf, and Ramsey with that Italian Duke. INT. U.S. EMBASSY - LATER The scene is the same. KENNEDY (On the red radio in the closet) The Redbook contains sixteen members of Parliament. Ten from House of Commons. Six from House of Lords. A member of the Royal Family, and Conservative Party chiefs. He's starting the arrests. EDDIE He panicked the cabinet into giving him power to lock up Ramsey. It sends a warning to anyone wanting to negotiate peace they risk being locked up, too. Klemmer passes by holding up a newspaper. KLEMMER The Spectator. Klemmer? EDDIE Isn't that German?

KLEMMER Fuck you, Eddie. He exits.

KENNEDY (reading) They say I should tell people what the war is about. That's what I've been trying to find out. Nobody seems to know. Joe and Eddie sit and look out. pause. After a few beats. KENNEDY (CONT'D) It is possible to keep us out. it? Isn't It is not an uncomfortable

EDDIE They're never going to want it to get out. KENNEDY What? EDDIE That some of the cabinet would have accepted terms for surrender. KENNEDY Uh-huh. EDDIE When this is over you'll never be able to prove it was anybody but you and Adolf Hitler that wanted the Brits to make peace with Germany. KENNEDY Do you-? EDDIE Not a Chinaman's chance in hell. KENNEDY You know it was a setup? Churchill got in? EDDIE No. How

KENNEDY Chamberlain wanted Winston. The King said he was going to offer it to them both and the first to respond would get it. Churchill found out about it beforehand and since Halifax was a gentleman he wouldn't snatch it up so when the question was proffered ChurchillEDDIE Caught it in his teeth. KENNEDY Something like that. They put me off on that meeting you know. EDDIE With Churchill. KENNEDY Said he'd had a fight with his son Randolf. I told him I didn't give a shit. Tell me about Rosemary. EDDIE What about Rosemary? KENNEDY What's going on? EDDIE I really don't know , Joe. KENNEDY There were other times... she looked like she was getting better. EDDIE It's been toughKENNEDY All I wanted was healthy children. I don't care how it happened or what caused it. If theyEDDIE I don't think they are Joe.

KENNEDY Even if they areEDDIE You think it's better to keep her isolated? KENNEDY Eddie? EDDIE Joe. KENNEDY You gotta take the stuff back. EDDIE Sure. KENNEDY I'dYou can't. to pack. Eddie? EDDIE Joe. KENNEDY Thanks. EDDIE Yeah, sure. Phone rings. EDDIE (CONT'D) Ambassador Kennedy's office. Just a moment. It's Emily from the consular section. I'm sorryKENNEDY Let me take it. Get us some sandwiches? EDDIE I'll call Mary, tell her KENNEDY

EDDIE Sure Joe. KENNEDY Hello Emily. No, I don't think they'll be any bombing. Sometimes I get very frightened myself. I'm not free to call home myself. The Foreign Office controls the trunk line. They are very selective. Remember, The only thing we have to fear-" what the President said(he listens for a couple of beats) Alright, I'll make a call right now. (clicks the receiver) This is Joe Kennedy. Connect me to the Foreign Office. (beat) Hello Edward, it's Joe. (Listens) Fine, I'll be waiting. There's a woman, a very fine woman. She's having a bad time. Could you allow us to put a call through? I told her they don't even allow me to call home. Thank you. At the usual time. Good bye. (clicks phone) We are getting a clearance for a call to the States. Emily? Just give the operator the number and she'll put you through. Don't mention it. (Eddie returns with some sandwiches.) (Eddie answers) EDDIE Ambassador Kennedy's office. A beat. Joe. Rosa? EDDIE (CONT'D) It's Rose. KENNEDY

A beat. KENNEDY (CONT'D) Under the circumstances I would have to say that things are going well. You know we are being monitored. How are the children? She's really better than we expected. I miss you too. I don't know when. You wouldn't want me to desert my post. I know. It was the day the war broke out. They canceled all the flights. Eddie exits closing the door quietly as he goes. KENNEDY (CONT'D) I want to tell you how very much I love you and that I am so sorry- I knew that you'd say that. I was so stupid. Why? Well, I guess having all this money has something to do with it. No. I see very little of anyone since you left. It's like that house we bought on the Sound. You remember we moved up there and thought we'd made it? Yes, it was a beautiful house. They never would have accepted us Rosa. A beat. KENNEDY (CONT'D) My stomach's okay. I'm not smoking as much. Did you get the Champagne? Well, you'll get it soon. There's practically no one here. I sent most everybody back. Eddie, Mary, Arthur, RKO, most- hello-hello-hello? A beat. KENNEDY (CONT'D) Yes, uh, okay, thank you operatorHe holds on to the phone and can't let it go. up and tears well in his eyes. Eddie comes back in. Finally he hangs

Joe turns away and dries his eyes.

KENNEDY (CONT'D) Edward Halifax called her and put it through. EDDIE Great guy. KENNEDY Yeah, if he can get us out of this and they don't hang him. A beat. Nice night. Sure Joe. RKO (V.O.) Rose's voice to Joe was like she had a hold of his heart and knew how to squeeze that part of it where the tears were kept... Slow intro Sinatra, "I'll never smile again". INT. U.S. EMBASSY - JOE'S OFFICE - - DAY Superimpose: "THURSDAY, MAY 23RD" Joe goes directly to the short wave radio and turns it on. is at the desk. KENNEDY De Courcey wasn't there. I waited two hours. He never showed. He holds one of the earphones to his ear and picks up the microphone and turns away. He says something unintelligible. KENNEDY (CONT'D) Their contact is Goering's Chauffeur. He's a Swedish agent. (he listens) Churchill got wind of what I was doing. Threatened to arrest Halifax if he continued to promote de Courcey's peace plan. Eddie KENNEDY (CONT'D) Think I'll go for a walk. EDDIE

Arthur and Eddie pack papers into a large suitcase. EDDIE The peace mission for Lloyd George with Hitler is off. Churchill's offered him a job in his cabinet. Mary's in the car. KENNEDY Eddie(There is a commotion outside Joe's office. with Lady Diana.) ROSEMARY Daddy? LADY DIANA They arrested my husband and Captain Ramsay. RKO The Ledger. They are monitoring us. Churchill planned on it. KENNEDY Harvey, you drive Lady Diana home. KLEMMER How do I get back? Jesus. EDDIE Take a cab. Rosemary enters

KLEMMER You don't have to bite my head off. EDDIE You're a jerk. KLEMMER Screw you Eddie. KENNEDY Okay, what? RKO You remember?

KENNEDY (reading through telegrams) Roosevelt's responses to Churchill's pleas for help? Calm, deliberate. RKO "I'm sorry about the destroyers. If they were here in six weeks they would play an important part. The battle in France is full of danger to both sides." KENNEDY He's reminding the Germans they can expect to take high casualties. RKO "We have taken a heavy toll of the enemy in the air and are getting down three to one of their planes". KENNEDY They can beat them in the air three to one. They're better and the Germans know it. RKO In regard to the closing part of your talk with the lofty end, our intentions whatever happens, to fight to the end on this island". KENNEDY We won't surrender don't even dream of it. RKO "Excuse me, Mr. President for putting this nightmare bluntly. I can not answer for my successors who in utter despair and helplessness might well have to accommodate themselves to the German will." KENNEDY

He can't answer for anyone else he's not even going to try, because there's not going to be anyone left. A beat. KENNEDY (CONT'D) Roosevelt told Bullitt to destroy those coding machines! It forced all the radio traffic to go through London. RKO They know Hitler is listening. KENNEDY They want him listening! RKO Everything we say is on an open line to German Intelligence. ROSEMARY You believe Mister Churchill would let the entire British Army be destroyed in order to bring the U.S. in? KENNEDY No. But that's not going to stop it from happening. It will be the end of the world as we know it. If they destroy the British Army there is no way that Americans will let that go unanswered. It's not in them to forgive that kind of monstrosity. ROSEMARY What could stop it Daddy? KENNEDY If somebody could get through to Hitler and tell him the consequences. Tell him who the real enemy is and send him on his way to fight the Russians. LADY DIANA Tell them what?

KENNEDY Tell Hitler if the British Army doesn't escape, it will be impossible to keep the United States out. It is our nature to fight for the underdog. FDR couldn't stop it even if he wanted to. And he doesn't. KLEMMER (looking out window) There's that asshole from Scotland Yard! They all go to the window. KENNEDY Turn out the lights. Lady Diana has been listening intently. She looks around the room and stops at the "Red Radio" inside the closet. The lights go out. In the darkened room a figure enters the radio closet and closes the door. A muffled voice can be heard from within. KLEMMER What are they doing? Waiting. leave. RKO Waiting for one of us to

KENNEDY I'm going to take them myself. They grab onto him. There is a scuffle.

The doors to the radio closet open and the figure exits. Someone snaps on the lights. KENNEDY (CONT'D) What's to stop them from shooting you and blaming it on the Germans? EDDIE

You gotta stay. ROSEMARY Daddy I'll go back with Uncle Eddie. I'll take the papers. RKO No! ROSEMARY We'll put them in a safe place and when all this is over you can bring them out and show everyone what you did to stop the war and what they did to make it happen. EDDIE She's right Joe. She's your family. She's perfect. They'd try to arrest me but they won't touch her. KENNEDY She's my daughter, I-I need herEDDIE This is a good thing. I don't know why we didn't think of it before. Let her go. No! KENNEDY She's the only one I have left. ROSEMARY let me go. She runs

Daddy...

He looks up brokenly. He wraps his arms around her. her fingers through his hair. EDDIE Ring up Sir Norman Kendall. Arthur makes the call. ARTHUR It's ringing. Sir Norman Kendall? Please hold for the Ambassador. Eddie reaches for the telephone.

EDDIE Sir Norman, this is Eddie Moore, I'm calling for the American Ambassador. I see you have some men outside our embassy. We need an escort to the airport? The Ambassador's daughter is flying to Lisbon tonight with me and my wife. Thank you. Joe gestures weakly for the phone. KENNEDY Sir Norman? This is Joe Kennedy. She'll be traveling with my personal assistant. Please make sure they have Safe Conduct. KLEMMER He's going to his radio. He's nodding his head. He just threw something in the car. He is really angry. Eddie kisses Joe on the forehead, takes Rosemary by the hand and leads her off. RKO watches her as she leaves. Their eyes meet. He moves toward her. Eddie blocks his way. EDDIE (slowly) Your job is here, with him. He starts to object but turns and sees Joe. she is gone. When he looks back

The boys who have until now kept their distance move in slowly toward him. As the door clicks shut they surround him. Arthur stands over him and rubs his shoulders. He collapses into himself. INT. WINDSOR. THE FOLLOWING DAY. Superimpose: Friday, May 24, 1940. An informal gathering of concerned very well-dressed people. Joe, Arthur, Klemmer, Clare, Lady Astor, Paresci, Lady Diana and a very drunk RKO. RKO (V.O.) On Thursday, May twenty-third the Germans committed the Tenth Panzer Division to Calais. A British tank

regiment and three rifle battalions held down an entire division. The Germans sent the First Panzer to Dunkirk, the only port open. The French were holding the Aa Canal allowing the escape route to remain open. Churchill ordered, that if the French did not attack in twenty- four hours they were to turn and hold the Channel ports. KENNEDY The British Expeditionary Force will soon be trapped at Dunkirk. RKO (speaking along with him) When it is annihilated America will declare war on Germany. I thank all of you who tried to stop this terrible thing from happening. It is clear RKO wrote what Joe's speech. Joe stops speaking. Arthur tries to get RKO to shut up, but Joe motions to let him continue. RKO (CONT'D) When the brutality of war has taken from us those we hold dear. When the buildings and edifices that once proclaimed a proud race have been broken and the remains are lying in our streets we can, we must realize that we used every ounce of our strength to stop the onslaught of war. And maybe someday we'll find out what it was all about. Joe steps away and is approached by Paresci. PARESCI Mr. Ambassador may I speak frankly? It is not my place to say war or no war. I report, try to report only what I see and sometimes what I am told. Sir, the stories I hear are so, so gruesome in horror and so consistent in their

telling- I can only say that they are true. Mr. Ambassador the English cannot state the aims of this war in any terms other than survival. Only America can say what they are. It is up to your President to say them. KENNEDY Harry Luce said something like that. I guess that is what he was trying to say. PARESCI I must go now. My opinions do not agree with El Duce. KENNEDY Good bye Mr. Paresci. Joe sits at a table and looks out. CLARE Where's Rosemary? KENNEDY I sent her back with the Moore's. CLARE You'll be without Eddie? function? How will you Clare joins him.

KENNEDY There is little to do at the embassy now that a clerk couldn't do. A beat. CLARE Something's happened. KENNEDY Something is always happening. CLARE What is it? KENNEDY I was just remembering the train.

CLARE The train? KENNEDY The campaign train. "The Roosevelt Special". Thirteen thousand miles from the East Coast to the West Coast and back again. The crowds were huge. The opposition against me going was immense. As the crowds surged forward to hear that Great Man speak, I would make my way to a bank or a hotel room. I would meet with the powerful men in the community. I would listen to their objections. I would answer their questions. I would tell them what their options were. To this day I firmly believe in my heart if it had not been for that man the United States of America would no longer exist. Nothing, no human power could have prevented that system from falling into anarchy and chaos. Franklin inspired them and I was part of it. In my way. When the train would leave the station I'd get back on board and report my progress to the Boss and he'd ask me to stay. They said they could hear us laughing all the way back to the car that held the reporters, and the columnists. The men who would make real what I had seen at the train stations and heard in those hotel rooms. I helped make it happen. At the convention William Randolf Hearst had control of the delegates that could swing the nomination. I called him and asked him if he wanted Newton Baker running our country. Baker was a great defender of the League of Nations, an ardent Internationalist whose policies Hearst despised. No, of course he didn't. I told him that's exactly what he was going to get if he kept holding out his delegates from Roosevelt. I told him if the convention cracks open, it'll surely

be Baker. I told him to release his God-damned delegates". He did and it started the ball rolling. Franklin was elected. I suppose I am more responsible than any one man for his Presidency. But you know what I am most proud of? CLARE Being asked to ride the train? KENNEDY Being asked to ride that God-damned train. A beat. Klemmer comes up. He nods to Clare.

KLEMMER Churchill cabled the Prime Ministers in the Commonwealth saying that he would "Welcome private appeals to President of the United States". KENNEDY (to Clare) Did you know that he intended to attack Narvik in Norway, capture it and then withdraw, but the cabinet turned him down. I cabled the President and told him what he said. CLARE Which was? KENNEDY He said the situation is very grave. People just never seem to realize that England can be beaten. I don't underestimate the courage it is going to take. The Air attacks. CLARE Ambassador Davies said that prior to the implementation of any peace negotiations FDR should make provision for the British and the French to assign their fleets to us.

KENNEDY Halifax doesn't think the French have any intention of attacking. They are only trying to prevent the Germans from advancing on Paris. ARTHUR We just heard Germans had closed the port of Boulogne. CLARE Thank you Arthur. darling? ARTHUR Another day older. KENNEDY What are your plans? I could. CLARE Wanna go? How's my aging

No wiser. See a play? What's playing?

KENNEDY I understand that GielgudCLARE -is still doing King Lear? KENNEDY Is still doing King Lear. LADY ASTOR I just found out the French Commander told Winston that everything was underway and that they had recaptured the Somme, and Amiens bridgeheads, it was... KENNEDY What? LADY ASTOR Not true. KENNEDY The cabinet is getting conflicting information. They have to make a decision. They do not believe very

many can be gotten out if they retreat to the ports. LADY ASTOR Winston said he's got no choice but to go with the Plan. CLARE But what is the plan? I hear no one's seen it. Not even Churchill. I know for a fact the British Commander has begun reinforcing a secondary defense line. LADY ASTOR He told the King if the plan doesn't come off, he would order the British Expeditionary Force back to England. KENNEDY They'll have to leave everything. All that artillery. LADY ASTOR It depends on holding the ports of Calais and Dunkirk. They believe the loss of life will be immense. CLARE Churchill told Weygand he understood there was a communication problem but given his assurances earlier today if Gort of the British Army and Blanchard of the French army are hand in hand, how can one be retreating to the coast and the other attacking? They laugh. Oh my God. A beat. LADY ASTOR (CONT'D) Take care darling. CLARE LADY ASTOR We're laughing.

We're going to a play.

Wanna go?

LADY ASTOR I think I'll pass. All those air raid sirens. You'll be getting up every fifteen minutes. INT. AMERICAN EMBASSY - THAT NIGHT Joe and Clare deposit a drunken RKO on the couch. Joe walks to the radio cabinet. He stands in front of it unmoving. He slowly opens the doors. KENNEDY You think they're listening? RKO Joe, sure as hell I think they are. KENNEDY (pulls plug) They're not listening now. INT. JOE KENNEDY'S BEDROOM. - WINDSOR - THE DAY AFTER Joe has slept in. RKO (O.S.) On Friday, May 24th, Boulogne had fallen or was about to fall. Churchill learned that one thousand troops had been evacuated during the night from Boulogne by destroyers under heavy fire. It was the beginning of a miracle. Reconnaissance had reported a "definite halt" in the advance of the German armored divisions toward Dunkirk. A full Panzer Division. Two hundred and fifty tanks. A beat. RKO (O.S.) (CONT'D) Joe was awakened by a call. KENNEDY (awakening) This is Joe Kennedy.

(listens) They what? They stopped? Why did they stop? (listens) I could come up with a hundred. He came to his senses, decided not to slaughter a quarter of a million men and bring the U.S. in. Maybe he just wants to give them a fighting chance. I'll be a son-of-a-bitch! Maybe pulling the plug on our communications did it. Made him think we were coming in. Who knows? Maybe God interceded. (he continues talking as the lights fade) RKO (O.S.) At 11:32 a.m. an intercepted enemy radio order had been picked up. Its urgency and origin were unmistakable. It had been transmitted "en Clare" and not coded as such operational orders usually were. Within minutes of its transmission, it passed on the English translation; "By order of the Furher... attack Northwest is to be limited to the general line Lens-Bethune-Air-St.Omer-Gravelines . The canal will not be crossed. "THE FURHER ORDERS YOU TO HALT!" EXT. HYALEA RACE TRACK 1961. John F. Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline are seated in the grandstand. Joe is in his box with Rose. He recognizes someone. KENNEDY Look who's here. Joe leaves his box and goes to Churchill who is nearly an invalid. KENNEDY (CONT'D) Winston? CHURCHILL

Hello, Joe. KENNEDY Just came to say hello. How are you? You are

CHURCHILL Not as bad as I expected. looking fit.

KENNEDY I still play golf, ride every chance I get. CHURCHILL I was thinking it was due to your well known abstinence. KENNEDY (pointing to his flask) I see you are not abstaining. CHURCHILL Not until they roll me over into my grave. KENNEDY A beautiful day. CHURCHILL It is indeed. KENNEDY I have to say that I respect you for being such a worthy opponent. CHURCHILL But, we were on the same side. KENNEDY You know what I mean. CHURCHILL I suppose I do. KENNEDY You had Kent. I had the files. I don't think you were right. I don't

think it was necessary. don't.

I still

CHURCHILL You have your right to your opinion, Mister Ambassador. Joe reacts. How is CHURCHILL (CONT'D) Rosemary? You mean

KENNEDY She's wonderful as always. my wife Rose.

CHURCHILL No, I meant your daughter, I believe her name is Rosemary. KENNEDY She's doing just fine. Back in his seat. ROSE (O.S.) What is it? A beat. KENNEDY Something he said. A beat. KENNEDY (CONT'D) He called me Mr. Ambassador. EXT. MOTHER MARY SANCTUARY - DAY Rosemary sits in a garden staring blankly ahead smiling a Mona Lisa like smile. DISSOLVE TO: INT. HALL OF CONGRESS - DAY Back to present day. The Aide walks slowly along next to RKO. Thank You.

AIDE That's quite a story. anybody'd believe it? RKO (after a beat) Not a chance. They roll off on to the Rotundra. A SERIES OF SHOTS

You think

The Washington Monument in the distance. The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Arlington Cemetery. Superimpose: "In whatever arena of life one may meet the challenge of courage, whatever may be the sacrifices he faces if he follows his conscience-the loss of his friends, his fortune, his contentment, even the esteem of his fellow men-each man must decide for himself the course he must follow." John F. Kennedy, "Profiles In Courage" THE END