Thirteen Days (2000)

Timothy Jerome: Journalist

Quotes 

• Journalist : So... tell me about this military exercise that's going on down in Puerto Rico.

  Kenny O'Donnell : [sharply]  What?

  Journalist : It's called "ORTSAC", I believe. "Castro" spelled backwards.

  Kenny O'Donnell : "ORTSAC"? I... I don't know what you're talking about.

  Robert F. Kennedy : Me either. Why?

  Journalist : Because maybe the President and Gromyko are gonna talk about it.

  Kenny O'Donnell : If you're trying to drum something up, Johnny, forget it. This meeting's been on the books for months. Far as I know, it's just a friendly talk on U.S.-Soviet relations.

  [Johnny the Journalist nods and walks away. On a pad, Bobby writes the word "ORTSAC"] 

  Kenny O'Donnell : ... Does it?

  Robert F. Kennedy : [writes "CASTRO" underneath it]  Mm-hm.

  Kenny O'Donnell : I'll be damned.

  [scoffs] 

  Kenny O'Donnell : Kind of simple for the Pentagon.