Thirteen Days (2000)

Tim Kelleher: Ted Sorensen

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• Kenny O'Donnell : Good speech, Teddy.

  Ted Sorensen : Yeah, well, I guess I get to keep my job.

  Kenny O'Donnell : No - it was a *really good speech*. I can't imagine what you did with the air-strikes version.

  Ted Sorensen : I wasn't able to write it, Kenny. It's kind of hard to write... the unthinkable. I tried, just, I couldn't.

• Dean Rusk : The FBI has identified this Alexander Fomin as the Soviet Resident - the KGB equivalent of one of our station chiefs. He's their highest-ranking spy in this country, and he knows John's a friend of mine.

  Ted Sorensen : All the trademarks of a back-channel overture.

  Kenny O'Donnell : Yeah, some back channel! ABC news guy, my god-damn next-door neighbor...