"AMERICA'S TEAM"


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EXT. WASHINGTON, D.C. - DAY (1933) - (STOCK)

A "March of Time" clip from 1933, including shots of the White House, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Albert Einstein.

NEWSREEL ANNOUNCER (V.O.)

Washington, D.C., the Nation's Capital, and first-term President Franklin Delano Roosevelt welcomes the greatest genius of the twentieth century to the White House -- it's "Mr. Relativity" himself, Professor Albert Einstein, recently arrived on these shores from his native Germany -- and what the two of them discussed is anybody's guess.

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INT. OVAL OFFICE - PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT

is sitting behind his desk, smoking a cigarette in the familiar cigarette holder.

AIDE (O.S.)

Mr. President?

ROOSEVELT
Yes?

AIDE (O.S.)
Professor Einstein is here to see you.

ROOSEVELT
Oh, good, send him in.

Roosevelt smiles as ALBERT EINSTEIN is ushered in by an AIDE.

ROOSEVELT
(continuing)
Come in, come in, so good to see you.

Einstein leans over and shakes Roosevelt's hand and sits down.

EINSTEIN
Mr. President, it is a great relief to be able to walk in here a free man.

ROOSEVELT
I understand, Professor, that you had a little difficulty getting out of Germany.

EINSTEIN
Yes. It's quite a story, Mr. President, one that I can tell you only in the strictest of confidence.

ROOSEVELT
Of course, of course.

He nods to the aide, who exits quickly.

ROOSEVELT
(continuing)
I'm all ears.

Einstein looks around, making sure they're alone.

EINSTEIN
Well, the story begins sixty-two years from now, in the year nineteen ninety-five.

ROOSEVELT
What? Nineteen ninety-five?

EINSTEIN
Yes. The future. In fact, that desk you're sitting behind?

ROOSEVELT
Yes? I've had it since my days as Assistant Secretary of the Navy.

EINSTEIN
Well, that desk is the same desk that President Bill Clinton will be sitting behind in the year nineteen ninety-five. But I'm getting ahead of myself.

ROOSEVELT
I should say so, Professor. Go on. This is fascinating.

EINSTEIN
It will be in nineteen ninety-five when, for the first time in man's history, time travel will be achieved.

ROOSEVELT
Time travel?

EINSTEIN
Yes. It will confirm my theory of relativity, but more importantly it will enable me to be here today to tell you about what's going to happen sixty-two years from now. You see...

Roosevelt, mesmerized, pours himself a shot of whiskey as we

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