"AMERICA'S TEAM"
FADE IN:
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. |
INT. OVAL OFFICE - PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
is sitting behind his desk, smoking a cigarette in the familiar cigarette holder.
AIDE (O.S.)
ROOSEVELT
AIDE (O.S.)
Professor Einstein is here to see you. |
ROOSEVELT
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
He nods to the aide, who exits quickly.
ROOSEVELT
(continuing)
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
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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