WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:23.080 The DuPont Cavalcade of America starring Joan Caulfield and Ralph Bellamy. 00:23.080 --> 00:24.080 Good evening. 00:24.080 --> 00:25.080 Good evening. 00:25.080 --> 00:26.080 This is Joan Caulfield. 00:26.080 --> 00:27.080 This is Ralph Bellamy. 00:27.080 --> 00:29.920 Oh Ralph, I thought you were Grover Cleven, the famous bachelor president. 00:29.920 --> 00:30.920 I am. 00:30.920 --> 00:34.520 I thought you were Francis Falson, the pretty coed of 1885. 00:34.520 --> 00:35.520 I am. 00:35.520 --> 00:36.520 Well, what are we doing here? 00:36.520 --> 00:40.360 I thought we were supposed to be in the cavalcade story, Roses in the Rain. 00:40.360 --> 00:41.360 Oh, so we are. 00:41.360 --> 00:45.440 First, let's let Bill Hamilton of the DuPont Company have the microphone. 00:45.440 --> 00:46.440 Thank you. 00:46.440 --> 00:47.440 Good evening. 00:47.440 --> 00:51.480 Now is the time to get your family ready for rainy days. 00:51.480 --> 00:55.800 But whether 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man. 02:03.600 --> 02:04.600 Huh? 02:04.600 --> 02:07.400 Say, you oughtn't to sneak up on a person surreptitious like that, lady. 02:07.400 --> 02:10.320 Just how did you get into the corridor of the senior women's dormitory? 02:10.320 --> 02:11.680 Through the front door. 02:11.680 --> 02:14.240 I should think that was innately obvious. 02:14.240 --> 02:17.560 I'll thank you to be more respectful to the house, mother young man. 02:17.560 --> 02:18.560 What's in that box? 02:18.560 --> 02:20.520 Flowers, mom, and I'm only delivering them. 02:20.520 --> 02:21.520 Who to? 02:21.520 --> 02:23.040 Well, don't you mean to whom? 02:23.040 --> 02:24.280 Yes, yes, to whom? 02:24.280 --> 02:29.680 Well, the card here says, Mrs. Frances Folsom, Wells College, Aurora, New York. 02:29.680 --> 02:32.280 And the card on the door says this is her room. 02:32.280 --> 02:33.280 One side, please. 02:33.280 --> 02:34.280 Really? 02:34.280 --> 02:35.280 You should be reported. 02:35.280 --> 02:37.280 Oh, I often am, lady. 02:37.280 --> 02:38.280 Yes? 02:38.280 --> 02:41.040 Roses, Mrs. Folsom, from the sheriff, as per usual. 02:41.040 --> 02:42.040 Oh, thank you. 02:42.040 --> 02:43.040 The sheriff? 02:43.040 --> 02:44.400 Frances, what is this all about? 02:44.400 --> 02:47.760 Oh, he's sort of my unofficial guardian, Mrs. Block. 02:47.760 --> 02:51.080 He sends me roses, so I'll approve of his courting my mother. 02:51.080 --> 02:54.600 But, but the sheriff, why, he has nine children. 02:54.600 --> 02:56.200 You don't understand. 02:56.200 --> 02:58.360 That's just our affectionate name for the president. 02:58.360 --> 03:00.020 The president of what? 03:00.020 --> 03:03.640 Of the United States of America, President Grover Cleveland. 03:03.640 --> 03:04.640 Whom else? 03:04.640 --> 03:19.600 1885, in Grover Cleveland, the bachelor president was in the White House. 03:19.600 --> 03:24.080 Fathers with marriageable daughters had secret hopes that there might be a first lady in 03:24.080 --> 03:25.560 their families. 03:25.560 --> 03:30.680 Maidens and widows said their nightly prayers facing Washington, D.C. 03:30.680 --> 03:34.600 But it was soon obvious that President Cleveland had a mind of his own concerning romance, 03:34.600 --> 03:36.260 as well as politics. 03:36.260 --> 03:42.600 That his heart was in Buffalo, home of Mrs. Emma Folsom and her lovely daughter, Frances. 03:42.600 --> 03:43.600 Celia? 03:43.600 --> 03:44.600 Yes, Mrs. Frances. 03:44.600 --> 03:46.560 They're right outside the window, like you said. 03:46.560 --> 03:47.560 How many? 03:47.560 --> 03:48.560 Three, Miss. 03:48.560 --> 03:51.560 A drum, a trombone, and one of those big, whatchamacallits. 03:51.560 --> 03:53.240 But I don't quite understand. 03:53.240 --> 03:55.200 The president's coming to see us tonight. 03:55.200 --> 03:56.200 Oh. 03:56.200 --> 04:00.000 And I have a very strong hunch he's going to pop the question to Mother. 04:00.000 --> 04:01.760 Oh, Derry, me how wonderful. 04:01.760 --> 04:05.520 The band's going to play Hail to the Chief the moment she says yes. 04:05.520 --> 04:07.560 But how will they know? 04:07.560 --> 04:09.600 I'll pull the dining room shade down. 04:09.600 --> 04:10.600 That's the signal. 04:10.600 --> 04:11.600 Frances. 04:11.600 --> 04:12.600 Here comes your mother. 04:12.600 --> 04:13.600 Frances. 04:13.600 --> 04:14.600 Excuse me. 04:14.600 --> 04:15.600 Oh, there you are. 04:15.600 --> 04:16.600 Are you dressed properly? 04:16.600 --> 04:17.600 Let me look at you. 04:17.600 --> 04:19.960 Do you think I should have worn this organ deit, Martha, sir? 04:19.960 --> 04:21.480 Oh, stop worrying, Mother. 04:21.480 --> 04:22.480 You look beautiful. 04:22.480 --> 04:23.920 Oh, do I really? 04:23.920 --> 04:26.040 I could try the blue taffeta. 04:26.040 --> 04:27.520 Somehow it does more for my... 04:27.520 --> 04:28.520 Oh, dear. 04:28.520 --> 04:29.520 Do you suppose that's he? 04:29.520 --> 04:31.360 Oh, I do wish I had time to change. 04:31.360 --> 04:33.880 I've told you, you look beautiful. 04:33.880 --> 04:36.920 Uncle Cleve will be absolutely overwhelmed. 04:36.920 --> 04:37.920 Frances. 04:37.920 --> 04:40.200 What have you been up to? 04:40.200 --> 04:41.200 Oh, nothing. 04:41.200 --> 04:45.400 Frances, if you try to play one of your infamous practical jokes on the president after he's 04:45.400 --> 04:46.400 come all the way to... 04:46.400 --> 04:47.400 Now she's the president, ma'am. 04:47.400 --> 04:48.400 Mr. Cleveland. 04:48.400 --> 04:49.400 Thank you, Senor. 04:49.400 --> 04:50.400 Show him in. 04:50.400 --> 04:51.400 Frances, I've warned you. 04:51.400 --> 04:52.400 Yes, Mother. 04:52.400 --> 04:53.400 This way, Mr. President. 04:53.400 --> 04:54.400 Grover. 04:54.400 --> 04:55.400 Evening, my dear. 04:55.400 --> 04:56.400 Evening, Frances. 04:56.400 --> 04:57.400 Evening, Sheriff. 04:57.400 --> 04:58.400 Well, it's all settled. 04:58.400 --> 04:59.400 What's going on? 04:59.400 --> 05:04.320 It's stopped in New York on the way up. 05:04.320 --> 05:07.520 National committee is already trying to throw a scare into me about next election, three 05:07.520 --> 05:08.520 years away. 05:08.520 --> 05:09.520 Settle it, I hope. 05:09.520 --> 05:10.960 Yes, I'm sure you did, Cleve. 05:10.960 --> 05:11.960 You're looking well, Emma. 05:11.960 --> 05:14.240 Can't say that I ever remember you looking so well. 05:14.240 --> 05:15.240 Oh, thank you. 05:15.240 --> 05:18.440 I came to see you this time for a very special reason. 05:18.440 --> 05:21.440 Well, I'm sure you too will excuse me. 05:21.440 --> 05:23.000 I'll see about some coffee. 05:23.000 --> 05:24.360 Oh, no, no, no. 05:24.360 --> 05:25.360 Frances, stay here. 05:25.360 --> 05:26.760 I need your advice. 05:26.760 --> 05:30.200 Well, in that case, perhaps I'd better see about the coffee. 05:30.200 --> 05:31.400 You'd like some, Grover? 05:31.400 --> 05:32.400 I would. 05:32.400 --> 05:36.440 That is, well, as a matter of fact, I would if you don't mind. 05:36.440 --> 05:37.440 I'll tell Celia. 05:37.440 --> 05:38.440 Celia. 05:38.440 --> 05:40.440 All right, Cleve, out with it. 05:40.440 --> 05:41.440 How can I help you? 05:41.440 --> 05:45.720 Well, you see, I've had something on my mind for some time. 05:45.720 --> 05:46.720 A serious step, mind. 05:46.720 --> 05:47.720 You're very serious. 05:47.720 --> 05:48.720 In fact, marriage. 05:48.720 --> 05:49.720 That's wonderful, Cleve. 05:49.720 --> 05:53.920 It is, if the lady will have me. 05:53.920 --> 05:58.160 Now, do you think I should speak plainly, speak right up in meeting, or prepare for 05:58.160 --> 05:59.440 it more gradually? 05:59.440 --> 06:01.120 Maybe something of a shock after all this time. 06:01.120 --> 06:03.920 Oh, not too much of a shock, I'm sure. 06:03.920 --> 06:07.760 She's probably waiting for you to speak right up in meeting. 06:07.760 --> 06:08.760 Really? 06:08.760 --> 06:14.400 Well, Frances, we've known each other a long time, and since you think I should state it 06:14.400 --> 06:20.520 plainly, well, I'm in love with you, and I want to marry you. 06:20.520 --> 06:21.520 Me? 06:21.520 --> 06:22.920 But, but, Cleve, I thought... 06:22.920 --> 06:25.880 Well, Mother thought, are you sure you mean me? 06:25.880 --> 06:29.200 Certainly, certainly, my dear, I mean you. 06:29.200 --> 06:30.200 What in thunder is that? 06:30.200 --> 06:31.200 Oh, dear, that's the band I hired. 06:31.200 --> 06:46.200 Mother must have pulled down the shade by mistake. 06:46.200 --> 06:48.560 Buffalo, June 25th. 06:48.560 --> 06:52.600 Dear Cleve, Mother hasn't been feeling too well for the past week. 06:52.600 --> 06:54.680 A bit of a shock, you know. 06:54.680 --> 06:59.000 And we decided that a trip to Europe will be most beneficial, change of scene and all 06:59.000 --> 07:00.000 that. 07:00.000 --> 07:03.560 So please be patient with me, Cleve, dear. 07:03.560 --> 07:07.840 I'd like to get a perspective on all this, you know what I mean. 07:07.840 --> 07:10.400 The roses you've been sending me are so lovely. 07:10.400 --> 07:14.960 I'm going to press one in a book to take along with me as a sort of paladin. 07:14.960 --> 07:19.840 My dear Frances, by all means take your trip. 07:19.840 --> 07:22.640 Trip is the best thing. 07:22.640 --> 07:26.760 And have a wonderful time, darling, but please promise me one thing. 07:26.760 --> 07:32.080 Be sure to say no to all those dashing young swains who will no doubt pursue you all over 07:32.080 --> 07:33.080 the continent. 07:33.080 --> 07:42.600 Shall we look at the moon from the boat deck, Miss Folsom? 07:42.600 --> 07:43.600 Wonderful perspective. 07:43.600 --> 07:44.600 Not tonight, no. 07:44.600 --> 07:52.200 Miss Folsom, perhaps you'd enjoy seeing my collection of mezzotints. 07:52.200 --> 07:53.200 Thank you, no. 07:53.200 --> 07:54.200 Mademoiselle, je vous adore. 07:54.200 --> 07:55.200 Un petit souper ce soir. 07:55.200 --> 07:56.200 Mais non, monsieur. 07:56.200 --> 07:57.200 In other words, no. 07:57.200 --> 07:58.200 Rolline. 07:58.200 --> 07:59.200 No. 07:59.200 --> 08:00.200 Miss De Nurene. 08:00.200 --> 08:01.200 No. 08:01.200 --> 08:02.200 Miss Folsom. 08:02.200 --> 08:03.200 No. 08:03.200 --> 08:04.200 Mademoiselle. 08:04.200 --> 08:05.200 No, no, no. 08:05.200 --> 08:06.200 Oh, Mother, please. 08:06.200 --> 08:07.200 Let's go home. 08:07.200 --> 08:08.200 No. 08:08.200 --> 08:09.200 No. 08:09.200 --> 08:10.200 Miss Folsom. 08:10.200 --> 08:11.200 No. 08:11.200 --> 08:12.200 No. 08:12.200 --> 08:13.200 No. 08:13.200 --> 08:23.120 Please, let's go home. 08:23.120 --> 08:27.360 I just don't like it a bit having to sneak into New York like a pair of criminals trying 08:27.360 --> 08:28.360 to avoid publicity. 08:28.360 --> 08:32.080 Oh, Mother, I think it's great fun having our own private landing party. 08:32.080 --> 08:33.080 You step down here, ladies. 08:33.080 --> 08:34.080 Watch it. 08:34.080 --> 08:35.080 Oh, dear. 08:35.080 --> 08:36.760 I'll never be able to step onto that thing. 08:36.760 --> 08:37.760 I'll help you. 08:37.760 --> 08:38.760 There you go. 08:38.760 --> 08:39.760 Oh, dear. 08:39.760 --> 08:40.760 See how easy it is? 08:40.760 --> 08:41.760 How about you, Miss? 08:41.760 --> 08:43.960 If I take a dive, I hope you can swim. 08:43.960 --> 08:44.960 Well, there. 08:44.960 --> 08:47.960 I made it. 08:47.960 --> 08:52.200 Captain Smith, what is your opinion of the Indian Emancipation Act? 08:52.200 --> 08:53.200 Really, Francie? 08:53.200 --> 08:55.960 Frankly, I'm against it, Miss. 08:55.960 --> 08:59.560 What do you think of the President's stand on the veteran pension question? 08:59.560 --> 09:00.560 Why, I... 09:00.560 --> 09:01.560 You must forgive my daughter. 09:01.560 --> 09:03.760 I just don't know what's come over her. 09:03.760 --> 09:07.920 Ever since we left for Europe, she's been talking about public opinion and strange things 09:07.920 --> 09:08.920 like that. 09:08.920 --> 09:10.920 Well, I think I ought to know about these things, Mother. 09:10.920 --> 09:13.640 I suppose you know about all the talk there's been here at home. 09:13.640 --> 09:14.640 What about? 09:14.640 --> 09:16.600 The young lady who might marry the President. 09:16.600 --> 09:18.520 Obviously, there'd be talk, gossip. 09:18.520 --> 09:19.520 Oh, I see. 09:19.520 --> 09:21.080 And... and what do they say? 09:21.080 --> 09:24.040 Well, for one thing, that it would be a marriage of political expedience. 09:24.040 --> 09:25.760 And in that connection, would you care to make a statement? 09:25.760 --> 09:27.840 Would you give me a story from your point of view? 09:27.840 --> 09:28.840 I don't understand, Captain. 09:28.840 --> 09:32.200 I'll have to confess, Miss. 09:32.200 --> 09:33.200 I'm not the captain. 09:33.200 --> 09:35.000 I talked him into letting me aboard. 09:35.000 --> 09:36.000 I'm a journalist. 09:36.000 --> 09:37.000 A journalist? 09:37.000 --> 09:38.000 Oh, dear. 09:38.000 --> 09:39.000 I knew there was something wrong. 09:39.000 --> 09:40.000 Now, take us back to the ship this time. 09:40.000 --> 09:41.000 Well, it's too late now, Mother. 09:41.000 --> 09:42.000 How could you do this to us, young man? 09:42.000 --> 09:43.000 How could you? 09:43.000 --> 09:44.000 He's paid to, Mother. 09:44.000 --> 09:47.000 Won't you please give me just one quote, Miss Folsom? 09:47.000 --> 09:48.000 All right. 09:48.000 --> 09:49.000 Quote. 09:49.000 --> 09:56.000 When I marry, it will not be for expedience, but for love. 09:56.000 --> 09:57.000 Unquote. 09:57.000 --> 09:58.000 Francis, oh, Francis, my dearest. 09:58.000 --> 09:59.000 Hello, please. 09:59.000 --> 10:00.000 It's so good to have you back. 10:00.000 --> 10:01.000 Are you coming to the ship? 10:01.000 --> 10:02.000 Yes, I am. 10:02.000 --> 10:03.000 I'm going to the ship. 10:03.000 --> 10:04.000 I'm going to the ship. 10:04.000 --> 10:05.000 I'm going to the ship. 10:05.000 --> 10:06.000 I'm going to the ship. 10:06.000 --> 10:07.000 I'm going to the ship. 10:07.000 --> 10:08.000 I'm going to the ship. 10:08.000 --> 10:09.000 I'm going to the ship. 10:09.000 --> 10:10.000 It's so good to have you back. 10:10.000 --> 10:11.000 Are you comfortable here in a hotel? 10:11.000 --> 10:12.440 I want to hear all about your trip. 10:12.440 --> 10:13.800 You weren't seasick, anything like that? 10:13.800 --> 10:15.520 Oh, Mother felt perfectly ghastly. 10:15.520 --> 10:17.520 But Cleve, how are you? 10:17.520 --> 10:18.520 Did you miss me? 10:18.520 --> 10:19.520 Did I miss you? 10:19.520 --> 10:21.880 Oh, this has been the longest year of my life. 10:21.880 --> 10:23.600 Oh, I've been reading the papers. 10:23.600 --> 10:25.400 Everyone I could get my hands on in Europe. 10:25.400 --> 10:28.120 Oh, it hasn't been easy for you, Cleve. 10:28.120 --> 10:32.000 Let's just say they're calling me the veto as well as the bachelor president. 10:32.000 --> 10:36.600 Oh, I hope you don't mind all this gossip that seems to be going around. 10:36.600 --> 10:39.240 I mind it terribly for your sake. 10:39.240 --> 10:44.600 Frances, I think I should tell you right now, perfectly frankly, I don't want you to feel 10:44.600 --> 10:45.600 committed. 10:45.600 --> 10:46.600 Committed? 10:46.600 --> 10:47.680 What do you mean? 10:47.680 --> 10:51.820 When I asked you to marry me, Frances, I didn't stop to think of the difficulties. 10:51.820 --> 10:53.960 I don't make very much sense politically, you know. 10:53.960 --> 10:55.880 I don't even understand how I was elected. 10:55.880 --> 10:59.640 I've been so independent of party policies. 10:59.640 --> 11:01.480 Now they've begun sniping at you. 11:01.480 --> 11:02.480 I don't want that. 11:02.480 --> 11:04.240 Cleve, wait a minute. 11:04.240 --> 11:08.760 Before I went away, you wrote and asked me to say no to all the glance. 11:08.760 --> 11:13.120 Well, if you've been the veto president, I've been the veto girl. 11:13.120 --> 11:16.320 I've said no so often, it's almost become a habit. 11:16.320 --> 11:22.340 Oh, I've pondered and dreamed and remembered and hoped all this time and I've saved up 11:22.340 --> 11:23.600 my answer for you. 11:23.600 --> 11:24.600 Frances, is it? 11:24.600 --> 11:25.600 Oh, yes, Cleve. 11:25.600 --> 11:26.600 Yes, yes, yes. 11:26.600 --> 11:53.120 A fine welcome to Washington. 11:53.120 --> 11:54.960 This is rain on our wedding day. 11:54.960 --> 11:56.840 Stay under my umbrella, you'll get soaked. 11:56.840 --> 11:59.280 Do you think you could kiss me and hold the umbrella too? 11:59.280 --> 12:00.280 In front of everyone. 12:00.280 --> 12:01.280 Oh, why not? 12:01.280 --> 12:04.280 Here, if you won't take the initiative, I will. 12:04.280 --> 12:06.280 You're so wonderful. 12:06.280 --> 12:11.120 Oh, Frances, I need your fine honesty, your straightforwardness. 12:11.120 --> 12:13.640 I've battled alone too long. 12:13.640 --> 12:17.520 I think I've grown too afraid of what people will say. 12:17.520 --> 12:19.520 Don't ever be afraid, Cleve. 12:19.520 --> 12:20.520 We're going to be together. 12:20.520 --> 12:21.520 Come on, here's our carriage. 12:21.520 --> 12:23.600 We'd better get out of this rain. 12:23.600 --> 12:24.600 Maybe we ought to march. 12:24.600 --> 12:25.600 We have to be... 12:25.600 --> 12:26.600 Cleve, it's our... 12:26.600 --> 12:27.600 Our proposal music. 12:27.600 --> 12:32.840 Come on, darling, it's almost time for the wedding march. 12:32.840 --> 12:40.600 You won't mind being the first lady of the land? 12:40.600 --> 12:42.080 Oh, I'll love it. 12:42.080 --> 12:44.920 Perhaps if you'd keep this... 12:44.920 --> 12:46.760 A rose, Cleve. 12:46.760 --> 12:48.820 Just one for you this time. 12:48.820 --> 12:49.820 One red rose. 12:49.820 --> 13:06.120 All we'll ever need, my dearest, one talisman between us. 13:06.120 --> 13:11.560 You are listening to Roses in the Rain, starring Joan Caulfield as Frances Folsom and Ralph 13:11.560 --> 13:17.080 Bellamy as Grover Cleveland on the cavalcade of America, sponsored by the Defante Company, 13:17.080 --> 13:31.520 maker of Better Things for Better Living through Chemistry. 13:31.520 --> 13:37.160 President Grover Cleveland had come to Washington, the most eligible bachelor in the land. 13:37.160 --> 13:42.720 And when in 1886, he married a young college girl, Frances Folsom, all America talked of 13:42.720 --> 13:47.760 the colorful wedding in the blue room at the White House of the lovely new first lady. 13:47.760 --> 13:53.000 It seemed that they were the most enviable couple in the land, but always hovering over 13:53.000 --> 13:58.340 their happy life together was the specter of politics of the president's coming campaign 13:58.340 --> 14:01.340 for reelection. 14:01.340 --> 14:05.560 Mrs. Cleveland, I gotta admit, this whole White House sure perked up since you took 14:05.560 --> 14:06.560 over. 14:06.560 --> 14:07.560 Why, thank you, Mr. Webb. 14:07.560 --> 14:09.560 You've been to parties here before? 14:09.560 --> 14:10.560 Yep. 14:10.560 --> 14:14.200 The president did the best he could, but he sure no great shakes at party giving. 14:14.200 --> 14:17.600 Well, he just possibly had other things on his mind. 14:17.600 --> 14:21.280 Like giving the entire country back to the Indians, huh? 14:21.280 --> 14:26.320 Well, not quite the entire country, just the part that belongs to them. 14:26.320 --> 14:30.120 We cattlemen don't deserve an equal chance, huh? 14:30.120 --> 14:33.920 Mr. Webb, I understand you're here in Washington as a lobbyist? 14:33.920 --> 14:37.520 Well, I suppose some people had called me that. 14:37.520 --> 14:39.920 Are you by any chance practicing on me? 14:39.920 --> 14:42.280 Oh, now, don't get me wrong, ma'am. 14:42.280 --> 14:45.880 I was only hoping you'd sort of see things our way. 14:45.880 --> 14:51.000 Kind of put a bug in the presidency, or maybe tell him he'll be going without steaks for 14:51.000 --> 14:53.680 dinner if the Indians get all our grazing land. 14:53.680 --> 14:55.160 Yes, I see your point. 14:55.160 --> 14:56.160 You do? 14:56.160 --> 14:58.600 I try to look at both sides of the question. 14:58.600 --> 14:59.600 That's the spirit. 14:59.600 --> 15:03.560 Now, if you put it to him just right, say, from the woman's angle... 15:03.560 --> 15:09.200 Of course I could say that the Indians are going without decent food or homes or a chance 15:09.200 --> 15:14.440 to be educated or a chance to become good citizens because they've been pushed off their 15:14.440 --> 15:16.440 land and herded together like prisoners. 15:16.440 --> 15:17.800 Mrs. Cleveland, I thought you... 15:17.800 --> 15:22.880 As I say, Mr. Webb, I try to look at both sides of the question before agreeing with 15:22.880 --> 15:23.880 my husband. 15:23.880 --> 15:46.440 Mighty fine cigar, Mr. President. 15:46.440 --> 15:48.000 My compliments on your teeth. 15:48.000 --> 15:50.000 Thank you, thank you. 15:50.000 --> 15:52.320 Haven't noticed you dancing with my wife this evening, Mr. Webb. 15:52.320 --> 15:54.600 You were paying a pretty close attention last time you were here. 15:54.600 --> 15:59.480 Well, I'll tell you, sir, she's so surrounded by a ton of young gentlemen and if you don't 15:59.480 --> 16:03.240 mind my saying so, she's very kind to watch her step. 16:03.240 --> 16:04.920 I do mind your saying so. 16:04.920 --> 16:05.920 What do you mean? 16:05.920 --> 16:07.540 Why, the talk, Mr. President. 16:07.540 --> 16:09.400 You know how people love to talk. 16:09.400 --> 16:10.740 And what about? 16:10.740 --> 16:13.520 My wife enjoys her social life, being surrounded by friends. 16:13.520 --> 16:14.760 I wouldn't have it any other way. 16:14.760 --> 16:19.800 But when it gets around that she's making political promises that she can't keep, that's 16:19.800 --> 16:22.600 a different horse of another color, Mr. President. 16:22.600 --> 16:24.060 I don't believe that. 16:24.060 --> 16:28.560 You may be sure, Nemez wants to get you out of the White House, you'll believe it. 16:28.560 --> 16:31.600 You wouldn't be hoping for that happy day yourself, would you, Mr. Webb? 16:31.600 --> 16:32.600 Me? 16:32.600 --> 16:36.360 To be perfectly honest, I'm willing to work my head off for your re-election, long as 16:36.360 --> 16:42.520 I know where I stand, on my home ground, that is, with no Indians on it. 16:42.520 --> 16:47.160 In other words, if I'll oppose the Indian Emancipation Act, you'll play ball with me. 16:47.160 --> 16:49.360 No, it's all settled. 16:49.360 --> 16:51.480 All settled, sorry. 16:51.480 --> 17:08.520 Mr. President, it may turn out that you really will be sorry. 17:08.520 --> 17:09.520 What is it, Cleve? 17:09.520 --> 17:11.800 You seem so tired. 17:11.800 --> 17:13.240 Was it a very trying day? 17:13.240 --> 17:14.240 Very. 17:14.240 --> 17:16.200 Do you like talking about it? 17:16.200 --> 17:23.080 Yes, we agreed that we'd always be honest, that we'd try to understand each other, and 17:23.080 --> 17:25.400 there is something I'd like to talk to you about. 17:25.400 --> 17:26.920 Of course, dear. 17:26.920 --> 17:32.600 You know I want you to enjoy yourself, and you're a wonderful hostess, but... 17:32.600 --> 17:34.160 But what, Cleve? 17:34.160 --> 17:38.880 I don't think you realize that being a president's wife is rather serious business. 17:38.880 --> 17:41.400 There's an election soon. 17:41.400 --> 17:45.520 You must be very careful, especially careful, about what you say to friends and possible 17:45.520 --> 17:46.520 enemies. 17:46.520 --> 17:47.520 But I am careful. 17:47.520 --> 17:50.680 I can't help it if people like to gossip. 17:50.680 --> 17:53.480 Gossip must be based on something, some fact. 17:53.480 --> 17:55.280 Where there's smoke, there's fire. 17:55.280 --> 17:57.080 Is that it? 17:57.080 --> 17:58.160 What are you accusing me of? 17:58.160 --> 18:00.480 I'm not accusing you. 18:00.480 --> 18:05.200 I'm only saying that it's a very dangerous thing to promise friends political favors 18:05.200 --> 18:06.800 you can't possibly keep. 18:06.800 --> 18:08.480 Oh, so that's it. 18:08.480 --> 18:11.000 Mr. Webb's been talking to you, hasn't he? 18:11.000 --> 18:15.320 Along with all his other cronies who are hoping to spoil my reputation, because I wouldn't 18:15.320 --> 18:17.560 try to influence you the way they wanted me to. 18:17.560 --> 18:19.480 Fran, now let me get this straight. 18:19.480 --> 18:21.280 Did Webb ask a favor of you? 18:21.280 --> 18:22.520 Yes, he did. 18:22.520 --> 18:26.080 He wanted me to talk to you about the Indian Act, and I wouldn't do it. 18:26.080 --> 18:30.000 I had a feeling he wasn't going to let it rest there. 18:30.000 --> 18:31.000 What did he say to you? 18:31.000 --> 18:32.280 It doesn't matter now, my dearest. 18:32.280 --> 18:33.280 I only want your forgiveness. 18:33.280 --> 18:34.840 There's nothing to forgive here. 18:34.840 --> 18:35.840 Oh, yes, there is. 18:35.840 --> 18:39.240 I should have known, just as you did, that it was part of a plot. 18:39.240 --> 18:42.040 But I made the mistake of believing the gossip like everyone else. 18:42.040 --> 18:44.800 Oh, Francis, this life isn't fair to you. 18:44.800 --> 18:46.280 I suppose you were made of iron. 18:46.280 --> 18:51.520 A public servant comes to expect these things, especially at election time, but a girl who 18:51.520 --> 18:55.320 could have had a normal, quiet life without this terrible responsibility. 18:55.320 --> 19:02.080 Please, I don't mind anything else, because I know that my husband is a great and good 19:02.080 --> 19:03.080 man. 19:03.080 --> 19:16.360 Oh, what's keeping Mr. Whitney? 19:16.360 --> 19:18.880 Doesn't he know how anxious we are to hear the election figures? 19:18.880 --> 19:21.240 He has to be sure the count is correct, dear. 19:21.240 --> 19:22.240 We'll know. 19:22.240 --> 19:23.560 It'll all be settled soon enough. 19:23.560 --> 19:25.160 Oh, you must when you must. 19:25.160 --> 19:29.640 All the reports we've had so far show the people believe in you, Cleve. 19:29.640 --> 19:32.720 That doesn't necessarily mean the electoral vote will be in my favor. 19:32.720 --> 19:33.720 Oh, it will be. 19:33.720 --> 19:34.720 Don't worry. 19:34.720 --> 19:35.720 I don't know. 19:35.720 --> 19:38.120 I haven't conformed, Fran. 19:38.120 --> 19:40.300 Because you've done what you thought was right. 19:40.300 --> 19:42.600 People don't always understand that point of view. 19:42.600 --> 19:47.600 Well, they certainly understood that all that awful talk about us wasn't true, or they wouldn't 19:47.600 --> 19:49.960 have gone ahead and voted for you. 19:49.960 --> 19:50.960 Fran. 19:50.960 --> 19:51.960 Yes, dear? 19:51.960 --> 19:57.120 We're not only waiting for the voice of the nation speaking on the presidency. 19:57.120 --> 20:01.960 Each vote that each person casts is a free expression of confidence in an individual 20:01.960 --> 20:06.920 leader of a district, a city, a county, a state of the United States. 20:06.920 --> 20:10.720 They're all looking to you, Cleve, at the top of the ladder. 20:10.720 --> 20:14.640 I've always thought of it as a ladder in reverse. 20:14.640 --> 20:20.360 The president really stands at the foot, looking up the rungs to the people he serves. 20:20.360 --> 20:22.040 I've always followed my conscience. 20:22.040 --> 20:24.520 Of course you have, and the people know it. 20:24.520 --> 20:29.160 But I've cut through the rungs of that ladder, and doing so, cut right through party lines. 20:29.160 --> 20:30.160 Sometimes that's fatal. 20:30.160 --> 20:31.160 Oh, Cleve. 20:31.160 --> 20:34.640 If that's Mr. Whitney, hold my hand. 20:34.640 --> 20:35.640 Give me courage. 20:35.640 --> 20:38.640 You give me courage, my dearest. 20:38.640 --> 20:39.640 Come in. 20:39.640 --> 20:40.640 Mr. Predator. 20:40.640 --> 20:41.640 Yes, Whitney. 20:41.640 --> 20:42.640 Do you have the count? 20:42.640 --> 20:43.640 What is it? 20:43.640 --> 20:45.640 I'm very sorry, sir. 20:45.640 --> 20:49.360 168 electoral votes to Harrison's 233. 20:49.360 --> 20:52.640 Thank you, Whitney. 20:52.640 --> 20:53.640 Yes. 20:53.640 --> 21:00.400 Well, I guess that proves where the people stand. 21:00.400 --> 21:07.880 Cleve, even if it seems to mean a defeat for us now, what's to stop us from going on trying? 21:07.880 --> 21:12.720 Someday there'll be another vote, and it's going to prove that you were right. 21:12.720 --> 21:15.480 Thank you for believing, Frances. 21:15.480 --> 21:19.720 Will you mind very much being the wife of a plain attorney living in a prosaic, brownstone 21:19.720 --> 21:20.720 house in New York? 21:20.720 --> 21:26.360 They have brain in New York, Cleve, roses, and on Sundays in the park they even have 21:26.360 --> 21:28.160 band music. 21:28.160 --> 21:35.160 And I'll be with you, Cleve. 21:35.160 --> 21:47.320 Frances, where are you? 21:47.320 --> 21:49.360 Up here in the attic, packing. 21:49.360 --> 21:50.360 Need any help? 21:50.360 --> 21:51.360 Oh, I certainly do. 21:51.360 --> 21:56.040 Do you realize how much junk you've collected in four years at the White House? 21:56.040 --> 21:57.440 Don't throw away anything valuable. 21:57.440 --> 21:58.440 Well, it's all valuable. 21:58.440 --> 21:59.440 Listen to this. 21:59.440 --> 22:03.760 You must have gotten this letter just after you moved in. 22:03.760 --> 22:08.920 Dear Grover, Hank Stebbins told me the other day that you was elected president. 22:08.920 --> 22:10.480 I just couldn't believe it. 22:10.480 --> 22:12.040 I often wondered where you was. 22:12.040 --> 22:15.040 Ain't heard of you for years. 22:15.040 --> 22:17.920 Oh, I'll bet he's heard of you since. 22:17.920 --> 22:23.760 And look, boxes of patent medicine, letters, rabbit feet, good luck stone. 22:23.760 --> 22:27.920 Oh, Cleve, people do love you or they wouldn't send you these things. 22:27.920 --> 22:29.640 They'll send them to President Harrison. 22:29.640 --> 22:33.520 Well, I know you have more children named after you than he'll ever have. 22:33.520 --> 22:35.400 Look, look at this picture. 22:35.400 --> 22:36.880 Isn't he dear? 22:36.880 --> 22:37.880 What's it say? 22:37.880 --> 22:42.200 Grover Cleveland Gonzoff, age two. 22:42.200 --> 22:46.480 And here's Grover Cleveland Ruggiero, 18 months. 22:46.480 --> 22:51.240 Cleve, the parents of these children may have come into New York Harbor during the last 22:51.240 --> 22:52.240 few years. 22:52.240 --> 22:57.080 The first thing they'd see was the Statue of Liberty, the first child born in America 22:57.080 --> 22:58.760 they'd name after you. 22:58.760 --> 23:00.480 Oh, you're right. 23:00.480 --> 23:04.200 We mustn't throw away anything here that's valuable. 23:04.200 --> 23:08.000 You might do something about that soap statue of President Garfield. 23:08.000 --> 23:10.040 Oh, I think it's rather sweet. 23:10.040 --> 23:11.040 Poor Garfield. 23:11.040 --> 23:13.440 I hope they never immortalize me in soap. 23:13.440 --> 23:15.720 Oh, here's something I'm keeping. 23:15.720 --> 23:16.720 Look. 23:16.720 --> 23:17.720 I'm looking. 23:17.720 --> 23:19.800 It's probably the worst painting I ever saw. 23:19.800 --> 23:22.560 It's a picture of roses I'm keeping. 23:22.560 --> 23:23.960 I brought you a real one. 23:23.960 --> 23:26.240 Oh, darling, thank you. 23:26.240 --> 23:28.520 It may be that we'll need another talisman, Frances. 23:28.520 --> 23:31.360 We already have one. 23:31.360 --> 23:34.080 I suppose we'd better finish up here as quickly as we can. 23:34.080 --> 23:37.440 Mr. Harrison and the new regime will want to start fresh tomorrow. 23:37.440 --> 23:40.240 Dearest, tell me something. 23:40.240 --> 23:42.240 Will you mind if I leave something here? 23:42.240 --> 23:43.240 What is it? 23:43.240 --> 23:44.240 This rose. 23:44.240 --> 23:45.240 Of course not. 23:45.240 --> 23:46.360 But why? 23:46.360 --> 23:48.440 I want to leave it pressed in this book. 23:48.440 --> 23:53.920 Look, I'll hide it under the eaves so it'll still be here when we come back. 23:53.920 --> 23:54.920 When we come back? 23:54.920 --> 23:56.120 Oh, we shall. 23:56.120 --> 23:57.960 The people will bring you back clean. 23:57.960 --> 24:03.800 Oh, don't ask me how I know it, but I'm just as sure of it as I am that my rose will wait 24:03.800 --> 24:04.800 here for me. 24:04.800 --> 24:08.360 Listen, it's raining. 24:08.360 --> 24:11.320 It'll always be raining on important days. 24:11.320 --> 24:17.120 It'll be raining on the day you come back to the White House, when the people bring you 24:17.120 --> 24:18.120 back. 24:18.120 --> 24:20.120 And I'll bring you a rose. 24:20.120 --> 24:36.920 It'll be raining, and you'll bring me a rose. 24:36.920 --> 24:45.720 Four years later, March 4th, 1893, it's raining on this inauguration day as the President 24:45.720 --> 24:51.120 of the 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