:06:04
* You're winning now *
:06:06
* Driving his future *
:06:08
* Right into... *
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Recording: You have reached
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the Department
of Planetary Sciences.
:06:13
* The further he goes... *
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If you know the extension
of the person you're calling...
:06:18
* Bottom, but he can't-- *
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Ow, Jesus!
:06:21
press that number now.
:06:22
Damn it!
:06:42
This is relating
to the recall
:06:44
of American troops
from abroad.
:06:46
Tragedy struck today
as a charter aircraft
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carrying an army unit
returning from duty in Japan
:06:51
crashed this morning...
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Stuart Caley:
White House Press Office
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says Secretary of
the Treasury Rittenhouse
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is resigning because
his wife is sick.
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So who passed
Rittenhouse the hemlock?
:07:02
AFL/CIO wanted him offthe
Council of Economic Advisors
:07:04
for not supporting
the pension bill,
:07:06
and the president's going
to need labour next fall.
:07:08
And State's still fuming
:07:09
about the trade office
screw-up at the G-8.
:07:11
Pentagon is unhappy with his
readiness reduction proposals.
:07:14
Beth: Greenspan
dislikes him.
:07:15
Christ, who didn't
this guy piss off?
:07:18
No wonder
the wife's sick.
:07:20
Jenny Lerner: She's not sick,
she's a drunk.
:07:24
How do you know that?
:07:25
Mike Woodward
over at Treasury.
:07:31
Mrs Rittenhouse started
drinking a couple of years ago
:07:34
when her husband
had a series of affairs.
:07:36
Stepped it up last summer after
their son died of leukaemia.
:07:39
You want to do something on
the price that wives pay?
:07:42
Mike Woodward?
Wife, 3 kids?
:07:45
He's been after me
for months.
:07:47
So I threw him
a breakfast
:07:48
and hit him up
about Rittenhouse.
:07:50
Bob Campbell's leaving,
so midnight Saturday
:07:52
anchor shift
is opening up.
:07:54
Why would I want
to give up the White House
:07:55
for a graveyard weekend--
:07:56
No, no, no,
not for you, for me.
:07:58
No.
:07:59
Beth.