STRAUSSSTRAUSS

Sample dialogue

• He talks about putting the nuclear genie back in the bottle- well, I’m here to tell you that I know J Robert Oppenheimer and if he could do it all over he’d do it all the same. He’s never once said he regrets Hiroshima- he’d do it all over because it made him the most important man who ever lived...

  scene 267 — INT. SENATE OFFICE -- DAY (B&W)

• Robert built that damn place- he was founder, mayor, sheriff all rolled into one...

  scene 86 — INT. SENATE OFFICE -- MOMENTS LATER (B&W)

• I’ve talked it over with Hoover- he’ll hold McCarthy at bay while you do this at the AEC.

  scene 237 — INT. NICHOLS’ OFFICE, ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION -- NIGHT (B&W)

• He wanted the glorious insincere guilt of the self-important to wear like a fucking crown. And I gave it to him...

  scene 271 — INT. SENATE OFFICE -- DAY (B&W)

Bookends

Often appears with

• STRAUSS4 scenes
• BORDEN1 scene
• COUNSEL1 scene
• NICHOLS1 scene
• SENATE AIDE1 scene