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George Ball, Undersecretary of State:
[Looking at McNamara and being slightly drunk]
Look at him! His wife's got an ulcer. His kid's got an ulcer. Everybody's got Bob McNamara's ulcer but Bob McNamara. Sometimes I think it's all just a Goddamn academic exercise to him
[Looking at McNamara and being slightly drunk]
Look at him! His wife's got an ulcer. His kid's got an ulcer. Everybody's got Bob McNamara's ulcer but Bob McNamara. Sometimes I think it's all just a Goddamn academic exercise to him
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Look at him His wife's got an ulcer
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his kid's got an ulcer
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everybody's got Bob McNamara's ulcer but Bob McNamara
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Sometimes I think it's all just a god damn academic exercise to him
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Movie Summary
In the mid 1960s, President Lyndon B. Johnson (Sir Michael Gambon) and his foreign-policy team debate the decision to withdraw from or escalate the war in Vietnam.

