KENNY

                      No way.

            The President spins on him, unsure he heard correctly.

                                KENNY (CONT'D)

                      I'm not calling and cancelling on Daly.

                      You call and cancel on Daly.

                                THE PRESIDENT

                      You're scared to cancel on Daly.

                                KENNY

                      Damn right I'm scared.

            The President pauses, looks at Bobby.  Bobby shakes his head:

            don't look at me.

                                THE PRESIDENT

                      Well, I'm not.

                                BOBBY

                      Then you'll call, right?

            INT. HALLWAY - SHERATON-BLACKSTONE HOTEL - NIGHT

            SUPER: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19TH.  DAY 4

            THEN SUPER: CHICAGO

            Kenny threads his way through the host of SECRET SERVICE

            AGENTS and ADVANCE MAN cramming the hallway on the floor of

            the hotel they've taken over.  From one of the rooms emerges

            Salinger.

                                SALINGER

                      Kenny, all right.  What's going on here?

                      There's rumors going around an exercise

                      in the southeast is related to Cuba.

                      I'm the Press Secretary.  I can't do my

                      job if I don't know what's going on.  So

                      what's going on?

                                KENNY

                      What are you telling them?

                                SALINGER

                      The truth: I don't know.

                                KENNY

                          (deadly serious)

                      Tell 'em you've looked into it, and all

                      it is is an exercise.  And Pierre --

                          (beat, loaded)

                      The President may have a cold tomorrow.

            Kenny stares at him, and the light dawns on Pierre.

            Something big is going on and he's been cut out of it.  He

            stalks off.