"Policy can't be changed overnight. Yet great strides can be made."
"I don't think I understand you."
"I'll try to clarify. We finished our public statement Monday, setting down our position on The Stockholm Conference last month."
"The conference was a great disappointment to me—to you also, I imagine."
"Yes, and our public statement was, well, pretty bleak, but I'm changing it. I'm in the middle of rewriting it now."
"I'd like to sit down with you and perhaps readjust some of our own demands."
"I'd like to have you."
"No time now, of course."
"No, in fact the rewriting may seem futile to you but it gives me great satisfaction. A nice way to end a political career."
"Why don't you call me back and read it to me when you've finished?"