Seab Cooley, the leader of the opposition to the President and to Leffingwell. Notable as the last film appearance for Laughton, who plays Sen. Most obviously, a President who is hiding the extent of his illness and who serves with an honest but out-of-the-loop Vice President would have evoked Franklin D. The novel is not a Roman à Clef, but it does depict incidents and character traits that would have been familiar to Americans who followed politics at the time. Senate to "advise and consent" to the nomination. Political machinations ensue to get the U.S. The President makes a controversial nomination for Secretary of State, one Robert Leffingwell (Fonda), a man who advocates a more conciliatory approach to the Soviet Union with the hope of thawing the Cold War. Directed by Otto Preminger, the film stars Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton, Don Murray, Walter Pidgeon, Peter Lawford, Gene Tierney, and Franchot Tone, among others. A 1962 political drama film based on the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning 1959 novel of the same name by Allen Drury.
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