Mr. President, the secretary of state is in Vietnam, the secretary of defense is in Laos and the vice-president is in Mexico City.

9 seconds sound clip from the Dr. Strangelove movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:24:18 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- He said war was too important to be left to the generals.

- When he said that 50 years ago, he might have been right.

- But today... war is too important to be left to politicians. They have neither the time, the training nor the inclination for strategic thought.

- I can no longer sit back and allow communist infiltration, communist indoctrination, communist subversion and the international communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

- Staines, is everybody here?

- Mr. President, the secretary of state is in Vietnam, the secretary of defense is in Laos and the vice-president is in Mexico City.

- We can establish contact with them at any time if it's necessary.

- The undersecretaries are all here, of course.

- Right.

- Now, General Turgidson, what's going on here?

[...]

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