Bill, I haven't much time. Fletcher's docking the Yorktown right now, and I gotta make some hard decisions.

6 seconds sound clip from the Midway (1976) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:36:43.126 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Look, Miss Sakura, Haruko, Tom's based at Kaneohe Naval Air Station. Send for him, please.

- You have to tell him this. You have to tell him.

- Damn itching is driving me crazy! All those medics can do is smear this God-awful paste all over it.

- When they get up enough nerve to come in here, you mean.

- I know, I know, I'm a son of a bitch of a patient.

- But a skin disease! Of all the stupid, useless things to get laid up with! It's driving me nuts. I can't even think right.

- Bill, I haven't much time. Fletcher's docking the Yorktown right now, and I gotta make some hard decisions.

- I'd like you to recommend your own replacement.

- Ray Spruance.

- I know. I know he's junior to a lot of other flag officers and he never served a day on a carrier. But, Chet, he knows carrier tactics.

- Well, you asked for my recommendation.

- I can just picture Washington's reaction if I hand over the Enterprise and Hornet to a cruiser skipper. Especially after all the static I've been getting about going out looking for the Japanese at Midway.

[...]

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