President Lightning
The success of Profiles in Courageousness has made many readers ask me what my next project will be. I am actually currently working on a screenplay for a movie that I am tentatively calling President Lighting. It takes place during the 1936 Berlin Olympics and it's a piece of historical fiction. Or is it?
In 1935, the Nazis worried about being embarrassed at the Berlin Olympics the next year kidnap Jesse Owens. It looks like they will be unstoppable in track and field until a crippled President and a discredited ex-President from the other party team up to take it to Hitler. He was born to lead, but he was made to run. They call him President Lightning. Here's an excerpt.
[INT - THE OVAL OFFICE]
FDR is in his power blue track suit sitting behind his desk in the Oval Office. He is smoking a cigarette and he