MARCUSThe Joint Chiefs are in the Situation Room, Elias. They aren’t asking anymore.
PRESIDENT ELIAS VANCE (60s, looking ten years older than the premiere) sits behind the Resolute Desk. He isn’t reading briefings. He’s staring at a small, chipped ceramic eagle—a gift from a campaign stop three years and a lifetime ago. [S7E11] God Bless America
VANCE(Without looking up)Did you know the anthem has four stanzas, Marcus? Everyone stops at the first. We sing about the "glare" and the "bombs," and then we pack up and go home. We never get to the part about the desolation of war. MARCUSThe Joint Chiefs are in the Situation Room, Elias