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The Best Man

William Russell Joseph Cantwell

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Start: Cantwell: Well, Bill, here we are…the main event, like they say.
Russell: The main event. And here we stand, as Martin Luther said�
Cantwell: Oh, I’m sorry…sit down, please�

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End: Russell: Well, let’s get this dirty business over with. I won’t throw my mud if you won’t throw your mud.
Cantwell: And we go into the convention tomorrow and you get nominated on the first ballot? No.
Russell: Well, then…good luck. And may the “best man� win, assuming we don’t knock each other off and the party.

Citation: Gore Vidal, The Best Man Revised Edition, Dramatists Play Service, 1998, pp. 62-67.

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