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The Presidential nominee says these words before Shaw fires the fatal shots:{{cquote|Nor would I ask of any fellow American, in defense of his freedom, that which I would not gladly give myself: my life before my liberty.}}
The Presidential nominee says these words before Shaw fires the fatal shots:{{cquote|Nor would I ask of any fellow American, in defense of his freedom, that which I would not gladly give myself: my life before my liberty.}}
== Goofs ==
=== Contrivance or "Dramatic License" ===
Senator and Mrs. Iselin greet Sergeant Shaw with a banner reading "Johnny Iselin's Boy!" and spread it over his head for a [[photo-op]]. That would likely never have been allowed to happen. In real life, no civilian, even the mother and stepfather of a Medal of Honor recipient, would have been allowed to get that close to an honoree, and certainly not to spread a venal-looking banner over his head and take an unauthorized photograph, not only of the honoree, but also of a [[general]] officer of the Army.
=== Factual errors ===
# When Senator Iselin announces on the floor of the Senate that "there are exactly fifty-seven card-carrying Communists in the Defense Department," and then rises to a point of order, he addresses the presiding officer as "Mister Speaker" by mistake. The correct title in the Senate is "Mister President."
# When Senator Jordan threatens Senator Iselin with expulsion from the Senate if he tries to secure the Vice Presidential nomination, he incorrectly describes the sanction as an impeachment. [[Impeachment]] is an accusation against the President, Vice President, or other "civil officer" in the executive or judicial branches, and is always brought in the [[United States House of Representatives|House]] and ''then'' tried in the Senate. The Senate is the sole judge of the qualifications of his own members, and a motion to expel a Senator would be called just that: a motion to expel. The Senate, and only the Senate, would then debate and vote on it.
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