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President Merkin Muffley: General Turgidson, I find this very difficult to understand.
Top 10 Oscar-nominated Movies With No Wins » Scene-Stealers 2009
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President Merkin Muffley: You're talking about mass murder, General, not war!
August 2006 2006
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President Merkin Muffley; and if you didn’t know it ahead of time, you’d be hard pressed to tell it was the same person.
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A prime example is our new Senator, Merkin Muffley.
Lents Park on a late spring evening: beautiful (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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The remarkable Peter Sellers stole this film from all others in the cast list by playing three separate characters, including President Merkin Muffley.
View Before Viewing: Oliver Stone’s ‘W’ » MTV Movies Blog 2008
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Muffley has to call Russian Premier Kissoff and explain to him that there has been an accident and Russia is about to be decimated in front of the entire counsel in the War Room.
View Before Viewing: Oliver Stone’s ‘W’ » MTV Movies Blog 2008
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Sellers reportedly based the snivelling Muffley on Aldai Stevenson a Democrat who had failed in elections in the fifties, he also exaggerated symptoms of a cold to make Muffley look like the weak man he is, but Kubrick instead wanted the President to be a more straight character, an odd request considering his name.
TOP TEN: Fictional Presidents of the United States | Obsessed With Film 2008
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Muffley attempts to thwart the plan, but a series of missteps lead to nuclear disaster.
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Kennedy calls Muffley "a pathetically moralizing do-gooder who dithered away a matchless opportunity to end the Cold War and the Soviet Union with a single bold stroke."
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May gives this President the second highest rating, explaining that Muffley "faced one great crisis and concentrated on it."
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