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Last Thursday, Joe Biden received a visitor in the Oval Office—a former president of sorts, an Irish Catholic Democrat like him. “You didn’t tell me how hard this job was,” Biden apparently said. “Well, what do I know,” Martin Sheen replied. “I just did it on TV.”
The three had gone to the White House together—and despite spending so much time in a near-exact replica of the Oval Office on the Warner Bros. lot, none had ever been inside the actual room. “It’s odd,” McCormack said. “We got to the Oval, and I saw those couches and I wanted to lie down, because at lunchtime on the set, the lights would dim and we’d all fight for the couches to take a nap.”
While we spoke about the book, Sheen hung back—making impish asides—then occasionally held forth on politics or theology. He quoted Gandhi, Thomas Merton, and Viktor Frankl. “We have to explore the shadow in ourselves before we can reflect the light on others,” he told me, then mused about Joe Biden: “All his scars are public, and they are the entrance wounds for the spirit.” Of Trump he said—in a hushed, barbed voice—“he’s a goddamn fascist, and he’s got to be called out on it.
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