Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: aspiring reporter Alice Kingsley On first trip to is shown around Washington, Fact2: Joe makes phone call to check credentials, Fact3: Alice gives him number for having anticipated this Nunnally, Fact4: something fishy is going on between Joe and lobbyist named Phil Emery to pass, Fact5: colleagues in Congress After late-night meeting with end up applauding for Joe after he has change of heart about bill Emery
Output (English): On her first trip to Washington, D.C., aspiring reporter Alice Kingsley is shown around by Gilbert Nunnally, a successful radio commentator. Nunnally has a cynical view of the Capitol and everybody in it, expressing his belief that every politician can be bought. Alice wants to see if theres any truth to that, so she chooses a young Massachusetts congressman with a squeakyclean image, Joe Gresham, and introduces herself. Joe is leery of the press and makes a phone call to check her credentials, but Alice, having anticipated this, gives him a number for Nunnally, who pretends to be the reporters editor and vouches for her credentials. Following him around, Alice is impressed by Joes work ethic and personality. She wonders if veteran politician Charles Birch is a corrupting influence, only to learn that Birch has been a mentor to Joe and is greatly admired. Nunnally persuades her that something fishy is going on between Joe and a lobbyist named Phil Emery, who is trying to get Joes key vote for a bill to pass. Joe is more concerned about its effect on his own constituents than its greater impact. Alice isnt sure what to make of that, or of Joes seeming disinterest in an elderly immigrants possible deportation. After a latenight meeting, apparently with Emery, colleagues in Congress end up applauding for Joe after he has a change of heart about the bill. Alice is now persuaded by Nunnally that he sold his vote for a price. She is made aware by Birch that the reason for Joes attitude toward the press is that he has a libel suit pending against Nunnally in two weeks time. Nunnally confronts the congressman and offers to suppress the story about Joe selling his vote if the lawsuit is dropped. Joe punches him instead. Alice runs into the immigrant, who tells her how Joe went to great effort making sure he could remain in the country. It was he, not Emery, that the allnight meeting was with, and Alice also learns that Joe had an honest change of heart about the bill, recognizing it was for the greater good. Alice writes a column singing Joes praises, and they also realize they are in love.