Colonel Potter asks Mildred if he can turn the television off, and she tells him to just turn the sound down. He turns a knob, but the volume remains unchanged.
Colonel Potter is watching President Eisenhower giving a speech on the television. He then dates the letter he is writing September 26, 1953; however, the excerpt of the speech on TV is from Eisenhower's "Atoms For Peace" speech, given at the United Nations on December 8, 1953.