While traveling in Hungary, Jack Whittier, soon to be a member of the White House press staff, is attacked by a wolf; the wolf, it turns out, wasn’t a was, it was a were. Back at a Pennsylvania Avenue party, Jack (played with full bemusement by Dean Stockwell) transforms into a fanged creature, taking the chatty wife of a Supreme Court nominee as his first victim. Unable to control his hirsute bloodlust, Jack continues his nighttime howls while writing the president’s speeches by day. Slightly deranged himself, the president (Biff McGuire) won’t accept Jack’s resignation, finding his lycanthropic carnage to be politically advantageous. This hellhound in the Oval Office seems to anticipate the hair-raising tactics of future administrations.