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Previously on The West Wing:
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Your father used to hit you,
didn't he, Mr. President?
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- Your father used to hit you, sir?
- Yeah.
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- Not like a spanking?
- He hit me. Why?
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- He punched you.
- It was a complicated relationship.
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- Because you were smarter than he was.
- You have stepped way over the line.
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- Stanley.
- Josh.
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- Your flight was all right?
- It was fine.
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- How are you?
- Me? I'm fine.
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- These are your things?
- Yeah.
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I'll put them in my office.
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- Should I go with you?
- I'll be right back.
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They'll be all right back there.
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- Where to?
- Ever seen the White House?
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Just the little I saw
when we talked last year.
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Follow me.
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This is the communications bullpen...
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...where Toby Ziegler
and Sam Seaborn work.
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The rest of the speechwriting staff...
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...works across the alley
in the Old Executive Office Building.
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And here comes
the actual Sam Seaborn.
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What's going on?
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Leo's reading it. We'll send it out
in 10, 15 minutes.
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So Toby's been banging around.
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- What are you doing?
- Banging around.
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This is Dr. Keyworth.
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- Sam Seaborn.
- Nice to meet you.
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- Did you have a good flight?
- Yes.
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- Anybody you know on the plane?
- No.
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- Okay. I'll see you.
- Yeah.
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That's Leo's office.
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It has a private entrance to the
Oval Office, but we'll go in here.
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Driver asked me
the same question.
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- What?
- Did I know anybody on the plane.
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He wanted to know
if you talked to anybody.
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- I didn't.
- I know.
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This is the Oval Office.
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That's the Resolute Desk.
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It was built from timbers of the HMS
Resolute and given to Hayes...
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...by Queen Victoria to thank the U.S.
for finding the abandoned ship.
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We're gonna go to the residence,
but I'll take you through the Portico.
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Josh? Wouldn't you like
to sit someplace and talk?
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- Yeah.
- Why the tour?
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- You don't think this is interesting?
- It's fascinating...
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If somebody sees us, I'd like them
to see me giving you a tour.
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Who built the White House?
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It was designed by an Irish architect
named James Hoban...
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...who won the job
in an open competition.
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And it was built largely by slaves.
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They found the pay receipts
a few years ago.
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The slaves were paid?
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Their owners.
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Right through here.
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Buchanan was visited
by Edward, Prince of Wales.
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And he decided there wasn't
room for guests.
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But it took another 40 years to move
all the office space out of the residence.
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You're really seeing
something, Stanley.
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Tours don't go to the
second floor of the mansion.
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- You're sure it's okay?
- Yeah.
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We're gonna go in here now.
This is the president's private study.
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- His private study?
- Yeah.
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Okay. Should we close the door?
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No, that's all right.
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So tell me how you've been feeling.
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Good.
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- Stanley.
- Hey, Leo.
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- You getting a tour of the place?
- Yeah.
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You show him the North Portico?
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Leo likes to show people
the soot stains.
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From when the British
torched the place.
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- They haven't repainted?
- Not that.
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When Dolley Madison heard the cannon
fire, she evacuated the building...
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...but she already had the table set
for a 40-person dinner.
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So the British soldiers ate
and then set the building on fire.
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- So the food didn't go to waste.
- That's right.
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- How was your flight?
- It was fine.
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Did you know anyone on the plane?
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You didn't bring me here
to talk to Josh, did you?
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- No.
- Who did you bring me here to talk to?
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Dr. Keyworth...
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...did you know anyone on the plane?
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No. No, sir, I didn't know
anyone on the plane.
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We'll leave you alone.
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- The speech is going out?
- In a few minutes.
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- I'm Jed Bartlet.
- Stanley Keyworth.
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- I guess we knew that.
- Yes, sir.
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- I've been having trouble sleeping.
- I'm sorry?
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You understand that this
is an election year, right?
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I mean, by itself, who cares?
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President has trouble sleeping,
talks to a doctor.
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But with the MS and the hearings,
and you're a psychiatrist... .
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- Yeah.
- Okay.
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- I'm not an expert in sleep disorders.
- Yeah.
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- I'm a trauma specialist.
- Yeah, we know you.
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You helped Josh out last year.
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Josh was shot.
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Me too.
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- Is that why you can't sleep?
- How would I know?
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- That's a fair point.
- Thank you.
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Well, Mr. President...
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...tell me the nature
of your sleeping problem.
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- I can't sleep.
- What happens when you try to sleep?
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- I stay awake.
- How long has it been?
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Four nights.
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- You haven't slept in four nights?
- Right.
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- It must be hard.
- Yeah.
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- Have you tried taking a sleeping pill?
- The third night.
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- It didn't work?
- Not till the next morning...
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...in the middle
of a national security briefing.
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Well, that's no good.
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Stanley, I think you're
underselling yourself...
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...when you say you're not
an expert in sleep disorders...
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...because you've been right
straight on the money so far.
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- How many of those you smoke a day?
- Not many.
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Nicotine will keep you up at night.
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- Never has before.
- It could be now.
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You think if I put this out
I'm gonna fall asleep?
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- No.
- Then let's move on.
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All right.
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Let's rule out some things.
Physical factors.
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- Do you have arthritis?
- No.
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- Heartburn?
- No.
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Irregular breathing
or periodic muscle contractions?
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- No.
- All right.
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Lifestyle factors.
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I'm sorry. Before we get to lifestyle
factors, I'm just gonna turn this on.
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It's a closed-circuit thing.
I'm at the U.N. on Monday.
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Leaving Andrews at 8 for the 9:30
address to the General Assembly.
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- When do we see copies?
- When we're done writing it.
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- When do we see copies?
- Sunday night.
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- Has the State Department reviewed it?
- We'll be getting the reviews.
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Also House and Senate
Foreign Relations.
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- And we see it Sunday night?
- Sunday night.
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That's it, everybody. That's a full lid.
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Thank you, C.J.
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C.J.
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- What are you doing here?
- I'm missing a reporter.
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- Who?
- Bill Price.
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- Isn't Billy in the Congo?
- Yeah.
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Come back here.
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He files stories to New York
at a predetermined time.
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Missed two deadlines in a row.
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- Does he miss deadlines?
- No.
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- What does State say?
- I'm having trouble finding people.
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- The other end?
- I've talked to the embassy.
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But this is the Congo.
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- What do you think?
- I think he left the capital.
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- Without written permission?
- How would he know?
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- By reading State background notes.
- Does that sound like Billy?
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- No.
- C.J., the first 15 minutes...
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...are critical
in a war zone abduction.
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- If he can be delivered to a higher-up...
- I'll talk to Leo.
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I know Billy's been a pain in the ass,
but he's got a wife and two kids.
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So if you could forget about...
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I don't care that he's been... .
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Look, if he's missed two deadlines,
then his 15 minutes was yesterday.
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- I know.
- I'd call his wife.
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Yeah.
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- Toby. The pacing.
- Yeah.
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Okay, now the standing-still
is bothering me a little bit.
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This is the fifth time you're reading it.
Are there words you don't understand?
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There wouldn't be, because you can't
rise to a position like yours without... .
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Look, this is exactly
what we said we wanted it to be.
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We said we were tired of reading
about his scattershot foreign policy.
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We said,"You wanna
fillet me for this, fine."
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- We said,"When we go to the U. N... ."
- I think it's great.
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- Yeah?
- I do.
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Your wife's gonna have
something to say about it.
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My ex-wife.
Why do you call her my wife?
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- It bothers you.
- Everything does.
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- But you pick that?
- Yeah.
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Toby, the night of the lowa caucus,
when you got back...
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...did you and the president
have a conversation that night?
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Yeah.
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l...
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When he got back, for a minute.
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- What did you talk about?
- Nothing.
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- He seemed kind of upset about it.
- It didn't go well.
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- What was it?
- It was personal.
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- It was personal?
- Yeah.
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Well, that always
works well with him.
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What has he said about the speech?
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He thinks it's great.
He hasn't said anything to you?
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We haven't talked in a little while.
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- Toby, what the hell went on in there?
- Don't worry about it.
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Okay. I'm gonna read this again.
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- Sure. Because it's that sixth time.
- Yeah.
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- Did you read it?
- It's great.
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Someone's gonna get
an ass-kicking from the missus.
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It's what we asked for, you know.
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- We're gonna have to get ready for it.
- Yeah.
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- Something else has come up, though.
- What?
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Leonard Wallace just came to me.
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Billy Price is in the Congo,
and he's missed two deadlines.
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He hasn't gotten anywhere.
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Kinshasa confirmed that a Belgian
TV crew shooting outside Goma...
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...saw an American captured
by Mai Mai rebels.
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Hasn't State had a travel advisory
out for, like, 10 years?
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Twenty-four.
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What is he doing there?
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Reporting a story no one
is paying attention to.
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- Let's talk to the Congolese attaché.
- He's on his way.
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Okay.
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- He liked it.
- Yeah?
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Mostly what I wrote.
Not so much what you wrote.
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So how long you think before the old
lady comes by to give you a whupping?
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- Her office called already, didn't they?
- You bet, baby.
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You probably wanna rethink
calling me"baby."
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Yeah. Whoa, Nelly.
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Hello.
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You could make a good dog
break his leash.
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I was at a social function.
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Americans for the Preservation
of Family Values and White People?
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- The Federalist Society.
- A hootenanny.
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- I was paged. I was told to come in.
- Yes.
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Thirty-two fifty is a consolidated
appropriations act...
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...that we wanna drop
in the U.N. speech for Monday.
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I need you to review
the legislative language...
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...so we can shop it around the Hill.
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- What does it call for?
- I don't know.
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- Sam.
- It authorizes payment of 926 million...
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...in U.N. dues in exchange
for a reduction in U.N. bureaucracy...
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...as well as peacekeeping
assessments.
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- What are we concerned about?
- The language is drafted by Republicans.
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- We're inscrutable.
- Look for legal land mines.
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- Like what?
- A ban on German food...
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...or amendment saying
the French are annoying.
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How about we drop out
of the U.N. entirely...
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...and use the 926 million to take
everybody in the country out to brunch?
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- Write that suggestion in the margin.
- I'll be in my office.
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I didn't even see that thing
from the back.
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Well, that takes care
of lifestyle factors.
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What about environmental factors?
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- Like what?
- Too much light in the room.
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No.
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- Extremes in room temperature.
- No.
237
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- Noise.
- Noise?
238
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Planes flying overhead,
that kind of thing.
239
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Planes aren't allowed
to fly over the White House.
240
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- You haven't slept in four nights.
- Right.
241
00:13:27,168 --> 00:13:31,047
- How much sleep do you usually get?
- Four or five hours.
242
00:13:31,888 --> 00:13:35,278
Well, we've been through
physical factors...
243
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...lifestyle factors
and environmental factors.
244
00:13:39,608 --> 00:13:43,647
- That leaves us with...
- Psychological factors.
245
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Yes, sir.
246
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What were the odds?
247
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Right.
248
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- So you got a few minutes?
- Just a few minutes.
249
00:13:56,360 --> 00:13:57,634
What's going on?
250
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We're at the U.N. on Monday
giving a new foreign-policy speech...
251
00:14:00,960 --> 00:14:02,598
...that's gonna stir some things up.
252
00:14:02,760 --> 00:14:05,638
But the thing is, it was a relatively
small circle of people...
253
00:14:05,800 --> 00:14:09,270
...who were consulted on the speech,
and that circle got wider tonight.
254
00:14:09,440 --> 00:14:11,476
So it'll be a weekend of bartering.
255
00:14:11,640 --> 00:14:14,108
And Josh is usually one
of the point men on that so...
256
00:14:14,320 --> 00:14:17,039
- You need to get back to the office.
- I have a few minutes.
257
00:14:17,200 --> 00:14:19,031
- How have you been?
- Great.
258
00:14:19,200 --> 00:14:22,237
- You guys survived?
- Dot-coms didn't run out of steam.
259
00:14:22,440 --> 00:14:23,919
- They didn't?
- It's just hype.
260
00:14:24,080 --> 00:14:25,513
- I see.
- Do you?
261
00:14:25,720 --> 00:14:27,392
No.
262
00:14:27,560 --> 00:14:29,312
- It's easier to start up now.
- Why?
263
00:14:29,480 --> 00:14:31,675
There's less pressure
to be a success overnight.
264
00:14:31,840 --> 00:14:36,277
Which brings us to this.
265
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"Capitalscoop. Com."
266
00:14:38,320 --> 00:14:42,711
It'll track legislation, profile people
in power, spotlight special interest.
267
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- Gossip.
- Not gossip. Hard substance.
268
00:14:45,360 --> 00:14:48,318
Public policy. That's why we need
all the help we can get.
269
00:14:48,520 --> 00:14:50,909
I doubt I can get Josh involved.
It'd be a conflict.
270
00:14:51,080 --> 00:14:53,594
No, I don't want Josh. I want you.
271
00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:55,672
- I'm sorry?
- I want you.
272
00:14:55,880 --> 00:14:57,836
I don't know where I'd find the time...
273
00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:01,470
It's Friday at 11.
I'm basically on a lunch break right now.
274
00:15:01,640 --> 00:15:04,200
You don't understand.
I'm talking about full-time.
275
00:15:05,400 --> 00:15:07,960
Issues director for Capitalscoop. Com.
276
00:15:09,760 --> 00:15:11,637
Well, l...
277
00:15:11,800 --> 00:15:14,951
I'm surprised, and I'm flattered.
278
00:15:15,120 --> 00:15:18,112
But I'm, you know,
not at all qualified.
279
00:15:18,400 --> 00:15:21,756
That's not true.
You've been Josh Lyman's traffic cop.
280
00:15:21,920 --> 00:15:24,036
That's like an M.A.
in power-brokering.
281
00:15:24,200 --> 00:15:27,078
You know the Hill. You know
every corner of the White House.
282
00:15:27,240 --> 00:15:30,357
You know every pressure point
10 miles from the Potomac.
283
00:15:30,520 --> 00:15:33,432
- Is this your operating budget?
- It's your starting salary.
284
00:15:36,200 --> 00:15:38,236
- Ginger?
- She's not here.
285
00:15:38,400 --> 00:15:40,789
- Is Bonnie here?
- They went to get something to eat.
286
00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:42,558
- Have we met?
- No.
287
00:15:42,720 --> 00:15:44,517
- I'm Celia Walton.
- Sam Seaborn.
288
00:15:44,680 --> 00:15:47,513
- You were sent over for the week.
- Yeah.
289
00:15:47,720 --> 00:15:51,076
- We appreciate your helping out.
- I go where I'm told.
290
00:15:51,240 --> 00:15:53,754
- Do you mind if I say something to you?
- No.
291
00:15:53,960 --> 00:15:55,757
The way you talked
to that woman before.
292
00:15:55,920 --> 00:15:57,831
- What woman?
- I don't know her name.
293
00:15:58,000 --> 00:15:59,513
The dog on a leash.
294
00:15:59,880 --> 00:16:02,474
That was Ainsley Hayes.
She's an associate counsel.
295
00:16:02,680 --> 00:16:06,355
Yeah. It was rude. It was inappropriate,
and it was offensive.
296
00:16:06,560 --> 00:16:08,755
- What did I do?
- You demeaned her.
297
00:16:08,960 --> 00:16:12,999
No, we're friends.
It's a completely mature... . You know.
298
00:16:13,160 --> 00:16:15,390
- Also, she started it.
- Whatever.
299
00:16:16,160 --> 00:16:17,718
Well... .
300
00:16:17,880 --> 00:16:19,677
Okay.
301
00:16:22,800 --> 00:16:25,234
I wasn't demeaning her.
I was complimenting her.
302
00:16:25,400 --> 00:16:29,154
A White House counsel, and you're
complimenting her on her sexuality?
303
00:16:29,520 --> 00:16:32,796
- She looked good in the dress, I thought.
- Okay.
304
00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:37,319
- Where is he?
- Congresswoman.
305
00:16:37,480 --> 00:16:38,754
- Where is he, Sam?
- Toby?
306
00:16:38,920 --> 00:16:40,638
- Yes.
- I do not know.
307
00:16:40,840 --> 00:16:42,558
- Liar.
- Here to talk about the speech?
308
00:16:42,760 --> 00:16:45,433
I and the House International
Relations Committee, yes.
309
00:16:45,640 --> 00:16:47,870
Your fingerprints are all over this too.
310
00:16:48,160 --> 00:16:51,232
You and Toby wanna be responsible
for starting World War III?
311
00:16:51,440 --> 00:16:54,079
- Well, you're gonna.
- I was having a good night.
312
00:16:54,280 --> 00:16:56,157
- Where is he?
- I don't know.
313
00:16:56,320 --> 00:17:00,279
- You said that already.
- You asked me again. I still didn't know.
314
00:17:01,640 --> 00:17:03,949
May I wait in his office?
315
00:17:04,120 --> 00:17:06,315
Better his than mine.
316
00:17:07,520 --> 00:17:11,308
- What were we talking about?
- I'm a temporary hand here for a week...
317
00:17:11,480 --> 00:17:13,391
...but I don't think it's a joke.
318
00:17:13,760 --> 00:17:15,876
Ginger and Bonnie
are getting something to eat.
319
00:17:16,040 --> 00:17:17,598
Yeah.
320
00:17:17,760 --> 00:17:20,149
I need these distributed.
321
00:17:22,960 --> 00:17:24,916
Andy's in your office.
322
00:17:25,080 --> 00:17:27,674
- You let her in my office?
- Yeah.
323
00:17:27,840 --> 00:17:30,638
What the hell did you
let her in my office for?
324
00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:35,794
Okay. Well, I'm gonna step out for a
minute and not be in this area anymore.
325
00:17:46,040 --> 00:17:48,235
How could you do this
without consulting people?
326
00:17:48,400 --> 00:17:51,073
Come on in.
We consulted plenty of people.
327
00:17:51,240 --> 00:17:53,196
You think Sam and I
create foreign policy?
328
00:17:53,360 --> 00:17:56,477
I don't know.
You, Sam, Abbott, Costello!
329
00:17:56,760 --> 00:17:58,159
We brought in for three weeks.
330
00:17:58,320 --> 00:18:00,197
You bring in anybody
from State? Who?
331
00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:02,436
Secretary of State.
How can you come here?
332
00:18:02,640 --> 00:18:04,471
I'm third on the damn committee.
333
00:18:04,680 --> 00:18:07,240
- It's a presidential address, not a camel.
- A what?
334
00:18:07,440 --> 00:18:10,557
A camel! A horse built by committee.
335
00:18:12,640 --> 00:18:15,473
"Freedom must run deeper
than the free flow of capital.
336
00:18:15,680 --> 00:18:18,717
Freedom must mean more than
the free trade of goods and services.
337
00:18:18,920 --> 00:18:20,194
- The world..."
- I read it.
338
00:18:20,360 --> 00:18:23,716
"The world will be free when we have
freedom of speech for every nation."
339
00:18:23,920 --> 00:18:25,194
In fact, I wrote it.
340
00:18:25,360 --> 00:18:26,998
"...when there is freedom to worship.
341
00:18:27,160 --> 00:18:31,995
The world will be free when we finally
shake off the rusted chains of tyranny...
342
00:18:32,200 --> 00:18:36,159
...whether in the guise of fascist
dictatorship or ethnic hostility..."
343
00:18:36,320 --> 00:18:39,357
- A little nervous?
- Wait for it.
344
00:18:40,080 --> 00:18:42,753
"The crushing yoke
of Islamic fanaticism."
345
00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:45,877
Gentlemen, start your engines.
346
00:18:46,040 --> 00:18:48,508
Billy's wife is already here.
She's in my office now.
347
00:18:48,680 --> 00:18:51,399
- Is she very upset?
- She's... .
348
00:18:51,560 --> 00:18:53,152
- Send them in.
- She's with Leonard.
349
00:18:53,720 --> 00:18:54,994
Come in.
350
00:18:55,680 --> 00:18:58,877
Everybody, this is McKennen Loboko,
the Congolese attaché.
351
00:18:59,160 --> 00:19:00,798
- McKonnen.
- I'm sorry.
352
00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:02,877
Mr. Loboko, you know our situation?
353
00:19:03,080 --> 00:19:06,072
We've got a reporter who we believe
was taken by the Mai Mais.
354
00:19:06,280 --> 00:19:08,589
He shouldn't have traveled
without documentation.
355
00:19:08,760 --> 00:19:11,149
The Mai Mais care about
documentation, do they?
356
00:19:11,360 --> 00:19:14,352
- I beg your pardon.
- He wouldn't have been abducted?
357
00:19:14,800 --> 00:19:16,279
We haven't been introduced.
358
00:19:16,480 --> 00:19:18,357
C.J. Cregg,
White House press secretary.
359
00:19:18,520 --> 00:19:21,159
He sat in my room for a year,
his wife's in my office...
360
00:19:21,320 --> 00:19:24,073
...his kids are at home,
and I want him back.
361
00:19:24,240 --> 00:19:25,753
You think I have him in my briefcase?
362
00:19:25,960 --> 00:19:29,270
This is a shakedown, so tell us how
much money and where does it go.
363
00:19:29,480 --> 00:19:32,119
The Congolese government
doesn't negotiate with murderers.
364
00:19:32,320 --> 00:19:34,675
The Congolese government is a myth.
365
00:19:36,920 --> 00:19:39,753
I can't talk to this woman.
366
00:19:39,920 --> 00:19:44,198
Mr. Loboko, how much money
and where does it go?
367
00:19:53,096 --> 00:19:55,132
- Where have you been?
- I told you I was going out.
368
00:19:55,296 --> 00:19:58,413
- For an hour?
- Well, yeah.
369
00:19:58,576 --> 00:20:02,091
There's an editorial on sugar subsidies
in the International Herald Tribune.
370
00:20:02,256 --> 00:20:03,689
Make sure that Leo gets a copy.
371
00:20:03,856 --> 00:20:07,007
Also, make sure you send me home
with a congressional face book.
372
00:20:07,176 --> 00:20:09,644
- Why?
- I'm still mixing up Cooper and Hooper.
373
00:20:09,816 --> 00:20:12,728
- Why?
- Cooper sounds a lot like Hooper.
374
00:20:12,896 --> 00:20:15,285
- What does it matter?
- I got offered a job tonight.
375
00:20:15,856 --> 00:20:17,494
What do you mean?
376
00:20:17,656 --> 00:20:18,975
- You know Casey Reed?
- No.
377
00:20:19,136 --> 00:20:21,525
- We went to college together.
- That's where you were?
378
00:20:21,696 --> 00:20:23,129
- Yeah.
- At a job interview?
379
00:20:23,416 --> 00:20:26,214
It wasn't a job interview.
We were meeting for a drink.
380
00:20:26,376 --> 00:20:29,288
- What's the job?
- He has an Internet start-up.
381
00:20:30,056 --> 00:20:32,809
- What kind of site?
- Commentary.
382
00:20:33,016 --> 00:20:34,893
He asked me to be issues director.
383
00:20:35,096 --> 00:20:36,370
- Issues director?
- Yeah.
384
00:20:36,536 --> 00:20:40,290
- For an Internet start-up.
- Dot-coms aren't dying, just the hype.
385
00:20:40,496 --> 00:20:41,770
- Really?
- Yeah.
386
00:20:41,936 --> 00:20:44,609
Sounds like the hype's
alive and well too.
387
00:20:45,896 --> 00:20:47,932
I suppose.
388
00:20:48,456 --> 00:20:50,765
- You suppose?
- Yeah.
389
00:20:50,936 --> 00:20:53,814
You can't take a job that may
not be around a year from now.
390
00:20:54,016 --> 00:20:56,814
This job may not be around
a year from now.
391
00:20:56,976 --> 00:20:59,206
- He offered you money?
- Yeah.
392
00:20:59,376 --> 00:21:02,448
- Well, all I can offer you is a title bump.
- Like what?
393
00:21:02,616 --> 00:21:06,052
Senior assistant to the deputy chief
of staff for strategic planning.
394
00:21:06,216 --> 00:21:09,174
- That's my title now.
- Then I can't offer you a title bump.
395
00:21:09,336 --> 00:21:12,294
The sugar subsidy editorial
and the face book, okay?
396
00:21:12,456 --> 00:21:13,809
Cooper and Hooper.
397
00:21:21,536 --> 00:21:22,855
What do you need?
398
00:21:23,016 --> 00:21:25,246
There's a thing in this
we need to be careful of.
399
00:21:25,416 --> 00:21:26,974
What?
400
00:21:27,136 --> 00:21:29,775
They'll approve a new scale
of peacekeeping assessments...
401
00:21:29,936 --> 00:21:33,895
...if there's a cost-sharing mechanism,
but it isn't fully addressed here.
402
00:21:34,056 --> 00:21:38,527
I should rewrite some of this language
before the president goes to the U.N.
403
00:21:38,696 --> 00:21:40,891
- What?
- Let me ask you something.
404
00:21:41,216 --> 00:21:44,731
When I said that you were enough
to make a good dog break his leash...
405
00:21:44,936 --> 00:21:48,212
...you understand that men,
we're the dog, right?
406
00:21:48,376 --> 00:21:49,775
I was the dog.
407
00:21:49,936 --> 00:21:51,449
- I understood the metaphor.
- Okay.
408
00:21:51,616 --> 00:21:54,494
The peacekeeping assessment
is based on per capita income...
409
00:21:54,696 --> 00:21:57,813
...with category J countries
paying at a 90 percent discount.
410
00:21:57,976 --> 00:21:59,932
- I meant it to make you feel good.
- It did.
411
00:22:00,096 --> 00:22:01,893
- I certainly meant it.
- I appreciate it.
412
00:22:02,056 --> 00:22:04,445
- I didn't mean to demean you.
- I need you to listen.
413
00:22:04,736 --> 00:22:07,409
Category A countries
will be overpaying...
414
00:22:07,576 --> 00:22:10,295
...to cover the discounts
for category J states.
415
00:22:10,456 --> 00:22:14,529
So we need to be more specific about
category A. It's gonna be important.
416
00:22:14,696 --> 00:22:16,766
- I was told that I demeaned you.
- You didn't.
417
00:22:16,936 --> 00:22:18,210
- I was told I did.
- By whom?
418
00:22:18,376 --> 00:22:20,173
- Someone named Celia.
- She was mistaken.
419
00:22:20,336 --> 00:22:21,815
- You sure?
- If I felt demeaned...
420
00:22:21,976 --> 00:22:24,649
...I'd be among the first to know it.
- Terrific.
421
00:22:24,856 --> 00:22:26,608
- Here are my notes.
- I'll rewrite them.
422
00:22:26,776 --> 00:22:29,609
- You'll stick around?
- What else would I do on a Friday night?
423
00:22:29,776 --> 00:22:31,926
I don't like to pry.
424
00:22:33,496 --> 00:22:36,454
America doesn't have a monopoly
on what's right.
425
00:22:36,616 --> 00:22:40,165
Even if we did, I think you'll have
a tough time convincing the Arab world.
426
00:22:40,336 --> 00:22:42,486
Well, we'd like to talk to them about it.
427
00:22:42,696 --> 00:22:44,926
- That ought to do the trick.
- It's worth a shot.
428
00:22:45,096 --> 00:22:47,530
The U.S. Constitution
defends religious pluralism.
429
00:22:47,696 --> 00:22:49,732
It doesn't reduce all
of Islam to fanaticism.
430
00:22:50,056 --> 00:22:53,014
Neither does the speech.
It calls fanaticism, fanaticism.
431
00:22:53,176 --> 00:22:56,691
It's fanaticism whether we call it that
or not, so we're gonna call it that.
432
00:22:56,856 --> 00:22:59,131
- We respect all religions, cultures.
- To a point.
433
00:22:59,496 --> 00:23:00,770
Yes, to a point.
434
00:23:00,936 --> 00:23:05,691
Grotesque oppression isn't okay
just because it's been institutionalized.
435
00:23:05,856 --> 00:23:09,292
If you ask me, we should've gotten
into the game three, four decades ago...
436
00:23:09,456 --> 00:23:13,244
...but they're coming for us now.
So it's time to saddle up!
437
00:23:14,456 --> 00:23:16,333
- Toby.
- We do know what's right.
438
00:23:16,536 --> 00:23:17,855
This is why they hate us.
439
00:23:18,256 --> 00:23:19,530
There's a lot of reasons.
440
00:23:19,696 --> 00:23:22,847
You know when they're gonna like us?
When we win.
441
00:23:26,376 --> 00:23:29,288
- C.J.
- Please tell me what's happening.
442
00:23:29,456 --> 00:23:31,606
Janet, we're working
some back channels now.
443
00:23:31,816 --> 00:23:34,774
Make yourself comfortable.
We might have some news in an hour.
444
00:23:34,936 --> 00:23:36,494
The government will pay money?
445
00:23:36,656 --> 00:23:40,729
We can't buy them off directly. We offer
to withhold money from their enemies.
446
00:23:41,536 --> 00:23:43,288
And if that doesn't work?
447
00:23:43,496 --> 00:23:46,090
Your husband is employed
by a billion-dollar corporation.
448
00:23:46,416 --> 00:23:49,374
Janet, Mrs. Carlson
would pay whatever.
449
00:23:49,776 --> 00:23:51,050
- Ransom?
- Yeah.
450
00:23:51,216 --> 00:23:53,730
Let's not get that far right now.
Your clothes are wet.
451
00:23:53,936 --> 00:23:56,894
- Can I get you something to wear?
- No. No, I'm fine.
452
00:23:57,096 --> 00:23:58,814
Okay.
453
00:23:59,376 --> 00:24:01,844
- I should stay here?
- Yeah.
454
00:24:05,376 --> 00:24:08,891
Insomnia is a pretty common
symptom of depression.
455
00:24:09,056 --> 00:24:10,967
- Are you depressed?
- No.
456
00:24:11,136 --> 00:24:12,615
I didn't think so.
457
00:24:12,776 --> 00:24:18,931
Some people are predisposed
to insomnia in times of acute stress.
458
00:24:19,096 --> 00:24:21,656
Are you under any stress?
459
00:24:22,616 --> 00:24:28,009
Is there any stress
in your job at all, or...?
460
00:24:29,816 --> 00:24:33,934
But seriously, folks, has there been
an unusual amount of stress lately?
461
00:24:34,096 --> 00:24:37,213
- Well, Congress was investigating me.
- Yeah.
462
00:24:37,376 --> 00:24:38,650
And I was censured.
463
00:24:38,816 --> 00:24:41,205
- I had to give the State of the Union.
- Yeah.
464
00:24:41,416 --> 00:24:44,567
I'm running for re-election.
Things are blowing up everywhere.
465
00:24:44,736 --> 00:24:47,011
And I've chosen
the General Assembly of the U. N...
466
00:24:47,176 --> 00:24:49,087
...to define a tougher foreign policy.
467
00:24:51,056 --> 00:24:53,490
Not unusually stressful, no.
468
00:24:55,216 --> 00:24:58,333
I don't like the word"stress."
It's a Madison Avenue word.
469
00:24:58,536 --> 00:25:02,654
It's something that can be cured
with flavored coffee and bath bubbles.
470
00:25:02,856 --> 00:25:04,494
So you don't feel stress.
471
00:25:04,696 --> 00:25:06,971
I have a job I like,
and my family's healthy.
472
00:25:07,136 --> 00:25:09,331
Doesn't mean you're
not entitled to feel stress.
473
00:25:09,496 --> 00:25:10,849
Stress is for other people.
474
00:25:11,056 --> 00:25:13,490
- What other people?
- I'm saying it's not stress.
475
00:25:13,656 --> 00:25:16,728
I was feeling stress five nights ago too,
and I slept fine.
476
00:25:16,936 --> 00:25:19,769
- So, what happened four nights ago?
- I want my money back.
477
00:25:22,376 --> 00:25:24,765
This is a very unusual conversation.
478
00:25:24,976 --> 00:25:27,285
- I get that a lot.
- I'd imagine.
479
00:25:27,496 --> 00:25:30,374
- So, what do you charge?
- $375 an hour.
480
00:25:31,136 --> 00:25:35,209
For $375 an hour, you ought
to bring your own damn lingerie.
481
00:25:35,496 --> 00:25:36,770
I do.
482
00:25:37,056 --> 00:25:39,126
There's a great story
about Arthur Miller.
483
00:25:39,296 --> 00:25:41,764
Death of a Salesman had
just opened the night before.
484
00:25:41,936 --> 00:25:44,450
He was walking around his
old neighborhood in Brooklyn.
485
00:25:44,616 --> 00:25:47,972
He sees a hot-dog vendor that he went
to high school with, and he says:
486
00:25:48,136 --> 00:25:49,967
"Hey, Jimmy, it's me, Arthur Miller."
487
00:25:50,136 --> 00:25:52,969
The hot-dog vendor says,
"How you doing? What you been up to?"
488
00:25:53,136 --> 00:25:55,934
And Miller says,"I'm...
You know, I'm a playwright."
489
00:25:56,096 --> 00:25:59,293
The hot-dog vendor says,
"Playwriting, I should've gone into that."
490
00:26:00,296 --> 00:26:02,605
$375 an hour.
491
00:26:02,776 --> 00:26:04,095
- Yes, sir.
- For what?
492
00:26:04,976 --> 00:26:07,126
I don't really know.
493
00:26:10,736 --> 00:26:12,806
I can't sleep.
494
00:26:13,696 --> 00:26:15,015
I can't sleep.
495
00:26:15,216 --> 00:26:18,333
I'll be tired, and I'll lie there.
And it doesn't happen.
496
00:26:20,696 --> 00:26:22,448
What happened four nights ago?
497
00:26:22,616 --> 00:26:25,084
I won the lowa caucus.
498
00:26:25,256 --> 00:26:27,690
- Anything else?
- That's not enough?
499
00:26:27,856 --> 00:26:31,735
Mr. President,
if you were any other patient...
500
00:26:31,896 --> 00:26:35,127
Say what you'd say
to any other patient.
501
00:26:35,296 --> 00:26:38,368
I'd say screw around if you want...
502
00:26:38,536 --> 00:26:41,972
...but it's your money.
It's about to be my money...
503
00:26:42,136 --> 00:26:43,694
...and I sleep fine.
504
00:26:49,216 --> 00:26:51,411
I had a conversation
with one of my aides...
505
00:26:51,576 --> 00:26:53,885
...after we got back from lowa.
506
00:26:54,056 --> 00:26:55,375
He called me on something.
507
00:26:56,096 --> 00:26:57,768
What?
508
00:26:58,216 --> 00:27:00,730
Well, I guess we talked
about a lot of things.
509
00:27:00,896 --> 00:27:03,330
Who we think the Republican
challenger is gonna be...
510
00:27:03,536 --> 00:27:07,324
...and incumbency
and campaign strategy.
511
00:27:07,496 --> 00:27:09,964
Strategic overview,
but the long and short of it is...
512
00:27:10,136 --> 00:27:13,128
...my father never liked me at all.
513
00:27:19,696 --> 00:27:21,891
Well, at least we're closer
to my area now.
514
00:27:23,696 --> 00:27:26,415
Yeah, I thought you'd enjoy that.
515
00:27:54,144 --> 00:27:55,418
- Charlie?
- Yeah.
516
00:27:55,584 --> 00:27:57,814
- Are you in pain?
- No.
517
00:27:58,304 --> 00:27:59,623
- Charlie?
- Yes?
518
00:27:59,784 --> 00:28:02,173
- Have you been playing basketball?
- Yes.
519
00:28:02,344 --> 00:28:03,618
- Did you get beat?
- No.
520
00:28:03,784 --> 00:28:06,093
- Charlie. Who'd you play?
- Doesn't matter.
521
00:28:06,264 --> 00:28:07,538
- Ed?
- No.
522
00:28:07,704 --> 00:28:08,978
- Larry?
- No.
523
00:28:09,144 --> 00:28:10,418
- Jack?
- No.
524
00:28:10,584 --> 00:28:12,097
- Did you get beat by Manny?
- No.
525
00:28:12,264 --> 00:28:14,824
- Who?
- Deanna.
526
00:28:14,984 --> 00:28:16,861
- Your sister?
- Yes.
527
00:28:17,024 --> 00:28:19,333
Your little sister.
528
00:28:19,504 --> 00:28:22,257
- She plays varsity, Sam.
- Girls' varsity.
529
00:28:22,464 --> 00:28:25,103
- She played a finesse game.
- Man, you can't walk.
530
00:28:25,264 --> 00:28:27,778
Yeah. I don't know what's
happening to my life.
531
00:28:27,944 --> 00:28:30,583
I can tell you're down,
but let's talk about me.
532
00:28:31,144 --> 00:28:33,942
If your sister was getting ready
for a night out, and I said:
533
00:28:34,104 --> 00:28:36,493
"You're enough to make
a good dog break his leash"...
534
00:28:36,664 --> 00:28:39,053
...would you think I was a cad?
- I'd think hick.
535
00:28:40,104 --> 00:28:42,572
- Because of the sentiment or expression?
- My sister?
536
00:28:42,744 --> 00:28:44,780
- I'd beat you.
- You and how many Girl Scouts?
537
00:28:44,984 --> 00:28:47,214
- If I could stand up...
- If it wasn't your sister.
538
00:28:47,504 --> 00:28:48,937
- Then you're fine.
- I'm fine.
539
00:28:49,104 --> 00:28:50,742
You're not. This isn't quite right.
540
00:28:51,024 --> 00:28:54,380
It needs to be clear that the total
assessment is down to 25 percent...
541
00:28:54,584 --> 00:28:57,144
...for category A.
- We've been in this fight.
542
00:28:57,504 --> 00:28:59,699
- But if we pay before...
- Hang on. Here she is.
543
00:28:59,904 --> 00:29:03,613
Celia, I asked Ainsley,
and she said she didn't mind at all.
544
00:29:03,784 --> 00:29:06,252
- Plus, Charlie said he's fine with it.
- He's a man.
545
00:29:06,464 --> 00:29:08,056
- Damn right.
- Sam.
546
00:29:08,264 --> 00:29:11,654
We won't take a bath when other
countries can afford to take on more.
547
00:29:11,864 --> 00:29:13,138
This is important.
548
00:29:13,304 --> 00:29:16,137
- It's important that I'm not a sexist.
- And that I'm all man.
549
00:29:16,344 --> 00:29:18,096
You're Celia? He's not a sexist.
550
00:29:18,464 --> 00:29:20,978
If you're willing to let sexuality
diminish your power.
551
00:29:21,264 --> 00:29:22,822
- I'm sorry?
- I'm surprised...
552
00:29:22,984 --> 00:29:26,101
...you'd let it diminish your power.
- I don't know what that means.
553
00:29:26,264 --> 00:29:29,097
- I think you do.
- You think I'm made out of candy glass.
554
00:29:29,264 --> 00:29:33,018
If somebody offends you, tell them.
But all women don't have to think alike.
555
00:29:33,224 --> 00:29:36,580
I didn't say they did. And when
someone offended me, I did say so.
556
00:29:36,744 --> 00:29:41,022
I like it when the guys tease me.
It's a show of respect I'm on the team.
557
00:29:41,224 --> 00:29:44,296
I don't mind it when it gets sexual.
And you know what? I like sex.
558
00:29:44,744 --> 00:29:48,134
I don't think whatever sexuality
I may have diminishes my power.
559
00:29:48,464 --> 00:29:49,738
I think it enhances it.
560
00:29:49,904 --> 00:29:52,702
- What kind of feminism do you call that?
- My kind.
561
00:29:52,864 --> 00:29:54,422
It's called lipstick feminism.
562
00:29:54,584 --> 00:29:56,814
- I call it stiletto feminism.
- Stilettos?
563
00:29:56,984 --> 00:29:59,054
- Not in enough trouble already?
- I am.
564
00:29:59,224 --> 00:30:02,375
Isn't the point that Sam wouldn't
have found a way to be chummy...
565
00:30:02,544 --> 00:30:04,182
...with a woman
who wasn't appealing?
566
00:30:04,344 --> 00:30:06,300
He'd be able to,
but that isn't the point.
567
00:30:06,464 --> 00:30:10,423
The point is that sexual revolution tends
to get in the way of actual revolution.
568
00:30:10,584 --> 00:30:13,542
Nonsense issues distract attention away
from real ones.
569
00:30:13,704 --> 00:30:17,492
Pay equity, child care,
honest-to-God sexual harassment...
570
00:30:17,664 --> 00:30:21,896
...and in this case, a speech
in front of the U.N. General Assembly.
571
00:30:22,064 --> 00:30:25,534
So you, 25 percent on the assessments
for category A.
572
00:30:25,704 --> 00:30:28,741
You, I don't know what your thing is.
And you...
573
00:30:28,904 --> 00:30:31,941
...stop trying to take the fun
out of my day.
574
00:30:32,104 --> 00:30:34,459
With that, I'm going to get a cupcake.
575
00:30:36,504 --> 00:30:39,018
For the moment, I'll do
what she's telling me to do.
576
00:30:39,184 --> 00:30:42,062
- We're at OEOB.
- Okay.
577
00:30:50,144 --> 00:30:52,135
How you doing?
578
00:31:00,984 --> 00:31:02,622
There.
579
00:31:03,864 --> 00:31:06,936
It's not the best in the world,
but it's hot.
580
00:31:07,384 --> 00:31:09,739
I'm sorry, I didn't ask you
your name before.
581
00:31:09,904 --> 00:31:11,303
Donna.
582
00:31:11,464 --> 00:31:13,136
- Really?
- Yeah.
583
00:31:13,704 --> 00:31:15,262
Our daughter is Donna.
584
00:31:15,424 --> 00:31:18,063
- How old is she?
- She's 7 months.
585
00:31:18,224 --> 00:31:20,613
And her brother Harry is 3.
586
00:31:20,784 --> 00:31:23,537
Three and a quarter,
he'd want me to say that.
587
00:31:26,624 --> 00:31:28,421
Do you know how it works
with the money?
588
00:31:28,584 --> 00:31:33,942
- I don't. I'm an assistant here.
- Bill's written...
589
00:31:34,584 --> 00:31:37,052
He's written negative things
about the president...
590
00:31:37,224 --> 00:31:38,657
- No.
- He and C. J... .
591
00:31:38,824 --> 00:31:40,974
Nobody cares about that tonight.
592
00:31:42,464 --> 00:31:44,022
Okay.
593
00:31:44,184 --> 00:31:46,334
And you wanna know a secret
about C.J.?
594
00:31:46,504 --> 00:31:49,337
But you can't tell
your husband this, really.
595
00:31:49,504 --> 00:31:51,893
She battles with them every day,
but loves reporters.
596
00:31:52,064 --> 00:31:56,421
She's very protective of them, and
it doesn't matter whether... You know.
597
00:32:01,704 --> 00:32:02,978
-It took...
-Wait.
598
00:32:03,144 --> 00:32:06,420
It took three days to get the language
through NSC and the NSA.
599
00:32:06,584 --> 00:32:09,144
- It isn't coming out of the speech.
- I didn't think so.
600
00:32:09,304 --> 00:32:12,376
- Why are we here for an hour?
- Members have drafted an insert.
601
00:32:12,544 --> 00:32:14,694
Will you look at it?
602
00:32:15,664 --> 00:32:17,655
Sure.
603
00:32:20,544 --> 00:32:22,535
This would follow your paragraph.
604
00:32:23,384 --> 00:32:27,377
"Our goal is neither to preach
nor proclaim American values.
605
00:32:27,744 --> 00:32:29,860
We respect
our Islamic brothers and sisters.
606
00:32:30,024 --> 00:32:32,492
We have a great deal to learn
from the values...
607
00:32:32,664 --> 00:32:37,135
...of tolerance and faith that are deeply
held throughout the Islamic world."
608
00:32:40,024 --> 00:32:42,902
You're saying any resemblance
the previous paragraph...
609
00:32:43,064 --> 00:32:45,942
...may have had to foreign policy
is purely coincidental?
610
00:32:46,104 --> 00:32:48,220
- That's right.
- Guess what?
611
00:32:48,384 --> 00:32:51,535
- What?
- Our goal is to proclaim American values.
612
00:32:51,704 --> 00:32:55,140
The speech isn't supposed to be
about ideology but about reality.
613
00:32:55,304 --> 00:32:57,898
The president will decide
what the speech is about...
614
00:32:58,064 --> 00:33:02,580
...but the reality is the U.S.A.
no longer sucks up to reactionaries...
615
00:33:02,744 --> 00:33:05,258
...and our staunch allies
will know what we mean.
616
00:33:05,424 --> 00:33:08,655
We don't have staunch allies
in the Arab world, just reluctant ones.
617
00:33:09,224 --> 00:33:11,692
We have a coalition held together
with duct tape.
618
00:33:11,864 --> 00:33:13,855
A coalition without which
we cannot fight.
619
00:33:14,024 --> 00:33:16,413
Nobody's blowing off the coalition.
It'll be strong.
620
00:33:16,584 --> 00:33:17,983
- When we win?
- That's right.
621
00:33:18,144 --> 00:33:20,704
What's Egypt gonna think?
Or Pakistan?
622
00:33:20,864 --> 00:33:23,901
Freedom and democracy are coming soon
to a theater near them.
623
00:33:24,064 --> 00:33:25,338
So get dressed.
624
00:33:25,904 --> 00:33:27,542
Toby...
625
00:33:28,344 --> 00:33:31,256
...you guys are on a thing right now,
and I'm behind you.
626
00:33:31,424 --> 00:33:34,143
You know I'm behind you.
A lot of House Democrats are...
627
00:33:34,304 --> 00:33:36,659
- Not enough.
- And plenty of Republicans...
628
00:33:36,824 --> 00:33:41,500
...but this one moment in time,
you have to get off your horse and... .
629
00:33:41,664 --> 00:33:44,861
Simply put, be nice to the Arab world.
630
00:33:45,024 --> 00:33:47,538
- Be nice?
- Yes.
631
00:33:48,544 --> 00:33:50,296
Well...
632
00:33:50,944 --> 00:33:52,775
...how about...
633
00:33:52,944 --> 00:33:56,334
...when we, instead of blowing Iraq
back to the 7th century...
634
00:33:56,504 --> 00:34:01,373
...for harboring terrorists and trying
to develop nuclear weapons...
635
00:34:01,544 --> 00:34:05,981
...we just imposed economic sanctions,
and were reviled by the Arab world...
636
00:34:06,144 --> 00:34:09,693
...for not giving them a global
charge card and a free-trade treaty?
637
00:34:09,864 --> 00:34:13,300
How about when we pushed Israel
to give up land for peace?
638
00:34:13,904 --> 00:34:17,817
How about when we sent American
soldiers to protect Saudi Arabia...
639
00:34:17,984 --> 00:34:21,101
...and the Arab world told us
we were desecrating their Holy Land...
640
00:34:21,264 --> 00:34:23,334
...we'll ignore the fact
that we were invited?
641
00:34:23,504 --> 00:34:25,176
How about in the State of the Union?
642
00:34:25,344 --> 00:34:28,416
The president praised Islamic people
as faithful and hardworking...
643
00:34:28,584 --> 00:34:31,735
...to be denounced in the Arab press
as knowing nothing about Islam.
644
00:34:31,904 --> 00:34:33,815
- None of that is the point.
- What is?
645
00:34:33,984 --> 00:34:35,895
I don't remember explaining
to Italians...
646
00:34:36,104 --> 00:34:38,413
...our problem wasn't with them
but with Mussolini.
647
00:34:38,584 --> 00:34:42,259
Why does the U.S. have to take every
Arab country out for an ice-cream cone?
648
00:34:42,424 --> 00:34:44,255
They'll like us when we win!
649
00:34:51,104 --> 00:34:55,939
Thousands of Madrases teaching children
nothing, nothing, nothing...
650
00:34:56,104 --> 00:35:00,575
...but the Koran and to hate America.
Who do we see about that?
651
00:35:04,264 --> 00:35:09,054
Do I wanna preach America?
Judeo-Christianity? No.
652
00:35:09,784 --> 00:35:14,016
If their religion forbids them
from playing the trumpet, so be it.
653
00:35:14,504 --> 00:35:19,055
But I want those kids
to look at a globe.
654
00:35:20,584 --> 00:35:23,860
Be exposed to social sciences,
history...
655
00:35:24,024 --> 00:35:26,663
...some literature.
656
00:35:32,264 --> 00:35:34,903
They'll like us when we win.
657
00:35:42,624 --> 00:35:43,898
Okay.
658
00:35:52,144 --> 00:35:55,454
Let me take another look
at the softer language.
659
00:36:21,184 --> 00:36:24,381
- How's she doing?
- She was asking how the money works.
660
00:36:24,544 --> 00:36:28,537
It's not money. Actually, it's a promise
to honor international sanctions...
661
00:36:28,704 --> 00:36:32,219
...against the export of something called
"coltan" by the Rwandan army.
662
00:36:32,384 --> 00:36:34,739
- What's coltan?
- A mineral they have in the Congo.
663
00:36:34,904 --> 00:36:37,896
Refined, it's a necessary component
of cell phones and pagers.
664
00:36:38,064 --> 00:36:41,659
And the Rwandans and Ugandans
smuggle it illegally.
665
00:36:41,824 --> 00:36:43,940
- Listen.
- What do you know?
666
00:36:44,104 --> 00:36:46,459
Akin Wamba, who's
the Mai Mai rebel commander...
667
00:36:46,624 --> 00:36:49,536
...sent word through a crew
that was filming in Goma.
668
00:36:49,704 --> 00:36:51,262
- Oh, God.
- Yeah.
669
00:36:51,424 --> 00:36:53,733
He was killed in an ambush.
670
00:36:55,464 --> 00:36:57,773
Embassy Kinshasa's gonna get the body.
671
00:37:35,144 --> 00:37:37,863
It can't be easy being you.
672
00:37:38,024 --> 00:37:42,063
- I told you...
- I don't mean the job. I meant...
673
00:37:42,224 --> 00:37:45,182
...you know, being inside your head.
674
00:37:45,344 --> 00:37:47,619
What's wrong with my head?
675
00:37:47,784 --> 00:37:49,536
- I don't know.
- Of course not.
676
00:37:49,704 --> 00:37:52,423
That would be $385 an hour.
677
00:37:52,584 --> 00:37:55,974
They keep moving the goal posts
on you, don't they?
678
00:37:56,144 --> 00:37:59,534
Get A's, good college, Latin honors...
679
00:37:59,704 --> 00:38:01,899
...get into the London School
of Economics...
680
00:38:02,064 --> 00:38:05,534
...get a good teaching job,
lvy League school, tenure.
681
00:38:05,704 --> 00:38:08,776
Now you got to publish.
Now you gotta go to Stockholm.
682
00:38:08,944 --> 00:38:11,538
It's not good for a person
to keep setting goals?
683
00:38:11,704 --> 00:38:13,820
It probably is,
but it's tricky for somebody...
684
00:38:13,984 --> 00:38:17,181
...who's still trying to get his father
to stop hitting him.
685
00:38:17,344 --> 00:38:21,178
Well, I'm told that most men
lead lives of quiet desperation.
686
00:38:21,344 --> 00:38:24,780
Yeah, but that's most men.
That's not you.
687
00:38:24,944 --> 00:38:27,742
That's the other people,
the ones who feel stress.
688
00:38:27,904 --> 00:38:31,101
- You're destined for something else.
- I have abilities.
689
00:38:31,624 --> 00:38:34,184
And now you have an opportunity
to use them.
690
00:38:34,344 --> 00:38:36,414
I think I have.
691
00:38:37,304 --> 00:38:41,934
That room I passed down the hall
on the left, it's got a name, right?
692
00:38:42,104 --> 00:38:45,141
I think you're talking about
the Lincoln Bedroom.
693
00:38:45,464 --> 00:38:48,820
This is a hell of a curve
you get graded on now.
694
00:38:48,984 --> 00:38:54,104
Lincoln freed the slaves and won
the Civil War."Thank you. Next.
695
00:38:54,704 --> 00:38:57,537
And what will you be singing for us
today, Mr. Bartlet?"
696
00:38:57,704 --> 00:39:00,980
"Well, we've had six straight quarters
of economic growth."
697
00:39:01,144 --> 00:39:02,497
That's not easy.
698
00:39:02,664 --> 00:39:04,495
- Okay.
- It's not easy.
699
00:39:04,664 --> 00:39:07,861
- I believe you.
- I think I've made tough choices.
700
00:39:08,024 --> 00:39:10,379
I think Lincoln...
701
00:39:10,864 --> 00:39:14,698
...did what he thought was right even
though it meant losing half the country.
702
00:39:15,544 --> 00:39:17,899
I think you don't do
what you think is right...
703
00:39:18,064 --> 00:39:22,057
...if it means losing
Michigan's electoral votes.
704
00:39:23,504 --> 00:39:25,620
You don't know anything.
705
00:39:26,184 --> 00:39:27,776
I'll be the first to admit that.
706
00:39:27,944 --> 00:39:30,174
I'm not trying to get my father
to like me.
707
00:39:30,344 --> 00:39:35,259
Good, because it's never,
never gonna happen.
708
00:39:35,424 --> 00:39:37,813
- Look...
- We're done for the night.
709
00:39:39,664 --> 00:39:42,053
- What?
- We've been here for two hours.
710
00:39:42,224 --> 00:39:45,341
It was a double session.
We're done for the night.
711
00:39:45,504 --> 00:39:49,816
Stanley, I hate to put it this way,
but I'm me and you're you...
712
00:39:49,984 --> 00:39:52,100
...and we're done
when I say we're done.
713
00:39:52,264 --> 00:39:54,220
No.
714
00:39:56,184 --> 00:39:59,256
I think you could use some assistance
right now, sir.
715
00:40:00,144 --> 00:40:05,218
Use me, don't use me,
but all I can offer you is this:
716
00:40:05,384 --> 00:40:09,457
I'll be the only person in the world
other than your family...
717
00:40:09,624 --> 00:40:12,218
...who doesn't care
that you're the president.
718
00:40:14,464 --> 00:40:16,853
Our time is up.