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Previously on The West Wing:

The President will be announcing
a blue-ribbon commission

to study the long-term future
of entitlement programs.

We want you
to go to a meeting.
With who?

A Democrat on the
ethics committee.

You set me up
with my ex-wife.

Come sit next to me.
I'm a responsible adult.

I'm a member
of the United States Congress.

Danny.
Does the White House

make a crusade out of

defending the rights
of drug users?

Oh, please.

MAN:
Now we have some questions

about drug use in general
and marijuana in particular.

WOMAN:
Yeah?

JerseyGirl wants
to know if marijuana
can make you sterile.

Is this JerseyGirl
asking the question

or JerseyBoyfriend?

Both.

Okay, well, there's no evidence
so far that marijuana

has a permanent effect
on the male or female
reproductive systems.

A few studies have suggested
that heavy marijuana use

may have an effect
on male testicular function

but that effect
would be reversible

so if JerseyBoyfriend
is concerned

he should mention it
to his doctor.

PIXALADD wants to know if
marijuana can cause cancer.

No conclusive study to date
has shown that it does.

However-- and this
is a big however--

cellular genetic
and human studies all suggest

that, uh, the smoke from pot
is a risk factor

in acquiring
respiratory disease

so, if PIXALADD wants to be able

to walk up a flight of stairs
without throwing up

he should put the bong
back in the closet

behind the Allman Brothers
albums where it belongs.

I'm done?

Yeah.

Efficiency, Donna.

Yeah.

Efficiency and
professionalism

and we're out of here at
9:00 on a Wednesday night.

Doesn't hurt
the President's in Tokyo.

Yeah, well, there does
seem to be a little
less work to do

when he's in a
different hemisphere,
but nonetheless...

Efficiency
and professionalism.

With a healthy dollop
of leadership skills.

The well-placed,
well-worded memo.

Nobody goes off
the reservation.

Everybody does their job.

Turn off your computer.
Let's go.

No, I'm going to stay
and watch this.

I think maybe
you should, too.

What is it?

The Surgeon General's
doing an on-line chat.

What's she
talking about?

Decriminalizing marijuana.

See you tomorrow.

What's she
talking about?

"Do you favor
the decriminalization
of marijuana?"

"That's not for me to say.

"I can tell you
that marijuana

poses no greater public
health risk than nicotine
or alcohol..."

"...and doesn't share
the same addictive properties

as heroin and LSD."

"Yet, bizarrely, to many of us
in the health care profession

"the law categorizes
it as a Schedule One
narcotic...

while putting a
government seal on
a pack of cigarettes."

Yeah, somebody
didn't get your memo.

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JOSH:
C.J.?

Yeah.

I need you
to take a look at this.

What is it?

It's a transcript
of an on-line chat

Millicent Griffith
just did-- page eight.

Toby's headed to his office
and Sam's on the phone.

I can't talk to him
right now.

He says it's important.

I'm going to be there
in a minute.

"The Allman Brothers"?

It gets a lot worse.

"...marijuana poses
no greater public
health risk

"than nicotine
or alcohol...

"...doesn't show the same
addictive properties as...

...bizarrely
categorizes it as..."

And... I quit.

Let's go.

Is she kidding
me with this?

No.

When did it happen?

She finished
five minutes ago.

Talk me through
the next 12 hours.

These people
got a story.

I guarantee they've
called AP already--

Carol, get me
the wires.

Yeah.

It's too late for
the Times and the Post

but LA and San Francisco
will have it

and it'll be
above the fold.

The Today Show
will lead with it.

Russert's going to
do a segment...

Toby...

Guys, I'm in the Blue Ribbon
meeting.

I got Labor yelling at me.

I got a real situation
developing over there.

We've got a bit
of a situation

developing here, Toby.

What's going on?

Read that.
Page eight.

Why didn't you call me?

While it was happening?

Yes.

So you could do what?

When did it happen?

She finished about
five or ten minutes ago.

You saw it happen?

Yeah.

Why didn't you get me?
What were you going to do?

End the interview.

How?

By ending it.

Listen, something's happened.
We know.

How do you know?

Josh was watching
it in real time.

I'm not going to belay into
the computer screen, Toby.

What are you talking about?
The Surgeon General.

What are you
talking about?

Never mind.
What did Griffith do?

She reversed
our position
on marijuana.

All right, first things first--
what time is it in Tokyo?

They're 14 hours ahead.

I thought it was 13.
Eastern Daylight.

So it's 14 hours ahead.

We're sure it's ahead
and not behind?

Guys, there are clocks
on the wall.

Okay, so it's almost
11:00 in Tokyo.

Ginger...
Yes.

Yeah.
Get Larry and Ed.

And anybody
left in my office.

TOBY:
We'll be in the Roosevelt Room.

I'm sorry. 11:00 in the morning,
11:00 in the afternoon?

C.J.:
It's 11:00 a.m.

"The Allman Brothers"?

TOBY:
Keep reading.

If it's not a story
until tomorrow morning

then they won't have
it till tomorrow night

so we bought a day.

We bought two days.
How?

The plane ride.
When does he leave?

7:00 p.m. Thursday.

Tomorrow? Local time?
Yes.

Which local--
theirs or ours?

It will be 7:00 p.m.
Thursday in Japan
when he leaves.

And he lands here when?

Okay, the flight
is 13 hours long...

This isn't happening.

He's going to travel
eastward from Tokyo

leaving at 7:00 p.m.

so when he crosses
the International Dateline...

He'll have traveled
back in time to what?

3:00 a.m.
Which puts him down

in Washington
6:00 p.m. Thursday.

He's going to land
in Washington

an hour before
he took off?

Yeah.

And that's not a story

that beats the Surgeon General?

Toby, they're calling for you
over there.

I'm going to go get
yelled at some more.

Josh, you need
to get Leo.

Yeah.
Call Tokyo.

Carol's got the wires.

Thanks.

Those clocks should be
in military time.

Yeah, 'cause that's
less confusing.

The man's gone 150 hours.

How can it be Thursday
the whole time?

Listen, Japan is
nine hours ahead of
Greenwich Mean Time...

Don't.

Sophie, this is Donna Moss.
Could you locate the Chief

of Staff for me?
What were you talking
about before?

I've just been told
by someone I believe

that a full-page ad taken out

by the Family Values
Leadership Council

is going to appear
in 22 newspapers tomorrow.

It lists many prominent people
and it congratulates them

for denouncing the movie
Prince of New York.

Margaret,
I've got Josh for him.

So what's the problem?

The President is one

of the prominent people
they congratulate.

The President
denounced the movie?
No.

Then how can they
run that ad?

I have no idea...

but I don't like who
we're being congratulated by.

Josh?

Yeah.

Yeah, Leo, we've got
a couple problems here.

( ball bouncing off wall )

( bouncing continues )

I'm here.

Thanks.

We're doing this again?

Yeah.

'Cause I just got you off
that little bellman's thing.

Here's my problem.

The AARP wants
the President

to put Seth Gillette
on the Commission.

So does the AFL-CIO--
it's important to them

and, I think, for that reason,
it's got to be

important to us.
There's another good reason.

It neutralizes him.
He can't

attack the Commission
if he's on it.

Which is why
if we ask he'll say no.

Maybe, maybe not.

Yeah, but we can't risk that.

First of all, we need him
on the Commission

or else labor and seniors

will be suspicious
from the get-go.

Second, if he's not going to be
on the Commission

it can't be
'cause he turned us down.

So either we get him
on the Commission

or if we don't, make sure
it's 'cause we never asked him.

Yeah.

Sam, he's on the phone.

Thanks.

Yeah, I don't know
the answer to that.

Thanks for stopping by.

Yeah.

Charlie.

CHARLIE:
Moshimoshi.

Konichiwa, Sam.

Ikaga dess ka.

SAM:
Yeah, listen.

Did you have
a phone conversation

with a movie producer
named Morgan Ross?

Yeah, last week.

Can you tell me
about that conversation?

He's got a movie coming out.

Prince of New York.

Yeah, they wanted to screen it
at the White House.

What did you say?

They sent me the print the week
before and I looked at it.

And you passed?

Yeah.

Charlie, was the President

involved in that decision
at all?

Nah, he lets me
choose the movies.

I just didn't think he'd like it

so I got Dial M for Murder
instead.

Sam?

Okay.

Domo arigato.

Yeah.

JOSH:
Well, there'd be fallout
from women voters

and I'm pretty sure the AMA

to say nothing
of the First Lady.

Yeah.

Leo?

I've got about nine people
on a conference call

at several points
of longitude.

When's your first briefing?

An hour.
Can you show support
for the Surgeon General

without supporting
her policy?

Yeah.

Show me.
Try me.

C.J., did you know

that Dr. Griffith
was going to criticize

the administration's drug policy
last night?

I don't agree with
your characterization
of her comments.

I think she expressed
her opinion about

the health effects
of certain illegal drugs.

Well, she basically called for
the legalization of marijuana.

Does the President
agree with her?

Wrong again, and I'd refer you

to the Surgeon General's
comments.

When asked if marijuana
should be legalized

she said, and I'm quoting,
"It's not for me to say."

And she's right and it's
important that people
understand this:

The Surgeon General
is not a lawmaker.

She doesn't set drug policy,
the President does

and the President is 100%
against legalizing drugs

including marijuana.
Yeah.

Leo, I can take it
to the next step.

Okay.

( heavy sigh )

Okay.

Leo wants me
to show her support?

Yeah.

Josh?
Yeah.

While I'm showing her support

what are you showing her?

The door.

C.J.:
Hang on. Katie?

Did you know
the Surgeon General was

going to criticize

the administration's drug policy
last night?"

C.J.:
Well, first of all, I disagree

with your characterization
of her comments.

She expressed her opinion

about the health effects
of certain illegal drugs. Jeff?

I'm sorry,
but didn't she say...?

Actually, what she did say,
and I quote is

that there has been
no conclusive study to date
Josh?

to show
that marijuana causes cancer.

Dr. Griffith.

However--
and I'm still quoting...

You want to come in?

...and this is a big however--
Yeah.

"Cellular genetic and
human studies all suggest..."

How have you
been feeling?

Well.

They're checking your blood
pressure once a week?

Yeah, 130/87.

Hmm, it's a little high.

What about the right leg
and arm?

There's a
little stiffness.

Yeah.

You know the guys at G.W.
did a fantastic job.

It's a beautiful scar.

When have
you seen my scar?

At the hospital.

I don't remember.

You were unconscious.
How about your back?

There's some pain.

It's in your head.

Along with all
manner of things.

Well, you know, Josh

just because the
white supremacists
didn't kill you

doesn't mean that crap
you eat isn't going to.

I eat fine.

You eat like you're
still in college.

I was in great shape in college.

You were 19 in college.

You could eat Tupperware

and your system
would deal with it.

Millicent, what were you
thinking about?

I was asked a question, Josh.

I understand.

But your answers...

My answers
were correct.

Is anyone challenging
me on the facts?

Not yet.

Well, they won't.

As a doctor, I have
an obligation to
tell the truth.

Come to think of
it, as a person

I have that
obligation as well.

The truth is different
if you're a GP

or a member
of the Stanford Faculty Club

than if you're

the country's chief
medical practitioner.

Well, no, I think truth is
pretty much truth

across the board,
never more so

than if you're the country's
chief medical practitioner.

Did you know
that 69% of Americans

oppose legalization?

The number gets a lot higher
Only 23% suthan that

if you ask people under 30.

Well, that's a shock.

Did you know that the number
gets even higher than that

if you limit the polling sample
to Bob Marley and the Wailers?

I mention that
particular age group

because an awful lot of
them seem to be in prison.

Is that what this is about?

No.

The criminal justice system is

nowhere near your jurisdiction.

I wasn't commenting
on the system...

Millicent...

I wasn't commenting
on the system.

"Yet, bizarrely,
the law categorizes it

as a Schedule One narcotic."

I was commenting on medicine.

I've had three conversations
with Leo McGarry

in the last 12 hours.

The reason
I've come here...

Josh, I'm not a politician

but it's not like I haven't
lived here for two years.

C.J.'s up there right now
giving you our support.

I'm sorry,
but we need you to resign.

No.

Dr. Griffith, I say this
with all possible respect

but you serve at the pleasure
of the President.

And I'll continue to right up
until the moment he fires me.

Okay.

Thank you, ma'am.

Josh...

See the doctor, get a lollipop.

...and the fact that the
President disagrees with her

doesn't mean
he's going to fire her.

The Surgeon General's
an executive appointee

and the President stands
by his staff.

Excellent.

REPORTER:
There's a full-page ad
that appears in today's Times.

In fact, I've been told that
it might have appeared

in as many as 22 papers
this morning.

The ad was taken out

by the Family Values Leadership
Council and praises

among others, the President

for denouncing a movie that's
opening next week called

Prince of New York.
Yes.

Do you know
anything about it?

No, I don't know what the hell's
going on there.

C.J., the President
didn't denounce it?

Not unless he did it
in the shower

but he hasn't denounced
it to me

and he certainly hasn't
to the public.

That's all.
See you this afternoon.

Sam's here.

Thank you.

Good job.

Please tell me
what's going on
with this movie.

It's called
Prince of New York.

Right.

There's been some controversy
about it...

Sex and violence?

And religious imagery.

Family and religious groups are
organizing boycotts.

Right.

The studio phone-banks Charlie

'cause they want a screening
and Charlie passes.

Why?
'Cause he did.

The producer goes on Imus and
says Bartlet's a coward

who's siding
with puritanical censors

and that Hollywood should know

he's no friend
of the First Amendment.

And then the Family Values
Leadership Council took out

an ad congratulating us
for that?

Yeah.

Seriously, I quit.

Here's the thing...

Wait, wait.

We've got these people...
we've got industry people...

Prince of New York is
Morgan Ross's movie.

Morgan Ross went on Imus?

Well, he did it
by phone, but...

Morgan Ross called
the President a coward?

He didn't call him
a coward as much as

he called him "cowardly,"
which is different.

How's it different?

It's not. But still...

I'm going
to crush him.

C.J....

This guy's trying to get
a little free media

by screwing with us.

Look...

I'm the enforcer, Sam.
I'm going to crush him.

I'm going to make him cry,
and then I'm

going to tell his mama about it.

You're not going to
make him cry.

You want to watch me
make him cry?

I believe that you can
make him cry.

I'm saying you're not
going to do it.

Sam...

We're meeting with
these people tomorrow.

I'll straighten things
out with Morgan Ross.

Just keep telling
the press that

you don't know
anything?

That shouldn't be a problem.

Thank you.

Danny Concannon's on
the phone

and I think
you should take it.

Why?

He wants the President's
reaction to a comment

about the situation
with Millicent Griffith.

Who made the comment?

That's the thing.

Carol...

It was Eleanor.

Eleanor who?

It was Eleanor Bartlet.

Hey, it's C.J.

Toby, it's not that we don't
understand your predicament

but I'm telling you

the Commission will not be
credible with our people

unless they know there's someone
on it who's a friend of labor.

And a friend
of seniors.

The President's a friend
of labor

a friend of seniors,
a friend of small animals.

Toby...

We're running out
of time, Lenny.

We announced this thing
at the State of the Union.

We've got to
get it going.

The State of the Union's
your problem.

Nobody brought us in.

And I for one
am not sure

I see a need for
emergency-like speed.

Really?

If current economic conditions
continue...

Forever?

If we never have another
recession ever again?

Then the fund can withstand
all of 30 years

before going bankrupt.

Unfortunately, the actuarial
tables say

I won't be dead yet.

Guys, Gillette's
a tough needle to thread.

I want to know that we have
your trust;

that whoever we do get will look
out for your interests

and that you therefore will
support the Commission.

Can I assume
from your total silence

and blank faces that
you're all with me?

Maybe if we talk
some more.

Oh, could we?

Josh.
C.J., listen...

She didn't?

No. Leo's going to need
to talk to her.

In the meantime

you should start
to walk back some
of what you said...

There's something stickier

than the support
I gave her in the
press room.

What?

Danny Concannon's quoting
Eleanor Bartlet.

She said, "My father won't fire
the Surgeon General.

He would never do that."

Eleanor?
Yeah.

You mean Zoey.

No, it was Eleanor.

PRESIDENT:
They're trying
to export their way

out of their own economic
problems.

CHARLIE:
Yes, sir.

And by dumping low-priced steel
on the U.S.

you know what
they're asking for?

A protectionist response?

They're begging for a
protectionist response.

Steel and mining employ
170,000 workers.

They're not going to
sit around

while discount steel
comes flying into--

How you doing?

They're going to want
retaliatory tariffs

and you know what
that means?

A return to Smoot-Hawley
and the Great Depression.

A return to Smoot-Hawley
and the Great Depression.

You should go
to Japan and tell
them that, sir.

Charlie.
Yes, sir.

Leo, I'm walking over
to the press and telling them

the retaliatory tariffs
are going

to cost American tax payers
$800,000 for every job saved.

We're not taking questions.
Let's get in the car.

What's going on?

Eleanor made a comment
on the record

and you can't answer
questions right now.

Eleanor?
You mean Zoey.

It was Eleanor.

When did this happen?

About six hours ago.

Why didn't you tell
me six hours ago?

'Cause I didn't want
you crash-landing the plane.

Let's get in the car.

Welcome back, Mr. President.

DONNA:
Josh, is there
anything to suggest

that there are a significant
number of people

who are inclined
to smoke pot but

don't because it's
against the law?

No.

Then why do you think
if it were decriminalized

there'd be a sudden
stampede of people

showing up to work stoned

dragging down the economy and
clearing supermarket aisles

of Pringles and Twinkies?

That's not a reason
to make it legal.

In a free society

you don't need a reason
to make something legal.

You need a reason to
make something illegal.

Donna, parents are keeping drugs
away from their kids

with a whip and a chair.

It doesn't
help them out if...

Yeah.

That's okay,
it's just me talking.

The President's back.

Does he want to see me?

Yeah.

Welcome back,
Mr. President.

Thank you.

I've had it, C.J.,
I've absolutely had it!

What the hell is Danny Concannon
doing calling my kids?

Mr. President...
He knows better than that.

They all know better
than that...

Sir, he didn't...

C.J., you're going to suspend
his credentials

for six months
and I don't give a damn.

His paper wants to cover
the President

they can send someone else.

Mr. President, Danny
didn't call her.

I was told it was Danny.

Yes, sir; she called him.

She called him?

Good evening, welcome back,
Mr. President.

The Allman Brothers, Josh?

How was the flight, sir?

Tokyo is willing to show
economic restraint

in exchange for
a good fielding short-stop

and a left-handed reliever.

Who's against us so far?

The Judiciary Committee,
Government Reform and Oversight

Appropriations...
Why Appropriations?

They control
the Surgeon General's budget.

Who's coming to her defense?

The Cannabis Society,
the Cannabis Coalition

E Cannabis Unum

The American
Hemp League

and Friends of Mary Jane.

Sir?

Yeah.

Sam's waiting to see you.

Yes, I understand
I've been congratulated

for denouncing a movie
I've never heard of.

Yes, sir.

Well, I got to hand it
to you guys.

You've pulled off
a political first.

You've managed to win me the
support of the Christian right

and the Cheech and Chong
fan club in the same day.

Leo's seeing her tomorrow.

Anything else?

No, sir.

Thank you.

Thank you,
Mr. President.

Thank you, Mr. President.

Charlie.

Yes, sir?

Would you arrange
for my middle daughter

to come see me at her
earliest possible convenience?

Yes, sir.

Ah, screw her convenience.

Get her ass down here.

Yeah.

What's this note?

That note?
Yeah.

It says that we should stand by
the Surgeon General.

Actually it says we should
stand by the "Sturgeon" General.

Does it?

Yeah.

I meant Surgeon General.

Well, I think we should
stand by her, too.

I just wanted to make sure
we were agreed

that smoked white fish was
pretty much on its own.

Toby?
Yeah.

She's here?

In the lobby.

You're with the ratings people?

Soon.

What's the food for?

Today's attempt at
insuring our future.

What's your plan?

The first thing
I have to do

is be nice to a liberal
Democratic congresswoman.

Will that be hard?

Well, it was when
I was married to her.

Good to see you;
thanks for coming.

You look fantastic.

Thank you.

How've you been, Sam?

Sam's great.

Fit as a fiddle, Andy.

Although, to tell you
the truth, I found...

Nobody cares.

Yeah.

Hi.

How you doing?

Congresswoman Wyatt.

Yes, indeed.

You are growing into
that title very nicely.

This is going someplace
hysterical.

Yeah.

Labor wants Gillette
on the Commission.

Yes.

So does the AARP.
Yes.

It's important to them.
Yes.

You know why?

'Cause they've been suspicious
of the Commission

since you announced it

and want one of their people
protecting their interests.

We're one of their people.

Have you had an easy time
convincing them of that

since you announced
the Commission?

No, but I bring you here

and we sit, and
we have coffee

and we have Danish

in the hope that calmer,
and dare I say

prettier heads prevail.

Oh, how I miss
patronizing sexist Toby.

I was referring to myself.

You don't want
to ask Gillette?

No.

'Cause you think
he might say no?

Right; this is
really important, Andy.

Can you help us?

No.

GINGER:
Toby?

Close the door.

Put the Danish down.

Dial M.
Yeah.

A fine film.

I know it well.

Ray Milland, Grace Kelly,
Robert Cummings.

He likes the part

where the guy
looks for the key.

And what was
the other one about?

Prince of New York?
Yeah.

It's an updated version
of Dostoyevsky's The Idiot

which tells the story of a
Christ-like epileptic young man

who embodies goodness

but encounters sex, crime
and family dysfunction.

It's hard to image why you
didn't think the President

would enjoy that, Charlie.

Well, he would've especially
enjoyed the scene

where the Prince Myshkin
character has a seizure

while engaging in
erotic fantasy

in a Long Island church.

Charlie, please don't
say the word "erotic"

in the Oval Office.

I'd be happy
not to say any of those words

anywhere ever again.

John Williams as Chief
Inspector Hubbard.

Not to mention...

ELLIE:
Excuse me.

Ellie.

I was told my father
wanted to see me.

MARGARET:
Let me ask you this:

Red meat has been found
to cause cancer in white rats.

Maraschino cherries have been
found to cause cancer

in white rats.

Cellular phones have been found
to cause cancer in white rats.

Has anyone examined
the possibility

that cancer might be
hereditary in white rats?

Let me tell you something.

I'm not 100% sure
we've ruled that out.

Dr. Griffith.

I'm on.

Congratulations, Milly.

You're now the pamphlet girl

for every right wing
fund-raising cause.

That interview's
got to be worth at least

20-30 million bucks
in contributions

from people who think
you're going to distribute

dime bags of Hawaiian sens

at junior high schools

along with condoms
and fornication manuals.

Can I say, I
was never given

a fornication
manual, so...

You think this is funny?

I think that we're spending

$8 billion a year

keeping more than 40,000 people
locked up.

That's not your...

I know, that's not
my jurisdiction

which is why I never commented
on decriminalization.

Six different committee chairs--

three in the House,
three in the Senate--

are all talking about hearings.

What are they
going to find?

They don't need
to find anything.

They just need to say
your name and "drugs"

as many times
as possible on television.

I don't think
you said anything wrong.

Nobody with a brain
thinks you did anything wrong.

And I'd like to do the right
thing all the time but I can't.

I can't let us get bogged down
in this crap.

Government will stop.

This'll be what we do
for two months

and there are more important
things than that.

I'll take the heat from
the First Lady but I want

your resignation
by 8:00 tonight

or the President's
going to fire you.

I've got
a meeting.

Thanks.

Zoey said you were
thinking about Oncology.

Excuse me?

Zoey said you were thinking
about oncology.

Yeah... or neurology.

He's just tied up in this
meeting down the hall.

I'm fine.

They said he should be back
any minute.

I'm... good.
Yeah.

You like medical school?

I do.

I like my professors.

I have a pathophysiology
professor

who teaches
clinical skills by...

Eagle's moving.

PRESIDENT:
$800,000 in consumer costs

per job saved.

Retaliatory tariffs

on steel imports
are a disaster.

Anyone wants to check my math,
they're more than welcome to.

Anybody wants to shove
the Golden Gate Bridge

up Japan's ass, they're more
than welcome to do that, too.

Mr. President?

Oh... thank you.

Ellie, thanks for coming.

Hi, Dad.

Come on in.

Did you get down
here okay?

Yeah.

Did you take
an airplane?

An airplane?
Yeah.

No.

A helicopter?

No, the agents drove me.

That's 'cause you go to school
at Johns Hopkins, right?

Dad...

And Johns Hopkins
is in Baltimore.

I'm asking 'cause
Baltimore's a
45-minute car ride

from Washington, D.C.

and we hardly see you anymore.

So I thought
either you transferred

to a different
medical school;

they moved
Johns Hopkins

or they moved Baltimore.

Are any of those things true?

No.

Okay, and this is
accurate, right?

This quote: "My father won't
fire the Surgeon General.

He would never do that."

Yes.

Eleanor...

when you put your head down,
your hair falls in your face

and I can't see your face

and I can't hear
what you're saying.

Now look at me and talk to me.

Yes, the quote is accurate.

What the hell are you doing

talking to
a reporter?

I have set up
I was...

monumental, unprecedented

unbreakable rules about my
children and the press.

I have gotten White
House reporters

transferred to Yemen

for approaching Zoey
and Elizabeth.

It is the law!

Well, I'm sure
before you gave the quote

you cleared it with
the Communications Office.

I'm sure you went over the exact
wording with C.J. Cregg

and coordinated it
with White House strategy

so that the timing
was right

in the news cycle.

I'm certain
you consulted

the appropriate
party leadership

because you're a pretty
knowledgeable operative

having spent so
much time with me.

Ellie...

What?
Dad, she was...
she was...

Pick your head up.

She was doing exactly
what she is supposed to do.

She... I'm sorry.

She was asked a question

and she said what she knew
to be true.

And when you start firing
doctors for that

you've crossed
a line somewhere.

There is politics involved
in this, Ellie

and you knew it
would make me unhappy

and that's why you did it
and that's cheap.

I didn't do it
to make you unhappy, Dad.

You didn't do it
to make me happy.

I don't know how
to make you happy, Dad.

For that, you got to talk
to Zoey or Liz.

Okay, let's drop it.

Mom gets back
first thing in the morning

and we're running
a movie tonight

if you want to stay over.

I can stay over
if you want me to.

Yeah, thanks.

I go out...?

That door over there.

Mr. President?

Yeah.

The Labor Secretary.

Send him in.

Charlie...

Give me just a minute,
would you?

Yes, sir.

Look...
Hang on a second!

No, I will
not hang on!
Yes, you will.

You will summon
your strength

and you will listen
to me for a moment.

You guys made a hairpin turn
at the State of the Union

and you did it without
consulting a whole lot

of members of the liberal wing
of the Democratic Party.

Sad to say, Andrea,
there aren't a whole
lot of members

of the liberal wing
of the Democratic Party.

So you'll forgive some people
if they're concerned

that one of the options
you're going to explore

is raising the retirement age.

Andy, people are
living decades longer

than anyone anticipated
in 1935.

So you are considering.

We want to consider everything

but we can't consider
anything unless...

Why does this have
to happen in secret?

'Cause it's the only way
it's going to happen.

'Cause you can't...
solve Social Security

and ask people to run for
election at the same time.

So why not give politicians
some cloud cover

and let them be
lawmakers for a while?

15 people in a room
with the door closed.

Seven Democrats,
seven Republicans

and the President of the United
States who will not have a vote

and they walk out of that room

and with one voice, they
make a recommendation

to Congress and the
American people.

And nobody knows
who was where.

( sighs )

The only way it's going
to happen is in secret.

And the only way it's
going to happen is

if all the sides are confident
in their representation.

Otherwise, it's dead.

And so, I need Seth Gillette
on the Commission

but I can't ask him,
'cause if he says no

there'll be no Commission!

Anyway... I appreciate your
coming down and talking to me.

I like when you ask
for my help, Toby.

Listen, I read
in the paper

that I'm on the
benefit committee

for the Child
Leukemia Foundation.

Yeah, I saw that, too.

Why do you suppose
the paper wrote that?

I don't know; I guess
they must have gotten it

from that press release
I sent them.

I guess they must have.

You didn't think it'd be a
better idea to ask me first?

I really didn't.
Interesting.

I've found that when I skip
over that first step

and move right
to the second step

it becomes a lot harder
for people to say no.

Listen, you'll have fun,
you'll look nice in your tuxedo

you don't have to stay,
you don't have...

Toby?

Skip over the first step
and move right to the second.

Toby.

Hey, Andy.

Hey, C.J.

Toby, when you
have a minute

can you stop by
the office and...

What?

C.J., tomorrow
morning, I want you

to announce that
Seth Gillette's joined

the Blue Ribbon Commission
on Social Security.

Toby...
Make sure
the press knows

the Senator put
the Democratic Party

above personal differences

and that he put
people above all.

Make sure they know
that he's a patriot

and when the President
asked him to serve

Senator Gillette
answered the call.

Did he?

Yeah. I just saw it

at your press briefing
tomorrow morning.

Okay, but this is really

the last thing I'm doing
before I quit.

Okay.

ED:
It's like checking
the sugar and fat content

on a box of cereal.

We bend over backwards
to help parents make choices.

We put V-chips in TVs

warning labels on records,
TV shows, film ads...

And when we do, we suffer

because our products become
demonized and marginalized

and every ten years,
the Government asks
for something more.

LARRY:
The only reason we have to come
to you every ten years is that

the situation
isn't getting any better.

When's the Government
going to ask the NFL

Can I talk to you?ockey League
Sure. Come on.

He's wrong in there,
by the way.

The situation hasn't
stayed the same.

There's been a 28% drop
in juvenile crime

the last five years

ten percent drop in the
overall crime rate.

I don't care.
Why?

'Cause the American Academy
of Pediatrics, the AMA

the American Psychological
Association all say

that watching violence on TV
is bad for kids

and we're going to listen
to the experts.

I'll remember that
tomorrow morning
when I read

in the paper the Surgeon
General's been fired.

Remember it
whenever you like.

What is he seeing tonight?

Dial M for Murder.
Good

'cause Hitchcock never used
sex or violence in his films.

Yeah. Morgan, the President's
never seen your movie.

He's never heard
of your movie.

He has no particular objection
to your movie and you know it.

The Family Values
Leadership Council

seems to see
it differently.

Gloriosky, Morgan, the Family
Values Leadership Council

distorted the truth;
stop the presses.

Well, thanks
to that ad

I've got exhibitors
in Mississippi

Oklahoma and Alabama
pulling the film.

I've read the press synopsis
of the film

and if exhibitors put you
on every screen

of every multiplex
in every mall

you still wouldn't
do any business

in Mississippi,
Oklahoma or Alabama.

You're an industry expert now?

No, but you are, which explains
a lot to me about Hollywood.

And you know the ad
was going to get you

more business than you lost

and that's why you went on Imus
and said what you did.

I'm here for a Sam
Seaborn scolding?

Yeah. 'Cause it makes
me crazy, Morgan.

This is exactly the kind of
thing that should be celebrated

by First Amendment advocates.

The guy was offered a choice
and he made one.

Why aren't you standing up
and saying, "See it works!

"You don't need to ban movies
like Prince of New York.

You just have to choose
not to watch them."

And, Morgan, you ever call
the President a coward again

for your own P.R. purposes

it's not going to be C.J. Cregg

you got to deal with,
it's going to be me.

You understand
what I'm saying, right?

Yes.

Now, why don't you go back
to your meeting and show me

how much you want
to make it up to us?

( dull thud )

Good job.

( phone ringing )

( ringing continues )

( phone still ringing )

Hello?
( whispering ):
This isn't good.

What?

The President's
not talking.

There's a movie on.

He usually talks
during the movie.

Hello?!

( clicks phone cradle )

( phone cradle clicking )

( cradle clicks )

Hello!

PRESIDENT:
Good evening.

Good evening, Mr. President.

I'm sorry about this.

Yes, sir.

Is that your resignation?

Yes, sir.

Thank you.

On thinking about it,
I felt your firing me

would send a dangerous signal
to whomever had my job next.

Did you not think
that playing down

the dangers of drug use sent
a dangerous signal as well?

I do not believe
that is what I did, sir.

I was asked, by and large,
if marijuana holds the same

addictive properties
as heroin or LSD.

It does not.

I was asked if marijuana
poses a greater health risk

than nicotine or alcohol,
and in my opinion, it does not.

And I believe if you look
at the transcript...

Milly, did you put her up to it?

Sir?

"My father won't fire
the Surgeon General.

He would never do that."

You didn't put
her up to it?
No, sir.

You didn't pick up the phone
after Josh came to see you

and say, "Ellie,
it's your godmother.

Let's stick it to your old man
and paint him into a corner"?

No, sir.

Why haven't I ever been able
to get her to like me?

I'm asking you.

Sir, I'm not sure
it's appropriate...

I'm asking you.

I think you're wrong.

I'm not.

She worships you,
Mr. President.

She's mad at me.

Well, you're mad at her.

Yes, I am.
Sir...

I was running for President,
where the hell was she?

She was with us.

Not like Zoey and Liz.

Sir...

She's always belonged to Abbey.

You frightened her.

No, I didn't.

Sir...

How did I frighten her?

Jed, look where you're standing!

I was elected two years ago,
she's 24 years old.

You've been the king of whatever
room you've walked into

her entire life.

It never seemed
to intimidate Zoey or Liz.

Well, kids are different;
they're not the same.

You'd be amazed,
you'd be stunned

at how soon they understand

they're not their
father's favorite.

That's not true.

Sir...

That's not true.

Mr. President...
No, no, no.

I will bear

with the nonsense
of the Christian right

and the Hollywood left
and the AFL-CIO

and the AARP
and the Cannabis
Society and Japan

but I will not stand
and allow someone to tell me

that I love one of my children
less than the others.

She's frightened of me?

( sighs )

She ain't the only one.

I wanted to be so mad at her.

I heard the news
and my first thought...

My God, King Lear
is a good play.

( sighs )

"My father won't fire
the Surgeon General.

He would never do that."

I wanted to be so mad at her...

but the truth is...

it's the nicest thing
she's ever said about me.

Well...

Good night, sir.

Good night.

Hey, Doc.

Sir.

I don't accept.

I'm sorry, sir?

I don't accept your resignation.

Sir, I appreciate that,
but Leo's right.

This shouldn't stop you
from doing the bigger things...

These are the bigger things.

I don't accept your resignation.

You work for me.

You go when I tell you to.

You're an excellent role model

Mr. President.

Yes, I know.

So you're back.

Yes, indeed.

( whispering ):
Tell C.J. when
she gives Milly

our support on Monday,
she can mean it.

You know, it's going
to seem to some people

like you did it 'cause
your daughter asked you to.

Yeah.

You know, Josh, I think
if you ever have a daughter

you're going to discover
there are worse reasons

in the world
to do something.

Sit down; we're coming
to the good part.

MAN 1:
What's he doing?

MAN 2:
He's wondering why
that key doesn't fit.

He's going round to the back
entrance; he stopped again.

( sighs )

How you doing?

Hmm?

I said,
how you doing?

Fine.

You know, we're coming up
to the good part.

Dad, people are trying
to watch the movie.

You want to bet me your tuition

no one in this room's
going to shush me?

I hear you're thinking
about ophthalmology.

Oncology.

Why do you want
to study people's feet?

That's podiatry.

Then what's
children's medicine?

Pediatrics.

I thought it was obstetrics.

That's pregnant women.

And what's
the study of feet?

Dad, you're not going
to get me to laugh.

Really?

( sighs )

( door slamming on-screen )

The only thing you ever
had to do to make me happy

was come home
at the end of the day.

MAN:
As you said, Mark, it might
work out on paper, but, uh...

congratulations, Inspector.

Oh, by the way...

So, endocrinology

would be what, disorders
of the gallbladder?

Thyroid.

I am pretty sure
you're wrong about that.

I think endocrinology
is your subspecialty

of internal medicine devoted
to the digestive system.

That would be gastroenterology.

Are you sure it's not
nephrology, immunology

cardiology or dermatology?

Just stop it.

I'm trying to
watch the movie.

Okay.

Here comes the good part.

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