All language subtitles for The West Wing (1999) - S03E14 - Hartsfields Landing (1080p AMZN WEB-DL x265 ImE)_track3_[eng]

Previously on The West Wing:

Your father used to hit you,
didn't he, Mr. President?

He didn't like you, sir.

Why are we talking about this?

Maybe if you get
enough votes

win one more election

maybe your father...

You have stepped
way over the line

and any other president
would have your ass

on the sidewalk
right now.

I'm not trying to get
my father to like me.

Good, 'cause it's never...

never going
to happen.

Look...

We're done
for the night.

I hate to put it this way

but we're done
when I say we're done.

I think you could use
some assistance right now.

( jet engine powering down )

REPORTERS:
Welcome home,
Mr. President.

Mr. President?
Mr. President?

Give me two minutes.

Any further follow-up
after New Delhi?

I'm sorry?

Was there any follow-up
after New Delhi?

We spoke several times
about Kashmir

and she assured me

they're working towards
a peaceful resolution.

We also had a spirited
conversation about chess.

Prime Minister plays chess?

Chess was invented in India

somewhere around 600 A.D.

A gigantic chess board
was constructed

at Fatehpur Sikri, which was
the capital a long time ago...

( phone rings )

...and human figures
were used as chess pieces

and moved
at the Emperor's will.

It's what I like to call
the good old days.

C.J.

C.J.?

Hey, Leo.

What's he doing?

The History of Chess
by Dr. Josiah Bartlet.

Get him in the car.

What's going on?

And get the press pool
back here, too.

What's going on?

China.

Okay.

...ebony wood
and sandalwood.

And a lacquered
classic Staunton in boxwood.

Thank you, everybody.

Hey, don't forget:
Hartsfield votes

in three hours
and 21 minutes.

We're going to find out
who the next president is.

REPORTERS:
Thank you, Mr. President.

I'm going to give some of
the chess sets out as gifts.

Did you see them?

Leo needs you
in the car.

Did he say?

China.

Yeah.

LEO ( on phone ):
Good evening, Mr. President.

What's going on?

Intel says Taiwan's
getting ready

to test fire three Patriots.

Where?

A base on an island
in the Pingdong region.

What's China's reaction?

An acceleration of integrated
military exercises.

Big?

Yeah.

How big?

Unprecedented.

Should we tell Taiwan
not to test the missiles?

Sir?

No. I mean, we could try

but they're not
going to go for it.

They might.

What are they asking for?

They want us
to put some hardware

in the Taiwan Strait.

Tonight?

Yes, sir.

I'm assuming Nancy and
Fitzwallace and the Chiefs...

Everyone concurs, Mr. President.

You?

Yes, sir.

We have a pretty good sense
of the worst-case scenario?

We end up sending the largest
U.S. Naval armada

to Southeast Asia
since the end of Vietnam.

That sounds right.

Sir?

All right, we know the play.

We're going to assemble
in the Sit Room.

She gave me these
beautiful chess sets.

The Prime Minister?

Yeah. I'm on my way.

Let Fitzwallace know I'm
going to order the 7th Fleet

into the Taiwan Strait.

Yes, sir.

Let's go.

MAN:
Ten-hut!

PRESIDENT:
Good evening.

Mr. President.

Good evening.
Evening,
Mr. President.

Mr. President.

Listen, they start voting

in Hartsfield's Landing
in about two and half hours

so this may end up being
somebody else's problem.

( all chuckling )

The scale of the war games

is unprecedented?

NANCY:
It's a simulation of an invasion
of the Penghu islands

and it includes battles

against intervention
by foreign aircraft carriers.

What's the Taiwanese
reaction so for?

All Armed Forces
are on heightened alert.

The War Minister asked for
an emergency cabinet meeting.

What about equipment movement?

Keyhole shows
ten AH-1W helicopters...

Supercobras.

Yeah, on the tarmac

at Ching Chuang Kang.

The Nimitz?
About two hours away.

The Independence?
Also two hours away.

What other assets
can be moved in?

There's a battle carrier group,
the Carl Vinson

that's on its way
to relieve the Constellation

in the Arabian Gulf.

Let me backtrack a second.

What's C.J. facing
in the press room right now?

Well, Xinhua's reporting
the live-fire exercises.

Is the Carl Vinson close enough

to make a detour
into the South China Sea?

We think that's
our next move.

Sir?

That's our next move.

After that?

After our next move

comes their next move.

REPORTERS:
C.J.?

Katie.

Is the President
going to ask the Taiwanese

to hold off
testing the Patriots?

No, and it's important
to remember

that the Patriot Missiles
are defensive equipment

which can only be used
in the event of an attack.

But it's the testing
of the Patriots

that's provoking
the Chinese war games.

I'm not in a position to say

what's provoking the war games.
Chris?

The Chinese attack Taiwan

and we're obligated
to defend them

under the '79 Act, correct?

Actually, under the '79 Act
we agreed to provide Taiwan

with sufficient capability
to defend itself

but we're getting
way ahead of ourselves.

There's going to be a Pentagon
briefing at 10:00 a.m.

Will the President
be monitoring

the situation
throughout the night?

The President will be monitoring

the situation in the China Sea,
as well as Hartsfield's Landing.

Any of the new people not know
about Hartsfield's Landing?

Hartsfield's Landing
is a town in New Hampshire.

Population: 63.

While the rest of New Hampshire

goes to the polls
at 8:00 a.m. tomorrow

all of the 42 registered voters
of Hartsfield

vote at one minute past midnight

or a little over two hours
from now.

Hartsfield has accurately
predicted the winner

in every presidential election
since William Howard Taft

who, by the way

was the founder
of the Seventh Inning Stretch

wherein we sing "Take Me Out
to the Ball Game."

Music and lyrics by Jack
Norworth and Albert von Tilzer.

It's all part
of the service here

at Claudia's House
of Useless Knowledge.

That's a full lid.

Thank you very much.

REPORTERS:
Thank you, C.J.

Albert von Tilzer?

Ironically, neither of them

had ever been
to a major league baseball game

when they wrote that song.

The other song
they were famous for was...?

I didn't even know they
were famous for that one.

"Shine on Harvest Moon."

Charlie... what are those?

I'm distributing
chess sets as gifts.

I need a copy of the
President's private
schedule.

Didn't you get one?

I need another.

You got to sign it out.

I'm sorry?

You got to sign it out
and then sign it back in.

It can't be photocopied

and it can't
leave the building.

What the hell is this?

For the third time
in two months

a copy of the private
schedule wound up in
the press room.

I've got to crack down.

I've got sign it out?

And sign it back in.

I'm the Press Secretary.

You do a nice job.

Give me the damn schedule.

Sign it out
and sign it back in.

The anal retentive
side of you

is not going to
help you get girls.

I do okay.

Donna!

Donna!

Yeah?

You know...

I was coming.

You were taking
your time.

I don't have warp speed.

Do you remember

Jennifer Flender

the daughter of
the mom and pop

who had the tackle shop?

Mackey and Roberta Flender.
The Flenders.
Yes.

The daughter just
emailed me and told me

her parents are voting
for Ritchie tonight.

Why is she emailing you?

She emails me.

Why?

She's got a little crush on me.

You didn't sleep

with the Flender girl,
did you?

She's 20 years old.

Mackey's got guns

Josh, and doesn't
like Northerners.

He lives in New Hampshire.

Still...
It doesn't matter.

Mom and Pop are
voting for Ritchie

and they vote
in Hartsfield's Landing.

You got to talk to them.

What are you talking about?

I'm not kidding.
Two votes could
be the margin.

It's Hartsfield's Landing.

Yeah.
I thought we
were just kidding

around with this.

We're not.

It's 42 votes.

That are cast at 12:01

and counted at 12:07.

The rest of New Hampshire
doesn't come in until 9:00 p.m.

That's 21 hours
of the news

having nothing
to report

but the winner
in Hartsfield's Landing.

You have to get on the phone
and talk to the Benders.

The Flenders. Why me?

They liked you.

They took you in.

They fed you.

You make me sound pathetic.

You were pretty pathetic
and the Fenders fed you.

Flenders.
See? You remember
their name.

There's obviously
a connection.
Josh...

Politics in New Hampshire
is what?

Retail.

Thank you. Get
on the phone

find out what their problem with
the President is and solve it.

All right, except I can't get
on this phone.

Why?
It's a government phone.

I can't use it
to intimidate voters.

Sad but true.
You know what I'm thinking?

Yes.
A cell phone

LaFayette Park and a warm coat.

I'm taking your coat.

It's a good coat.

I'm taking it.

No problem.

( sighs )

Excuse me.

Mr. President, welcome back.

Thank you. How are you?

I'm fine, sir.

I was just-- someone gave me
this chess set.

Yeah, it's from me.

You're kidding.

No. The Prime Minister gave me
a few different sets

and I wanted to give them
as gifts.

I'm really overwhelmed by this,
Mr. President.

The State of the Union
was really something else.

Thank you, again, sir.

This one's
a Minaret set

in hand-carved camel bone.

She told me it came to her from
a direct descendant of Tansen.

You know who that was?

No.

Greatest musician of his time.

What time was that?

16th Century.

He'd go to
the human chess matches

in the Mogul court
of Emperor Akbar

and that began the family
obsession with the game.

You want to play?

You?

Yeah.

I'll get killed.

Why?
You're a
Grand Wizard

or a Grand Master, or something.

No, I'm none of those things.

I'm just grand.

You're white,
but don't ever touch me.

I'm sorry, sir.

I was kidding.

Ah...

the Fibrinatchi Opening.
Very interesting.

You're just going to mess with
me this whole time, right?

Yeah.

So, India went well.

Yeah.

Standing ovation
on the floor

of the stock exchange.

The billion dollars

from the Export-Import Bank
didn't hurt.

I suppose.

$3 billion
in direct foreign investment

to the $44 billion China gets.

You're an American.
Where would you
rather put your money?

India.

Why?

They're democratic

English-speaking

there's the rule of law

better sense of humor.

That's right.

You mind if I ask

how bad it's getting
out there tonight?

It's bad.

If Kashmir is the most
dangerous place on Earth

the second most dangerous
is the Taiwan Strait.

Taiwan's got 400,000 troops
on high alert.

The size of China's war games
are unprecedented...

Have you thought
about asking Taiwan

to call off the
Patriot tests?

You think I should?

No, sir.
Why not?

'Cause China's got
300 missiles pointed
at Taiwan.

Why shouldn't they be able
to defend themselves?

That's right.
Plus, guess what?

What?

The Patriot tests

aren't why China
is showing its teeth.

They're not?
No.

Why are they?

You ready to come inside?

Yes, sir.

By the end of the week

Taiwan's going to announce

that they're holding
their first free elections.

You're kidding.

Defend your queen.

Mr. Ambassador, please...

Excuse me, please.

Sir, there is a purpose
to this meeting.

Yes, you have discovered

that calling us reckless
is not working.

Taiwan is a geostrategic center
for commerce.

It sits on an oil lane for Asia

to the Middle East...
Please excuse me.

And unnecessarily
militarizing...

Madam.

Unnecessarily militarizing

on such a large scale is,
in fact, reckless.

Taiwan is a part of China

and is not a protectorate
of the United States

and it is your actions
that are

an encroachment
on Chinese sovereignty

and interference
in internal affairs.

Our battle carrier groups
are in international waters.

Are you claiming
jurisdiction?

No.

Then let's settle down.

The Shanghai communiqué...

Sir...

The Shanghai communiqué...

Says that
there is but

one China and that
Taiwan is a part of China

and the United States
Government

does not challenge
that position.

The U.S. is only
interested in

a peaceful settlement
of the Taiwan question

by the Chinese themselves.

A settlement that is not
best facilitated

by the U.S. selling arms
to Taiwan.

That's not on the table
in this meeting.

This year's arms sale package
was the biggest in a decade.

Four Kidd-class destroyers,
12 anti-submarine P-3 Orions.

You approved the AMRAAMs.

That's not on the table.

I've said what
was to be said.

Taiwan's reunification
with the mainland

is the will of all
Chinese people

and just so we
understand each other

the moment that we
see them testing

their U.S.-built Patriots

is the moment
that you will see us

testing our
CSS-6 missiles.

How'd it go?

They're not voting for us.

Why?

'Cause the Old
Perrin Pulp Mill

is still idle
after five years.

If it's been five years
then why is it our fault?

Because instead of
protecting American jobs

we're letting Canadian
pulp importers

take over their
market share.

It's called free trade.

It's also called
why the Flenders
aren't voting for us.

Didn't you talk up
our accomplishments?

I couldn't
think of them.
Donna...

They don't care
about our accomplishments.

They care about the market

for away-from-home paper towels
and tissue products.

Can I give them a commitment?

A commitment?

Yes.
No, you...

We're not making

a trade commitment
to the Flenders.

We're not for
protectionism

and neither are
the Republicans.

Tell them the President's

been good for
the economy overall.

They say he's been
bad for the economy.

We're for affordable
health care.

What's affordable if you've
lost your job at the pulp mill?

The Flenders don't
work at the pulp mill.

Nobody works at the pulp mill.

All right, if Canada's making
cheaper pulp

then New Hampshire
has to diversify.

That's why
the President's allocated

$500 million for trade
adjustment assistance.

That's why--
write this down.

That's why he has
tripled small business
start-up loans.

That's why he's
balancing the budget. Go.

It's so warm in here.

Go.

Donna.
Yeah?

You haven't
by any chance seen

my copy of the President's
private schedule, have you?

I don't think so.
It's stamped D-12.

I haven't seen it.

Thanks.

Hey, Charlie.

Listen, you haven't seen

my copy of the President's
private schedule, have you?

No.

I'm trying to retrace
where I've been the last hour.

I was here.
I was in the mess.

I went back to my desk.

Excuse me.

Hello.

Chas.

You wouldn't happen
to know where my copy

of the private
schedule is, would you?

Did you lose it?

I don't believe I did, no.

Yet you don't have it.

Odd.

He'd like you
for a moment.

Thank you.

Where is it?

How would I know?

Where is it?

I just hope you didn't
leave the building with it.

Give it up, tiny.

( chuckles )

I think you're
going to want

to talk nicer
to me than that

'cause when
a reporter finds it

they're going
to come to me

and you signed it out D-12
and rules are rules.

Funny.
What?

I never told you
it was D-12.

How about that.

Look, C.J....

You'll find it
in your filing cabinet

under "A," for "Anal."

I don't really want to know

what he's going to find
in his filing cabinet, do you?

No.

Okay.

Thank you, Mr. President.

C.J.
Yeah?

I want you to leak it
to two or three sources

the USS Carl Vinson's
going to do

what's called a passing exercise
with the Independence.

We want South China media
to pick it up right away.

Sure.

Mr. President.

Yeah?
Can you see Toby a moment?

Yeah.

Give us a minute, would you?

I'll let you know when
there's something new.

Thanks.

Good evening, Mr. President.

Welcome back.

Thanks. Come on in.

I think this note was delivered
to me by mistake.

What's it say?

"Come play chess."

No, that's for you.

It says,
"Sigmund, come play chess."

That was a joke.

Not so funny, huh?

That's a beautiful chess set.

It's a gift for you.

Really?

Yeah, it's
hand-carved.

It belonged to
the Prime Minister's grandfather

who used it to play
with Lord Mountbatten.

I'm surprised she gave it away.

She didn't-- we just boosted it
from the palace

on the way out.

I've got some little bottles
of shampoo and conditioner, too.

Well, it's a...
beautiful gift, sir.

Sit down.

I wouldn't want

to take your time tonight.

Come on, man,
you were out of line.

I was a jackass.

Let's call a truce.

Well, I certainly apologize,
sir.

Let's play chess.

Aren't you in the middle
of a game with Sam?

Yeah, he's--
one, two, four, eight--

12 moves away from checkmate.

12 moves?
Yeah.

You take white.

Lord Mountbatten used
to play with this set?

With Jawaharlal Nehru

where they came
to an agreement

over the necessity
of India's independence.

An appropriate topic
for the evening.

No, Taiwan's not
going to be our topic.

Ah, the Evans Gambit.

There's no such thing
as the Evans Gambit.

A variation of
the Giuoco Piano opening

named after British
sea captain W.D. Evans

who invented it in 1820.

Don't tell me chess moves.

I moved my pawn.

Well, it's as popular today
as it was back then.

What is?

I'm sorry?

What is our topic?

Reelection and
the Bartlet psychosis.

Seems to me the last
time we were here

we didn't do very well.

So we get right back
on the horse.

I was out of line, sir.

I really do apologize.

You apologized already,
so let's get back on the horse.

Neither one of us
ride horses.

That makes it more likely
that we'll learn something.

Sir?

Yeah?

Sam says, "Bishop
to queen's knight three."

Excuse me. Eleven moves.

Take your time.

See the whole board.

Think happy thoughts...

Sir.

Sure.

The Spanish brought chess

to the Court of
Charlemagne in 760 A.D.

"Charlemagne" is French
for Charles the Great.

The Charles
is a river in Boston.

The Hudson River is actually
not a river at all...

I'm taking your rook.

Now take your time.

See the whole board.

The Hudson isn't a river?

It is in the Catskills,
but once it gets to Manhattan

it's a tidal estuary.

Because it's deeper than
the body of water it flows into?

Yeah.

Do you mind my asking

how the meeting with
the Chinese Ambassador went?

Well, how do you think it went?

I think they said
if Taiwan tests the Patriots

they'll start their exercises.

That's right, except they didn't
call them Patriots.

What'd they call them?

U.S.-made Patriots.

Right.

They want us to say

we're going to roll back
our sale of arms to Taiwan.

Good.

But we're not going to stop
arming Taiwan.

No.
Especially now when
they're trying to hold

free elections.
Right.

Plus, it's
the law.
Yeah.

So we sell them the Orions

we sell them the AMRAAMs...

You going to move?

Hang on.

You've got two carrier groups
headed to the Taiwan Strait...

Move.

Plus the Carl Vinson
in the South China Sea.

Beijing wants you
to scale back the weapons

and you're not going to do it.

Right.

I got to go back to Toby
in the other room.

He's trying a Balducci attack.

How does it work?

See the whole board.

The Aegis Destroyers.

I'm going out for some pizza.
Do you want any?

I'll go get it.
I want to get some air.

We need three, I think.

45 minutes till
Hartsfield's Landing.

We're working the room.

Good.

It is absurd that 42 people
have this kind of power.

I think it's nice.
Do you.

I think it's democracy
at its purest.

They all gather at once...

At a gas station.

It's not a gas station.
It's nice.

There's a registrar of voters.

The names are called
in alphabetical order

they put a folded
piece of paper into a box.

See, this is the difference
between you and me.

You're a sap?

Those 42 people

are teaching us
something about ourselves.

That freedom
is the glory of God

that democracy is its birthright
and that our vote matters.

You getting that pizza?

Yeah, I should call ahead.

He Krazy Glued my phone.

Who?

Charlie.

Charlie Krazy Glued my phone.

Okay. Okay.

( chuckles )

Now we're playing for keeps.

Josh.

How'd it go?

I told them about the trade
adjustment assistance.

And?
They're not wild about
the Canadian pulp thing

but their real problem
is tax policy.

They want to go from
an income tax to a sales tax.

Is this going to end up with
Mackey Flender as Fed Chair?

I'm just telling you...
Tell them a national
sales tax is regressive.

Poor people pay a much higher
percentage of their income.

Tell them we'll study it.

Okay, is the President
destroying the economy
to save salmon?
No.

I'm having a hard time
convincing them of that, too.

There's no salmon
in New Hampshire.

Mackey's sister Fran
lives in Oregon.

Tell them we haven't
made a decision
on the salmon runs.

Tell them salmon restoration
is important to the economy.

Do you even know what
they're talking about?

What am I, the fish guy?

Tell them we're
looking into it.

They think the President's going
to privatize Social Security.

He's not going to...
That's the other guys!

He's not going to privatize
Social Security.

He'll privatize New Hampshire

before he privatizes
Social Security.

Yeah, but we haven't
ruled it out.

'Cause we told Congress
we'd keep an open mind.

They'd really prefer
if we ruled it out.

Here.

"Bartlet for New Hampshire."

It gives all the reasons

why Bartlet's for the people
of New Hampshire.

The Flenders, everybody.
All 17 of them

or whatever the hell
goes on up there.

Why are you wearing my coat?

It's warmer than my coat.

Okay. Go.

Are we getting pizza?

It's on the way.
Coming.

All right.

What are you doing?

I'm just trying to
get a little pizza

in an uncivilized world.

It's not easy
being you, is it?

No. Listen...

so I shouldn't sweat, right?

There's a predetermined time
for the carrier groups?

You know what?
Half of me wants
to let them go.

Half of you always
wants to let them go.

Half of everybody always
wants to let them go.

They need 400,000 troops
on high alert

for thinking
about holding an election.

400,000 troops and a battery
of Patriot missiles

for thinking
about having an election.

You're going to turn the
carrier groups around, right?

We'll see how
the pizza turns out.

( phone ringing )

Yeah.

JOSH:
Yeah, it's me.

I just wanted to remind you

that child support
collection's up 37%.

What?

I said child support
collection's up 37%.

We're cracking down
on deadbeat dads.

I wanted to make sure
you told them that.

Okay.

Leo was just here.

Yeah?

He was talking about Taiwan.

He's saying 400,000 troops and
a battery of Patriot missiles

just to think
about holding free elections.

You know, he was
on one of his things.

Okay, listen,
I got to call them.

We're running out of time.

Yeah, okay.

PRESIDENT:
Let me tell you

you're really showing me
something tonight.

A lot of spunk,
a lot of pluck.

This game isn't all
about size, you know.

There's a little thing
called heart

and you've got it,
my friend.

You know what, old man?

The very minute
they swear in the next guy

you and I are going
round and round.

Check.

( sighs )

How did you get good?

I had a friend in school
who taught me.

He was good.

He was ranked 18 and under.

He was a really nice guy.
Everybody liked him.

What was his name?

David Wheadon.

Everybody had a crush
on his sister.

You still see him?

He went on to Princeton

and Christmas vacation,
he'd saved up to go
to San Francisco

and he was on the wharf
and he saw a guy
beating a woman up

and he went in to stop it and
the guy stabbed him to death.

Well, he taught you well.

So you know
I had this historic

stretch of sleeplessness
after our last meeting.

I didn't know.

It got so bad, Leo brought
in the guy from ATVA

who worked with Josh.

Isn't he a trauma specialist?

Yeah, but we know him

and I figured he had to go
to school for everything, so...

Anyway, we brought him in
late at night.

What did he say?

He said it was your fault.

Said you shouldn't
bother me so much.

I really am sorry
about that.

I'm kidding.

Yeah, I forgot for a second
that you're hilarious.

Let's go ahead
and say the Republicans
nominate Ritchie.
They will.

First of all, let's stop
for a moment and say,
you know, "why?"

I mean, they got some serious
guys in the field.

Kalmbach, Daniel, Weston.

Democrats had a lot
of serious guys in the field

and they nominated you.

That's true.

Check.

You think the strike
against me

is nobody likes
the smartest kid in the class.

Oh, I don't know, sir.

Being the smartest kid
in the class

it's a pretty good pitch.

It's not a strike...

...unless you watch
it as it sails by.

I don't do that.

Check.

And I'm not a snob.

I don't believe you are.

If a guy's a good neighbor,
if he puts in a day

if every once in a while
he laughs

if every once in a while
he thinks about somebody else

and above all else

if he can find his way
to compassion and tolerance

then he's my brother

and I don't give a damn if he
didn't get past finger painting.

What I can't stomach
are people who are out
to convince people

that the educated
are soft and privileged

and out to make them feel like
they're less than, you know.

"He may be educated, but I'm
plain-spoken, just like you."

Especially when we know

that education
can be the silver bullet.

It can be the silver bullet,
Toby.

For crime, poverty,
unemployment, drugs, hatred...

Who are you trying
to convince?

I'm saying I don't watch
the pitch go by.

Check.

And if I do, it's not
'cause my father...

Was an idiot.

Can we talk about...
God! Can we talk about...

Please, can we talk about
my father with some respect?

The man's gone.
Can we...

He was my father.
He wasn't a Dickens character.

Yes, sir.

( knocking on door )

Mr. President?

Yeah.

Check.

Check.

Check.

I'll be back.

Don't cheat.

I know exactly where
the pieces on the board are.

I know exactly where the pieces
are on Sam's board.

I know exactly where the pieces
still are on David Wheadon's.

( door closes )

Sir, the carriers
are 35 minutes
from the Strait now.

All right, you can bring
the Ambassador back now

and get Beijing.

I'm sorry, sir, it's
a formality, but I...

She needs the order.

The Aegis Destroyers.

Yes, sir.

Just out of curiosity,
what if that doesn't work?

I don't know, but for sure
we're going to blame you.

Yes, sir.

( door closes )

What's going on?

I don't know.

Toby keeps coming back
at me with this...

I don't know, he says
I let the pitch go by.

What pitch?

I soften... I smooth
myself out publicly.

It's not a put-on, by the way,
I'm honestly folksy.

Yeah.

Yeah what?

Yeah... nothing.

You agree with him?

I don't think
you let the pitch go by.

I don't.

I think you foul it off.

Yeah, well,
he keeps coming back at me.

You invited him back
this time, didn't you?

All right.

So...

what are you doing?

Just playing some chess.

( machine beeps )

Would you stay
right there?

Tommy, it's me.

What happened?

She ran the
card through.

It must be bent
or something.

Would you stay
right there, please?

I'm staying right here.
I haven't moved.

Look.
Guys, it's me.

This card says
you're Charles Young.

Yes, okay, well,
obviously I'm not.

Why do you have a card
that doesn't belong to you?

What's going on?

This woman has a card
that doesn't belong to her.

C.J., what the hell...?

Charlie's getting me back...

Stay where
you are, please.

Oh, my God.

Tommy, sign her in
with an appointment.

Be in your office
in 15 minutes.

Can I move now?

DONNA:
Roberta...

Roberta,
those are all good points

and perfectly valid areas
of disagreement

but what I don't understand...

I was saying
what I don't understand

is that you guys were
such fans of the President.

You loved him
when he was Governor.

You... you worked so hard
for him when he was campaigning.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, he didn't lie.

No, he didn't lie,
Mackey, and I'll...

And I'll tell you what else.

The man just accepted
a Congressional censure

and I think it's time...

And he should be held
to a higher standard

and, believe me,
he holds himself

to a higher standard, but...
sometimes he can't meet it

because...
President's aren't kings.

This one's an economist
from New Hampshire

and I think it's time for you
to get off your horse.

Donna.

I... I'm standing out here
in the middle of the night...

Donna.

Hold on, please.

( sighs with exasperation )

No, I've kind of
had it now, too.

They're shocked and
appalled and disappointed

but really they're
none of those things.

They just wish they were.

So, never missing an opportunity
to feel morally superior...

I don't know, what do
you want me to do now?

Let them vote.

What does that mean?

I came out here to tell you
to let them vote.

Yeah, this is Josh Lyman.

We just want to call and thank
you again for all your work

and remind you that the polls

in Hartsfield's Landing
open in 14 minutes.

You got the chains
on the truck, Mackey?

( chuckles )

Okay, listen, tell
your sister in Oregon

I'm going to try and learn
something about salmon.

Right now, all I know is that
they're good on a bagel.

Good night.

Maybe they are morally superior.

Anyway, they get to vote.

( sighs heavily )

It's freezing out here.

Can I have my coat back?

TOBY:
Abbey told me this story once.

She said you were
at a party once

where you were
bending a guy's ear.

You were telling him
that Ellie had mastered

her multiplication tables
and she was in third grade

reading at a fifth-grade level

and she loved books
and she scored two goals

for her soccer team
the week before

and you were going
on and on.

What made Abbey's story
remarkable was that

the party you were at
was in Stockholm

and the man you were
talking to was King Gustav

who two hours earlier
had given you

the Nobel Prize in economics.

My God, you'd just won
the Nobel prize

and all you wanted
to talk about

to the King of Sweden

was Ellie's
multiplication tables.

What's your point?

You're a good father.

You don't have
to act like it.

You're the President.
You don't have to act like it.

You're a good man.
You don't have
to act like it.

You're not just folks.
You're not plain-spoken.

Do not, do not,
do not act like it.

I don't want to be killed.

Then make this election
about smart and not.

Make it about engaged
and not

qualified and not.

Make it about a heavyweight.

You're a heavyweight.

And you've been holding me up
for too many rounds.

Pick your king up.
We're not done playing yet.

( door opens and shuts )

Hello.
How you doing?

You really want
to dance with me?

Wouldn't it have
been a lot easier

to respect the rules
and regulations?

What are you doing in here?

Leo told me to be here.

Leo?

What the hell...?!

I wanted
the schedule...
I devised
a system...

...and the librarian here
was giving me guff.

...to check out the schedule.

You sign it out,
each has a number.

I decided to teach him
by hiding his copy...

No copy can leave the
building, but C.J. decides...

...and he switched
security cards on me...

...she's above all that
and can flaunt the rules!

...and Krazy Glued
my phone!

All right, I think it's fine

that people blow off
a little steam

but now it's done, and it's time
for one of you to be mature.

Well, God knows
C.J.'s a lot more

mature than I am.

Hey!

Excuse me, Leo.
Yeah?

Nancy McNally's
calling for you.

Okay, well, okay,
it's over.

That's that.

So how long do you usually make
people your bitch?

Depends.

Okay.

Sorry. I got tied up.

No, it's fine.

Let's get back to it.

You know, sir, I
looked something up

while you were gone.

Eisenhower, it seemed,
at all costs wanted

to avoid sending ships
to resupply Quemoy and Matsu

'cause they'd be less
than a mile

from the Chinese army.

A private could...

Well, everybody was a private
in Mao's army

but a private could
fire on a ship and that'd be it.

We'd be at war.
We'd have to be.

Eisenhower wouldn't do it.
Yeah.

No.

Why are you?

Look at the whole board.

I am.
You're not.

Sam...
I'm trying.

Why put
the carrier groups

in the Taiwan Strait?

Are they in
the Taiwan Strait?

They're on their way.

Is that the same thing?

How does this end?

( knocking )

Sir.

Like this.

Turn 'em around.

I'll make some calls
and thank people.

Yes, sir.

And thank you,
by the way.

You, too.

I'd like to try it
without looking at the note.

Okay.

China agrees
to stand down
the war games.

Right.
And they agree

to let Taiwan test
the Patriots. One Patriot.

Yes.
And we-- please

I want to be right
about this--

we agree not to sell Taiwan
the Aegis Destroyers

for a period of--
I don't know-- five years.

Ten years, but you got it.

Sir, the Aegis radar

technology isn't something
that...

I mean, what if Taiwan
did fall to China?

Now they have-- plus
these ships cost something

like $800 million apiece.

Buying four of them

would eat up half
of Taiwan's defense budget.

And so?

You never were going
to sell them the destroyers.

But everybody wakes up
alive in the morning

and saves a little face.

I don't know how you...

I don't know the word.

I don't know how you do it.

You have
a lot of help.

You listen to everybody
and then you call the play.

Sam, you're going
to run for President one day.

Don't be scared.

You can do it.

I believe in you.

That's checkmate.

REPORTER:
Two roads, no traffic lights
and Town Hall's a filing cabinet

and a countertop
in the town clerk's basement.

But Hartsfield's Landing,
New Hampshire

is where democracy begins
for the world's only superpower.

It's 12:01 A.M. and the
registrar of voters

who's also the principal
and only teacher

at the Hartsfield school,
calls the roll of voters.

REGISTRAR:
Claude Abernathy, please step up
and cast your vote.

Diana Abernathy, please step up,
cast your vote.

Barney Braddock, please step up,
cast your vote.

Lillian Braddock.
Lillian's 18, everyone.

This is her first vote.

Please step up
and cast your vote.

Congratulations, Lillian.

Lillian's mom, Miriam Braddock

please step up
and cast your vote.