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Previously on The West Wing:

What did they offer?

Censure?

Yeah.

History forgets these things.

Presidents don't.

They never get over it.

This one won't.

I don't think it's such a good idea

to be casual about the truth.

Neither do I.

Why can't you pick up a phone and say

"Would you like to go out sometime?"

PRESIDENT: No one in government

takes responsibility for anything anymore.

I'm to blame.

I was wrong.

PRESIDENT: We stand at a critical point--

a time of choosing.

If we take the hard course, the right course

there is no limit to what we can achieve.

There is no limit to what we will achieve.

( applause )

The dials go from zero to 100.

They dial up if they like what he's saying.

They dial down if they don't.

All the numbers lead to a central computer.

Like the Nielsens.

Yeah.

They're behind a screen somewhere?

Huh? The people with the dials--

they're behind a screen somewhere?

They're in Macomb Country, they're in Portland

in Los Feliz, California, Norman, Oklahoma.

Joey puts together a decent snapshot.

Which one's Joey?

Kenny!

Can we get Joey a second?

When did you pick that up?

I just said thanks.

Could he go easy with the pictures?

You said it wouldn't be a problem.

When did I say that?

C.J. Cregg said it wouldn't be a problem.

Joey, this is Lisa Sherborne.

She's doing a piece for Vanity Fair.

I don't have a lot of time right now.

What do the different lines mean?

Red's for Republicans, blue's for Democrats

and green's for Independents.

When we say something liberal, like...

"Death is bad."

Right-- blues go up and reds go down.

When we talk about values, reds and greens go up.

You're usually lucky to break 65.

I got to get back now.

I have abiding respect for the Speaker of the House

and the Majority Leader.

They are men of fundamental decency

and public servants of purpose.

LISA: How much of this did you write?

We don't really talk about that.

You think there's anything you're going to talk about

or is this going to be

an extraction?

...to the men and women of both chambers

who have labored to shed the weight of partisanship

and donned the cloak of progress.

The lines don't seem to be doing much.

Hang on.

It may be said that in the last half century

America won the Cold War

and modeled freedom for a waiting world.

Breaking out the greatest hits, huh?

Now, in a new century

when we meet and master

new forms of aggression and hatred, ignorance and evil

our vigilance in the face of oppression

and global terror will be unequaled

by any moment in human history.

( applause )

Now you're cooking.

And to the enemies of freedom

the enemies of democracy, the enemies of America

the enemies of humanity itself

we say here tonight with one voice

there is no corner of this earth so remote, no cave so dark

that you will not be found

and brought to light and ended.

( applause )

That's a numbers spike.

Hey, crank that up.

You broke 65 on all the lines.

We nearly had one almost as big.

What?

I said we nearly

had one almost as big.

What was it?

We almost cured cancer.

Really.

This close.

What happened?

Just one of those things.

Can I help you, ma'am?

Glass of chardonnay, please.

Hey, Amy.

Are you talking to me?

Yes.

What did I say about that?

You said not to talk to you.

Yet, you're doing it anyway.

Yes, I am. You're doing it again.

Look... You're still doing it.

Amy... I'm walking away now.

Ice and vodka, please.

MAN: Sam Seaborn!

( applause )

Thank you.

Thank you.

I am at Ha Ha's in Cleveland on the 16th

and tip your waitresses.

Sam.

Congratulations.

Hey, you, too.

So far so good, huh?

The dials are what we thought.

We'll wait for the overnights.

Lisa. Josh.

Still trying to get waived into Generation X?

Still a pompous jackass?

Oh, you betcha.

See you later.

Tell me about the cancer thing.

It got cut.

Jack Daniels.

You were going to cure cancer?

We were going to say we were going to cure cancer.

Curing it is someone else's department.

How does that work?

How does what work?

Deciding what you're going to say?

You mean, writing the State of the Union?

Yeah.

It's a long story.

I'm writing a long story.

Do you do any kind of preparation

before you come to report...

I prefer to...

Hang out at Moomba?

The process begins six weeks beforehand with budget meetings.

Why budget meetings?

'Cause if we're introducing a new idea

people are going to want to know

how we pay for it.

Memos are written--

they come from everywhere.

Every agency, department

senior advisor, outside notable.

What's an outside notable?

Former presidents, Henry Kissinger

Bill Gates, Jesse Jackson--

Mr. Rogers wants to write us a memo, we'll read it.

We'll pass some of them on to the President

and he'll start making notes in the margins.

Then we have the "President's First Thoughts" meeting.

That's when we all want to kill ourselves.

Why?

'Cause that's when the President

tells us we're nowhere.

Why?

'Cause we're nowhere.

So we try to figure out what people want to hear

and that's when anybody

who didn't want to kill themselves before

has certainly been converted to the cult.

Why is it so hard?

'Cause it's a white piece of paper.

How high are the stakes?

How high can you count?

So what do you do?

Whatever it takes to get started.

And we read new memos, and we try new themes

and we hear new slogans and we test new lines

and after a few weeks of that...

we've still got a white piece of paper.

So it's hard.

Hmm?

It's hard.

It's hard under the best of circumstances.

Obviously, it got a little harder two weeks ago.

What happened two weeks ago?

Congress censured the President.

Yes.

Good morning.

What's going on?

Late last night, early this morning, the President

reached an agreement with the Leadership

to accept a Congressional Censure.

C.J.: How's he feeling?

Hmm?

How's he feeling?

Fine. It's over.

Joint Resolution?

Yeah. A Concurrent Resolution, actually.

It'll take a couple of days

for the lawyers to get together on the language.

We should leak it in the meantime

soften up the ground. Yeah.

He's all right?

He's about to be censured

and then he's going to deliver the State of the Union

and then he's going to run for re-election.

My guess is that there are some things on his mind.

It's over.

That's all.

Thank you. Thank you.

This is like the Civil War.

When's the last time

Congress rebuked a sitting president?

The Civil War.

And now, how do you...

Yeah.

Should we postpone the State of the Union?

What are the rules on that?

He's required to give Congress information

on the State of the Union.

If he buys Congress

a subscription to the Wall Street Journal

he's fulfilled his Constitutional...

Postponing or canceling's an admission of defeat.

He's accepting a censure.

That is defeat, and you don't ask

the school bully out to lunch

the day after he stole your lunch money.

You don't go on a starvation diet, either.

And we can spin

the censure as a bipartisan...

You can't spin a formal denunciation

from the legislative branch-- it spins itself.

I don't...

It's our biggest press hit of the year

our biggest pre-convention campaign exposure.

I don't know how you make a formal report to Congress

when Congress just called you a liar.

I say we strap a polygraph onto the TelePrompTer.

Humor-- to lighten the load.

I recommended that he take the censure

and if any of you had been on the inside

you'd have recommended it, too.

How does he deliver

the State of the Union in two weeks?

He's the President of the United States.

When he walks into the House Chamber

they're all going to stand up.

Anyone here not believe

this President can take it from there?

I still got my lunch money.

Toby? Sam?

You got to dig in.

Anything else?

( chuckling )

All right.

Hey, Sam.

Yes?

Well argued.

Yeah.

What do you want?

What kind of attitude is that? C.J....

Vanity Fair's pitching my office a story on you.

What's the angle?

They want to do a profile

and they want to start the reporting

on the night of the State of the Union.

Why don't they just cover the State of the Union?

This is their way of doing that.

The thing is... you know the writer.

Who? Lisa Sherborne.

That's funny, 'cause I used to be engaged

to someone named Lisa Sherborne.

Isn't it funny?

I'm not doing it. I'd like you to.

What happened to rule number one on staff profiles

being that we don't do staff profiles?

When did we have that rule?

We should have that rule.

Keep the focus on the President.

People should think he writes the State of the Union.

I think people know about speechwriters.

Then there's no more story to tell.

In the past-- you tell me--

did it help or hurt that the campaign

had a youthful and energetic energy?

I'm not sure you can say "energetic energy."

Did it help or hurt? It helped.

Do we need help right now?

Do young women read Vanity Fair?

So let them cover the President.

They do cover the President.

Right now, they want you

and I want to give you to them.

It's got to be Lisa Sherborne?

Hey, is the reason you guys didn't get married

'cause her name would've been Lisa Sherborne Seaborn?

Yeah, that's the reason.

I could do this for a living.

Do you have anything?

No.

I don't believe you.

I don't have anything.

If you didn't have anything you wouldn't be down here

at the party.

I like parties.

What do you have?

I have the first 20 minutes.

Okay.

You don't want the first 20 minutes.

Why?

Sam... hi.

Hi.

I just need a minute, okay?

I can wait.

I need you to wait over there.

Okay.

Why don't I want the first 20 minutes?

It's what we expected it would be.

Tell me.

It was the censure-- people saw it...

Just tell me.

Democrats, low to mid 50s.

Republicans, high 30s.

Independents?

Low 40s.

You are kidding me.

Sam... Low 40s?

We knew the first 20 minutes...

Ten minutes-- you said ten minutes and not this bad.

Wait for the rest of the dials.

We did Internet commerce in the first 20 minutes.

We did child asthma...

He wasn't the President in the first 20 minutes.

Wait for the rest of the dial groups.

Top line, cross-tabs, whatever you get

I've got a bad feeling about tonight.

Were those polling numbers?

No.

What was that about?

It was polling numbers

but it was... it was nothing.

How does it look?

It's too early to tell.

( people conversing )

( chuckling ): Sam.

Congratulations. You, too.

Ed, Larry, this is Lisa Sherborne from Vanity Fair.

Which one's Ed, which one's Larry?

ED AND LARRY: Doesn't matter.

Joey went back to the office.

Thank you.

You don't have to introduce me

as Lisa Sherborne from Vanity Fair.

I like to let them know they're talking to a reporter.

You really are uncomfortable with me being here, right?

You're not just, you know, being you?

I don't know what that means.

How did curing cancer get cut from the State of the Union?

A lot of things get cut. Curing cancer?

Hey, we had to cut a section about making government manuals

easier to read, so curing cancer can take a number.

Why are you pissed at me?

I'm not pissed at you. I'm working.

You're done working.

I'm not done working.

You're confused because you see Absolut Cosmopolitans

and famous people.

( laughs softly )

A section on government manuals.

Donna? Yeah?

Can you get me the most recent memo from the DPC

on the welfare-to-work initiatives?

Yeah.

I'm seeing Amy again tonight.

A second date?

First date, really.

Last night was more of a, you know...

Scheme. Yeah.

Good, 'cause the second date's usually

where the wheels come off the wagon for you.

That is so false.

What are you doing? A late drink.

Where are you going? Wilson's.

I like that place.

I don't. Why?

Well, for one thing, the piano player only seems to know one song.

Which song?

"Little things with fur better hurry..."

"Chicks and ducks and geese better scurry"?

Okay. "Surrey With the Fringe on Top."

Whatever. It's like I'm on a hay ride.

What are you doing?

I'm trying to figure out if you have to pay

for the plane ticket to Phoenix.

It was official travel.

Yeah, well, that doesn't really...

What does the rule say?

( sighs )

"An employee may not use

"contract airline/rail passenger service

"provided under the contract

"with the General Services Administration--

see part 301-15, subpart B, of this chapter."

What's the problem?

Let's set aside that there's no subpart B.

The rest of it uses a sentence structure

with which I'm not familiar.

Just put it on my credit card. No. See?

I think that's what this is designed to do.

I think it's designed to break a person's spirit.

And damn it, that's my job.

We're getting beat by the system.

We are the system. We suck.

Yes. I need the welfare-to-work memo.

How many words

in the Gettysburg Address?

266.

And the Ten Commandments?

173.

So you really wouldn't think you'd need 6,000

to discover how a plane ticket gets reimbursed.

No. No.

What's going on?

Welfare-to-work.

I was happy when you said this morning

that you recommended the censure.

Your face didn't register much. I'm thinking about the speech.

I figured. Don't ask me how it's going.

I wouldn't. It's in the larva stage.

You can't rush these things.

It's not like putting a hammer to a nail.

I need some pie.

You should go get some.

Come with me.

Okay.

But don't ask me about the speech.

Wouldn't do it.

How'd it end up going last night.

With Amy Gardner? Yeah.

Very, very well.

Here's the memo. Thank you.

You know Amy's seeing somebody.

I do know that.

You know who?

No, and I don't want to know.

Yes, now that you mention it, who?

John Tandy. Really?

Yeah.

Really? Yes.

Interesting.

Yeah. Interesting, and I'll tell you why.

Why?

Because John Tandy is a...

I'll tell you why, seriously. Why?

'Cause they started seeing each other

shortly after Nan Lieberman announced

she was going to make a primary challenge in the 20th district.

Really? Yeah.

Ah-so.

I don't think he's courting Amy Gardner;

I think he's courting women.

I don't think you're right. Why?

'Cause that's ridiculous. Really?

No, it's not ridiculous.

Of course you're right.

( sighs )

Hey, who's the President having dinner with tonight?

Friends of Abbey.

Good, 'cause when you're in his kind of mood

having dinner with your wife's friends

is just what you're hoping for.

( chamber music playing )

WOMAN: It's molecular pathology.

S.T.I.

That's the Signal Transduction Inhibitor.

I'm sorry?

S.T.I.-- stands for Signal Transduction Inhibitor.

Abbey just went to take a phone call.

WOMAN: We've tested it on 12 patients.

Is this the first drug to target sphingosine kinase? It is, yeah.

Where are you with the FDA?

The FDA just ruled they can use higher doses.

WOMAN: This they did.

MAN: I'm telling you, we're ten years, $25 billion

and a good luck charm away from curing human cancer.

More than $25 billion, but the point is...

Two, three more breakthroughs in molecular targeting...

Which is what the Signal Transduction Inhibitor is all about.

What did you just say?

Bobby, what did you just say?

We're talking about a new drug

which is a Signal Transduction Inhibitor.

Sphingosine kinase was identified recently

as the enzyme believed to control

all the signal pathways

to cancer growth.

This new drug can act as a kind of... guided missile.

Smart bomb. Yeah.

That destroys cancer cells

without killing the healthy ones.

Right. The part I understood was Bobby saying

we could cure cancer in ten years.

Not cure it, but... make it chronic.

In other words

make it so that people could live with it?

Yeah.

What is standing between us and that happening?

I don't know.

Who at this table knows?

How much money would it cost?

Nobody knows that, either.

You just said... It's cancer.

Nobody knows anything.

He just said ten years.

I want to hear

about this from the beginning.

Talk to me like I'm not an oncologist.

I'm not messing around.

This isn't barbecue night.

I'm the Commander in Chief.

Put your asses in the chairs.

I'm out of pie.

We'll get some more.

So, how's it going on the, uh...

What are you doing?

The economy. I'm getting somewhere.

I can look at it when you're ready.

About another two hours.

Lisa's going to do a piece?

It wasn't my idea.

I wouldn't think so.

C.J. asked me if the reason we didn't get married

was because her name would have been Lisa Sherborne-Seaborn.

That's funny.

Yeah.

So, why didn't you get married?

Hmm?

Why didn't you?

She didn't like me very much.

Ah.

Good evening, Mr. President.

Good evening, sir.

I want to call everybody in.

I've just had dinner

with some of Abbey's friends.

They're all oncologists.

I think in the State of the Union

I can announce that I'm directing our researchers

to have a cure for cancer in ten years.

Call everyone in.

This is about the censure.

( piano playing "Surrey with the Fringe on Top" )

What did you just say?

I said it for your own good.

Did you?

I did. I like you.

I hate you.

Let's look at the facts.

Okay.

He was polling at 69% among Democrats.

And that's all Tandy's got in his district.

Congressman Tandy.

All right.

He had a 69% favorability rating with women.

You need 93% favorability among men to beat that

and Mahatma Gandhi doesn't get that in the Florida 20th.

Somebody's been studying.

When Nan Lieberman announces

that she might challenge him in the primary

his favorability goes down to 52%.

You know why?

'Cause you're an idiot?

'Cause women started going over to Lieberman.

Look... Women's groups

started hedging saying there aren't enough women in Congress.

Tandy needs women.

NOW hasn't endorsed him yet.

It's January.

Yeah, still, when did he start going out with you?

A week after Lieberman announced.

How do you know when we started going out?

I know everything.

And you are the door to women.

The WLC put $9 million in the hands

of pro-choice candidates.

You narrowed the gap in the House

from 14 to nine in one election.

You bring home the bacon.

You think John's worried about losing women?

He runs and Emily's List practically makes a wire transfer.

He crushed his last opponent in Lauderhill--

I don't even remember his name--

but he was a moderate, pro-choice Republican

and there was a 29% gender differential.

You think he's going around with me

'cause he's afraid of Nan Lieberman?

I do.

( chuckles )

Well, I've never been so flattered in my life.

I don't think I'm getting enough credit

for saying this for your own good.

Don't talk to me.

Look...

Don't talk to me.

We'll change the...

You're talking to me.

Perhaps... Don't talk to me.

I should just sit here?

Yes.

And? Not talk to me.

Amy...

I have wit, I have charm, I have brains

I have legs that go

all the way down to the floor, my friend.

You don't have to...

Don't talk to me.

( cell phone rings )

Hello?

TOBY: Josh?

Yeah.

You got to come back.

Why?

The President thinks he can cure cancer.

Well, that's some good news, I guess.

Yeah. See you in a few minutes.

JOEY: Did he find a cure for cancer?

'Cause if he found a cure for cancer

I'd think that would be interesting.

I'd think that was something we should share.

Yeah.

But he didn't.

He wants to find a cure for cancer

and he wants to say that in the State of the Union.

You know what my response would be?

Me, too.

But is this the first time you had that thought?

Sign "union" again. That was cool.

No. It must have been a different word.

Is he serious about this?

That's not my department.

I get you to the meeting.

Right.

Joey?

Yeah?

How high are the stakes for the speech?

They're high.

But a magic trick isn't going to help.

How high?

High.

How high?

Well, you don't win anything in January.

You only lose.

If he doesn't park the State of the Union--

and I mean deep--

it'll be his last one.

All right.

You're in the Oval Office.

Hey, did I hear Toby right on the phone?

Could be worse, you know.

How?

He could have cancer.

Do the two of you ever go anywhere separately?

It's weird, isn't it?

A little weird, yeah.

What's going on?

What was that phone call?

We're going to meet and talk.

How did it go?

Not at all well.

You know whose fault it is?

John Tandy's? No.

Hers? Yours.

Let's go.

Leo, is he serious?

He's on his way down.

Totally your fault.

I'm just, you know...

I'm just the guy who does the thing.

What?

We've run out of pie.

Good evening.

Thanks for being here so late.

ALL: Good evening, Mr. President.

A President stood up, he said we will land a man on the moon

before the end of the decade.

You know what we knew when he said that?

Nothing. We didn't know anything.

We didn't know about the lunar surface.

We didn't know how to land one of these things.

All we'd ever done is crash it into the ocean

and God knows, if we could figure out

how to land soft, we didn't know how to blast off again.

But a President said we're going to do it, and we did it.

So I ask you

why shouldn't I stand up

and say we are going to cure cancer in ten years?

I'm really asking.

Well, how close are we to really being able to do this?

Nobody knows.

Then... Toby?

It'll be seen as a political ploy.

Why? It can be seen--

Excuse me.

It can be seen

as self-serving.

How?

Using cancer

to deflect attention from MS.

You think people with cancer care what my motives are?

You think their families do?

I'm saying...

Joey?

I agree with everything

that's been said

except I don't think they'll see it as deflecting the M.S.

I think they'll see it as deflecting the censure.

Once again...

Everybody cares about motives, Mr. President.

I didn't...

She said, "Everybody cares about motives."

Sam?

Yes, sir?

Why shouldn't I do it?

I think you should.

I think ambition is good.

I think overreaching is good.

I think giving people a vision of government

that's more than Social Security checks

and debt reduction is good.

I think

government should be optimistic.

I'm sorry, I know it's late

but I want to start seeing drafts of a new section

in the next few hours.

C.J., I want a sense

of a media overview, too.

Now.

ALL: Yes, sir. Thank you.

I just want to look at some drafts.

I don't have an hour and half to spend on this.

I can do it.

You don't have an hour and a half to spend on it either.

Why are you opposed to this?

Stopping what we're doing to write about curing cancer?

Yeah.

'Cause it's never going to be in the speech.

How do you know?

What resources do we have to devote?

I don't know.

How much money is it going to cost?

I don't know.

That's how I know.

The man's about to get a Congressional censure.

He's trying to pull a rabbit out of his hat.

What are you doing humoring him?

I'm not humoring him.

I don't want you spending more

than an hour and a half.

You're a pollster.

Yes.

You don't think this would poll well?

Do I think people are in favor

of curing cancer? Yes, I do.

So?

The federal government

shouldn't be directing scientific research.

Why?

Because you stink at it.

If it was up to the NIH

to cure polio through a centrally directed program

instead of an independent investigator driven discovery

you'd have the best iron lung in the world

but not a polio vaccine.

When did you get an MD?

I was just quoting Samuel Broder.

Who's he?

The former director of the National Cancer Institute.

The speech is going to work fine.

Don't overreact to the censure.

There is no speech yet.

There will be.

I have to work now.

The President's asked me to try this.

I'll be in my office.

( soft music playing, people conversing )

Listen...

when the hell are we getting numbers?

You are a pleasure to work for.

I hear that a lot. When are we getting numbers?

When I say so.

So many women, so little charm.

What in God's name could you possibly want right now?

Let me tell you something.

Making government manuals easier to read?

Yeah.

Would have been a winner.

AMY: Come with me.

Excuse me.

( whispering ): He happens to be more feminist

than the White House.

I have no idea what you just said.

I said he happens to be more feminist

than the White House.

Feminine?

Feminist.

He wrote the amendment to the HHS appropriations bill

that made violence near abortion clinics a Federal crime

while you guys were seeking legal commentary.

Forgive us for talking to lawyers about the law.

He almost single-handedly

beat back three parental consent bills

and, on two of them, he ran his own damn whip operation

'cause they weren't Leadership priorities.

The Minority Whip doesn't work for us.

And he ties the Violence Against Women Act

to the last crime bill... Amy...

over White House objection.

I'm not quarreling with his credentials

as a lover of women.

I happen to know he excels in that area.

Look who's talking.

I'm just saying...

That he's using me.

I was saying that.

I was saying it two weeks ago.

Now I'm not saying anything in the vicinity of that.

Hey...

Hey.

Congressman.

Josh. Great night for us.

We'll see.

Amy, we're doing some pictures

with the President in the Mural Room.

You don't want to do them yourself?

No, come on.

Go ahead.

Photo-op.

Amy?

Yeah.

Congratulations.

We'll see.

( knocking )

PRESIDENT: Yeah.

Come on in.

Good evening, Mr. President.

You got it?

Yeah.

This is good.

You know we can't do it.

Yeah.

We'd need to line up experts

who can face the press, and in just two weeks.

Yeah.

Sloan-Kettering...

Dana-Farber...

The Cleveland Clinic, UCLA.

We'd want to include

the Society of Clinical Oncology.

And the NCI.

The OMB would have to score it.

We haven't identified the offsets to pay for it

and we can barely tell them what the it is.

Clinical trials under Medicare and Medicaid...

Science and Technology Democrats...

the pharmaceutical companies...

( sighs )

It was a good idea, though.

We have other good ideas.

So we don't get water from a rock.

We just do our thing and take our chances.

I think so.

We're going to have to do it awfully well this time.

We've done that before.

Anything else?

Thank you, Mr. President.

( partygoers conversing )

C.J.

Would you excuse me?

Well.

Something happened at the half-hour mark.

What?

They remembered

why they liked him in the first place.

The breakdowns are being handed around

but the really good news are the panel backs.

16 Democrats, 16 Republicans

and 12 Independents

were asked identical questions two days ago and one hour ago.

Two days ago

48% said he was able to handle his job effectively.

Tonight that number's 59.

"Trustworthy"

60%, up from 41.

Give us the real one.

"Strong leader..." 69%.

( whooping )

We're back! Yes!

Yes!

Somebody get these guys some pie.

( laughter )

Joey is there an extra copy of the panel backs?

I didn't get one.

I got one.

Thanks. C.J.

Hang on. Dance with me.

Hang on. I'm just going to toss this in my office.

Congratulations, boss.

Nice job.

Take the rest of the night off.

Yeah. It's 1:00 in the morning.

Well, you earned it.

Sam, Sam, the sunshine man.

Get on the couch. I'm going to do you right now.

Okay. Sorry, I was still talking to Carol.

What is wrong with you?

We really don't know.

Lisa mentioned that it wasn't going that well tonight.

You've still got a couple of weeks with her, you'll...

Yeah, I wish we hadn't started tonight.

Why? It was a shining moment.

It got the job done

but it's ironic

that a thing, a sort of a thing between us

is-- I'm supposed to know the difference

between flash and substance.

Sometimes a little flash

is what's required.

You said that to me.

I say that when I don't have anything to say.

It wasn't a Vegas act-- it was stirring.

And I wouldn't hang your head

when you say it got the job done.

That job was impossible and it had to be done.

There aren't ten guys in the country

who could write that speech.

I'll bet the Cancer Committee

can't wait to buy me a beer.

Hey, I'm just... You know.

Anyway, congratulations-- and if you're serious

about that thing with Carol

I can just sit in the corner

and not even say... Get out.

SAM: Sorry, I was just getting some numbers.

Can you tell me what they were?

They're internal numbers.

CNN/USA Today will have something in a little while.

Anyway...

this is my office over here.

Sam

I'm going to give my notes from tonight

to someone else and let them finish the reporting

over the next few weeks.

You're obviously not comfortable with this.

They're internal numbers, Lisa, I can't...

Yeah, whatever.

I'm going to give my notes to someone else.

Anyway.

This is my office.

It's nice.

C.J. asked me a couple of weeks ago

if the reason we didn't get married

is because your name would be Sherborne-Seaborn.

That's exactly why we didn't get married.

Why didn't we get married?

Why do you think?

'Cause I don't know

what the cool restaurant is and I don't care.

When I get hungry, I want to eat

and I don't know where the Tommy Hilfigger party is

and I don't know what to do once I get there.

You're full of crap.

I was never cool enough for you.

You're full of crap and you think too little of me

and I didn't leave you-- you left me

and you did it to do this.

The reason you're pissy is 'cause I'm here

looking at you and writing about you

and you're wondering if I'm going to think

you've been doing anything at all.

Often it's not clear to me whether or not I have.

You have.

How would you know?

I don't know.

Here's something interesting.

In 1940, our armed forces weren't among

the 12 most formidable in the world, but obviously

we were going to fight a big war

and Roosevelt said the US would produce

50,000 planes in the next four years.

Everyone thought it was a joke

and it was, 'cause it turned out we produced

Gave the Air Force an armada that would block the sun.

Do you still have what you wrote that night?

About curing cancer?

Yeah.

Read it to me.

"Over the past half century, we've split the atom

"we've spliced the gene and we've roamed Tranquillity Base.

"We've reached for the stars

"and never have we been closer to having them in our grasp.

"New science, new technology is making the difference

"between life and death, and so we need

"a national commitment

"equal to this unparalleled moment of possibility.

"And so I announce to you tonight that I will bring

"the full resources of the Federal Government

"and the full reach of my office to this fundamental goal:

We will cure cancer by the end of this decade."

That was nice.

I'll pass the notes along.