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Previously, on The West Wing:

Your father used to hit you

didn't he, Mr. President?

Your father used to hit you, sir?

Yeah.

Not like a spanking?

He hit me. Why?

He punched you.

It was a complicated relationship.

It was because you were smarter than he was.

You have stepped way over the line.

Stanley.

Josh.

Your flight was all right?

It was fine. How are you?

Me? Yeah.

I'm fine.

These are your things? Yeah.

I'm going to put them back in my office.

Should I go with you?

No, I'll be right back.

They'll be all right back there.

Where should we go?

You ever seen the White House?

Just the little I saw when we talked last year.

Follow me.

This is the communications bullpen

where Toby Ziegler and Sam Seaborn work.

The rest of the communications

and speech-writing staff works

across the alley in the Old Executive Office Building.

And here comes the actual Sam Seaborn.

What's going on?

Leo's reading it, and we're going to send it out

in about ten or 15 minutes, so Toby's been banging around.

What are you doing?

Banging around.

This is Dr. Keyworth.

Sam Seaborn.

Nice to meet you.

Did you have a good flight?

Yes.

Anybody you know on the plane?

No.

Okay.

I'll see you.

Yeah.

Uh... that's Leo's office.

It has a private entrance to the Oval Office, but...

we'll go in here.

The driver asked me the same question.

What?

Did I know anybody on the plane.

Yeah, he wanted to know

if you had talked to anybody on the way here.

I didn't. I know.

This is the Oval Office.

That's the Resolute Desk.

It was build from timbers of the H.M.S. Resolute

and given to Rutherford Hayes by Queen Victoria

to thank the U.S. for finding the abandoned ship.

We're going to go over to the residence

but I'm going to take you out through the portico.

Josh? Yeah?

Wouldn't you like to sit someplace and talk?

Yeah.

Why the tour?

You don't think this is interesting?

I think it's fascinating...

If somebody sees us, I'd like them

to see me giving you a tour.

Who built the White House?

It was designed by an Irish architect named James Hoban

who won the job in an open competition.

And it was built largely by slaves.

They just found the pay receipts a few years ago.

The slaves were paid?

Their owners.

Right through here.

It wasn't until Buchanan was visited

by Edward, Prince of Wales

that he decided there wasn't enough room for guests

but it took another 40 years

to move all the office space out of the residence.

You're really seeing something, Stanley.

Tours don't go up into the second floor of the mansion.

You're sure it's okay?

Yeah. We're going to go in here now.

This is the President's private study.

His private study?

Yeah.

Okay. Should we close the door?

No, that's all right.

So, tell me how you've been feeling.

Good.

Stanley.

Hey, Leo.

You getting a tour of the place?

Yeah, yeah.

You show him the North Portico?

Leo likes to show people

the soot stains on the North Portico.

From when the British torched the place.

They haven't repainted?

Not that. You know, when Dolly Madison heard

the cannon fire, she evacuated the building

but she already had the table set

for a 40-person dinner party.

So the British soldiers ate and then set the building on fire.

So... the food didn't go to waste.

That's right.

How was your flight?

It was fine.

Did you know anyone on the plane?

You... didn't bring me here to talk to Josh, did you?

No.

Who did you bring me here to talk to?

PRESIDENT: Dr. Keyworth.

Did you know anyone on the plane?

No. No, sir.

I didn't know anyone on the plane.

We'll leave you alone.

The speech is going out?

In a few minutes. Okay.

I'm Jed Bartlet.

Stanley Keyworth.

I guess we knew that.

Yes, sir.

I've been having trouble sleeping.

I'm sorry?

You understand that this is an election here, right?

I mean, by itself, who cares?

The President's having trouble sleeping

he talks to a doctor

but with the MS and the hearings

and you're a psychiatrist...

Yeah.

Okay.

I'm not an expert in sleep disorders.

Yeah.

I'm a trauma specialist.

Yeah, we know you.

You helped Josh out last year.

Josh was shot.

Me, too.

Is that why you can't sleep?

How would I know?

That's a fair point.

Thank you.

Well, Mr. President, um...

Tell me about the nature of your sleeping problem.

I can't sleep.

What happens when you try to sleep?

I stay awake.

How long has it been?

Four nights.

You haven't slept in four nights?

Right.

That must be hard.

Yeah.

Have you tried taking a sleeping pill?

The third night.

It didn't work?

Not till the next morning

in the middle of a national security briefing.

Hmm. Well, that's no good.

Stanley, I think you're underselling yourself

when you say you're not an expert in sleep disorders

'cause you have been right straight on the money so far.

How many of those do you smoke a day?

Not many.

'Cause nicotine will

keep you up at night.

Never has before.

It could be now.

You think if I put this out, I'm going to fall asleep?

No.

Then let's move on.

All right, um...

let's rule out some things.

Physical factors.

Do you have arthritis?

No.

Heartburn?

No.

Irregular breathing

or periodic muscle contractions?

No.

All right.

Lifestyle factors.

I'm sorry, before we get

to lifestyle factors, I'm just going to turn this on.

It's a closed-circuit thing. I'm at the U.N. on Monday.

REPORTER: And when will Air Force One be leaving?

Leaving Andrews at 8:00 a.m.

for the 9:30 address to the General Assembly.

REPORTER 2: And when do we see copies?

When we're done writing it.

I'm sorry? When do we see copies?

Sunday night.

Has the State Department reviewed it?

I imagine we'll be getting their reviews any minute.

REPORTER 3: Anyone else? Key members

of House and Senate Foreign Relations.

And we see it Sunday night? You see it Sunday night.

That's it, everybody. That's a full lid.

Have a good weekend. ALL: Thank you, C.J.

C.J.?

Hey, what are you doing here?

Listen, I'm missing a reporter.

Who? Bill Price.

Isn't Billy in the Congo?

Yeah.

Come back here.

He files stories by satellite phone

to the New York Bureau at a predetermined time.

He's missed two deadlines in a row.

Does he miss deadlines?

Not one in seven years.

What does State say?

It's Friday night and I'm having trouble finding people.

What about the other end?

I've talked to the embassy in Kinshasa.

They're getting into it, but this is the Congo.

What do you think has happened?

I think he left the capital.

Without written permission from the Ministry?

How would he know he needed that?

By reading State background notes.

Does that sound like Billy?

No.

C.J., the first 15 minutes

they're the most critical in a war zone abduction.

I know. If we could get him delivered to someone higher up...

Well, I'm going to talk to Leo.

I know Billy's been a pain in the ass

to you guys for three years

but he's got a wife and two kids

so if you could see your way clear to forgetting about...

I don't care that he's been...

Look, I'm going to get into this

but, if he's missed two deadlines

then his 15 minutes was yesterday.

I know.

I'd call his wife.

Yeah.

Toby?

Yeah? The pacing.

Yeah.

( sighs )

Okay, now the standing still is bothering me a little bit.

This is the fifth time you're reading it.

Are there words in there

you don't understand?

Of course there wouldn't be, 'cause you can't rise

to a position like yours without...

( sighs )

Look, this is exactly what we said we wanted it to be.

We said we were tired of reading about

the President's scattershot foreign policy.

We said-- you want to filet me for this, fine--

we said when we go to the U.N., we were going to--

I think it's great.

We said we were going to... Yeah?

I do.

You know your wife's going to have

something to say about it, though.

My ex-wife. Yeah.

Why do you call her my wife?

It bothers you.

Everything bothers me. Yeah.

But you pick that? Yeah.

Toby, the night of the Iowa Caucus, when you got back

did you and the President have a conversation that night?

Yeah.

I...

When he got back, for a minute.

What did you talk about?

Nothing.

He seemed kind of upset about it.

It didn't go well.

What was it? It was personal.

It was personal?

Yeah.

Well, that always works well with him.

What has he said about the speech?

He thinks it's great. He hasn't said anything to you?

We haven't talked in a little while.

Toby, what the hell went on in there?

Don't worry about it.

Okay.

I'm going to read this again.

Sure. 'Cause it's that sixth time.

Yeah.

Hey. Did you read it?

It's great. Thank you.

Someone's going to get an ass-kicking from the missus.

Listen--

It's what we asked for, you know.

We're going to have to get ready for it.

Yeah. Something else has come up, though.

What?

Leonard Wallace just came to see me.

Billy Price is on assignment in the Congo

and he's missed two deadlines.

He hasn't gotten anywhere with State.

The embassy in Kinshasa confirmed

that a Belgian TV crew shooting outside Goma

saw an American captured by MaiMai rebels.

Hasn't State had

a travel advisory out for, like ten years?

Twenty-four.

What the hell is he doing there?

Reporting a story no one is paying attention to.

Why don't we talk to the Congolese attaché?

He's on his way. Okay.

He liked it.

Yeah?

He liked it a lot. Mostly what I wrote.

Not so much what you wrote.

Yeah? So, how long you think before the old lady comes by

to give you a whooping?

Her office called already, didn't they?

You bet, baby.

( sighs )

You probably want to rethink calling me "baby," right?

( chuckling ): Yeah.

Whoa, Nellie!

Hello.

Hayes, you could make a good dog break his leash.

I was at a social function.

Americans for the Preservation of Family Values

and White People?

The Federalist Society.

A hootenanny. I was paged.

I was told to come in.

Yes. 32-50 is a consolidated appropriations act

that we want to drop

in the U.N. speech for Monday morning.

I need you to review the final legislative language

so we can shop it around the Hill over the weekend.

What does it call for?

Uh, I don't know. Sam?

It authorizes payment

of $926 million in U.N. dues over three years

in exchange for a reduction in U.N. bureaucracy

as well as peacekeeping assessments

by the General Assembly.

And what are we concerned about?

Well, the language was drafted by Republicans.

We're inscrutable. I just want you to look for legal land mines.

Like what? I don't know.

A ban on German food, or a hidden amendment

saying how annoying the French are.

How about this?

We drop out of the U.N. entirely

and use the $926 million to take everybody

in the country out to brunch?

Why don't you write that suggestion in the margin?

I'll be in my office.

Whoa! I didn't even see that thing from the back.

KEYWORTH: Well, that takes care

of lifestyle factors.

What about... environmental factors?

Like what?

Too much light in the room.

Nah.

Extremes in room temperature.

No.

Noise. Noise?

You know, planes flying overhead, that kind of thing.

Planes aren't allowed to fly over the White House.

You haven't slept in four nights.

How much sleep do you usually get?

Four or five hours.

Well, we've been through physical factors

lifestyle factors

and environmental factors.

That leaves us with...

Psychological factors.

Yes, sir.

What were the odds?

Right.

DONNA: Just a few minutes actually.

What's going on?

Well, we're at the UN on Monday

giving a new foreign policy speech

that's going to stir some things up

but the thing is, it was a relatively

small circle of people

who were consulted on the speech

and that circle got wider tonight

so it'll be a weekend of bartering

and Josh is usually one of the point men on that so...

You need to get back to the office.

I have a few minutes.

How have you been?

Great.

You guys survived?

The dot.coms didn't run out of steam.

They didn't?

Just hype. I see.

Do you?

No.

It's easier to start up now.

Why?

There's less pressure to be a success overnight.

Which brings us to...

this.

"Capitolscoop.com."

It'll track legislation, profile people in power

shine a spotlight on special interests behind the scenes.

Gossip.

Not gossip. Hard substance.

Public policy.

That's why we need all the help we can get.

I doubt I can get Josh involved--

it'd be a conflict.

No, I don't want Josh.

I want you.

I'm sorry?

I want you.

Well, I don't know where I'd find the time

for something like...

It's Friday at 11:00.

I'm basically on a lunch break right now.

You don't understand.

I'm talking about full time.

Issues Director for Capitolscoop.com.

Well, I... I'm... surprised

and I'm flattered, but I'm, you know

not at all qualified.

That's not true.

You've been Josh Lyman's traffic cop.

That's like an M.A. in power-brokering.

You know the Hill.

You know every corner of the White House.

You know every pressure point

ten miles from the Potomac.

Is this your operating budget?

It's your starting salary.

Ginger?

WOMAN: She's not here.

Is Bonnie here?

They went to get something to eat.

Have we met?

No. I'm Celia Walton.

Sam Seaborn.

You're one of the people who was sent over

for the week? Yeah.

We appreciate your helping out.

I go where I'm told.

Do you mind if I say something to you?

No.

The way you talked to that woman before...

What woman?

I don't know her name.

The dog on a leash.

That was Ainsley Hayes.

She's an Associate Counsel.

Yeah. It was rude, it was inappropriate

and it was offensive.

What did I do?

You demeaned her.

No, we're friends.

It's a completely mature...

you know...

Also, she started it.

Whatever.

Well...

Okay.

I wasn't demeaning her.

I was complimenting her.

She's an Associate White House Counsel

and you're complimenting her on her sexuality?

She looked good in that dress I thought.

Okay.

Where is he?

Congresswoman.

Where is he, Sam?

Toby? Yes.

I do not know. Liar.

You want to talk about the speech?

I and members of the House International Relations Committee, yes.

I couldn't help but notice

that your fingerprints are all over this, too.

You and Toby want to be responsible

for starting World War III?

No. Well, you're gonna.

I was having a good night

until, like, three minutes ago.

Where is he?

I don't know.

You said that already.

But you asked me again, and I still didn't know.

May I wait in his office?

Better his than mine.

( door slams )

( sighs )

What were we talking about?

Look, I'm just a temporary hand here for a week

but I don't think it's a joke or anything.

And you say Ginger and Bonnie are out getting

something to eat?

Yeah.

I need these distributed.

Andy's in your office.

You let her in my office?

Yeah.

What the hell did you let her in my office for?

Okay, well, I'm going to step out for a minute

and not be in this area anymore.

( sighs )

ANDY: I don't get how you could do this

without consulting people.

Come on in.

I don't get how you think you can...

We consulted plenty of people.

What do you think, Sam and I create

foreign policy around here?

I don't know.

You, Sam, Abbott, Costello.

We brought in... for three weeks...

Did you bring in anybody from State?

Yes. Who?

The Secretary of State.

Since when do you get to come in...?

I'm the third ranking member on the damn committee.

This is a Presidential address, Andrea, not a camel.

A what?

A camel.

A horse built by committee.

"Freedom must run deeper than the free flow of capital.

"Freedom must mean more than the free trade

"of goods and services.

The world will be free..." I read it.

"The world will be free when we have freedom of speech

for every nation..."

In fact, I wrote it. "The world will be free

"when there is freedom to worship for everyone.

The world will be free..." Andy...

"...when we finally shake off the rusted chains of tyranny..." Yes.

"...whether in the guise of fascist dictatorships..."

You getting nervous? "...or economic slavery, or ethnic hostility..."

A little nervous?

"...or..." Wait for it...

"the crushing yoke of Islamic fanaticism."

Gentlemen, start your engines.

C.J.: Billy's wife is already here.

She's in my office right now.

Is she very upset?

She's... ( knocking )

Leo? Send him in.

She's with Leonard.

Come in.

Everybody, this is McKennen Loboko

the Congolese attaché.

McKonnen.

I'm sorry.

Mr. Loboko, you know our situation.

We've got an American reporter

who we believe was taken by the MaiMais.

He shouldn't have been traveling without proper documentation.

The MaiMai care about proper documentation, do they?

I beg your pardon?

If his papers were in order, he wouldn't

have been abducted at gunpoint?

We haven't been introduced.

I'm C.J. Cregg.

I'm the White House Press Secretary.

That guy sat in my room for a year

his wife's sitting in my office

his two kids are sitting at home

and I want him back.

You think I have him in my briefcase?

This is a shakedown

so tell us how much money, and where does it go.

The Congolese government doesn't negotiate

with murderers.

The Congolese government is a myth!

I can't talk to this woman.

Mr. Loboko...

how much money, and where does it go?

( thunder cracks )

Where have you been?

I told you I was going out.

For an hour?

Well... yeah.

There's an editorial on sugar subsidies

in the International Herald-Tribune.

Make sure Leo gets a copy.

Also, make sure you send me home

with a Congressional facebook.

Why?

I'm still mixing up Cooper and Hooper.

Why?

'Cause Cooper sounds a lot like Hooper.

What does it matter? Just...

I got offered a job tonight.

What do you mean?

You know Casey Reed? No.

We went to college together.

That's where you were?

Yeah.

At a job interview?

It wasn't a job interview.

We were meeting for a drink.

What's the job?

He has an Internet start-up.

What kind of site?

Commentary.

He asked me to be Issues Director.

Issues Director. Yeah.

For an Internet start-up.

Dot.coms aren't dying, just the hype.

Really?

Yeah.

Sounds like the hype's alive and well, too.

I suppose.

You suppose.

Yeah.

You can't be thinking about taking

a job that may not be around a year from now.

This job may not be around a year from now.

He offered you money?

Yeah.

Well, all I can offer you is a title bump.

Like what?

Senior Assistant to the Deputy Chief of Staff

for Strategic Planning. That's my title now.

Then I can't offer you a title bump.

The sugar subsidy editorial and the facebook, okay?

Cooper and Hooper.

( knock on door )

What do you need?

There's a thing in this we need to be careful of.

What?

They say they'll approve

a new scale of peacekeeping assessments

if there's a cost- sharing mechanism

but it isn't fully addressed here.

You're going to want me to rewrite some of this language

before the President goes to the U.N.

Mm.

What?

Let me ask you something.

Before, when I said that you were enough

to make a good dog break his leash

you understand that men

we're the dog, right?

I was the dog.

I understood the metaphor.

Okay.

The peacekeeping assessment has to be

based on per capita income of each country

with Category J countries paying

the least at a 90% discount.

I meant it to make you feel good.

It did.

Although I certainly meant it. I appreciate it.

I didn't mean to demean you.

I kind of need you to listen along.

Okay.

Category A countries will be paying a premium

actually over-paying to cover the discounts

for Category J states.

Yeah.

So we need to be

more specific about Category A.

It's going to be important.

I was told that I demeaned you.

You didn't.

I was told that I did. By who?

By someone named Celia.

She was mistaken. You sure?

If I felt demeaned

I'd be among the very first people to know.

Terrific.

Here are my notes.

I'll rewrite them now.

You'll stick around?

What else would I do on a Friday night?

I don't like to pry.

ANDY: America doesn't have a monopoly

on what's right.

And even if we did

I think you're going to have a tough time

convincing the Arab world.

Well, we'd like to talk to them about it.

That ought to do the trick.

Worth a shot.

The U.S. Constitution

defends religious pluralism.

It doesn't reduce all of Islam to fanaticism.

Neither does this speech.

It calls fanaticism, fanaticism.

Toby... It's fanaticism whether we

call it that or not, so we're going to call it that.

We respect all religions, all cultures.

To a point.

Yes, to a point.

Grotesque oppression isn't okay

just because it's been institutionalized.

If you ask me, we should've gotten into the game

three, four decades ago

but they're coming for us now, so it's time to saddle up.

Toby...

We do know what's right.

This is why they hate us.

There's a lot of reasons why they hate us.

You know when they're going to like us?

When we win.

LEONARD: C.J...

Okay...

Please tell me what's happening.

Janet, we're working some back channels right now.

I think if you can make yourself comfortable here

we might have some news in an hour or so.

The government's going to give these people money?

No, we can't buy them off directly

but what we do is we offer to withhold money

from their enemies.

And if that doesn't work?

Your husband is employed by a billion dollar corporation.

Janet, Mrs. Carlson

would pay... whatever.

Ransom. Yeah.

Let's not get that far right now.

Listen, your clothes are wet.

Can I get you some...

No, no, I'm fine.

Okay.

Okay.

I-I should stay here?

Yeah.

STANLEY: Insomnia is a pretty common

symptom of depression.

Are you depressed?

No.

I didn't think so.

Some people are predisposed to insomnia in times of

acute stress.

Are you under any stress?

Is there any stress in your...

...job at all, or...?

But, seriously, folks

has there been an unusual amount of stress lately?

Well

Congress was investigating me.

Yeah.

And I was censured.

Then I had to give

the State of the Union. Yeah.

I'm running for re-election.

Mm-hmm.

Things are blowing up everywhere

and I have chosen the General Assembly of the U.N.

to define a tougher foreign policy.

Not unusually stressful, no.

I don't like the word "stress."

It's a Madison Avenue word.

It's something that can be cured with flavored coffee

and bath bubbles.

So you don't feel stress?

I have a job I like, and my family's healthy.

That doesn't mean you're not entitled to feel stress.

Stress is for other people.

What other people? I'm saying

it's not stress.

I was feeling stressed five nights ago, too

and I slept fine.

So what happened four nights ago?

I want my money back.

This is a very unusual conversation.

I get that a lot.

I'd imagine.

So what do you charge?

$375 an hour.

For $375 an hour, you ought to bring your own damn lingerie.

I do.

There's a great story about Arthur Miller.

Death of a Salesman had just opened on Broadway

the night before, and he was walking around

his old neighborhood in Brooklyn and he sees

a hot dog vendor that he went to high school with

and he says, "Hey, Jimmy, it's me, Arthur Miller."

And the hot dog vendor says, "Artie, how you doing?

What you been up to?"

And Miller says, "I'm, you know, I'm a playwright."

And the hot dog vendor says, "Hmm, play writing.

I should have gone into that."

$375 an hour.

Yes, sir.

For what?

I don't really know.

( sighs )

I can't sleep.

I can't sleep.

I'll be tired and I'll lie there and it doesn't happen.

What happened four nights ago?

I won the Iowa caucus.

Anything else?

That's not enough?

Mr. President...

if you were any other patient...

Say what you'd say to any other patient.

I'd say, screw around if you want, but it's your money

it's about to be my money, and I sleep fine.

I had a conversation with one of my aides that night

after we got back from Iowa.

He called me on something.

What?

Well, I guess we talked about a lot of things.

Who we think the Republican challenger is going to be

and incumbency, and campaign

strategy, strategic overview

but the long and short of it is, my father never liked me at all.

Well, at least we're closer to my area now.

Yeah, I thought you'd enjoy that.

( groans softly )

Charlie?

Yeah?

Are you in pain?

No.

Charlie?

Yes?

Have you been playing basketball?

Yes.

Did you get beat?

No.

Charlie? Yes.

Who'd you play? Doesn't matter.

Ed? No.

Larry? No.

Jack? No.

Did you get beat by Manny?

No.

Who?

Deanna.

Your sister?

Yes.

Your little sister?

She plays varsity, Sam.

Girls varsity.

She played a finesse game.

Man, you can't walk.

Yeah.

I don't know what's happening to my life.

Listen, I can tell

you're down in the dumps, but let's talk about me.

Okay.

If your sister was getting ready

for a night out, and I said

"Deanna, you're enough to make a good dog break his leash"

would you think I was a cad?

I'd think you were a hick.

AINSLEY: Sam... Hang on.

Because of the sentiment or the expression?

It's my sister? Yeah.

I'd beat you up. You and how many Girl Scouts?

If I could stand up...

Sam... But if it wasn't your sister.

Then you're fine.

He says I'm fine.

You're not, 'cause this isn't quite right.

Still? ! It needs to be clear

that the total assessment is down to 25%

from 27% for Category A.

We've been in this fight.

AINSLEY: But if we pay before...

Hang on. Here she is.

Celia, I asked Ainsley

and she said she didn't mind at all

plus, Charlie said he's fine with it.

Charlie's a man.

Damn right.

Sam? Yes?

We need to be clear we're not going to take a bath

when other countries can afford to take on more.

Yes. This is important.

I also think it's important to make clear that I'm not a sexist.

And that I'm all man.

You're Celia?

Yes. He's not a sexist.

If you're willing to let your sexuality

diminish your power. I'm sorry?

I said I'm surprised you're willing to let

your sexuality diminish your power.

I don't even know what that means.

I think you do. And I think you think

I'm made out of candy glass, Celia.

If somebody says something that offends you, tell them

but all women don't have to think alike.

and when somebody said something that offended me, I did say so.

I like it when the guys tease me.

It's an inadvertent show of respect I'm on the team

and I don't mind it when it gets sexual.

And you know why? I like sex.

Hello. I don't think whatever sexuality

I may have diminishes my power.

I think it enhances it.

And what kind of feminism do you call that?

My kind.

It's called Lipstick Feminism.

I call it Stiletto Feminism.

Stilettos?

You're not in enough trouble already?

I suppose I am.

Isn't the point that Sam wouldn't have been able to find

another way to be chummy with a woman

who wasn't sexually appealing?

He would be able to, but that isn't the point.

The point is that sexual revolution

tends to get in the way of actual revolution.

Nonsense issues distract attention away from real ones:

pay equity, child care, honest-to-God sexual harassment

and in this case

a speech in front of the U.N. General Assembly.

So, you, 25% on the assessments

for Category A.

You...

I don't know what your thing is.

And, you, stop trying to take the fun out of my day.

With that, I'm going to get a cupcake.

Well, for the moment, at least

I'm going to do what she's telling me to do.

We're at O.E.O.B.

Okay.

How you doing?

There.

It's not the best in the world

but it's hot.

I'm sorry I didn't ask you

your name before.

Donna.

Really?

Yeah.

Our daughter is Donna.

How old is she?

She's seven months.

And her brother Harry is three.

Three and a quarter.

He'd want me to say that.

How does it work with the money, do you know?

I don't.

I'm an assistant here.

Bill's written...

I know he's written negative things

about the President...

No.

and he and C.J. don't really...

Nobody cares about that tonight.

Okay.

And you want to know a secret about C.J.?

But you can't tell your husband this, really.

She battles with them every day

but she loves reporters.

She's very protective of them

and it, it doesn't matter whether... you know?

TOBY: It took... it took...

Andrea, it took three days

to get the language through NSC and the NSA.

Yes. It isn't coming out of the speech.

I didn't think it was.

Why are we here for an hour?

Several members have drafted an insert.

Will you look at it?

Sure.

This would follow your paragraph.

"Our goal is neither to preach nor proclaim American values.

"We have deep respect

"for our Islamic brothers and sisters

"and we have a great deal to learn from the values

"of... tolerance and faith

that are deeply held throughout the Islamic world."

So this is your way of saying any resemblance

the previous paragraph may have had to foreign policy

is purely coincidental.

That's right.

Guess what.

What?

Our goal is to proclaim American values.

The speech isn't supposed to be about ideology.

It's supposed to be about reality.

I think the President will decide

what the speech is supposed to be about

but the reality is the United States of America

no longer sucks up to reactionaries

and our staunch allies will know what we mean.

We don't have any staunch allies in the Arab world

just reluctant ones.

We've a coalition held together with duct tape.

A coalition without which we cannot fight.

Nobody's blowing off the coalition

and that coalition will be plenty strong.

When we win? That's right.

What's Egypt going to think? Or Pakistan?

That freedom and democracy are coming soon

to a theater near them

so get dressed.

Toby...

you guys are on a thing right now.

And I'm behind you.

You know I'm behind you

a lot of House Democrats are...

Not enough.

...and plenty of Republicans

but this one moment in time

you have to get off your horse

and just...

simply put-- be nice to the Arab world.

Be nice?

Yes.

Well...

how about when we, instead of blowing Iraq back

to the seventh century for harboring terrorists

and trying to develop nuclear weapons

we just imposed economic sanctions

and we're reviled by the Arab world

for not giving them a global charge card

and a free trade treaty?

How about when we pushed Israel to give up land for peace?

How about when we sent American soldiers to protect Saudi Arabia

and the Arab world told us

we were desecrating their Holy Land?

We'll ignore the fact that we were invited.

How about two weeks ago, in the State of the Union

when the President praised the Islamic people

as "faithful and hardworking"

only to be denounced in the Arab press

as knowing nothing about Islam

but none of that is the point.

What's the point?

I don't remember having to explain it

to Italians that our problem wasn't with them

but with Mussolini.

Why does the U.S. have to take every Arab country out

for an ice cream cone?!

They'll like us when we win!

Thousands of madrases

teaching children nothing, nothing

nothing but the Koran

and to hate America.

Who do we see about that?

Do I want to preach America?

Judeo-Christianity? No.

If their religion forbids them from playing the trumpet

so be it.

But I want those kids to... look at a globe.

Be exposed

to social sciences, history.

Some literature.

They'll like us when we win.

Okay.

Let me take another look at the softer language.

( sighs )

LEONARD: How's she doing?

She was asking how the money works

and I didn't know.

It's not money.

Actually, it's a promise to honor international sanctions

against the export of something called "Col-Tan"

by the Rwandan army.

What's Col-Tan?

It's a mineral they have a lot of in the Congo.

When you refine it

it's a necessary component of cell phones and pagers

and the Rwandans and Ugandans smuggle it illegally.

Listen.

What do you know?

Akin Wamba, who's the MaiMai rebel commander

sent word through a crew

that was filming in Goma.

Oh, God.

Yeah.

He was killed in an ambush.

Embassy Kinshasa's going to get the body.

( indistinct voices ) No, please...

No!

No.

Oh, no.

Oh, my... Oh, my God.

( sobbing ): Oh, God, no...

STANLEY: It can't be easy being you.

I told you...

I don't mean the job.

I meant, uh, you know, being inside your head.

What's wrong with my head?

I don't know.

Of course not.

That would be $385 an hour.

They keep moving the goalposts on you, don't they?

Get As, good college

Latin honors.

Get into the London School of Economics.

Get a good teaching job

Ivy League school, tenure.

Now you got to publish

now you got to go to Stockholm.

It's not good for a person to keep setting goals?

It probably is, but it's tricky for somebody

who's still trying to get his father

to stop hitting him.

Well, I'm told that most men lead lives of quiet desperation.

Yeah, but that's most men.

That's not you.

That's the other people

the one's who feel stress.

You're destined for something else.

I have abilities.

Mm. And now you have an opportunity to use them.

I think I have.

That room I passed down the hall, on the left

it's got a name, right?

I think you're talking about the Lincoln Bedroom.

Right.

This is a hell of a curve you get graded on now.

Lincoln freed

the slaves and won the Civil War.

"Thank you. Next.

"And what will you be singing

for us today, Mr. Bartlet?"

"Well, we've had six straight quarters of economic growth."

That's not easy.

Okay.

It's not easy.

I believe you.

I think I've made tough choices.

I think Lincoln

did what he thought was right

even though it meant losing half the country.

I think you don't do what you think is right

if it means losing Michigan's

electoral votes.

You don't know anything.

I'll be the first to admit that.

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.

What?

We've been here for two hours.

It was a double session.

We're done for the night.

Stanley, I hate to put it this way

but I'm me and you're you

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

No.

I think you could use some assistance right now, sir.

Use me, don't use me

but all I can offer you is this:

I'll be the only person in the world

other than your family

who doesn't care that you're the President.

Our time is up.

( thunder rumbling )