The chairman of the Federal Reserve Chairman dies, his obvious successor is an ex-boyfriend of Abbey, hence the problem!
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Toby: We are waiting a day to make our announcement out of respect, Josh."
Josh For whom? The dead, and how I wish I were one of them."
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The staff of the President and the Staff of the first lady argue about who gets the news cycle
Toby and Josh meet with Congress to discuss the passing of a trade bill.
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JOSH No, we're gonna do good cop, bad cop.
TOBY No...we're really not.
JOSH Why not?
TOBY Cause this isn't an episode of Hawaii 5-0. How about you be the good cop, I'll be the cop who didn't go to the meeting.
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When the President talks about economics he often forgets he is not talking to fellow economics Professors, Leo tells him that C.J. doesn't understand what he's saying.
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LEO You know, sometimes even I don't know what you're talking about.
BARTLET Sometimes I'm just making it up.
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The elocution of politics
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LILLI: Your guy has a forty-eight percent approval rating. My guy's at sixty-one. And bite me.
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Things that don’t make sense…….
It's gonna be Phyllis, who never liked me; it's gonna be Susan, who thinks I'm xenophobic because I don't like Mexican food." In 20 hours in LA, Bartlet had Mexican food with Zoey
The President has been married for 32 years [five votes down]but Abbey dated Erhlich 30 years ago.
Things to keep an eye out for.........
The Special Agent watching Zoey in her dorm has the same two posters on her wall as Sam has on his walls
Sam the weightlifter?
"I heard the clang and the 'ow,' and I figured it must be Sam Seaborn
The West Wing as a classroom
The book that they all are all talking about 'when my grandmother was a child' tells us some interesting things.....
One hundred years ago the average life expectancy in the United States
was 47
Only 14% of the homes in this country had a bathtub.
8% of the names had a telephone.
More than 95% of all births took place at home.
90% of physicians had no college education
Some medical authorities warned that professional seamstress were apt become sexually aroused by the steady rhythm of foot pedals. They recommended slipping bromide, which was thought to diminish a woman' sexual desires into their drinking water.
A hundred years ago most women bathed once a
month and they used borax or egg yolks for shampoo.
Florence and Bertha were among the top ten names given girls
Population of Las Vegas, Nevada was 22.
Drive-by shootings were a problem in Denver.
Young boys on horseback riding through town shooting at, I suppose...stagecoaches
[B]Married bliss
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DANNY
Also, I'd get in trouble with the First Lady!
BARTLET
Welcome to the club, Danny. We had some jackets made.
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Not the best episode ever, not that much happens, feels like it is treading water until the cliff hanger at the end of season one