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Title: 1.3
Description: A Proportional Response


ama - February 23, 2005 07:30 PM (GMT)
Yipee we meet Charlie!

Main points of the episode

After finding out about Sam and Laurie, C.J. is furious that Sam didn't tell her yet told Josh and Toby. She believes that by withholding information he could damage the President, she needs all information so that she can protect the staff. C.J. manages to talk the reporter out of pursuing the story. In exchange, she gives him a head start on an important story.

A junior congressman makes a remark about the President cutting funding, and makes a remark that upsets Toby

President Bartlet is short-tempered with everyone, including the First Lady. Bartlet dislikes the proposed plan to simply destroy military targets--transmitters--in retaliation for American deaths. He insists the chiefs create a far more disastrous plan, and they comply. But ultimately the President opts for the original plan.

Josh interviews 20-year-old Charles (Charlie) Young for a job. Charlie originally applied for a position as messenger, but Josh gives him the job as Personal Aide to the President.
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DONNA[sighs] The best I can cobble together from the small shards of information I’ve been able to overhear in the restroom and the Danish cart...

JOSH Donna...

DONNA Is it possible that there’s a situation involving Sam, a woman, and C.J. being denied information about something?

He now realizes why C.J. was looking for him.

JOSH Ok. Here’s what I’m gonna do.

DONNA Hide in your office?

JOSH No. I’m not gonna hide in my office. I’m gonna go into my office and devise a strategy. That is what I do. I’m a professional. I’m not a little boy.

DONNA Hmm. That’s the spirit.

JOSH But if she calls, I’m at the dentist. I’ll be back in an hour.

DONNA Got it.

Josh then walks into HIS OFFICE.

He immediately sees C.J. sitting on his desk reading a newspaper. He SCREAMS.  C.J. looks pissed.

C.J. Wow, are you stupid!


This line made me laugh.....
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C.J. A call girl, Josh?

JOSH You’re not asking me if I’d like a call girl right now are you?


But the most memorable quote of the episode
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JOSH I really think I’m the best judge of what I mean, you paranoid Berkeley shiksta feminista! [beat] Whoa. That was way too far.

C.J.No, no. Well, I’ve got a staff meeting to go to and so do you, you elitist, Harvard fascist missed-the-Dean’s-list-two-semesters-in-a-row Yankee jackass!

Things that don't make sense

In the first episode, every employee in the west wing (except the president) is wearing an ID badge. Since then, only a few people are seen wearing them, but surely the policy of the White House hasn't changed since then? Why don't the senior staff need them?

Token Bartlett quote [well he does teach us useless facts....!]
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Did you know that two thousand years ago a Roman citizen could walk across
the face of the known world free of the fear of molestation? He could walk across
the earth unharmed, cloaked only in the words ‘Civis Romanis’ I am a Roman citizen. So great was the retribution of Rome, universally understood as certain, should any harm befall even one of its citizens. Where was Morris’ protection, or anyone else on that plane? Where is the retribution for the families and where is the warning to the rest of the world that Americans shall walk this earth unharmed, lest the clenched fist of the most mighty military force in the history of mankind comes crashing down on your house!? In other words, Leo, what the hell are we doing here?




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