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Previously on The West Wing:

Andy's pregnant,
it's twins

and, of course,
I'm the father.

You know I'm
going to get sued.

I work for Senator Hoynes.

Yeah.

Sometimes I wonder if I'd
listened to you two years ago

would I be President right now?

You did it for the widow.

SAM:
And for Will Bailey

who was running the campaign
and worked his ass off.

You might be asked first thing
tomorrow if you're endorsing me.

Am I?

Toby, is the President
endorsing Sam?

We think you should run.

What do you think?

I think you should win.

C.J.:
Mr. President, how do you

interpret the margin
of victory?

PRESIDENT:
Well, the votes
have been counted

and the people have spoken,
and it's clear that their will

is for me to be able to do
and have anything I want.

Mr. President,
Arnold White,
Associated Press:

What's the first
legislative priority
for your second term?

There's a new guy
from AP?

Yeah, what's your
legislative priority?

Well the President
of Turkmenistan

just officially extended
the date of adolescence to 25.

So, things like that.

LEO:
I think he also renamed the
month of January after himself.

That's just greedy.

Real power is knowing when

to leave a little something
on the table.

C.J.:
Sir, what legislative...

Patients' Bill of Rights,
prescription drugs

keeping the economy growing,
find a surplus again

keep the surplus growing

use the surplus to build schools
worthy of defending the military

that Fitz and Hutchinson
are gonna build

to fight urban wars, then pay
the teachers some money.

Okay, sir,
I asked you for

a legislative priority,
you gave me nine.

It's a big country, Arnold.

Debbie!
Where the hell, first of all

are you and where are my...

You left your glasses
in the mansion...

and the Ipswich clams
in Chesapeake Bay

can hear you
bellowing right now.

Ipswich clams don't come
from Chesapeake Bay.

They come from Ipswich.

Not anymore.

Have her beheaded
for my birthday.

Good morning, sir.
Good morning.

They'll ask you
how you feel

about housing
starts going down.
I don't care.

C.J.:
Sir...
Long as I'm keeping this one.

GDP growth is strong.

You bet your ass it is.

Which, by the way,
I can pat anytime I want now.

The voters have spoken.

Lowest inflation in 20 years.

Housing starts are cyclical,
which is the thing.

What do you got?

There's gonna be a lot
of flooding in Missouri.

FEMA's on the ground?

Yeah.
All right.

I've got the
Swiss Ambassador

in my office,
I don't know why.

Sir, you and I enjoy
your funny jokes

but Idaho, you
know, not so much.

You'll take it
easy in there?

I know my people.

Yeah, sometimes it's hard
to believe I'm one of 'em.

Good luck.
Thank you.

Ambassador Von Rutte.

Okay.

Thank you for seeing me
without an appointment.

What's going on?

A communication from Teheran.

You understand
our mission is
the only one...

The President appreciates it.

The ayatollah's son has
a congenital heart condition

Eisenmenger's Syndrome.

His best chance is
a simultaneous heart
and lung transplant.

They ask Japan?

Their procedure's
different.

They want yours.

What's wrong with Japan's?

Well, I don't know
how to, um...

No one's...

It hasn't been successful?
No.

Not once?
No.

Okay, then ours is better.

Anybody else do this?

Just the U.S. and Japan.

No, Japan doesn't do it yet.

Coming close doesn't
matter on this.

It's not the Gemini missions.

I'm gonna talk to the President,
Chris, but if it means

bumping an American
off the donor lists...

Iran has a donor.

A donor or a dissenter?

This is from
Doctors Without Borders.

It wasn't directly
from the ayatollah?

They were approached by the
ayatollah's brother-in-law.

This is coming through you,
through an NGO

through the brother-in-law.

Guy's gonna put his son's life
in the hands of the infidels

but he'll keep his distance,
huh?

The hard-liners
control the Majlis.

Things are difficult for him
with the Shehab missile tests.

He cannot have a problem
with his right flank.

No, much better we should
have a problem with ours.

I'll talk to him.

The President?

Don't get me wrong, Mark.

I think January is a good month.

Yeah, the President,
Generalissimo...

whatever he comes back as.

( groans )

Messages.

Goodwin at AP.

What else?

Judy Vanderbass, who's the wife
of our Ambassador to Vietnam.

You've been to her house
for dinner.

Yeah I'm pretty sure
I ate a Springer Spaniel.

Why's AP on my phone sheet?

'Cause Triplehorn told him
you are the reason

there won't be a deal
on prescription drugs.

I'm the reason?

"With Lyman negotiating..."

( slams folder on desk )

Yeah.
I'm starting
to feel

ill-will
toward the minority leader.

And I've had it up to here
with the Welsh.
I'm not kidding.

He was campaigning with us,
like, a half-hour ago.

School's back. Go see him.

Let's call
that Plan A.

Plan B is you go see him.

Karen Kroft.

And National Parks
screw me up again.

Yeah.

( groans )

I'm going to head up
to the Leader's Office.

See if you can get me the first
three minutes he has.

And Judy Vanderbass?

Let's do this: find out
what her problem is, solve it

and then, I don't know,
do something else.

You're the reason
there are term limits.

Yeah? You're the reason...

Nothing, nothing's happening,
nothing's there.

( sighs )

The view from the canvas,
it's educational, you know.

Yeah, I've had
extensive education.

( sighs )

What was the final... margin?

127 votes.

A hundred and twenty-seven.

That's about 12 lawn signs.

Wasn't your last
election also...

82 votes.

The President says all you need
is one, the rest is for ego.

Uh-huh, and how many
did the President win by?

About 31/////2 million.

Yeah.

He's got a pretty
healthy ego, though.

I don't know.

Maybe the job wasn't for me.

I like land, I like dirt...

I like things that live
on land and dirt.

I like hotels.

I like a good concierge.

Could you be
a little more sympathetic?

I'm a loser.

Not a big one.

Okay.

The President thinks
there's a place for you.

That's nice of you guys.

It really is...
but I was thinking about....

I don't know, I was thinking
about maybe trying for a job

with the National Park Service.

Huh. We were thinking
the same thing.

A job
with the National Park Service?

Yeah.

As what?

The Director
of the National Park Service.

Are you kidding me?

No.

You're not kidding?

No.

Is this just because...

Do you want it?
Yes.

Yes.

Then get yourself a big hat

and Leo's gonna call you
in a couple of hours.

Susan, Karnow and Duffy
are the first three for tea.

Okay.
All's well that ends well.

Karen Kroft?
Yes.

National Parks
Chairman?
Yes.

Nice.
She was very happy.

I think Andy's
about to get sued
for election fraud.

Andy was trying to get sued
for election fraud.

Really?
Yeah, she's a pistol.

C.J.:
Before I forget,
Susan, Karnow and Duffy

are the first three for tea
with the President

at 3:00 p.m. in the Map Room.

Susan, Karnow and Duffy.

Next week it's Mark, Leslie
and Eric.

MARK:
Who's running Sam's campaign?

Sam's putting his team together

and I'm gonna start referring
those questions

to the campaign's press office.

Let's start with John,
then Katie.

REPORTER:
Mr. Seaborn, how does it feel
to have the nomination?

SAM:
There is no nomination,
there's a primary

and if someone gets 50%
of the vote, there's no general.

But there are no other
Democrats running

and the party's endorsing you.

Yes.
So wouldn't you say
you're the nominee?

I suppose
you'd have to, yes.

Have you staffed
the key positions yet?

I'm gonna let Will Bailey
answer those questions.

Yeah, the Campaign Manager
is Scott Holcomb

Finance Director
is Betsy Wadkins

Communications Director
is Mark Stearns...

Excuse me for a second.
Can I talk to you?

Yes, sir. Political Director
is Tom Baker

and the Volunteer Coordinator
is Paula Montgomery.

Over here, please.

Thank you.

Hi.

Hi.

Scott's campaign
manager?
Yes.

What's your title?

Citizen Bailey.
I'm not kidding.

I'm the Chancellor
of Germany.

Not the Chancellor
per se...
Will, what the
hell is going on?

Yeah.
Your team's
in the field.

What are you
talking about?
Yeah, Will.

Okay, you and I had
this conversation

for two hours yesterday.
What are you doing?

I don't think
you should go.

You made that clear
yesterday.

And I'm doing this now.

SAM:
Will...
Listen to me.

There are too many
chiefs around here.

Well, I'll get rid
of some of them.
No, you want them.

Scott Holcomb and Betsy,
these guys are the best.

We just went from 435
House races to one.

You get the all-star team.

He doesn't want the
best, he wants you.

Yes, but the Republicans are
starting their starters

so you got to match up.

We match up fine, and
you got me into this.

Well, you got you into this

but I owe you the best
possible chance to win

and I owe that to Mr. Wilde.

That's ridiculous.
Tell him that's ridiculous.

I took the race
to show the DNC

that no district
should be ignored.

What are you gonna do?

I'm gonna stick around here

for a week and help
and thank some people

and then I'm gonna
take a vacation.

Where?

I don't know--
France, Italy

Wales... maybe EPCOT.

All right.

All right, I got to
head back to Washington.

I'll see you day
after tomorrow.

Have a good flight.

Thank you.
Have a good flight, Sam.

Thank you.

EPCOT?

I was kidding.

Ah. Didn't know.
Yeah.

Sir?

Yeah. It's called
penmanship, Watson.

Something your generation
wouldn't know about

because of
the computers.

How many of these
things am I doing?

Sixty.

How many have I done?

Three.
Three?

Yeah, this is what
I'm talking about.

Your system's
slowing me down.

I don't have a system.

You're kidding!

You ready?

Hey, can't we have
color codings

and stickers
priority lists?

Can I get A little
bureaucracy going here?

What are you doing?

I'm doing basically
what the President does.

Ask people for things,
then thank them for things.

Let's go.

Take the calls
to the Mansion.

I'll meet you there
after this.

Yes, sir.

( electronic beep )

We had a couple of cats

when the kids were kids named
Mr. Finch and Mrs. Wilburforce

or something-- I can't
remember-- but...

You know I've never really liked
human names for animals.

Really?
Yeah.

Okay, well, I can't believe
my kids didn't think to ask you

what to name the cats,
but they used to bring mice

into the house
and show 'em to me.

Yeah?
This is how I'm starting
to feel about the Swiss.

Yeah.

Good morning.

Good morning, sir.
Morning, Mr. President.

Tell me about the boy.

He and a guardian have crossed
the border into Kandahar.

A U.N. cargo plane
is on the ground.

It's gonna leave
at 11:45 Zulu

if you say okay.

11:45?
Yes, sir.

That's eleven
minutes from now.

Yes, sir.

This meeting's a little
premature, isn't it?

We should wait
ten minutes.
Yes, sir.

This meeting doesn't go
in the sit room anymore, okay.

I don't know why
the hell it's here.

This isn't a military operation.

It's a secure room.

My office is a secure room, too,
isn't it?

Please, somebody tell me it is

or I got to go
pack some stuff.

You see my point?

What about the organs?

The organs are in Zurich.
( President laughs )

I'm sorry,
that sounded funny to me.

I'm the kid in bio
who laughed all the time.

Then on to Paris on Swissair.

Coach?

I don't...

Then New York?

Yes, sir.

So the heart and lungs
get here first.

They can last about 40 hours;
the flight from Tehran's 15.

Now what's left is to line up
a doctor and get the funding.

Go around the room.

If it leaks,
you got the clerics.

But it sends a message
to the reformists.

Thank you, at a time when
they're breaking 70%
in local elections.

If you're looking for ways

to temper support
for the Shi'ites,
I don't recommend...

A benevolent power must...
Please, this is not the time

And let's not forget
about the Shehab program

and what's-his-name
and the transport corridors

The Shi'ites, Manny,
that's what you want me

to take back to my
thoracic surgeon wife?

Get this boy in preop.

Somebody tell the Swiss
to stop standing

in the damn doorway with a mouse
in their mouth.

If they're coming in, come in.

You won't regret it, sir.
It won't leak.

No, 'cause we were all
in a secure room

except for the ayatollah's
staff, a Swissair pilot

and 400 other people.

Laney, is this gonna leak?

Well...

I feel better already.

Mr. Finch and Mrs. Wilburforce.

There's nothing wrong
with my memory.

Though those are stupid names

and there's something wrong
with my kids.

Come on, Josh.

You know, the Senate's
out of session.

You ought to think
about putting

a Ping-Pong table out here.

I don't think
that would be
such a good idea.

A couple
of quick rounds

between
cloture motions.

Just because
the Senate's

not in session...

I'm kidding, Senator.

You've be surprised
what people think.

Just from reading
the AP wire.

I think you know
what that's about.

Yeah, you're running
for President.

We hold elections
in this country

not coronations.

I'm not saying
any different.

Than why is every...

I must've--
I've talked to two dozen

of your precinct captains
in Iowa and New Hampshire.

Nearly every one
of them's locked up.

They're locked...?

You're recruiting
precinct captains

48 months before the next
presidential election?

John Hoynes is using
the White House to lock up

the Democratic primaries.

If you're saying
there's a full-blown
nomination fight...

Hoynes doesn't
inherit this.

I'm not going to see
the party dragged to the middle.

Nothing's being
dragged anywhere.

You were with us
just days ago.

This is about the
future of the party.

Yeah, how about
we enjoy

the present
for a few hours?

You agree with
Hoynes on guns?

On trade? On
school choice?

Look, Hoynes is...

Did I just fall asleep
for three and a half years?

Do you think a
minority leader
is irrelevant?

Do you think I can't affect
the President's agenda?

I know you can.

I'd like you to
be for me, Josh.

Not because you're
good at what you do

because of your beliefs.

Okay, I'm not for anyone.

I barely unpacked
from the last campaign.

Well.

Hoynes is going to
have to release

those precinct captains
or we're, uh...

It keeps getting earlier,
doesn't it?

Yes.

MARGARET:
And they're asking for you

in the HHS meeting
and the 5:15's new.

The CEA?

That's ways to fight
a possible recession.

What did we say?

Don't say recession
in this building.

You just did it again!

What am I supposed
to call the meeting?

The robust
economy meeting.

Josh is patching it
up with Triplehorn.

Good.

And Karen Kroft
wants National Parks.

She can't have it.

What are you
talking about?

She can't.

We talked about it
in the appointments meeting.

The President signed
the parks bill.

The job just became
Senate-confirmable.

Yeah, that was
for next fiscal year.

Turns out it's
retroactive.

I just saw the
final language.

Thanks.

Whose idea?

How did we miss this?

There are 90 amendments
in the bill.

Maybe we put her up,
anyway.

No.

We asked her to do it.

She led the charge
for a higher gas tax.

We asked her to do it.

I understand, but the U.S.
Senate isn't going to

plus the minority leader
is already pissed at us

Okay. Thanks.

Ginger!

Yeah.
Don't.

Would you... I need a list
of sub-cabinet vacancies

that aren't Senate-confirmable.

Mine's not.

A little less

sub-cabinet than that.

No kidding,
you want to crash

a space probe
into Neptune.

That's fine with me.

I think we've crashed
into most of the other planets

but $2.5 billion, okay?

Yes, sir.

We're going to fail,
I want to do it on budget.

Thank you, Mr. President.

More thank-you notes?

You know what?

Why don't you
tell Debbie

we're going to do calls.

Calls.

Yes, calls.

Calls. Mr. Sarcasm with
your dry... "Calls."

I was this close

to renaming one of
the oceans after you

but no way.

Maybe... Maybe, one
of the species of
fish, like trout.

"Trout" is now "charlie."

Went up to the lake

pulled out a
couple of nice

charlie for dinner.

Anything else, sir?

Look at the size of that
charlie on your wall.

Thank you, sir.

What have you got?

Yeah, we've got
a situation.

Yeah?

Reuters has
the ayatollah's youngest son

just left Afghanistan

on a C-130.

Is he coming here
for a heart transplant?

Heart and lung.

I'm assuming
we knew about this.

Knew about it? We did it.

The ayatollah's
issued a statement.

What kind?
Denouncing it.

Bitterly denouncing it, sir.

"Our nation can
take care of its own.

Interference from the West
is an affront to Islam."

What's the room saying?

They think
we're hiding

Leo's meeting
with the Swiss.

So, you know,
the press coffee...

Can't do it now.

Yes. You're right.

I need you to step out
just a moment.

Sure.
Thank you, Mr. President.

We're not going to not do it.

I'm saying right now.

I'm with you.

( exhales )

Hi.

Before you
say anything

here's my idea.

The kid needs lungs
and a heart.

Let's use the ayatollah's.

What are you
smiling at?

I'm sorry, it's...
I'm sorry, sir.

It's the little note
Margaret just passed me.

"The Iranians, they've
taken to the streets."

Perfect.

That goes to the
Margaret Museum.

Please don't forget,
all politics are local.

Ah, bite me.

He's got
to say something...

Please.

He's got
to say something

to his hard-liners.

He didn't want to try,
"My son is dying

"and these guys
maybe can fix him

"and maybe if our citizens

"didn't spend quite
so much energy

"denouncing the infidels

they'd have time to build
a damn medical school!"

The Swiss talked to the NGO

who talked to the brother-in-law

who speaks for the ayatollah.

Okay. But just tell me
that they weren't

using cellular technology

'cause I don't care
what anybody says

it doesn't work yet.

Think about linking it
to the missile tests.

What do you mean?

Send a communiqué
through the Swiss.

The ayatollah's
got to honor Bahrain.

Stop all tests
of the Shehab-3.

He's going to say no.

Then you tell him you'll
turn the plane around.

No.

I said you threaten
to turn the plane around.

No. Come on!

That's a 15-year-
old noncombatant

on his way to a hospital.

I want you to pretend
that plane's got

a big red cross on it.

They perfect
medium-range missiles.

I understand.

What's that do
for hearts and lungs?

Send the communiqué,
absolutely.

There's a
Bahrain agreement

that says send it.

Tell them to stop.
Don't even come close.

I don't even want a
scent of linkage to it.

A big damn red cross
right on that plane.

I have this problem
I'm trying

to put in perspective.

What's the problem?

Triplehorn thinks I'm
a secret operative for Hoynes.

Are you?

I don't believe I am.

This ought to help.

What?

Judy Vanderbass
didn't invite you to dinner.

Thank merciful God.

Turns out Tish Rackley,
wife of your protégé

she had a problem on the CoDel
to Southeast Asia.

The rice?

No, really, the
whole continent

loves the stereotype.

They eat a lot of rice, Donna.

Mrs. Rackley
borrowed

$1,500 from Judy Vanderbass

to buy a hand-carved
teak bed frame for $2,000

which is a good price.

And?

Mrs. Rackley's check bounced.

Making it a great price.

The Rackleys are
stiffing her, Josh.

What do you mean, "Josh"?

You put him on
the delegation.

And I told
the State Department

to look after him.

I didn't want him
to get in any trouble.

Job well done. Phil Rackley's
office won't return her calls.

See if they'll
return yours.

Toby.

Triplehorn's on fire.

He needs to build a
case against our...

Hoynes is lining up
precinct captains

in Iowa
and New Hampshire.

This is like ten minutes

after the polls
close in California.

And Winnick just called.

It's probably
the same thing.

Half the Senate's
going to be running.

If it looks like

we're giving
Hoynes the keys...

Yeah. We got to
back him off.

Okay, devil's advocate.

Isn't Hoynes entitled?

Yeah, but not yet.

We got him on the ticket

by convincing him
it wasn't his turn.

We kept him
out of the center ring

'cause it wasn't
his turn, and now...

There aren't any turns.

Hey.

So...

these two people rob a Starbucks
near Seattle

half an hour they serve coffee
to make more money.

Know when they make
their getaway?

When business slows down.

Beat that.

When's Josh meeting
with Hoynes?

Soon.

What do you need?

Alternate Federal Co-Chair

of the Appalachian
Regional Commission.

What about it?
It's Senate-
confirmable.

Inspector General
of the Railroad Retirement Board

Director of the Institute
of Museum Studies...

My job's not.

Ginger beat you to that joke

and Karen lost her seat
because of us.

What do you want me to do?

Start getting used
to the fact that
we won in a landslide.

We can show
some fight on this.

Ernest went down
for the gun ban

Janice for taxes...

This is different.

We asked her
to introduce the bill.
And she knew that.

It's called a
trial balloon.

Yeah, but it's also called
a recorded vote.

She did that kind of thing
for us.

She was our gal
on the back bench.

She did everything short
of pouring lighter fluid

on the Republican
leadership.

They're not going
to confirm her.

They're going to make
us look bad doing it

and we still got half
a new Cabinet to confirm.

They're starting.

Thanks.

The Hopi Relocation guy?

Yeah.

Laney says the plane's
still six hours out.

With a headwind, that could
buy us another hour.

The problem is...
What?

We don't have a doctor.
What are you
talking about?

What are you
talking about?

There are only three
who can do this.

Jorrey, who's in the middle
of a heart-valve replacement

and Weingarten.

Where's he?

Rappelling
the north face of K-2.

Rappelling up
or rappelling down?

It's in Pakistan.
What does it matter?

It's not in Pakistan,
you only think it is.

Okay, but if I need
a life-saving procedure

can you make sure
the surgeon's suffering

from massive oxygen deprivation?

Who's the third?

Dr. Ehsan Mohebi
at Smith-Lansing.

Oh, don't tell me.

Yeah, he fled Iran in 1980

after fundamentalists
tortured and killed his father.

The one guy who
can save his son

and he tortured
his father.

That's just bad
staff work.

Charlie!
Are we sure about Japan?

I mean, one of these days

they're going to find
the fairway, right?

Yes, sir.
Would you pull

the First Lady out
of whatever she's in right now?

She's with the Women's Caucus.

Well, put on a helmet and pads

and get in there.

Make sure Mohebi's
sitting by a phone.

He takes an elevator,
we know the number.

That's it.

Yes, sir.
Thank you, Mr. President.

The National Committee's
got a list

of the State Party conventions

where we asked the Vice
President to take our slot.

Could you get that for me?

Yeah.
And the DPC

sent me this list
of his budget roll-outs

and it's for last year.

I need all four.

Okay.

What?

The Deadbeat Rackleys.

I can't...
Come on.

You just called them
deadbeat.

For the sake of humor.

Well, good one, Gracie.

Who hasn't bounced
a check?

Me.

Yes, Mr. I Balance My
Checkbook Every Month

and Pay My Bills On
Time and Don't Ever
Bounce Checks.

Everything you just said
in there was a good thing

and just by saying it like
Ethel Mertz doesn't make it...

Do you even know what
a Congressman makes?

A buck and a half,
$161,200 for the Leadership.

To maintain two residences,
fly your kids...

Okay...

I know you like
to hit with me

but you've got to go sit
in the back of class

'cause you just suggested that
making only $150,000 a year

was reasonable justification
for committing a felony.

Which is what it is, Lulu.

The hell is Lulu?

It's To Sir With Love.

Thank you.
ABBEY:
I'm going to need the lists.

I have the lists.

I know, that's why I'm
asking you for them.

Did you want them?
Yes.

I'm sorry, we're talking
about the lists?

And your having them
and my wanting them.

Yes, ma'am.

Hey, Terry.
Bobby, sir.

Yeah.

You pulled me out of
the Women's Caucus.

No need to thank me.

Whatever happened
to Mrs. Wilburforce?

She moved to Miami
and took up massage.

Really?

Last I heard.

What the hell are
you talking about?

You're the one
who asked me...

Wasn't Mrs.
Wilburforce our cat?

She was our housekeeper.

Really.

All right.
Eisenmenger's Syndrome.

It's a cyanotic
heart condition.

There's something called
a ventricular-septal defect...

The ayatollah's
son has it.

Am I dreaming

or are you talking to me
about foreign policy?

You're not worried
the sky will fall down?

No, but I'm concerned
about spousal abuse.

What's the problem, Jed?

Don't tell me there's
a problem with State...

The only doctor
available won't do it.

He's Jewish?
Persian.

He doesn't have a choice.

Abbey...
He doesn't.

Doctors aren't instruments
of the state

and they're not allowed
to choose patients on spec.

I can't order
him to do it.

Yes, you can.

Through the power
vested in me by you?

Samuel Mudd set Booth's leg
after he shot Lincoln.

Doctors are liable
in this country

if they don't treat the patient
right in front of them.

Just for the record

this is why we don't talk
about foreign policy.

Which we do, and you don't
think we do it enough.

Why?

'Cause Samuel Mudd was tried
and convicted of treason

for setting that leg.

So?

What so?

So that's the way it goes,
you set the leg.

The patient right
in front of them?

Yes.

All right, go back
to the sewing thing.

It's the Women's...

never mind.

HOYNES:
Couldn't tell you
the last time I took

a whole week away, Josh.

You ought to take
a vacation yourself.

Yeah, I don't get Hawaii.

Great weather, great beaches,
universal health care

I'm waiting for
the other shoe to drop.

Remember Neil Spencer,
the Rep from Honolulu

who helped us
on the ag bill?
Sure.

Spent all his time tanning
on the Capitol balcony.

'Cause if he went home
without a tan...

They'd know he'd
gone Washington.

We got to talk politics.

I'd like to.

I'm glad we had that little
talk on Air Force Two.

I think from
time to time...
We need you

to stop shopping
for precinct captains.

Excuse me?

We're days after an election,
we got to govern.

It's too early...
Is that what this
is all about?

Triplehorn alone
can tie us in knots.

Well, good for Triplehorn.

I've got an obligation
to myself here.

You've got a Constitutional
obligation, that comes first.

Last time I checked

my Constitutional obligation
was to have a pulse.

We need these two years.

It's our last chance
to govern, John...

Mr. Vice President.

There are going to be
lots of ways...

No zealot like
a convert, Josh.

What's that supposed to mean?

It means you'd have
been great at Leo's job.

Half this town's
going to be running.

I do the President's
politics.

He can't govern
if I'm seen as...

Being for me?

I don't think there's
much risk of that.

You were wrong.

I never went to Hawaii.

What?

We skipped Hawaii.

We went rafting on
the Flathead River instead.

Uh-uh. Don't touch that.

Or that.

"The boy's on the plane.

"He's experiencing
pulmonary hypertension.

"That's elevated pressure
in the lungs, I think.

That could lead
to what?"

Doctor, that could lead to what?

I'm sorry. I...

That could lead to what?

Sudden heart failure.

That's what it says here.
Follow me.

"His right ventricular
pressure has risen

to 102 millimeters Mercury."

Low-oxygen blood's beginning
to bypass the lungs.

That's right,
and he has something

called "in situ thrombi."

His arteries have lost their
anticoagulant properties

and Mr. President,
I resent this.

Dr. Mohebi, I don't care.

Why aren't
you scrubbing up?

People are taken
from their homes
in the dead of night

and jailed and tortured
for months at a time.

And public
executions...
Doctor...

Political opponents

dragged outside
state borders...
I know this.

Don't you think I know.

I won't aid the enemy.

I'll let you know
who the enemy is.

That's my job.

It's not a 15-year-old boy.

How do I know these organs
were donated voluntarily?

Doctors Without Borders.

You don't know these people,
Mr. President.

I do know
these people.

You're crazy
if you don't think I do.

And I don't need
to be told who
the enemy is.

Doctor...

It's not your family
that's still there.

My family's there.

If the procedure
isn't successful...

Nothing will happen to them.

Sir...

Nothing will happen to them.

Who's making that guarantee?

Well, the Swiss, I guess.

Look, I'll use every power
of the office

to protect you and your family,
of course I will.

But can I just say
that this is how

things change for the better.

A world-class surgeon
or a school teacher in Afjah

who questions the ayatollah's
divine power.

Do me a favor, Doctor.

Go back to Smith-Lansing
and look at the kid

'cause I think
when you do

you're going to scrub up.

Yeah.

What was your
father's name?

Raji.

What'd he teach?

Science.

Thank you.

Get him to Baltimore.

You think cell phones, maybe?

Not white-water rafting.

And staff can't
make those calls.

They're top tier
Iowa people and
New Hampshire.

40, 50 calls
from the Flathead River?

That really doesn't
seem possible.

Unless...

That's what I'm saying.

All right.

I'll take it.

CEQ.

What do I tell Triplehorn?

Tell him it's done.

You're sure?

Thank you, no. I...

They're playing
the Eagles.

We're talking
50-yard line.

Toby...

You can't have the job.

Okay.

The parks bill...

we made it Senate-
confirmable.

That's the first
I've heard...

They added it in conference.

We'll find something.

I don't know what.

You don't have to do that.

Can't be Museum Studies.

God forbid the Senate
falls out of the mix on that.

I've made a lot of enemies
on the Hill.

You don't owe me.

We asked you to fight
a losing...

Yes, we owe you.

This is... when
the President
calls a play...

I called the play.

I called it.

Raising the gas tax.

It was a loser and I pushed
to have you introduce it anyway.

That doesn't make
any difference.

Well, look, let's just...

I came out for a gas tax

because someone from
Michigan had to.

Gas prices are too low.

It's why the air's polluted.

It's why no one wants
alternative fuels.

And, clearly, that argument
took the nation by storm.

( chuckling )

In my religion...

the whole symbol
of the religion ended

in crucifixion
and condemnation.

That wasn't a measure
of the experience.

It's just the way it ended.

Yeah, but I'm the Romans.

It's in the living.

It's in the campaigning
that you make your mark.

Sometimes you win
and sometimes you lose.

You have until

the end of the day
on those tickets, by the way.

Welcome back.

Thank you.

And congratulations.

( chuckling ):
Okay.

Do you happen to know
if the President's
still in the office?

He is.

Thanks.

( knocking )

Mr. President.

Can you see Sam?

Sure.

Good evening, sir.

You're the nominee.

There's no nominee.

Everyone's
on the ballot.

Is there
another Democrat?

No.

You're the nominee.

Yeah.

And I know
how you feel.

You like Scott Holcomb?

I don't know him well.

He's terrific.

There's a good guy
out there named Will Bailey

if he should come
across your radar.

You going to campaign
on prescription drugs?

Our prescription
drug bill-- yes, sir--

and our Medicare reforms
and the Bartlet Energy Plan.

Sam.
Yes, sir?

It's okay to run
away from me

when you need to.

I would never,
Mr. President.

I simply would
never do that.

That's not how
I'm getting votes.

I appreciate that

but that's not
what I'm talking about.

you disagreed with me
on Medicare.

I remember
the meeting right here.

Then you wrote
a five-page memo.

Run towards yourself.

I'm wrong about that. Walk.

You're not going to be used
to your surroundings.

Yes, sir.

If you lose, you lose

but if you waste this,
I'll kill you.

I'll just kill you, Sam.

Yes, sir.

Anything else?

Thank you, Mr. President.

( knocking )

Good evening,
Mr. President.

Hey.

Thank-you notes?

Yeah.

I'm going to bed.

You don't really like
making thank-you
calls, do you?

Spill it.

How many precinct captains
did you line up for Hoynes?

I didn't line up...

Forty-seven.

Charlie showed
me the call sheets.

I said thanks on behalf
of the ticket.

I can't help it if...
Yeah.

They'll think
whatever they want.

Well, they think
you're freezing the
race for Hoynes.

I'm freezing
it for us.

We just won four more years.

It's not time
for a free-for-all.

This shouldn't be what
you do anymore.

Do I call them all back?

We'll take care of it.

All right.

Tehran's going
to accelerate

medium-range missile
tests by two weeks.

Yeah.

We'll gather the NSC
principals in the morning.

All right.

Anything else?

Salmon Afkham was wheeled
into surgery 15 minutes ago.

Well, Mohebi's day just started.

Well, I suppose there are
worse ways for ours to end.

Yeah, that's right.