1. Previously on The West Wing:Copy !req
2. Your father used to hit you, didn't he?
He didn't like you.Copy !req
3. - Why are we talking about this?
- Maybe if you get enough votes...Copy !req
4. win one more election,
your father...Copy !req
5. You have stepped way over the line,
and any other president...Copy !req
6. would have your ass
on the sidewalk right now.Copy !req
7. I'm not trying to get
my father to like me.Copy !req
8. Good, because it's never,
never gonna happen.Copy !req
9. - Look...
- We're done for the night.Copy !req
10. I hate to put it this way,
but we're done when I say we're done.Copy !req
11. I think you could use
some assistance right now.Copy !req
12. - Welcome home.
- Mr. President.Copy !req
13. Give me two minutes.Copy !req
14. - Thank you. What'd I miss?
- Any further follow-up after New Delhi?Copy !req
15. - Sorry?
- Any follow-up after New Delhi?Copy !req
16. We spoke about Kashmir.
She assured me they're working...Copy !req
17. towards a peaceful resolution. We also
had a spirited conversation about chess.Copy !req
18. - Prime minister plays chess?
- Chess was invented in India...Copy !req
19. somewhere around 600 A.D.
A gigantic chessboard...Copy !req
20. was constructed at Fatehpur Sikri,
which was the capital a long time ago...Copy !req
21. and human figures were used as chess
pieces and moved at the emperor's will.Copy !req
22. What I like to call the good old days.Copy !req
23. C.J.Copy !req
24. - C.J.?
- Hey, Leo.Copy !req
25. What's he doing?Copy !req
26. - "The History of Chess" by Josiah Bartlet.
- Get him in the car.Copy !req
27. - What's going on?
- Get the press back here too.Copy !req
28. - What's going on?
- China.Copy !req
29. Okay.Copy !req
30. and sandalwood. And a lacquered
classic Stanton in boxwood.Copy !req
31. - Thank you, everybody.
- Thank you, Mr. President.Copy !req
32. Hey, don't forget, Hartsfield votes
in three hours and 21 minutes.Copy !req
33. We're gonna find out
who the next president is.Copy !req
34. I'm gonna give some of the
chess sets as gifts. Did you see them?Copy !req
35. - Leo needs you in the car.
- Did he say?Copy !req
36. China.Copy !req
37. - Yeah?
- Good evening, Mr. President.Copy !req
38. - What's going on?
- Intel says Taiwan's getting ready...Copy !req
39. to test-fire three Patriots.
- Where?Copy !req
40. A base on an island
in the Pingdong region.Copy !req
41. - What's China's reaction?
- An acceleration...Copy !req
42. of integrated military exercises.Copy !req
43. - Big?
- Yeah.Copy !req
44. - How big?
- Unprecedented.Copy !req
45. Should we tell
Taiwan not to test the missiles?Copy !req
46. - Sir?
- No.Copy !req
47. We could try,
but they're not gonna go for it.Copy !req
48. - They might.
- What are they asking for?Copy !req
49. They want us to put some
hardware in the Taiwan Strait.Copy !req
50. - Tonight?
- Yes, sir.Copy !req
51. I'm assuming Nancy and
Fitzwallace and the chiefs...Copy !req
52. - Everyone concurs, Mr. President.
- You?Copy !req
53. Yes, sir.Copy !req
54. We have a pretty good sense
of the worst-case scenario?Copy !req
55. We end up sending the largest
U.S. naval armada to Southeast Asia...Copy !req
56. since the end of Vietnam.
- That sounds right.Copy !req
57. Sir?Copy !req
58. - All right, we know the play.
- We're gonna assemble in the Sit Room.Copy !req
59. She gave me these beautiful chess sets.Copy !req
60. - The prime minister?
- Yeah.Copy !req
61. I'm on my way.Copy !req
62. Let Fitzwallace know I'm gonna order
the 7th Fleet into the Taiwan Strait.Copy !req
63. - Yes, sir.
- Let's go.Copy !req
64. Ten-hut!Copy !req
65. - Good evening.
- Good evening.Copy !req
66. Good evening, Mr. President.Copy !req
67. Listen, they start voting in Hartsfield's
Landing in about two and a half hours...Copy !req
68. so this may end up being
somebody else's problem.Copy !req
69. The scale of the war games
is unprecedented?Copy !req
70. It's a simulation of an invasion
of the Penghu Islands.Copy !req
71. It includes battle-stance intervention
by foreign aircraft carriers.Copy !req
72. - What's the Taiwanese reaction?
- Armed forces are on heightened alert.Copy !req
73. The war minister asked
for an emergency meeting.Copy !req
74. - What about equipment movement?
- Keyhole shows 10 AH-1 W helicopters.Copy !req
75. - Super Cobras?
- On the tarmac at Ching Chuan Kang.Copy !req
76. - The Nimitz?
- About two hours away.Copy !req
77. - The Independence?
- Also two hours away.Copy !req
78. What else can be moved in?Copy !req
79. There's a battle-carrier group, the Carl
Vinson, on its way to the Arabian Gulf.Copy !req
80. Let me backtrack a second. What's
C.J. facing in the press room right now?Copy !req
81. Xinhua's reporting
the live-fire exercises.Copy !req
82. Can the Carl Vinson make a detour
into the South China Sea?Copy !req
83. - We think that's our next move.
- Sir?Copy !req
84. - That's our next move.
- After that?Copy !req
85. After our next move
comes their next move.Copy !req
86. - C.J.?
- Katie.Copy !req
87. Will the president ask the Taiwanese
to hold off testing the Patriots?Copy !req
88. No. It's important to remember that
Patriot missiles are defensive equipment...Copy !req
89. used only in the event of an attack.Copy !req
90. But it's the testing that's provoking
the Chinese war games.Copy !req
91. I'm not in a position to say what's
provoking the war games. Chris?Copy !req
92. If the Chinese attack Taiwan...Copy !req
93. we're obligated to defend them
under the '79 Act?Copy !req
94. Actually, under the '79 Act, we agree to
provide Taiwan with sufficient capability...Copy !req
95. to defend itself,
but we're getting way ahead.Copy !req
96. There's a Pentagon briefing at 10 a.m.Copy !req
97. Will the president monitor
the situation all night?Copy !req
98. He'll be monitoring the situation
in the China Sea...Copy !req
99. as well as Hartsfield's Landing.Copy !req
100. Any of the new people not know
about Hartsfield's Landing?Copy !req
101. Hartsfield's Landing is a town
in New Hampshire, population 63.Copy !req
102. While the rest of New Hampshire
goes to the polls at 8 a. M...Copy !req
103. the 42 registered voters of Hartsfield
vote at one minute past midnight...Copy !req
104. or a little over two hours from now.
Hartsfield has predicted the winner...Copy !req
105. in every presidential election
since William Howard Taft...Copy !req
106. who, by the way,
founded the seventh-inning stretch...Copy !req
107. wherein we sing
"Take Me Out to the Ballgame"...Copy !req
108. written by Jack Norworth
and Albert von Tilzer.Copy !req
109. All part of the service at
Claudia's House of Useless Knowledge.Copy !req
110. - That's a full lid. Thank you very much.
- Thanks, C.J.Copy !req
111. Albert von Tilzer?Copy !req
112. Ironically, neither of them had been
to a major-league baseball game.Copy !req
113. The other song they were famous for?Copy !req
114. - I didn't even know they were famous.
- "Shine On, Harvest Moon." Charlie.Copy !req
115. - What are those?
- I'm distributing chess sets.Copy !req
116. I need the president's
private schedule.Copy !req
117. - Didn't you get one?
- I need another.Copy !req
118. - You gotta sign it out.
- I'm sorry?Copy !req
119. Sign it out and sign it back in. It can't
be photocopied or leave the building.Copy !req
120. - What is this?
- For the third time in two months...Copy !req
121. a copy wound up in the press room.
I've gotta crack down.Copy !req
122. - I've gotta sign it out?
- And sign it back in.Copy !req
123. - I'm the press secretary.
- You do a nice job.Copy !req
124. - Give me the damn schedule.
- Sign it out and sign it back in.Copy !req
125. The anal-retentive side of you
is not gonna help you get girls.Copy !req
126. I do okay.Copy !req
127. Donna!Copy !req
128. - Donna!
- Yeah?Copy !req
129. - You know...
- I was coming.Copy !req
130. - You were taking your time.
- I don't have warp speed.Copy !req
131. Do you remember Jennifer Flender...Copy !req
132. the daughter of the mom and pop
who had the tackle shop?Copy !req
133. Mackey and Roberta Flender.
The Flenders.Copy !req
134. The daughter just e-mailed me and
told me her parents are voting for Ritchie.Copy !req
135. - Why is she e-mailing you?
- She e-mails me.Copy !req
136. - Why?
- She's got a little crush on me.Copy !req
137. You didn't sleep with her, did you?Copy !req
138. - She's 20 years old.
- Mackey has got guns...Copy !req
139. and doesn't like northerners.
- He lives in New Hampshire.Copy !req
140. It doesn't matter. Mom and Pop are
voting for Ritchie in Hartsfield's Landing.Copy !req
141. - You gotta talk to them.
- What?Copy !req
142. - Two votes could be the margin.
- It's Hartsfield's Landing.Copy !req
143. - I thought we were kidding with this.
- We're not.Copy !req
144. - It's 42 votes.
- Cast at 12:01 and counted at 12:07.Copy !req
145. The rest of New Hampshire
doesn't come in until 9 p.m.Copy !req
146. That's 21 hours of the news
having nothing to report...Copy !req
147. but the winner in Hartsfield's Landing.
I want it to be us.Copy !req
148. - You have to talk to the Benders.
- The Flenders. Why me?Copy !req
149. They liked you.
They took you in, fed you.Copy !req
150. - You make me sound pathetic.
- You were pathetic...Copy !req
151. and the Fenders fed you.Copy !req
152. - Flenders.
- See, you remember.Copy !req
153. - There's a connection.
- Josh...Copy !req
154. - Politics in New Hampshire is what?
- Retail.Copy !req
155. Thank you. Get on the phone...Copy !req
156. find out what their problem is
and solve it.Copy !req
157. - I can't get on this phone.
- Why?Copy !req
158. It's a government phone.
I can't use it to intimidate voters.Copy !req
159. Sad but true.
Know what I'm thinking?Copy !req
160. - Yes.
- A cell phone, Lafayette Park and a coat.Copy !req
161. - I'm taking yours.
- It's a good coat.Copy !req
162. - I'm taking it.
- No problem.Copy !req
163. Excuse me.Copy !req
164. - Mr. President, welcome back.
- Thank you. How are you?Copy !req
165. I'm fine, sir. I was just... .Copy !req
166. - Someone gave me this chess set.
- Yeah, it's from me.Copy !req
167. - You're kidding?
- No.Copy !req
168. The prime minister gave me a few sets,
and I wanted to give them as gifts.Copy !req
169. - I'm really overwhelmed.
- The State of the Union...Copy !req
170. was really something else.
- Thank you again, sir.Copy !req
171. This one's a lotus set
in hand-carved camel bone.Copy !req
172. She told me it came from a descendent
of Tansen. You know who that was?Copy !req
173. - No.
- Greatest musician of his time.Copy !req
174. - What time was that?
- Sixteenth century.Copy !req
175. He'd go to the human chess matches
in the Mogul court of Emperor Akbar...Copy !req
176. and that began the
family obsession with the game.Copy !req
177. - You wanna play?
- You?Copy !req
178. - Yeah.
- I'll get killed.Copy !req
179. - Why?
- You're a grand wizard...Copy !req
180. or a grand master.
- I'm none of those.Copy !req
181. I'm just grand.Copy !req
182. You're white,
but don't ever touch me.Copy !req
183. - I'm sorry, sir.
- I was kidding.Copy !req
184. The Fibonacci opening.
Very interesting.Copy !req
185. You're gonna mess
with me the whole time, right?Copy !req
186. Yeah.Copy !req
187. - So India went well.
- Yeah.Copy !req
188. Standing ovation on the floor
of the stock exchange.Copy !req
189. The billion dollars from
the Export-lmport Bank didn't hurt.Copy !req
190. - I suppose.
- Three billion in foreign investment...Copy !req
191. to the 44 billion China gets.
You're an American.Copy !req
192. - Where would you put your money?
- India.Copy !req
193. - Why?
- They're democratic...Copy !req
194. English-speaking. There's the rule
of law, better sense of humor.Copy !req
195. That's right.Copy !req
196. You mind my asking how bad
it's getting out there tonight?Copy !req
197. It's bad.Copy !req
198. If Kashmir is the
most dangerous place on Earth...Copy !req
199. the second most dangerous
is the Taiwan Strait.Copy !req
200. Taiwan's got 400,000 troops
on high alert.Copy !req
201. The size of China's
war games is unprecedented.Copy !req
202. Thought about asking Taiwan
to call off the tests?Copy !req
203. - You think I should?
- No, sir.Copy !req
204. - Why not?
- Because China's...Copy !req
205. got 300 missiles pointed at Taiwan.
Why shouldn't they defend themselves?Copy !req
206. - That's right. Plus, guess what.
- What?Copy !req
207. The Patriot tests aren't why
China's showing its teeth.Copy !req
208. - They're not?
- No.Copy !req
209. - Why are they?
- You ready to come inside?Copy !req
210. Yes, sir.Copy !req
211. Taiwan's gonna announce that they're
holding their first free elections.Copy !req
212. You're kidding.Copy !req
213. Defend your queen.Copy !req
214. - Mr. Ambassador, please.
- Excuse me, please.Copy !req
215. Sir, there is a purpose to this meeting.Copy !req
216. Yes, you have discovered
that calling us reckless is not working.Copy !req
217. Taiwan is a geostrategic center for
commerce. It sits on an oil lane for Asia...Copy !req
218. - Excuse me.
- Unnecessarily militarizing...Copy !req
219. - Madam.
- Unnecessarily militarizing...Copy !req
220. on such a large scale is,
in fact, reckless.Copy !req
221. Taiwan is a part of China and is not
a protectorate of the United States.Copy !req
222. And it is your actions...Copy !req
223. that are an encroachment
on Chinese sovereignty...Copy !req
224. and interference in internal affairs.Copy !req
225. Our battle-carrier groups
are in international waters.Copy !req
226. Are you claiming jurisdiction?Copy !req
227. - No.
- Then let's settle down.Copy !req
228. - The Shanghai communiqué...
- Sir, l...Copy !req
229. - The communiqué...
- Says that there is but one China...Copy !req
230. and Taiwan is a part of China. The
U.S. government doesn't challenge that.Copy !req
231. The U.S. is interested
in a peaceful settlement...Copy !req
232. of the Taiwan question
by the Chinese themselves.Copy !req
233. A settlement that is not best facilitated
by the U.S. selling arms to Taiwan.Copy !req
234. That's not on the table in this meeting.Copy !req
235. This year's arm sale was
the biggest in a decade.Copy !req
236. Four Kidd-class destroyers,
12 anti-submarine P-3 Orions.Copy !req
237. - You approved the AMRAAMs.
- That's not on the table.Copy !req
238. I've said what was to be said.Copy !req
239. Taiwan's reunification with the mainland
is the will of all Chinese people.Copy !req
240. And just so we understand each other...Copy !req
241. the moment that we see them
testing their U.S. -built Patriots...Copy !req
242. is the moment that you will see
us testing our CSS-6 missiles.Copy !req
243. - How'd it go?
- They're not voting for us.Copy !req
244. - Why?
- Because the old Perrin Pulp Mill...Copy !req
245. is still idle after five years.Copy !req
246. - Why is it our fault?
- Instead of protecting American jobs...Copy !req
247. we're letting Canadian importers
take their market share.Copy !req
248. It's called free trade.Copy !req
249. It's why the Flenders
aren't voting for us.Copy !req
250. Did you talk up our accomplishments?Copy !req
251. - I couldn't think of them.
- Donna.Copy !req
252. They don't care.
They care about the market...Copy !req
253. for away-from-home paper towels
and tissue products.Copy !req
254. - Can I give them a commitment?
- A commitment?Copy !req
255. - Yes.
- No! You...Copy !req
256. We're not making a trade
commitment to the Flenders.Copy !req
257. We're not for protectionism,
and neither are the Republicans.Copy !req
258. The president's
been good for the economy overall.Copy !req
259. - They say he's been bad.
- We're for affordable health care.Copy !req
260. What's affordable if you
lost your job at the mill?Copy !req
261. - The Flenders don't work at the mill.
- Nobody works in the mill.Copy !req
262. All right. If Canada's making cheaper
pulp, New Hampshire has to diversify.Copy !req
263. That's why the president's
allocated $500 million...Copy !req
264. for trade adjustment assistance.
Write this down.Copy !req
265. That's why he tripled small-business
start-up loans.Copy !req
266. That's why he's balancing
the budget. Go.Copy !req
267. - It's so warm in here.
- Go.Copy !req
268. - Donna?
- Yeah.Copy !req
269. Have you seen my copy
of the president's private schedule?Copy !req
270. - I don't think so.
- It's stamped'D-12."Copy !req
271. - I haven't seen it.
- Thanks.Copy !req
272. - Hey, Charlie.
- Listen...Copy !req
273. have you seen my copy
of the president's private schedule?Copy !req
274. No.Copy !req
275. I'm trying to retrace where
I've been the last hour. I was here.Copy !req
276. I was in the mess.
I went back to my desk.Copy !req
277. Excuse me.Copy !req
278. - Hello.
- Chaz.Copy !req
279. You wouldn't know where my copy
of the private schedule is, would you?Copy !req
280. - Did you lose it?
- I don't believe I did.Copy !req
281. - Yet you don't have it.
- Odd.Copy !req
282. - He'd like you for a moment.
- Thank you.Copy !req
283. - Where is it?
- How would I know?Copy !req
284. Where is it?Copy !req
285. I hope you didn't leave
the building with it.Copy !req
286. - Give it up, tiny.
- No.Copy !req
287. Talk nicer to me. When a reporter
finds it, they're gonna come to me.Copy !req
288. It's stamped'D-12," and you signed
it out'D-12." And rules are rules.Copy !req
289. - Funny.
- What?Copy !req
290. - I never told you it was D-12.
- How about that.Copy !req
291. - Look...
- You'll find it in your filing cabinet...Copy !req
292. under A, for'anal."Copy !req
293. I don't wanna know
what he's gonna find, do you?Copy !req
294. No.Copy !req
295. - Okay.
- Thank you, Mr. President.Copy !req
296. C.J., I want you to leak it
to two or three sources...Copy !req
297. the USS Carl Vinson is gonna do a
passing exercise with the Independence.Copy !req
298. - We want South China media to pick it up.
- Sure.Copy !req
299. Mr. President?
Can you see Toby a moment?Copy !req
300. Yeah. Give us a minute, would you?Copy !req
301. I'll let you know when
there's something new.Copy !req
302. - Good evening. Welcome back.
- Thanks. Come on in.Copy !req
303. I think this note was delivered
to me by mistake.Copy !req
304. - What's it say?
- "Come play chess."Copy !req
305. No, that's for you.Copy !req
306. - It says,"Sigmund, come play chess."
- That was a joke.Copy !req
307. Not so funny, huh?Copy !req
308. - That's a beautiful chess set.
- It's a gift for you.Copy !req
309. - Really?
- Yeah.Copy !req
310. It's hand-carved. It belonged to
the prime minister's grandfather...Copy !req
311. who used it to play
with Lord Mountbatten.Copy !req
312. - I'm surprised she gave it away.
- No, she didn't.Copy !req
313. We just boosted it from
the palace on the way out.Copy !req
314. I've got some little bottles
of shampoo and conditioner too.Copy !req
315. Well, it's a beautiful gift, sir.Copy !req
316. - Sit down.
- Wouldn't wanna take your time.Copy !req
317. Come on, man, you were out of line.
I was a jackass. Let's call a truce.Copy !req
318. Well, I certainly apologize, sir.Copy !req
319. Let's play chess.Copy !req
320. Aren't you in the
middle of a game with Sam?Copy !req
321. Yeah. He's one, two, four, eight...Copy !req
322. 12 moves away from checkmate.
- Twelve moves?Copy !req
323. Yeah. You take white.Copy !req
324. Lord Mountbatten used
to play with this set?Copy !req
325. With Jawaharlal Nehru,
where they came to an agreement...Copy !req
326. over the necessity
of India's independence.Copy !req
327. - An appropriate topic for the evening.
- Taiwan's not gonna be our topic.Copy !req
328. - The Evans gambit.
- There's no such thing.Copy !req
329. Variation of the Giuoco-piano opening...Copy !req
330. named after British sea captain
W.D. Evans, who invented it in 1820.Copy !req
331. - Don't tell me chess moves.
- I moved my pawn.Copy !req
332. Well, it's as popular today
as it was back then.Copy !req
333. - What is?
- I'm sorry?Copy !req
334. - What is our topic?
- Re-election and the Bartlet psychosis.Copy !req
335. Seems to me the last time
we were here we didn't do well.Copy !req
336. So we get right back on the horse.Copy !req
337. I was out of line.
I really do apologize.Copy !req
338. You apologized already.
So let's get back on the horse.Copy !req
339. Neither one of us ride horses.Copy !req
340. That makes it more likely
that we'll learn something.Copy !req
341. Sir? Sam says,
"Bishop to queen's knight three."Copy !req
342. Excuse me. Eleven moves.Copy !req
343. Take your time.Copy !req
344. See the whole board.Copy !req
345. - Think happy thoughts...
- Sir.Copy !req
346. Sure.Copy !req
347. The Spanish brought chess to the
court of Charlemagne in 760 A.D.Copy !req
348. "Charlemagne" is French
for'Charles the Great."Copy !req
349. The Charles is a river in Boston.Copy !req
350. - The Hudson River is not a river at all...
- I'm taking your rook.Copy !req
351. Now, take your time.Copy !req
352. - See the whole board.
- The Hudson isn't a river?Copy !req
353. It is in the Catskills, but once it gets
to Manhattan, it's a tidal estuary.Copy !req
354. It's deeper than the body
of water it flows into.Copy !req
355. Yeah.Copy !req
356. You mind my asking how the meeting
with the Chinese ambassador went?Copy !req
357. Well, how do you think it went?Copy !req
358. They said if Taiwan tests the Patriots,
they'll start their exercises.Copy !req
359. That's right, except they didn't call
them Patriots. What'd they call them?Copy !req
360. - U.S. -made Patriots.
- Right.Copy !req
361. They want us to say we'll roll
back our sale of arms to Taiwan.Copy !req
362. - Good.
- We're not gonna stop arming Taiwan?Copy !req
363. - No.
- When they're trying to hold free elections.Copy !req
364. - Right.
- Plus, it's the law.Copy !req
365. We sell them the Orions.
We sell them the AMRAAMs.Copy !req
366. - You gonna move?
- Hang on.Copy !req
367. Two carrier groups are
headed to the Taiwan Strait.Copy !req
368. - Move.
- The Carl Vinson in the South China Sea.Copy !req
369. Beijing wants you to scale back
the weapons. You're not gonna do it.Copy !req
370. Right.Copy !req
371. I gotta go back to Toby in the other
room. He's trying a Balducci attack.Copy !req
372. - How does it work?
- See the whole board.Copy !req
373. The Aegis destroyers.Copy !req
374. - I'm going out for pizza. Want any?
- I'll go get it. I wanna get some air.Copy !req
375. We need three, I think.Copy !req
376. - 45 minutes to Hartsfield's Landing.
- We're working the room.Copy !req
377. - Good.
- It is absurd...Copy !req
378. that 42 people have this power.
- I think it's nice.Copy !req
379. - Do you?
- I think it's democracy at its purest.Copy !req
380. - They all gather...
- At a gas station.Copy !req
381. It's not a gas station. It's nice.Copy !req
382. There's a registrar of voters. The names
are called in alphabetical order.Copy !req
383. They put a folded
piece of paper into a box.Copy !req
384. See, this is the difference
between you and me.Copy !req
385. - You're a sap.
- Those 42 people are teaching us...Copy !req
386. something about ourselves.
That freedom is the glory of God...Copy !req
387. that democracy is its birthright
and that our vote matters.Copy !req
388. - You getting the pizza or...?
- Yeah. I should call ahead.Copy !req
389. - He Krazy Glued my phone.
- Who?Copy !req
390. Charlie. Charlie Krazy Glued...Copy !req
391. my phone.Copy !req
392. Okay.Copy !req
393. Okay.
Now we're playing for keeps.Copy !req
394. - Josh.
- How'd it go?Copy !req
395. I told them about
the trade adjustment.Copy !req
396. They're not wild about the Canadian
thing, but their real problem is tax policy.Copy !req
397. They wanna go from an
income tax to a sales tax.Copy !req
398. Is this gonna end up with
Mackey Flender as fed chair?Copy !req
399. - I'm telling you...
- Sales tax is regressive.Copy !req
400. Poor people pay a higher percentage
of their income... Tell them we'll study it.Copy !req
401. Is the president destroying
the economy to save salmon?Copy !req
402. - No.
- I'm having a hard time convincing them.Copy !req
403. - There's no salmon in New Hampshire.
- Mackey's sister Fran lives in Oregon.Copy !req
404. We haven't made
a decision on the salmon runs.Copy !req
405. - Salmon restoration is important.
- Do you know what they're talking about?Copy !req
406. Am I the fish guy?
Tell them we're looking into it.Copy !req
407. They think the president's
gonna privatize social security.Copy !req
408. That's the other guys!Copy !req
409. He's not gonna privatize
social security.Copy !req
410. He'll privatize New Hampshire
before he privatizes social security.Copy !req
411. - We haven't ruled it out.
- We told Congress we'd be open.Copy !req
412. - They'd really prefer if we ruled it out.
- Here.Copy !req
413. Bartlet for New Hampshire.Copy !req
414. It gives all the reasons why Bartlet's
for New Hampshire.Copy !req
415. The Flenders, everybody.
All 17 of them...Copy !req
416. or whatever goes on.
Why are you wearing my coat?Copy !req
417. - It's warmer than my coat.
- Okay. Go.Copy !req
418. - Are we getting pizza?
- It's on its way.Copy !req
419. All right.Copy !req
420. - What are you doing?
- Trying to get pizza...Copy !req
421. in an uncivilized world.
- It's not easy being you.Copy !req
422. No. Listen...Copy !req
423. so I shouldn't sweat, right?Copy !req
424. There's a predetermined time
for the carriers?Copy !req
425. You know what?
Half of me wants to let them go.Copy !req
426. Half of you always wants to let them go.
Everybody wants to.Copy !req
427. They need 400,000 troops on high alert
for thinking about holding an election.Copy !req
428. 400,000 troops and a battery of Patriot
missiles for thinking about an election.Copy !req
429. You're gonna turn the
carrier groups around, right?Copy !req
430. We'll see how the pizza turns out.Copy !req
431. - Yeah?
- Yeah, it's me.Copy !req
432. I just wanna remind you that child-
support collection's up 37 percent.Copy !req
433. - What?
- Child-support collection's up 37 percent.Copy !req
434. We're cracking down
on deadbeat dads. Tell them that.Copy !req
435. - Okay.
- Leo was just here.Copy !req
436. - Yeah?
- He was talking about Taiwan.Copy !req
437. He's saying 400,000 troops
and a battery of Patriot missiles...Copy !req
438. just to think about free elections.
He was on one of his things.Copy !req
439. Okay. Listen, I gotta call them.
We're running out of time.Copy !req
440. Yeah, okay.Copy !req
441. Let me tell you, you're really
showing me something tonight.Copy !req
442. A lot of spunk, a lot of pluck.Copy !req
443. This game isn't all about size,
you know?Copy !req
444. There's a little thing called heart,
and you've got it.Copy !req
445. You know what, old man? The very
minute they swear in the next guy...Copy !req
446. you and I are going round and round.
- Check.Copy !req
447. How did you get good?Copy !req
448. I had a friend in school
who taught me. He was good.Copy !req
449. He was ranked, 18 and under. He was
a really nice guy. Everybody liked him.Copy !req
450. - What was his name?
- David Wheadon.Copy !req
451. - Everybody had a crush on his sister.
- You still see him?Copy !req
452. He went to Princeton. Christmas vacation
he'd saved up to go to San Francisco.Copy !req
453. He was on the wharf, and he
saw a guy beating a woman up.Copy !req
454. And he went in to stop it,
and the guy stabbed him to death.Copy !req
455. Well, he taught you well.Copy !req
456. So you know I had this historic stretch
of sleeplessness after our last meeting.Copy !req
457. - I didn't know.
- It got so bad...Copy !req
458. Leo brought in the guy from ATVA
who worked with Josh.Copy !req
459. - Isn't he a trauma specialist?
- Yeah. We know him...Copy !req
460. and I figured he had to go to school for
everything. We brought him in at night.Copy !req
461. - What did he say?
- It was your fault.Copy !req
462. He said you shouldn't
bother me so much.Copy !req
463. - I really am sorry about that.
- I'm kidding.Copy !req
464. Yeah. I forgot for a second
that you're hilarious.Copy !req
465. Let's say the Republicans
nominate Ritchie.Copy !req
466. - They will.
- First of all, let's stop for a moment...Copy !req
467. and say,"Why?"
They got serious guys in the field...Copy !req
468. Kalmbach, Daniel, Weston.Copy !req
469. Democrats had serious guys,
and they nominated you.Copy !req
470. That's true.Copy !req
471. Check.Copy !req
472. You think the strike against me is nobody
likes the smartest kid in the class?Copy !req
473. Oh, I don't know, sir.Copy !req
474. Being the smartest kid in the class
is a pretty good pitch.Copy !req
475. It's not a strike...Copy !req
476. unless you watch it as it sails by.
- I don't do that.Copy !req
477. Check.Copy !req
478. - And I'm not a snob.
- I don't believe you are.Copy !req
479. If a guy's a good neighbor,
puts in a day...Copy !req
480. if once in a while he laughs,
he thinks about somebody else...Copy !req
481. and if he can find compassion
and tolerance, he's my brother.Copy !req
482. I don't care if he didn't
pass finger-painting.Copy !req
483. What I can't stomach are people who try
to convince people that the educated...Copy !req
484. are soft, privileged and out to make
them feel like they're less than.Copy !req
485. "He may be educated,
but I'm plainspoken just like you."Copy !req
486. Especially when we know that
education can be the silver bullet...Copy !req
487. for crime, poverty, unemployment,
drugs, hatred...Copy !req
488. - Who are you trying to convince?
- I'm saying, I don't watch the pitch go by.Copy !req
489. - Check.
- And if I do...Copy !req
490. it's not because my father...
- Was an idiot.Copy !req
491. Can we talk about...? God!Copy !req
492. Can we talk about...? Please, can we talk
about my father with some respect?Copy !req
493. The man's gone. Can we...? He was my
father. He wasn't a Dickens character.Copy !req
494. Yes, sir.Copy !req
495. Mr. President?Copy !req
496. Yeah.Copy !req
497. Check.Copy !req
498. Check.Copy !req
499. Check.Copy !req
500. I'll be back.Copy !req
501. Don't cheat. I know exactly where
the pieces on the board are.Copy !req
502. I know exactly where the pieces
are on Sam's board.Copy !req
503. I know exactly where the pieces
still are on David Wheadon's.Copy !req
504. Sir, the carriers are 35 minutes
from the Strait now.Copy !req
505. All right, you can bring the ambassador
back now and get Beijing.Copy !req
506. I'm sorry, sir, it's a formality, but I... .Copy !req
507. She needs the order.Copy !req
508. The Aegis destroyers.Copy !req
509. Yes, sir. Just out of curiosity,
what if that doesn't work?Copy !req
510. I don't know, but for sure
we're gonna blame you.Copy !req
511. Yes, sir.Copy !req
512. What's going on?Copy !req
513. I don't know. Toby keeps coming
back at me with this... .Copy !req
514. I don't know.
He says I let the pitch go by.Copy !req
515. - What pitch?
- I soften. I smooth myself out publicly.Copy !req
516. It's not a put-on, by the way.
I'm honestly folksy.Copy !req
517. - Yeah.
- "Yeah" what?Copy !req
518. - "Yeah" nothing.
- You agree with him?Copy !req
519. - I don't think you let the pitch go by.
- I don't.Copy !req
520. I think you foul it off.Copy !req
521. Yeah, well, he keeps coming
back at me.Copy !req
522. You invited him back this time,
didn't you?Copy !req
523. All right.Copy !req
524. So...Copy !req
525. what are you doing?
- Just playing some chess.Copy !req
526. - Stay right there.
- Tommy, it's me.Copy !req
527. - What happened?
- She ran the card.Copy !req
528. - It must be bent.
- Stay right there, please.Copy !req
529. - I'm staying right here.
- Look...Copy !req
530. Guys, it's me.Copy !req
531. - The card says you're Charles Young.
- Yes.Copy !req
532. - Okay. Well, obviously, I'm not.
- Why do you have a card that's not yours?Copy !req
533. - Because...
- What's going on?Copy !req
534. Mr. McGarry, this woman has a card
that doesn't belong to her.Copy !req
535. - What...?
- Charlie's getting me back...Copy !req
536. - Stay where you are.
- Oh, my God.Copy !req
537. - Sign her in with an appointment.
- An appointment?Copy !req
538. - Be in your office in 15 minutes.
- Can I move now?Copy !req
539. Roberta.
Roberta, those are all good points...Copy !req
540. and valid areas of disagreement.
But what I don't understand...Copy !req
541. What I don't understand is you guys
were such fans of the president.Copy !req
542. You loved him when he was governor.Copy !req
543. You worked so hard for him
when he was campaigning.Copy !req
544. Yeah. Yeah.Copy !req
545. Well, he didn't lie.Copy !req
546. No, he didn't lie, Mackey.Copy !req
547. I'll tell you what else, he just accepted a
Congressional censure, and I think it's...Copy !req
548. He should be held to a higher standard.
He holds himself to a higher standard...Copy !req
549. but sometimes he can't meet it,
because presidents aren't kings.Copy !req
550. He's an economist from New Hampshire.
It's time to get off your horse.Copy !req
551. Donna.Copy !req
552. - I'm out here in the middle of the night...
- Donna.Copy !req
553. Hold on, please.Copy !req
554. I've had it now too.
They're shocked, appalled, disappointed.Copy !req
555. Really they're none of those things.
They just wish they were...Copy !req
556. so never missing an opportunity
to feel morally superior.Copy !req
557. - What do you want me to do now?
- Let them vote.Copy !req
558. - What does that mean?
- I came to tell you to let them vote.Copy !req
559. Yeah, this is Josh Lyman.Copy !req
560. We just wanna call and thank you
again for all your work...Copy !req
561. and remind you that the polls in
Hartsfield's Landing open in 14 minutes.Copy !req
562. You got the chains
on the truck, Mackey?Copy !req
563. Okay. Tell your sister in Oregon I'm
gonna learn something about salmon.Copy !req
564. Right now, all I know is
that they're good on a bagel.Copy !req
565. Good night.Copy !req
566. Maybe they are morally superior.Copy !req
567. Anyway, they get to vote.Copy !req
568. It's freezing out here.Copy !req
569. Abbey told me this story once.Copy !req
570. She said you were at a party once
where you were bending a guy's ear.Copy !req
571. You were telling him that Ellie
had mastered her multiplication tables...Copy !req
572. and she was in third grade, reading
at a fifth-grade level. She loved books...Copy !req
573. and she scored two goals for her
soccer team. And you were going on.Copy !req
574. What made Abbey's story remarkable...Copy !req
575. was that the party
you were at was in Stockholm...Copy !req
576. and the man you were talking
to was King Gustav...Copy !req
577. who two hours earlier had given
you the Nobel Prize in economics.Copy !req
578. I mean, my God,
you'd just won the Nobel Prize...Copy !req
579. and you wanted to talk to the king
about Ellie's multiplication tables.Copy !req
580. What's your point?Copy !req
581. You're a good father.
You don't have to act like it.Copy !req
582. You're the president.
You don't have to act like it.Copy !req
583. You're a good man.
You don't have to act like it.Copy !req
584. You're not just folks.
You're not plainspoken.Copy !req
585. Do not... Do not... Do not act like it.Copy !req
586. I don't wanna be killed.Copy !req
587. Then make this election
about smart and not.Copy !req
588. Make it about engaged and not.Copy !req
589. Qualified and not.Copy !req
590. Make it about a heavyweight.
You're a heavyweight.Copy !req
591. And you've been holding me up
for too many rounds.Copy !req
592. Pick your king up.
We're not done playing yet.Copy !req
593. - Hello.
- How you doing?Copy !req
594. You really wanna dance with me?Copy !req
595. Wouldn't it have been easier
to respect the rules?Copy !req
596. - What are you doing here?
- Leo told me to be here.Copy !req
597. - Leo?
- What the hell...?Copy !req
598. - I devised a system...
- I wanted a copy of the...Copy !req
599. - Each copy has a number...
- Marion the librarian was...Copy !req
600. - No copy can leave...
- I decided to teach him...Copy !req
601. - And could flaunt the rules!
- And Krazy Glued my phone!Copy !req
602. I think it's fine that people
blow off steam.Copy !req
603. But now it's done, and it's time
for one of you to be mature.Copy !req
604. - Well, C.J. 's more mature than I am.
- Hey!Copy !req
605. - Excuse me. Leo?
- Yeah.Copy !req
606. Nancy McNally's calling for you.Copy !req
607. Okay. Well... .Copy !req
608. Okay, it's over. That's that.Copy !req
609. So how long do you usually
make people your bitch?Copy !req
610. Depends.Copy !req
611. Okay.Copy !req
612. - Sorry. I got tied up.
- No, it's fine.Copy !req
613. Let's get back to it.Copy !req
614. I looked something up
while you were gone.Copy !req
615. Eisenhower wanted to avoid sending
ships to resupply Quemoy and Matsu...Copy !req
616. because they'd be a mile
from the Chinese army.Copy !req
617. A private could... Well, everybody
was a private in Mao's army.Copy !req
618. A private could fire on the ship,
and that'd be it. We'd be at war.Copy !req
619. - Eisenhower wouldn't do it.
- No.Copy !req
620. Why are you?Copy !req
621. - Look at the whole board.
- I am.Copy !req
622. - You're not.
- I'm trying.Copy !req
623. - Sam...
- Why put carriers in the Taiwan Strait?Copy !req
624. - Are they in the Taiwan Strait?
- On their way.Copy !req
625. Is that the same thing?Copy !req
626. How does this end?Copy !req
627. Sir?Copy !req
628. Like this.Copy !req
629. Turn them around. I'll make
some calls and thank people.Copy !req
630. - Yes, sir.
- Thank you, by the way.Copy !req
631. You too.Copy !req
632. I'd like to try it without looking
at the note.Copy !req
633. Okay.Copy !req
634. China agrees to stand down
the war games.Copy !req
635. - Right.
- They agree to let Taiwan test Patriots.Copy !req
636. - One Patriot.
- Yes.Copy !req
637. We... Please, I wanna be right about this.Copy !req
638. We agree not to sell Taiwan
the Aegis destroyers for a period of...Copy !req
639. I don't know, five years.
- Ten years, but you got it.Copy !req
640. Sir, the Aegis radar technology
isn't something that...Copy !req
641. I mean, what if Taiwan did fall
to China?Copy !req
642. Now they have... Plus, these ships cost
something like $800 million apiece.Copy !req
643. Four would eat up
half of Taiwan's defense budget.Copy !req
644. And so?Copy !req
645. You never were gonna sell
them the destroyers.Copy !req
646. But everybody wakes up alive
in the morning and saves a little face.Copy !req
647. I don't know how you... .Copy !req
648. I don't know the word.Copy !req
649. I don't know how you do it.Copy !req
650. You have a lot of help. You listen to
everybody. And then you call the play.Copy !req
651. Sam...Copy !req
652. you're gonna run
for president one day.Copy !req
653. Don't be scared.
You can do it. I believe in you.Copy !req
654. That's checkmate.Copy !req
655. two roads, no traffic lights, and town
hall's a filing cabinet and a countertop...Copy !req
656. in the town clerk's basement.
Hartsfield's Landing...Copy !req
657. is where democracy begins
for the world's only superpower.Copy !req
658. It's 12:01 a.m., and the registrar,
who's also the principal...Copy !req
659. and only teacher at the Hartsfield
School, calls the roll of voters.Copy !req
660. - Claude Abernathy.
- Here.Copy !req
661. Please step up and cast your vote.
Diana Abernathy.Copy !req
662. - Here.
- Please step up and cast your vote.Copy !req
663. - Barney Braddock.
- Here.Copy !req
664. Please step up and cast your vote.Copy !req
665. - Lillian Braddock.
- Here.Copy !req
666. Lillian's 18, everyone.
This is her first vote.Copy !req
667. Please step up and cast your vote.
Congratulations, Lillian.Copy !req
668. Lillian's mom, Miriam Braddock,
please step up and cast your vote.Copy !req