Intense pressure on President Bartlet and staff to publicly apologize for concealing his MS diagnosis, balancing personal integrity, team betrayal feelings, and electoral damage control as consultants demand accountability to reset the narrative.
Intense pressure on President Bartlet and staff to publicly apologize for concealing his MS diagnosis, balancing personal integrity, team betrayal feelings, and electoral damage control as consultants demand accountability to reset the narrative.
Events in This Arc
In a heated Roosevelt Room strategy session, Toby resists a formal re-election announcement event, clashing with Doug's demand for President Bartlet to publicly apologize for the MS cover-up fraud. Toby's …
In the kitchen, a brooding Toby, still seething from rejecting the consultants' saccharine speech, faces Doug's casual opener about the Rose Bowl Parade. Doug swiftly pivots to a brutal diagnosis: …
After defending intellectual rigor in the speech, President Bartlet sends out the consultants, then delivers a profound apology to his staff for the MS cover-up's fallout—the lawyers, press mess, fear, …
On inauguration day Bartlet deflects staff arguments over the engineered order of the inaugural balls — insisting it be an unmanufactured, joyful evening — while C.J. steals a private, grounding …
A rapid situation briefing gives way to a private, explosive confrontation over Khundu. After quick updates — Predator testing in Korea, Basque plots in Spain, a Lithuania/Belarus border spat — …
A rapid-fire pivot from routine foreign-update to political crisis: Bartlet receives bleak intelligence (the euphemism “swapping family members”) and then moves to contain bureaucratic blowback. Josh tells the President that …