Abbey Bartlet's righteous fury and marital strain erupting over unauthorized SOTU speech compromises on women's issues and VAWA funding, clashing with staff pragmatism and exposing personal betrayal amid political expediency.
Abbey Bartlet's righteous fury and marital strain erupting over unauthorized SOTU speech compromises on women's issues and VAWA funding, clashing with staff pragmatism and exposing personal betrayal amid political expediency.
Events in This Arc
In the President's bedroom, Abbey obsessively rewinds and replays the State of the Union speech's bipartisan plea for a Blue Ribbon Commission, her fixation betraying alarm at softened ideological edges …
In the White House kitchen during the post-State of the Union reception, Bartlet finds Abbey seething alone and presses her on her anger. She erupts over his last-minute cut of …