Leo McGarry's leadership tension: using dark humor, managerial force and steadying authority to defuse optics crises and hold the team together while political disaster unfolds.
Leo McGarry's leadership tension: using dark humor, managerial force and steadying authority to defuse optics crises and hold the team together while political disaster unfolds.
Events in This Arc
A damning push-poll result — 68% say we spend too much on foreign aid, 59% want cuts — detonates in Josh’s bullpen and instantly turns policy into personal crisis. Josh …
C.J. and Leo discover Ron, a Heifer International goat, on the West Wing driveway and the moment immediately becomes about more than logistics. C.J.'s visible discomfort and tactical insistence that …
After the foreign aid fight collapses, President Bartlet converts defeat into a tactical pivot: he orders a 90-day pause — "set that clock for 90 days" — while refusing to …