Humanitarian vs. political calculus over the Cuban boatlift: staff wrestle with humane responses to refugees while facing political optics and electoral risk.
Humanitarian vs. political calculus over the Cuban boatlift: staff wrestle with humane responses to refugees while facing political optics and electoral risk.
Events in This Arc
C.J. opens by hunting for a line to deflect media mockery about the President literally riding his bicycle into a tree; Leo answers with sarcastic, deflective humor, exposing the senior …
Senior staff assemble as word comes in that 1,200–2,000 Cubans are sailing toward Miami. What begins as flippant banter about the President's bicycle turns urgent: Sam shocks the room by …
After a tense, private reckoning among staff, President Bartlet storms back into the Oval and snatches the room's moral center. He tells a wry, pointed anecdote about a rosary-shaped tomato …