C.J. Cregg's moral and practical struggle between her public duty as White House Press Secretary and private obligation to her father (choosing career responsibility vs caregiving).
C.J. Cregg's moral and practical struggle between her public duty as White House Press Secretary and private obligation to her father (choosing career responsibility vs caregiving).
Events in This Arc
During a late-night White House briefing C.J. deflects questions about Josh's absence with practiced humor, then repeatedly dodges a reporter's mention of her Dayton reunion speech, 'The Promise of a …
At her West Dayton High reunion C.J. uses the podium to reframe a grand, fraught idea—'the promise of a generation'—into a call for civic duty, kindness and resisting lowered expectations. …
As C.J. abruptly cuts her speech and rushes toward the airport because of coordinated embassy bombings, she shares a private, fragile moment with her father in the foyer. Tal presses …