Cascading small failures and logistical misfires (weather, email mishap, forecasting error) that compound into a broader crisis of staff morale and perceived competence — ultimately forcing a strategic reset.
Cascading small failures and logistical misfires (weather, email mishap, forecasting error) that compound into a broader crisis of staff morale and perceived competence — ultimately forcing a strategic reset.
Events in This Arc
A routine logistics spat about an outdoor speech collapses into a small crisis that exposes larger White House unease. Toby and Sam bicker about weather sources and the need to …
A stalled, demoralized senior staff absorbs devastating poll results and the news that Mandy's opposition memo will run alongside them — a public one-two punch that crystallizes months of caution. …
Triggered by devastating poll numbers and Mandy's memo, Leo confronts a chastened President Bartlet about the administration's paralysis. In a raw, intimate Oval Office exchange Leo accuses Bartlet of asking …