President Bartlet's internal and institutional crisis: reclaiming moral leadership and reversing a culture of caution and resignation within the White House.

On the way into a trout-fishermen event, a rain-soaked West Wing entourage mirrors the administration's disarray: Bartlet is irritable and restless, Mrs. Landingham steadies him, and the staff arrives unprepared …

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 …