Bartlet wants to relax a 40 year old embargo on Cuba and its aging communist leader, Fidel Castro. Leo goes covert and visits Castro for talks hoping to seek reconciliation over a possible deal that he was involved with back in 1995.
Not surprisingly CJ, the president's chief-of-staff, is unaware of this, and soon comes to realise that what Bartlet is proposing will cause deep divisions with the Democratic party, and resentment from the CIA, FBI and NSC. It may also Josh and Donna's respective campaigns for the Democratic nomination.
With the use of flashbacks we learn that Leo was a heavy drinker back in '95; and from a Top Secret file that Kate Harper was a government undercover operative in Cuba at the same time.
In the mean time Charlie has to deal with a termite contamination in some rooms of the White House. This adds some light relief to the rather dark tone of the main story, but doesn't really go anywhere.
This episode has always been derided and weak, not least because it deals with a real character - Castro - rather than a made-up one. As a consequence the storyline fails to hold any credibility or real substance. And the brief flashback sequence with a "younger" Leo just adds to the silliness of it all.
Not surprisingly CJ, the president's chief-of-staff, is unaware of this, and soon comes to realise that what Bartlet is proposing will cause deep divisions with the Democratic party, and resentment from the CIA, FBI and NSC. It may also Josh and Donna's respective campaigns for the Democratic nomination.
With the use of flashbacks we learn that Leo was a heavy drinker back in '95; and from a Top Secret file that Kate Harper was a government undercover operative in Cuba at the same time.
In the mean time Charlie has to deal with a termite contamination in some rooms of the White House. This adds some light relief to the rather dark tone of the main story, but doesn't really go anywhere.
This episode has always been derided and weak, not least because it deals with a real character - Castro - rather than a made-up one. As a consequence the storyline fails to hold any credibility or real substance. And the brief flashback sequence with a "younger" Leo just adds to the silliness of it all.
