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Storyline
A bipartisan breakfast is being carefully staged to avoid any chance of conflict, so Toby strikes a deal with the majority leader's new Chief of Staff to get a discussion of real issues on the agenda. Sam thinks working conditions can be improved moving the press room across the street, but C.J. thinks it's a bad idea. Leo asks Josh to apologize to an important columnist on his behalf after making an embarrassing comment. Maneuvers by political opponents prompt Toby and Leo to begin thinking about reelection sooner than they expected. Written by
Murray Chapman
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Trivia
In this episode, Josh and Sam try to lite a fire in a White House fireplace only to find that it is only decorative when they set the fire alarms off. In January 2009, life imitated art when the Obama administration's new Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Peter R. Orszag, tried to light a fire in a fireplace in his office that filled other office suites with smoke and set the fire alarms off.
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Goofs
Charlie hands President Bartlet some remarks which Sam produced for the breakfast. President Bartlet reads aloud (with approval) from the text: "We spend so much time demonizing the other side, treating our opponents as if they were threatening strangers with whom we share nothing in common." Neither Bartlet nor Sam would have let a redundancy like "share nothing in common" into the text of a Presidential address.
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Quotes
Toby Ziegler:
Leo, Ann Stark's a wartime consigliere. That's why she was bumped up.
Leo McGarry:
I'm a wartime consigliere, too, Toby.
Toby Ziegler:
Yeah.
Leo McGarry:
I was just hoping it's be peacetime a little longer.
Toby Ziegler:
Yeah.
Leo McGarry:
Son of a bitch.
Toby Ziegler:
Yeah.
Leo McGarry:
Shake my hand.
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Toby and Leo shake hands]
Leo McGarry:
We just formed it.
[...]
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Connections
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Ice Station Zebra (1968)
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Soundtracks
"West Wing Main Title"
(uncredited)
Written by
W.G. Snuffy Walden
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Pete Anthony See more »