Welcome to a typically chaotic day at the Bartlet White House! You know it's gonna be a bad day when President Bartlet rides his bicycle into a tree. In the President's absence, Chief of Staff Leo McGarry deals with Cuban refugees on their way to Miami; Deputy Communications Director Sam Seaborn realizes that he accidentally slept with a call girl; and Press Secretary CJ Cregg manages to keep the press corps away from the story they want: Whether Deputy Chief of Staff Josh Lyman will be fired for controversial comments he made on Capital Beat, a sticky situation made worse when Communications Director Toby Ziegler arranges a meeting with representatives of the Christian Right.

2000 Emmy Award Winner:
Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series
Outstanding Art Direction for a Single-Camera Series
Outstanding Cinematography for a Single-Camera Series

2000 Emmy Award Nominee:
Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series

2000 ACE Eddie Award Winner:
Best Edited One-Hour Series for Television

Starring:

ROB LOWE as Sam Seaborn
DULÉ HILL as Charlie Young
ALLISON JANNEY as C.J. Cregg
MOIRA KELLY as Mandy Hampton
RICHARD SCHIFF as Toby Ziegler
JOHN SPENCER as Leo McGarry
BRADLEY WHITFORD as Josh Lyman
and MARTIN SHEEN as President Josiah Bartlet

Leo: How many are there?

Josh:  We don’t know.

Leo:  What time, exactly, did they leave?

Josh:  We don’t know.

Leo:  Do we know when they get here?

Josh:  No.

Leo:  True or False: If I were to stand on high ground in Key West with a good pair of binoculars, I would be as informed as I am right now.

Josh:  That’s true.

Leo:  The intelligence budget’s money well spent, isn’t it?

CJ:  Is there anything I can say, other than the President rode his bicycle into a tree?

Leo:  He hopes never to do it again.

CJ:  Seriously. They’re laughing pretty hard.

Leo:  He rode his bicycle into a tree, CJ. What do you want me to -- “The President, while riding a bicycle on his vacation in Jackson Hole, came to a sudden arboreal stop” -- What do you want from me?

Sam:  I’m just saying, isn’t this more of a military area?

Leo:  Military?

Sam:  Yeah.

Toby:  You think the United States is under attack from 1200 Cubans in rowboats?

Sam:  I’m not saying I don’t like our chances.

Toby:  Mind-boggling to me that we ever won an election.

Larry:  Every day, 17,000 Americans defend themselves with a gun--

Sam:  That’s flat-out not true.

Ed:  --including a 76-year-old grandmother in Chicago, who defended herself against an intruder in the middle of the night.

Larry:  Just don’t use the stats.

Sam:  The 76-year-old grandmother doesn’t defend herself with a modified AK-47 Assault Rifle, Larry. Unless she’s defending herself against Turkish rebels. 

Caldwell:   Why does he insist on demonizing us as a group?

Leo:  Because your group has plenty of demons.

Caldwell:   Every group has plenty of demons.

Leo:  You don’t have to tell me about it, Reverend. I’m a member of the Democratic Party.

Mallory:  I’m sorry to be rude, but are you a moron?

Sam:  In this particular area, yes.

Mallory:  The 18th President was Ulysses S. Grant, and the Roosevelt Room was named for Theodore.

Sam:  Really?

Mallory:  There’s like a six-foot painting on the wall of Teddy Roosevelt.

Sam:  I should’ve put two and two together.

Josh:  Okay, can I just say that, as it turned out, I was the calmest person in the room?

Toby:  Hey.

CJ:  Way to stay cool.

Toby:  I am not empowered to auction off the Bill of Rights.

Josh:  I thought you were going to take a swing at her there.

Toby:  She was calling us New York Jews, Josh.

Josh:  Yeah, but being from Connecticut, I didn’t mind so much. You, CJ, on the other hand, were brilliant. I particularly liked the part where you said nothing at all.