While guest lecturing at a local college, Josh tracks the real-time arrest of Bartlet's Supreme Court nominee Roberto Mendoza and recounts the previous day's flubs. A HUD Secretary implies that a prominent Republican Congressman is a racist, sparking an accidental P.R. snafu when Bartlet publicly calls for her to apologize. On Sam's urging, CJ goes to her dentist and comes back with a mouthful of cotton, which means Josh (mis)handles the press briefing. Danny Concannon sets off a storm of questions that result in Josh accidentally announcing that the President has a secret plan to fight inflation. Justice Mendoza publicly criticizes the President's demand for an apology from Secretary O'Leary, and is called onto the carpet. On his way down to D.C., however, Mendoza is mistakenly arrested for drunk driving, and Sam and Toby are sent to Wesley, Connecticut to get him out of jail.

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

Sam:  Your teeth are the best friends you've got, CJ.

CJ:  They are?

Sam:  You take care of them, they'll take care of you.

CJ:  When did you start talking like this?

Sam:  I'm a nut for dental hygiene.

Toby:  On C-SPAN, she called him a racist?

Josh:  No, no.  Not just Wooten.  She was pretty careful to include all Republicans.

Toby:  Why are you good-humored about this?

Josh:  She was baited.

Toby:  I don't care.

Josh:  She was baited and she was right.

Bartlet:  If the shoe fits?  Is that the best she could do?

Leo:  Of her many transgressions, Mr. President, let's not worry about she resorted to cliché.

Toby:  How do you know we're going east?

Sam:  The sun rises in the east.

Toby:  It's dark outside.

Sam:  Also, that bright star in the northern sky is Polaris.

Toby:  So what?

Sam:  I'm using celestial navigation.

Toby:  Hey, Galileo, get off at the next exit and turn the car around.

Katie:  But he has no plan to address inflation specifically?

Josh:  Twenty-four Ph.D.s on the Council of Economic Advisors, Katie.  They have a plan to fight inflation.

Danny:  Is the reason you won't tell us about it that it's a secret?

Josh:  Yeah, Danny, we have a secret inflation plan.