First Lady Abbey Bartlet is leading the charge against child labor -- and putting a bill her husband and his staff support in jeopardy. When she expresses her preference for Ron Erhlich, an old boyfriend, for a top position at the Fed, the Bartlets have their first Oval Office fight. Meanwhile, Zoey has to tell Charlie they can't go to a club opening together because white supremacists have been threatening him. Josh and a resentful Toby try to finesse more votes for the international tariff bill, while Sam tangles with the First Lady's Chief of Staff and CJ tries to learn President Bartlet's important signs.

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:  We want to show that the president is reaching out to Congress for a budget compromise.  He's literally going to Congress.

Lilly:  He's being driven six blocks in a stretch limo, Sam.  It's not like he's Henry Clay.

Sam:  It's a symbol.

Lilly:  Your guy steps out of a motorcade, and that's three column inches above the fold.  My guy's on page 23.

Sam:  Your guy's married to our guy, and our guy won an election.

Sam:  I'll tell you this, though, I'm going to the gym today.

Toby:  Okay, that doesn't seem to be about anything that interests me.

Sam:  I'm just saying, Bernie Dahl has a heart attack -- bang -- right out of nowhere.

Toby  It was his fifth heart attack, Sam.  He's 138 years old.

Sam:  Well, these are highly stressful jobs.  I haven't been to the gym in three weeks.

Toby:  Look at yourself, Sam.  How much healthier do you want to be?

Josh:  No, we're gonna do good cop/bad cop.

Toby:  No, we're really not.

Josh:  Why not?

Toby:  Because this isn't an episode of Hawaii 5-0.  How about you be the good cop, I'll be the cop that doesn't go to the meeting.

Josh:  This right here is why you have a reputation as a pain in the ass.

Toby:  I cultivated that reputation.

Josh:  Could I get you to try harder in there?

Toby:  Sure, because right now, I'm not trying at all.

Danny:  You keep glancing over here like you're afraid I'm going to steal something.

Mrs. Landingham:  No.  I'm just not used to having members of the print media in here.

Danny:  I'll try not to get ink on the furniture.

Mrs. Landingham:  Aw, Danny.  And I was just about to offer you a cookie.

Danny:  And now?

Mrs. Landingham:  No.

Bartlet:  On that point, I concede the high ground.

Abbey:  And I concede I was wrong about the thing.

Bartlet:  Good.

Abbey:  However--

Bartlet:  No.  No "however."  Just be wrong.  Just stand there in your wrongness and be wrong and get used to it.

Abbey:  However.