Despite skepticism from her colleagues, CJ publicly maintains that the favorability poll will show that President Bartlet's numbers will go up. Privately, she wonders whether Leo is edging her out of the administration. The President is busy playing musical ambassadors with Sam and Toby when he learns the married ambassador to Bulgaria is having an affair with the daughter of the prime minister. Josh argues incessantly with Joey Lucas over English as the national language, and Sam is caught by a tabloid photographer with his friend Laurie, a high-price call girl.

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

Toby:  We need to talk about the asymmetry of question six.

CJ:  We really don't.

Toby:  Since when are you an expert on language?

CJ:  In polling models?

Toby:  Okay.

CJ:  1993.  Since when are you an uptight pain in the ass?

Toby:  Since long before that.

Sam:  You're not going to fire the Ambassador.  You're going to promote him.

Bartlet:  To what?

Sam:  Ambassador to Paraguay.

Bartlet:  And what happens to the Ambassador to Paraguay?

Sam:  You make him the Ambassador to Bulgaria.

Bartlet:  Hey, I like this.  Of course, if everybody keeps moving up one, then I get to go home.

Danny:  There wasn't, I don't think, a huge reason to snap at me.

CJ:  It was a ridiculous question!

Danny:  No, it wasn't.

CJ:  Is the White House crusading for the rights of drug users?  You know that's not what I meant.

Danny:  I do know that's not what you meant, but I don't count on everybody understanding what the hell comes out of your mouth when I can't even do it half the time.