When Sam gets his ass handed to him by Republican neophyte Ainsley Hayes on Capital Beat, the President offers her a job. A disgruntled Leo tells CJ and Sam the news in the bullpen to avoid a scene -- but sleep-deprived CJ gives him one anyway. Toby and Josh attempt to break a deadlock between AIDS-ravaged African countries' leaders and representatives of the U.S. companies that hold patents for AIDS drugs. CJ accidentally confirms the existence of a grand jury to a new reporter, and then suffers relentless insomnia. And President Bartlet tries to persuade President Nmbala to stay in the U.S. after there is a coup in his country, inadvertantly impressing a skeptical Ainsley Hayes in the process.

Starring:

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

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Toby:  Ginger, get the popcorn.

Bartlet:  Leo, as hard as you might try, the Republican Party isn't going anywhere.

Leo:  You don't know that for sure, sir. They could all end up moving to Vancouver.

Bartlet:  I don't think so.

Leo:  Me, neither, but being in power means everybody else can take a seat for four years.

Bartlet:  Charlie, I want to hire a women whose voice I think would fit in nicely around here.  She's a conservative Republican.  Do you think I should do it?

Charlie:  Absolutely, Mr. President.  'Cause I'm told that theirs is a party of inclusion.

Sam:  You slept none, not at all.

CJ:  Sam.

Sam:  I am, today, particularly excited about you being the spokesperson for the president.

Ainsley:  Mr. McGarry, I loathe almost everything you believe in.

Leo:  Where are you going?

Ainsley:  I'm not going anywhere.  I'm standing up, which is how one speaks in opposition in a civilized world.

Leo:  Well, you go, girl.

Sam:  This is the wrong place to talk about guns right now.  I thought your column was idiotic.

Ainsley:  Imagine my surprise.

Sam:  But for a brilliant surgical team and two centimeters of a miracle, this guys' dead right now.  From bullets fired from a gun bought legally.  They bought the guns, they loaded them, they drove from Wheeland to Rosslyn, and until they pulled the trigger they had yet to commit a crime.  I am so off the charts sick of the gun lobby tossing around words like personal freedom and nobody calling them on it.  It's not about personal freedom and it certainly doesn't have anything to do with public safety; it's just that some people like guns.