Over CJ's strenuous objections, Sam and Josh try to persuade Leo and the President to call a lame duck session to pass a comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty. The Oval Office arguments are sufficiently chaotic to justify Leo's decision to impose order on his errant staffers, though Josh worries it will cramp their styles. Toby is shocked when his meeting with the nuclear test ban treaty's strongest supporter reveals that they can't win the vote anyway. CJ argues that Danny Concannon shouldn't get access to the President after his paper savages the administration several times, but is overruled. Josh attempts to handle a drunken Ukrainian leader, and ends up delegating the task to Donna. Meanwhile, Ainsley sets out to summarize Sam's position on small business fraud laws and ends up reversing it instead, and Donna stages a work-slowdown after a dismissive remark about repetitive stress injuries from Leo.

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

Donna:  Pain in your forearm, no grip, you lose the ability to pinch.

Josh:  People who lose the ability to pinch.  I gotta tell you, I don't know from where they summon the will to go on.

Donna:  You guys are on the wrong side of this.

Josh:  Aren't you one of you guys?

Donna:  Not on this.

Leo:  There's going to be an editorial in the Post tomorrow.

CJ:  You're kidding me.

Leo:  The President's time isn't being used efficiently.

CJ:  It couldn't wait?

Leo:  Schedules are abandoned before lunch.

CJ:  That's four in two weeks.

Leo:  The West Wing resembles a high school yearbook office.  And I believe I'm compared to a substitute teacher.

Josh:  Vasily Konanov is in the driveway, he's drunk, and he won't get out of the car until he speaks to the President.

Sam:  And we have a winner.

Leo:  Are you kidding me?

Josh:  He's sitting in a car with a woman who I imagine is either a security attaché or a hooker.

Sam:  Please tell me it's not--

Josh:  It's no one you know, Sam.

Sam:  I'm going to take Ainsley to the Hill with me for the meetings.

Leo:  Good.

Sam:  She wants me to teach her a couple things.

Leo:  Good.

Sam:  She called me The Master.

Leo:  Get out.

Leo:  Is this the two-minute pitch or the ten-minute pitch?

CJ:  The two-minute pitch.

Leo:  Go.

CJ:  Okay, now you threw me off my game.

Leo:  CJ.

CJ:  No, I'm nervous, now. 

Leo:  C'mon.

CJ:  I feel like if I run over, you're gonna have the orchestra play me off.

Leo:  I'm getting older over here, CJ.

Sam:  You reversed my position.

Ainsley:  Yeah.

Sam:  I gave this to you to summarize and you didn't summarize it so much as you reversed my position.

Ainsley:  I gave it a little polish, yeah.

Sam:  You reversed my position.

Ainsley:  It's shorter.

Sam:  It is shorter, and you reversed my position.

Ainsley:  Your position was wrong.

Danny:  Hey, CJ.

CJ:  Hey, nimrod.

Danny:  Look, I leaked your damn story for you.

CJ:  You leaked it for me, I leaked it to you, pal.  I used you like so much... whatever.

Danny:  Well put.