If mass genocide had broken out in a small European country, would your intelligence briefing this morning have been so sketchy?
As reports of genocide in the Republic of Equatorial Kundu start to trickle in, the President and Leo wonder how many American lives would be lost if they tried to stop the violence. Toby and Will clash over language for the foriegn policy section of Bartlet's impending Inaugural address, while Josh deals with backlash from the State Department -- plus Donna's concern for her boyfriend, Jack Reese. CJ misdirects Danny, who's still chasing the story on Abdul Shareef's death, and Charlie chases down Bibles for the President.
Credits
Story by Michael Oates Palmer & William Sind
Directed by CHRISTOPHER MISIANO
Starring:
STOCKARD CHANNING as First Lady Abigail Bartlet
DULÉ HILL as Charlie Young
ALLISON JANNEY as C.J. Cregg
JOSHUA MALINA as Will Bailey
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
Guest Starring:
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Related Links:
AfricaOnline: Ex-Mayor ordered Church Massacre, says Witness
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide by the U.N. General Assembly
The Genocide Convention at Fifty
We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families: Stories from Rwanda
A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
New Hampshire Historical Society
Meter: Poetic Feet
allpolitics: An Inaugural Sampler -- the Bible
The Marshall Plan
Dialogue Excerpts:
Will: Especially this President?
Lilly: That's right.
Will: Because of the clause in Article II that says not every President gets the full powers of Commander-in-Chief.
Lilly: Are you rewriting the section?
Will: Yes.
Lilly: Dramatically?
Will: Well, I like to think I have a certain flair.
Bartlet: Speaking of New Hampshire, don't I own the Bartlet Bible?
Charlie: It was sold at auction.
Bartlet: I know. I bought it.
Charlie: And you donated it to the New Hampshire Historical Society.
Bartlet: And they won't loan it back to me so that I can be Inaugurated?
Charlie: Mr. Cravenly felt bad about that.
Bartlet: Why is a Kundunese life worth less to me than an American life?
Will: I don't know, sir, but it is.
Bartlet: That was ballsy.
Will: I won't be working here long.
Bartlet: I'm just as big a cotton-candyass as they are.
Josh: Yes, sir.
Bartlet: You're just going to let that hang in the air?
Josh: Of course not, sir, you're a much bigger cotton-candyass than they are.
Bartlet: Damn right.