As the President wings back from a Tokyo trade summit, a firestorm of controversy awaits him when Surgeon General Griffith (guest star Mary Kay Place) hints that marijuana should be decriminalized — but Bartlet is even more incensed over his meek middle daughter Ellie’s (guest star Nina Siemaszko) public assurances that her father would never fire Griffith. When he confronts Ellie, the President gets a sobering reality check about their relationship. Elsewhere: Toby floats an idea of putting a controversial Senator on a special commission to study social security reform and encounters resistance to the notion of raising the retirement age; Sam tries to head off the misleading story that the White House refused to screen an incendiary new film promoted by a savvy movie producer.