| 1.19 LET BARTLET BE BARTLET TOBY: Is it gonna rain? SAM: No. TOBY: Really looks like it's gonna rain. SAM: It's overcast. TOBY: Isn't that usually what it is before it rains? SAM: They use sattellites, they use technology. ::Thunder:: TOBY: This is the same sattellite technology we use to detect intercontinental ballistic missles? POTUS: Can we get this god-forsaken event over with so I can go back to presiding over a civilization gone to hell in a handcart? POTUS: You didn't know it was raining? TOBY: To our credit, sir, we knew it was raining once it started to rain. JOSH: Did you just call me "Baby" back there? DONNA: YEah. JOSH: Okay. CJ: The theme of this year's event is "Learning is Delightful and Delicious." As, by the way, am I. JOSH: How do you know to be standing here? DONNA: I see you through the window. JOSH: You don't have a window. DONNA: You have a window. JOSH: What are you doing in my office? DONNA: Looking for you out the window. JOSH: If we do a thing with the FEC, they're gonna put English as the National Language on the table. DONNA: Are we for it or against it? JOSH: Donna. DONNA: I mean, we're not in favour of making another language the national language - Dutch or something? FITZ: Thing is that's what they were saying about me fifty years ago. "Blacks shouldn't serve with whites, it'll disrupt the unit." It did disrupt the unit. The unit changed. The unit got over it. I'm Admiral in the U.S. Navy and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Beat that with a stick. MARGARET: You should get one of those muffins and...take it down to the lab. TOBY: Okay. MARGARET: Will you? TOBY: Get me a muffin, careful not to handle it yourself you'll wanna use gloves, give it to me in a plastic bag I'll send it off to the lab. MARGARET: You're mocking me now, aren't you? POTUS: We’ve heard it all before, Leo. You drive me to political safe ground. It’s not true. LEO: know it’s not true. POTUS: Good. LEO: You drive me there. POTUS: What the hell did you say? LEO: And you know it too. POTUS: Leo? LEO: We’re stuck in neutral because that’s where you tell me to stay. POTUS: You’re wrong. LEO: No. I’m not, sir. POTUS: You want to do this now? LEO: Sir? POTUS: You came to my house, Leo. LEO: Mr. President? POTUS: You came to my house, and you said, “Jed, let’s run for president.” I said, “Why?” And you said, “So that you can open your mouth and say what you think!” Where’d that part go, Leo? LEO: You tell me, Mr. President. I don’t see a shortage of cameras or microphones around here. What the hell were you waiting for? POTUS: Look... LEO: Everything you do... POTUS: This morning- LEO: Everything you do says: “For God’s sakes, Leo. I don’t want to be a one-term president.” POTUS: Did I not say put our guys on the F.E.C.? LEO: No sir. You did not do that. POTUS: Leo! LEO: You said -- No! You said, let’s dangle our feet in the water of whatever the hell it is we dangle our feet in, when we want to make it look like we’re trying without pissing too many people off! POTUS: You’re writing a fascinating version of history, my friend. LEO: Oh, take a look at Mandy’s memo, Mr. President, and you’ll read a fascinating version of it. POTUS: You brought me in on teachers. You brought me in on capital gains. You brought me in on China. And you brought me in on guns. LEO: Brought you in from where? You’ve never been out there on guns. You’ve never been out there on teachers. You dangle your feet, and I’m the hall monitor around here. It’s my job to make sure nobody runs too fast or goes off too far. I tell Josh to go to the Hill on campaign finance, he knows nothing’s gonna come out of it. POTUS: That’s crap. LEO: Sam can’t get real on Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell because you’re not gonna be there, and every guy sitting across the room from him knows that. POTUS: Leo, if I ever told you to get aggressive about campaign finance or gays in the military, you would tell me, “Don’t run too fast or go to far.” LEO: If you ever told me to get aggressive about anything, I’d say I serve at the pleasure of the president. But we’ll never know, sir, because I don’t think you’re ever gonna say it. POTUS: I have said it, and nothing’s every happened! LEO: You want to see me orchestrate this right now? You want to see me mobilize these people? These people who would walk into fire if you told them to. These people who showed up to lead. These people who showed up to fight. (points at Charlie) That guy gets death threats because he’s black and he dates your daughter. He was warned: “Do not show up to this place. You’re life will be in danger.” He said, “To hell with that, I’m going anyway.” You said, “No.” Prudent, or not prudent, this 21 year old for 600 dollars a week says, “I’m going where I want to because a man stands up.”(pause) Everyone’s waiting for you. I don’t know how much longer. POTUS: I don’t want to feel like this anymore. LEO: You don’t have to. POTUS: I don’t want to go to sleep like this. LEO: You don’t have to. POTUS: I want to speak. LEO: Say it out loud. Say it to me. POTUS: This is more important than reelection. I want to speak now. LEO: Say it again. POTUS: This is more important than reelection. I want to speak now. LEO: Now we’re in business! POTUS: What’s happening? LEO: We got our asses kicked in the first quarter, and it’s time we move up the mat. POTUS: Yes! LEO: Say it. POTUS: This is more important than reelection. I want to speak now. LEO: (while writing) I’m gonna talk to the staff. I’m gonna take them off the leash. POTUS: You have a strategy for all this? LEO: I have the beginnings of one. POTUS: What is it? LEO: I’m gonna try that out for a little while. (He sets down the pad, which reads "Let Bartlet be Bartlet") |