[to Ed & Larry] This meeting's about politics. Facts won't help.
“Full Disclosure” · Season 5
In this episode: Toby Ziegler (4), C.J. Cregg (4), Leo McGarry (1), Charlie Young (1), Will Bailey (1), Hoynes (1)
What do I need to catch up on?
The President signed a school vouchers bill for D.C.
Are you kidding? I leave the building for an hour and he switches parties.
Promise me something.
What?
You'll never let them make a list of my screw-ups. They wouldn't have enough paper.
CJ.
Yeah?
Don't go on TV with Taylor Reid again unless you're going to tell him what an idiotic, shallow, uninformed, and lying punk he is.
I think he knows that.
Check with Margaret about the Mural Room.
The Vice President has it.
For what?
He's the Vice President, Toby. I don't have to justify his using a room.
Of course not. For what?
You can tell the President he doesn't have to worry about the book. I'm not going to try to make him look bad. I just wanted to get this scandal behind me, so I can get on with my life.
Tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?
Well... I'm gonna call it Full Disclosure. What do you think? Good title?
Am I going to be in the book?
Yes. Not mentioning you would be kind of strange, don't you think? I mean, next to the President and the Vice President, you're the most visible person working in the White House.
I'd prefer not to be.
C.J., you've got nothing to worry about, I promise.
[C.J. turns to leave.]
What are you going to do in the campaign when the stories start coming out?
Those stories?
No. The other women.
I haven't decided to run, I really...
Because there have been other women, right? Lots of women, right? Because the way you came on to me... way too smooth, way too practiced.
C.J., that was ten years ago. I'm sorry...
When you run for President, the press is going to find some of those women. And if you try to attack them, if you get your opposition research team working on them, if you try to destroy them, if you try to say they're all bimbos and liars, then I'll be standing right there with them, and I'll be ready to take anything you or your people throw at me, anything. So don't make me tell the truth about you because it will be the whole truth.
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