I just looked at the tape.
Vinick's announcement? Makes you want to cry like a little girl, doesn't it?
It's a tough primary for him. I wouldn't tear my shirt yet.
Russell offered me campaign manager.
Really?
Turned him down. Hoynes asked too.
Popular. You change your cologne or something?
Think Hoynes could win?
With Baker out? Russell's got a huge financial advantage. Sitting VP, he's going to raise a lot more money and he's in a position to offer a lot more favors.
Hoynes is a guy without a job.
That said, Hoynes is much more experienced in the job that Bob Russell holds, he was elected senator of a huge, complicated, and usually Republican state and Russell got elected representative of a district the size of my thumb.
Hoynes is smarter than Russell. He'll kick his ass in the debates.
And he's got more foreign policy experience. It could happen. But you gotta want to work for him and you gotta want him to win. You want that?
I want to get Jed Bartlet a third term.
Yeah. What happened to the good old days when a couple of hacks with cigars chose the nominee in a smoke-filled back room?
They didn't do so bad, did they? Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower.
We need a back room.
Well, we just about outlawed smoking and at this point I'm not allowed to look at a cigar. But we're it. You and me. This is the back room.
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