Toby and Bartlet in “Third-Day Story”

We're fumbling. Our diplomatic strategy is a game of telephone.

Read the coverage. We're doing fine.

Today, sure, and the second day's story is how you pulled it off. But the third-day story is that Congress doesn't want to pay, that our coalition's fraying, that the spokes are coming off the wheels–

It's a couple of days. This was totally unexpected.

No, it wasn't. Not with Leo's history with alcohol, with pills. Mr. President, surely you had a process in place.

Not for this. You think we'd even be doing this without him?

No, sir, but Leo is one person and there are 290 million more and they come first.