Amy is challenged and tormented from all sides in her first day as Chief of Staff to the First Lady. Her first task is to prove that Abbey's relative was a privateer and not a pirate. And a ... Read allAmy is challenged and tormented from all sides in her first day as Chief of Staff to the First Lady. Her first task is to prove that Abbey's relative was a privateer and not a pirate. And a glacier melts!Amy is challenged and tormented from all sides in her first day as Chief of Staff to the First Lady. Her first task is to prove that Abbey's relative was a privateer and not a pirate. And a glacier melts!
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- TriviaThe entire episode takes place within a day. Bookended by the President waking up and then going to sleep.
- GoofsAmy and Josh are debating a rider to a bill about abortion and Amy says to him "I also don't think you have a reproductive system" to which Josh agrees. And, of course, men do have reproductive systems. They don't, however, give birth - which was her point.
- Quotes
President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet: German thinker Max Weber said that politics is the "slow boring of hard boards and that anyone who seeks to do it must risk his own soul". You know what that means?
Abbey Bartlet: I like how you think that patronizing me is going to make me feel better. It's sweet.
President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet: It means that change comes in excruciating increments for those who want it. You're trying to move mountains. It takes lifetimes. But Zoey Bartlet is the newest Daughter of the American Revolution so I like our chances for the long run.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The 55th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (2003)
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- May 31, 2023