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Episode 303
WAYS AND MEANS
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Personal
Political Strategist Bruno Gianelli and his staff continue to lead the re-election committee, though members of the White House staff are less than thrilled that outsiders were brought in to helm the campaign.
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Political
During a briefing about a possible invasion of Haiti, CJ was asked if the President's motive might have been to shift attention from his MS announcement. CJ responded that the President is "relieved to be focusing on something that matters," inadvertently suggesting to the press and the nation that the idea of sending soldiers into battle is a "relief" to this President. Realizing her error, CJ offered her resignation to President Bartlet, who wouldn't accept it.
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When a fearless special prosecutor (guest star Nicholas Pryor) begins investigating the President's (Martin Sheen) non-disclosure of his illness and issues subpoenas to the White House staff, C.J. (Allison Janney) cannily tries to light a backfire by dropping clues to the press that might ultimately force the replacement of the prosecutor with someone more favorable to the Administration. Elsewhere: a real forest fire rages in Wyoming but the governor is incensed when Bartlet backs the forestry experts who believe the fire should just burn itself out; the President is in a political bind as he decides whether or not to push for the repeal of the estate tax -- or "the death tax," as labeled by his savvy rivals, and a wary Donna (Janel Moloney) goes out on a blind date with a charming Republican (guest star Mark Feuerstein, "What Women Want") who might represent a conflict of interest. John Spencer, Rob Lowe, Richard Schiff, Bradley Whitford, Dule Hill and Stockard Channing also star. TV-PG
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