The Leadership Breakfast
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"The Leadership Breakfast" is the 33rd episode of The West Wing
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In other events, an efficiency expert suggests freeing up space by moving the Press Room to the Old Executive Office Building
across the street. Sam argues such a move would be beneficial and has the question inserted into a telephone poll to see if the public would object. By bad luck a reporter is polled.
Meanwhile, Sam is sent to apologize to an influential reporter for a gaffe of Leo's but in the course of conversation with her accidentally confuses two former Soviet Republics. He asks Donna to approach the reporter at an art gallery and playfully clarify that Sam can tell the two nations apart, but Donna accidentally leaves a pair of her underwear on the floor in front of the reporter. The comedy of errors ends when the President turns down Donna's request that he call the reporter to clarify that Donna was not hitting on her.
The West Wing (TV series)
The West Wing is an American television serial drama created by Aaron Sorkin that was originally broadcast on NBC from September 22, 1999 to May 14, 2006...
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Plot
Toby wants real issues to be discussed at a breakfast to herald the start of the new legislative session, including minimum wage and health care coverage. He meets with an old friend who is also the new chief of staff for the "most powerful Republican in the country" and cuts a deal with her which would allow for discussion of those issues in exchange for holding the follow-up press conference on Capitol Hill instead of in front of the White House. In conversation with her, Toby mentions that the Democrats intend to have a vote on the minimum wage or they will attach an amendment "to everything that moves." C.J. is adamantly opposed to Toby's compromise, and her distrust of the senate majority leader's chief of staff turns out to be well-deserved: at the press conference on the Hill, it becomes clear that the chief of staff has leaked Toby's threat to a reporter, effectively double-crossing him while also announcing that her boss intends to run for President. Toby is dismayed and the President is furious with him. Leo tells Toby that it is time for them to form the committee to re-elect the President.In other events, an efficiency expert suggests freeing up space by moving the Press Room to the Old Executive Office Building
Old Executive Office Building
The Eisenhower Executive Office Building , formerly known as the Old Executive Office Building and as the State, War, and Navy Building, is an office building in Washington, D.C., just west of the White House...
across the street. Sam argues such a move would be beneficial and has the question inserted into a telephone poll to see if the public would object. By bad luck a reporter is polled.
Meanwhile, Sam is sent to apologize to an influential reporter for a gaffe of Leo's but in the course of conversation with her accidentally confuses two former Soviet Republics. He asks Donna to approach the reporter at an art gallery and playfully clarify that Sam can tell the two nations apart, but Donna accidentally leaves a pair of her underwear on the floor in front of the reporter. The comedy of errors ends when the President turns down Donna's request that he call the reporter to clarify that Donna was not hitting on her.