Episode Number - 203
Original Airdate - October 18, 2000
Written by - Aaron Sorkin
Directed by - Alex Graves

As one of the President's staff, Josh recovers from bullet wounds, the rest of the team pushes on to the "mid-term" congressional elections in November -- but as CJ deflects press requests on how the assassination attempt has affected the mood in the White House, she knows that nearly everyone bears psychological scars in its aftermath. In particular, Charlie is affected when he learns more about the shooting and reacts coldly both to Bartlet and Zoey. For his part, Toby surveys the President's newfound popularity in the polls and proposes that the administration pursue a course that would turn up the heat on extremist groups while Sam convinces a friend, Tom Jordan to run for Congress after the death of Grant Samuels, the current congressman. Elsewhere, Bartlet is obsessed with an obscure school board election in New Hampshire for purely personal reasons.

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Quotes
Bartlet: "Good morning, everybody. Anybody know what the word 'acalculia' means?"
Sam: "It's the inability to form arithmetic functions. I'm sorry, Mr. President. You wanted to answer your own question, didn't you?"
Bartlet: "Yeah, but I'll get over it."
Sam: "Good for you, sir. That's very mature."
Bartlet: "Shut up."
Sam: "You're not over it yet, are you?"

Josh: "Tell me democracy doesn't have a sense of humor. We sit here, we drink this beer out here on the stoop, in violation about 47 city ordinances. I don't know, Toby, it's election night. What do you say about a government that goes out of its way to protect even citizens that try to destroy it?"
Toby: "God bless America."

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