The Leadership Breakfast

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“The Leadership Breakfast”
The West Wing episode
Episode no.	Season 2 Episode 33
Guest stars	Felicity Huffman Corbin Bernsen NiCole Robinson
Written by	Aaron Sorkin (teleplay) Paul Redford (story)
Directed by	Scott Winant
Production no.	226211
Original airdate
Season 2 episodes
In the Shadow of Two Gunmen, Part I In the Shadow of Two Gunmen, Part II The Midterms In This White House And It's Surely To Their Credit The Lame Duck Congress The Portland Trip Shibboleth Galileo Noël The Leadership Breakfast The Drop-In Bartlet's Third State of the Union The War at Home Ellie Somebody's Going to Emergency, Somebody's Going to Jail The Stackhouse Filibuster 17 People Bad Moon Rising The Fall's Gonna Kill You 18th and Potomac Two Cathedrals
List of The West Wing episodes

"The Leadership Breakfast" is the 33rd episode of The West Wing.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

1 Plot
2 Quotes
3 Trivia
4 External link

[edit] Plot

With Congress reconvening, the White House is planning a "leadership breakfast" to encourage bipartisan cooperation. But first, Toby must meet with Ann Stark, the Senate Majority Leader's new chief of staff, to go over details—and there are plenty of devils in those details. Ann's boss, it appears, has Presidential ambitions. "They're coming after us," Toby tells Leo. Meanwhile, Sam wants to move the press corps to new quarters across the street; and Leo, Sam and Donna embarrass themselves (in turn) in front of an influential columnist.

In other events, an efficiency expert suggests freeing up space by moving the Press Room. 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.

Also Sam and Josh, attempted to start a fire in the fireplace as the heat isn't working. Inevitably this leads to fire alarms.

[edit] Quotes

Josh: Donna?
Donna: What was in the envelope?
Josh: Your underwear.
Donna: What?
Josh: I'm holding your ... underwear ... in my hand right now. And the way I know it's your underwear is that your name is sewn in the back--which is obviously something we'll spend some time talking about at a later date.

Charlie (to the President): Remember how you told me not to wake you unless the building was on a fire?

[edit] Trivia

Many sources say the fictional influential columnist that most of the staff spend the episode trying to impress, Karen Cahill, is based on real life New York Times writer Maureen Dowd.