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PRESIDENT BARTLET: Sorry, I got tied up.

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SAM: No, it's fine.

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PRESIDENT BARTLET: Let's get back to it.

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SAM: You know sir, I looked something up while you were gone.

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Eisenhower, it seemed at all costs wanted to avoid sending ships to

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resupply Quemoy and Matsu because they'd be less than a mile from the Chinese army.

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A private could, well,

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everybody was a private in Mau's army,

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but a private could fire on the ship and that'd be it.

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There'd be a war. There'd have to be. Eisenhower wouldn't do it.

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PRESIDENT BARTLET: No.

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SAM: Why are you?

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PRESIDENT BARTLET: Look at the whole board.

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SAM: I am.

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PRESIDENT BARTLET: You're not.

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SAM: I'm trying.

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PRESIDENT BARTLET: Sam.

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SAM: Why put the carrier groups in the Taiwan Strait?

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PRESIDENT BARTLET: Are they in the Taiwan Strait?

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SAM: They're on their way.

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PRESIDENT BARTLET: Is that the same thing?

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SAM: To this end.

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OFFICIAL: Sir.

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PRESIDENT BARTLET: Like this.

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Turn them around.

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I'll make some calls and thank people.

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OFFICIAL: Yes, sir.

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PRESIDENT BARTLET: Thank you by the way.

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OFFICIAL: You too.

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SAM: I'd like to try it without looking at them now.

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PRESIDENT BARTLET: Okay.

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SAM: China agrees to stand down the war games.

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PRESIDENT BARTLET: Right.

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SAM: They agreed to let Taiwan test the Patriots. One Patriot.

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PRESIDENT BARTLET: Yes.

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SAM: Please I want to be right about this.

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We agree not to sell Taiwan

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the Aegis destroyers for a period of, I don't know, five years.

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PRESIDENT BARTLET: Ten years. But you got it.

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SAM: Sir. The Aegis radar technology isn't something that, I mean,

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what if Taiwan did fall to China and now they have,

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plus these ships cost something like $800 million a piece.

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Buying four of them would eat up half of Taiwan's defense budget.

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PRESIDENT BARTLET: And so?

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SAM: You never were going to sell them the destroyers.

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PRESIDENT BARTLET: But everybody wakes up alive in the morning and saves a little face.

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SAM: I don't know how you... I don't know the word. I don't know how you do it.

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PRESIDENT BARTLET: You have a lot of help. You listen to everybody and then you call the play.

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Sam, you're going to run for president one day. Don't be scared.

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You've been doing. I believe in you. That's checkmate.

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