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Dialogue: 0,0:00:01.25,0:00:03.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,PRESIDENT BARTLET: Sorry, I got tied up.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:03.63,0:00:05.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,SAM: No, it's fine.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.72,0:00:08.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,PRESIDENT BARTLET: Let's get back to it.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.51,0:00:11.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,SAM: You know sir, I looked something up while you were gone.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.42,0:00:15.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Eisenhower, it seemed at all costs wanted to avoid sending ships to
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.28,0:00:19.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,resupply Quemoy and Matsu because they'd be less than a mile from the Chinese army.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.36,0:00:20.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A private could, well,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.76,0:00:22.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,everybody was a private in Mau's army,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.64,0:00:24.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but a private could fire on the ship and that'd be it.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.94,0:00:28.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There'd be a war. There'd have to be. Eisenhower wouldn't do it.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.13,0:00:29.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,PRESIDENT BARTLET: No.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.45,0:00:31.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,SAM: Why are you?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.34,0:00:32.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,PRESIDENT BARTLET: Look at the whole board.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.98,0:00:33.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,SAM: I am.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.48,0:00:34.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,PRESIDENT BARTLET: You're not.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.08,0:00:34.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,SAM: I'm trying.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.96,0:00:35.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,PRESIDENT BARTLET: Sam.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.74,0:00:38.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,SAM: Why put the carrier groups in the Taiwan Strait?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.09,0:00:39.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,PRESIDENT BARTLET: Are they in the Taiwan Strait?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.82,0:00:40.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,SAM: They're on their way.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.52,0:00:42.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,PRESIDENT BARTLET: Is that the same thing?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.57,0:00:45.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,SAM: To this end.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.44,0:00:49.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,OFFICIAL: Sir.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.26,0:00:52.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,PRESIDENT BARTLET: Like this.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.00,0:01:10.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Turn them around.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.04,0:01:12.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'll make some calls and thank people.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.22,0:01:13.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,OFFICIAL: Yes, sir.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.27,0:01:15.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,PRESIDENT BARTLET: Thank you by the way.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.48,0:01:17.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,OFFICIAL: You too.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.96,0:01:32.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,SAM: I'd like to try it without looking at them now.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.99,0:01:34.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,PRESIDENT BARTLET: Okay.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.86,0:01:38.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,SAM: China agrees to stand down the war games.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.90,0:01:39.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,PRESIDENT BARTLET: Right.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.52,0:01:41.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,SAM: They agreed to let Taiwan test the Patriots. One Patriot.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.88,0:01:43.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,PRESIDENT BARTLET: Yes.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.38,0:01:45.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,SAM: Please I want to be right about this.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.50,0:01:47.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We agree not to sell Taiwan
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.28,0:01:50.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Aegis destroyers for a period of, I don't know, five years.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.50,0:01:51.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,PRESIDENT BARTLET: Ten years. But you got it.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.99,0:01:56.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,SAM: Sir. The Aegis radar technology isn't something that, I mean,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.12,0:01:59.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what if Taiwan did fall to China and now they have,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.48,0:02:02.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,plus these ships cost something like $800 million a piece.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.92,0:02:05.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Buying four of them would eat up half of Taiwan's defense budget.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.46,0:02:07.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,PRESIDENT BARTLET: And so?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.91,0:02:13.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,SAM: You never were going to sell them the destroyers.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.34,0:02:21.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,PRESIDENT BARTLET: But everybody wakes up alive in the morning and saves a little face.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.43,0:02:25.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,SAM: I don't know how you... I don't know the word. I don't know how you do it.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.16,0:02:30.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,PRESIDENT BARTLET: You have a lot of help. You listen to everybody and then you call the play.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.33,0:02:40.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sam, you're going to run for president one day. Don't be scared.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.71,0:02:51.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You've been doing. I believe in you. That's checkmate.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.52,0:02:58.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[BACKGROUND VOICES].