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TWW - Look at the whole board

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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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Title:
TWW - Look at the whole board
Description:
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Video Language:
English
Team:
BYU Continuing Education
Project:
ANTHR-101-300
Duration:
02:58

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