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Love when CJ remarks that Toby, the President's chief writer, has a "touch of the poet" when it comes to the U.S. Poet Laureate. Game respect game. (Romantically.)

Yet another example of why this was such a great series

The most autobiographical Sorkin line about artists at the end there.

So glad someone @ WBs green lit WW clips. Keep em coming!

You cut it off before the best part when he pulls out his own list :)

great actress like her father

"...and I don't get to decide what truth is."

Thanks. Quote by Allen Ginsberg: “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed...”

Laura Dern was a FOX.

This has nothing to do with the actress more about the writing and situation. So she left the conversation because she wasn't liking what she was hearing and refused to fight with him. Then later tells Toby a story why she is personally invested in it. To make Toby more empathic. Then proceeds to tell him why this is important to her because of that personal experience and not the actual other people.

She asked for a minute alone and stayed there the whole day until it was dark.

Tabitha is a pretty poor choice for Poet Laureate given that she uses the wrong personal pronoun when telling Toby the story about going fishing with a man and his son.

sounds like the protests at colleges today. no one remembers what they are about, they just remember that students seem entitled, arrogant, naive. Performative, overly dramatic. If they were well-spoken, calm, courteous; didn’t damage property, insult or threaten people, some might actually listen. Instead, they become the jokes on late night TV. It’s a pattern repeated by every generation; this one is no different.

Love the scene...and I LOVE the West Wing. But this is the kind of person (the character Laura Dern is playing) that if a red robin is chirping outside of her hotel window, she has a severe bout of 'unconscious de-consciousnesses' and can't be disturbed for 6 hours before the aura of her humanity stops conflicting with her inner-self while she deflates into the realm self-acknowledgment.