The West Wing S02E15: Millie's resignation

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  • Vice Admiral Millicent Griffith is the Surgeon General of the United States during the Bartlet Administration.
    While answering questions about marijuana, Dr. Griffith pointed out the effects of the drug in comparison to alcohol and cigarettes and its illegal status. The press took this as her supporting the decriminalization of marijuana and the President asked for her letter of resignation, which she refused to give. Before she could be fired her goddaughter, Ellie Bartlet, told a reporter that her father would never fire the Surgeon General. This further complicated matters and brought up certain issues that had plagued Ellie's and the President's relationship.
    From The West Wing S02E15, "Ellie".

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  • @michaelhayden725
    @michaelhayden725 ปีที่แล้ว +94

    "She ain't the only one", its a great line from Millie! Jed's line "I don't accept, you GO when I tell you to"!! Another great line!

  • @steveneilsut
    @steveneilsut 4 ปีที่แล้ว +250

    "My God, King Lear's a good play." It is amazing how well this aside works. Bartlett's entire plot for this episode, and his character overall, summed up in one line.

    • @ArgonTheAware
      @ArgonTheAware 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      How about the part in Act 1, Scene 4 "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!" does that cover it?

    • @martijnspruit
      @martijnspruit ปีที่แล้ว

      Well, West Wing is an excellently written series, plus performed by excellent actors.

    • @danieldickson8591
      @danieldickson8591 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ArgonTheAware Definitely part of it, but there's so much more.

  • @dexterellis7818
    @dexterellis7818 6 ปีที่แล้ว +411

    My memory of this episode was Bartlett discovering that his daughter Ellie, did not think he loved her as much as his other two daughters. He found that very painful.

    • @maragathm
      @maragathm 5 ปีที่แล้ว +87

      There is some truth to that. How many times does Jed mention Liz or Ellie but he constantly dotes on Zoe, she is this or that even the audience forgets he has three daughters. But here is the truth Ellie was the one who made him the most proud, she became a doctor and married a good man, Zoe was a flake who could never decide what she wanted whether it be men or her career and Liz an unaccomplished house wife with a cheating husband her fault being she puts up with it. King Lear is a great play the unappreciated quiet child is always the one you watch out for.

    • @lughildana
      @lughildana 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@maragathm damn

    • @user-ww7ez2el3q
      @user-ww7ez2el3q 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @@maragathm Also when Zoe got kidnipped only Ellie understood he did what he had to do.

    • @MaxMckayful
      @MaxMckayful 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@maragathm Putting up with a husband as a housewife is a very complicated thing. Where's the blame for the husband not being a better person? Yes, we also bear some accountability for who we interact with. But where's the accountability of others to do better. Where's the accountability of broader society to help those who are lost, hurting, and destructive? And, one final note, there is nothing wrong with maintaining a household as a form of work.

    • @tachyontee3877
      @tachyontee3877 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@MaxMckayful Yeah, the cheater is the issue. But for that, we wouldn't be talking about the following stuff. I won't deny you that. I just, from the outside looking in, as a guy wonder why some women put up with the BS and I don't want to blame the one who was betrayed. Yes, I've heard the "for the children argument," but kids pick up on the resentment and it's toxic. Divorce blows, but to stay with a guy who cheated on you? Ugh...I don't know if I could do that. I don't understand how anyone can stay with anyone else who treats them like dirt whether it's the husband screwing around or the wife.
      Even if you live 100 years, that's only 1,200. The first third of that you're living under your parents' rule and the last third you're life is winding down. The last third you're working your butt of trying to make a living. People in general have very little time to waste on folks who crap on them and that goes for all types of relationships. All the time you're putting up with the crap is less time you have to enjoy life is my take.

  • @WeirdViking
    @WeirdViking 3 ปีที่แล้ว +216

    Oh cmon you left out the best part. When he goes back to his seat in the movies he says to his daughter "The only thing you ever needed to do to make me happy is come home safe at the end of the day" and she gives such a sweet but teary eyed warm smile.It's such a heartwarming father daughter moment, I wanted to see it again.

    • @stephaniegittinger7980
      @stephaniegittinger7980 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's on TH-cam 🙂

    • @liman42
      @liman42 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's what I said.

    • @abrahamalfaro7908
      @abrahamalfaro7908 หลายเดือนก่อน

      th-cam.com/video/ObY05ypHoKM/w-d-xo.htmlsi=fZkkYQAVYIFPCdRb

    • @abrahamalfaro7908
      @abrahamalfaro7908 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@liman42th-cam.com/video/ObY05ypHoKM/w-d-xo.htmlsi=fZkkYQAVYIFPCdRb

  • @mfisher1952
    @mfisher1952 3 ปีที่แล้ว +103

    This has to be one of the best-acted, best-directed and finest-written shows in TV history. It may be about politics, but it transcends politics, too.

    • @michaelvidal1971
      @michaelvidal1971 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I think that it is a toss up between Yes Minister/Yes Prime Minister (British Politics) which although a comedy there is a body of opinion that it is in fact a documentary and The West Wing. I am not sure which is the best as both have superb acting and the story lines have survived the test of time.

    • @martijnspruit
      @martijnspruit ปีที่แล้ว

      @@michaelvidal1971 Exactly. Both series have that "I must remember that line"-quality in practically every dialogue.

  • @michaelreidperry3256
    @michaelreidperry3256 5 ปีที่แล้ว +188

    I love that character. I will always love that character. Sheen played him as well as a concert pianist plays Rachmaninov, seemingly on automatic. It’s as if he was born to play President Bartlett.

    • @MichaelLee-dt1iw
      @MichaelLee-dt1iw 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      You are both right. Synergy in action.

    • @stevepipenger4651
      @stevepipenger4651 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      He bought me dinner a number of years ago. He’s actually a nicer guy in person.

    • @BlackDiamond2718
      @BlackDiamond2718 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      This show is the reason i was hyped about him being another uncle ben.

  • @CodaMission
    @CodaMission 2 ปีที่แล้ว +321

    For those who haven't read it, King Lear is a play about a king who parcels out his lands to his three daughters based on public displays of their love for him. The first two, hungry for their inheritance, put on lavish displays of daughterly affection, but the third refuses to go along with the charade. She states plainly that she loves him, but that she won't brown nose him because she respects his senses. He completely disinherits her, yet by the end of the story, when he is betrayed by his daughters, he realizes she loved him most of all.

    • @ThomasFromTN
      @ThomasFromTN 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thanx for giving the story away. How about, instead, following the lead of the script writers of this show...and simply reiterating that King Lear is a good play, relevant to this storyline...and worth READING.

    • @curtismurphy6206
      @curtismurphy6206 ปีที่แล้ว +71

      @@ThomasFromTN Grow up

    • @stars9084
      @stars9084 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Thanks for this. King Lear wasn't one of the ones we got to in High School, I never understood what he meant by that. It didn't seem that important so I never looked at it, but it really enhances this scene just that little bit

    • @Mozart1220
      @Mozart1220 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@ThomasFromTN Because most people don;t have the time to sit with Shakespear.

    • @spacedad1853
      @spacedad1853 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks! The internet would've taken an hour to explain it.

  • @cameronmartin3616
    @cameronmartin3616 4 ปีที่แล้ว +170

    For all the fathers who work harder to do the right thing because they want to live up to the expectations of an adored daughter

    • @nickwiddows1264
      @nickwiddows1264 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      True!

    • @Mozart1220
      @Mozart1220 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I understand 100%, as well as another episode where he said he got sympathy from the locals in Egypt because he was the "Father of daughters"

  • @Vesperitis
    @Vesperitis 3 ปีที่แล้ว +63

    Jed's greatest weakness is that he needs to be liked. He's got a bit of cognitive dissonance with Ellie because he thinks she doesn't like him, when in fact out of all the people in his life, her quiet love for him is one of the strongest.

    • @trulybtd5396
      @trulybtd5396 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      King Lear is a good play

    • @r.c.auclair2042
      @r.c.auclair2042 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Old song. Dads identify w/the kids who are like themselves, which she isn't.

    • @HeikeWie
      @HeikeWie หลายเดือนก่อน

      That's what the "King Lear is a good play" quote is about. I read it again after watching this episode and oh boy, it is true.

    • @r.c.auclair2042
      @r.c.auclair2042 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@HeikeWie, funny you should happen to mention that. I'd never read it, but this is the second time in as many days that someone's mentioned it in front of me. Suppose I should finally get around to reading it.

  • @kinsmed
    @kinsmed 3 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    Sorkin has given us a wealth of legendary story-telling.
    And The West Wing is even better than that.

  • @Jman7133
    @Jman7133 4 ปีที่แล้ว +187

    You can always tell when one of Bartlet's old friends in the administration is fed up with him - they call him "Jed" as opposed to "Mr. President" or "Sir" - Millie did it here and Leo did it when he found out Jed had been hiding the fact he had MS from Leo.

    • @Tazdingo01
      @Tazdingo01 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Exactly.

    • @joecook5689
      @joecook5689 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I thought Leo knew the whole time though. One of the three

    • @Jman7133
      @Jman7133 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@joecook5689 Leo did not. Only the first family and Millie knew, I think.

    • @joecook5689
      @joecook5689 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Jman7133 oh, right on.

    • @shawncallaghan2276
      @shawncallaghan2276 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Up to the episode where President Bartlett gets shot 14 people know including (VP, Chief of Staff and the chairman of the joint chiefs) the anesthesiologist becomes the 15th person

  • @SN-sz7kw
    @SN-sz7kw 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    I always appreciated that Bartlett was so highly educated in the humanities. The sublime joy of watching a broadly educated, brilliant, ethical leader. Sigh.

    • @bbag1550
      @bbag1550 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      You telling me bankrupting your own companies several times and embezzling political donations and much more does not entail a tremendous, very stable genius?

  • @meredithchandler73
    @meredithchandler73 4 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    Great scene but it’s the lines between Jed and Ellie at the end (after this video cuts off) that always make me cry.

  • @albertjester
    @albertjester 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    2:00 To be fair Mr President, you did just spend the last few seconds comparing her, not exactly glowingly, to her sisters.

  • @googoo-gjoob
    @googoo-gjoob 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    The *GREATEST* show in the _HISTORY_ of television.

  • @nxtwomenfan497
    @nxtwomenfan497 3 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    "I will bear with the nonsense of the Christian Right and the Hollywood Left and the AFL-CIO and the AARP and the Cannabis Society of Japan, but I will not stand and allow someone to tell me that I love one of my children less than the others."

    • @Vesperitis
      @Vesperitis 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      There are some lines you do not cross with some people.

    • @mytmyt
      @mytmyt 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      That's where Sorkin missed a step. He should have had Millie come back and say, "Who said anything about love? I said she wasn't your favorite." Being a parent's favorite has nothing to do with "love" it has to do with "like".
      I remember a Cosby Show episode where Denise is heading off to college and Claire says to her (paraphrasing): "I'm going to miss you when you are gone. Not because I love you, but because I like you."

    • @scottmatheson3346
      @scottmatheson3346 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      what? don't demand answers to personal questions if you don't want to hear uncomfortable truths.

    • @DrownedInExile
      @DrownedInExile หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      "You asked me why you can't get her to like you. If you don't want to hear the answers, then don't ask the questions."

  • @SN-sz7kw
    @SN-sz7kw 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    My favorite response to the favorite child question came fm a woman who said, “Whoever is giving me the least amount of grief at any given time.”

  • @rgwak
    @rgwak 5 ปีที่แล้ว +235

    "You'd be stunned how soon they figure out they're not their father's favorite." - Milly
    "Yeah, tell me about it." - Eric and Don Jr.

    • @Shockwave33
      @Shockwave33 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      His favorite is himself and self alone. To him children are a means to an end.

    • @robertspray7472
      @robertspray7472 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Shockwave33 spot on. Just tools to used and put away when their usefulness isn’t needed for a time.

    • @Lucy-ng7cw
      @Lucy-ng7cw 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Ro G Tiffany is the least favourite

    • @tomevans5458
      @tomevans5458 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      "If Ivanka wasn't my daughter perhaps I'd be dating her"

    • @JohnnyMac2237
      @JohnnyMac2237 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Shockwave33 Trump is the best President we have had since Kennedy and West Wing is my bible..

  • @davidhobbs3181
    @davidhobbs3181 2 ปีที่แล้ว +269

    I just want to say for the record that I am a lifelong hard-core Republican but after watching the West Wing with perspective God we need Jed Bartlett more than ever

    • @theoutlook55
      @theoutlook55 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Thanks for saying that, and especially believing that.

    • @ianbrewer4843
      @ianbrewer4843 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Agree

    • @tpl608
      @tpl608 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You helped build this. From tea baggers backward to war criminals weapons of mass destruction mushroom cloud over a major US city lying torture sedition Bush and Cheney through war criminals Iran contra negotiated with iran before the election sedition Reagan and daddy Bush backwards to war criminal negotiated with north Vietnam before the election sedition southern strategy Watergate Nixon and Johnson couldn't say anything or it told the north we broke their code. The fact is there have only been 3 decent Republicans. Eisenhower and people didn't know what party he would run on, teddy Roosevelt and they kicked him out. Lincoln and he gave companies rights to win the war. Before then it was only charter companies. If you voted for any republican, ever, you helped build up to the coup attempt last year.

    • @tpl608
      @tpl608 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Best to learn your history,if a republican can step away from their bubble of lies and conspiracy theories.

    • @bridgecross
      @bridgecross 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      The weird part is, for a while we had something as close to Bartlett as real life would allow, and Republicans couldn't see it.

  • @MrGruffteddybear
    @MrGruffteddybear 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Ellie was my favorite of the Bartlet daughters.

  • @zzzroxyzzz
    @zzzroxyzzz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Calling him jed is like his mother calling him by his first middle and last lol

  • @notthatyouasked6656
    @notthatyouasked6656 5 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    I always thought this sequence was Sorkin's version of Jocelyn Elders being fired by Bill Clinton for saying that masturbation wasn't harmful.

  • @yumpinyiminy963
    @yumpinyiminy963 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Actually my addiction was to this show. I started watching in the 5th year and was hooked. I went through withdrawal when the series ended. My Wednesday night after golf relaxation show.

  • @nicolehunter5927
    @nicolehunter5927 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    I love the WEST WING . 👍on the uploads

    • @robbkinnin1988
      @robbkinnin1988 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Nicole Hunter the entire series is on Netflix

    • @YDNTK-ui4uc
      @YDNTK-ui4uc 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      There were times when I was Literally Screaming back at the TV because of the politics but The West Wing was an Intelligent Well Written Thought Provoking Television Show and is still one of my Favorites

  • @trevorfrost8953
    @trevorfrost8953 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Dam I miss this.

  • @robschmidt3078
    @robschmidt3078 6 ปีที่แล้ว +261

    If my memory serves me correctly she was only the 3rd person to call him Jed in the oval office. Abby did it often and his priest only did it once.

    • @faltasian
      @faltasian 6 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      leo did it once.

    • @piusx8317
      @piusx8317 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      It's a tv programme not real

    • @nigelft
      @nigelft 6 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Actually, four ...
      Mrs. Landingham (or rather, her ghost thingy ...) did in 'Twin Cathedrals', whilst Jed was alone in the Oval Office ('Give me numbers' 'No, you know them; give them to me ...') ...

    • @PHOTOGRAPHYBYDEREK1
      @PHOTOGRAPHYBYDEREK1 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      And that supreme court judge. I forget his name. And Mrs. Landingham when she game back from the dead.

    • @philledwith8307
      @philledwith8307 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      And Leo when he found out about the MS, but I'm not sure if that's before or after this.

  • @JustSomeCanadianGuy
    @JustSomeCanadianGuy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    He PLAINLY prefers his other daughters over Ellie and he's in complete denial over that.

    • @scottmatheson3346
      @scottmatheson3346 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      given that nothing you said rebuts anything in the op's comment you should really be pointing that finger at yourself.

    • @mahmoudeltayeb2771
      @mahmoudeltayeb2771 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It's not that he necessarily prefers them, I think it's just that he finds it easier to relate to them AND he also felt like Ellie always preferred Abby over him

    • @Joe-zk8gk
      @Joe-zk8gk ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @mandellorian amen to that

    • @fayesouthall6604
      @fayesouthall6604 ปีที่แล้ว

      All people are different people.

  • @jcs1025
    @jcs1025 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    My 12 year old daughter asked me a few years ago if I had a favorite child. I honestly don’t. I told her there are different things about each of my children that are my ‘favorite’, but I love them each with the same parental ferocity. Before we had kids someone told me that you don’t realize how deeply you can love someone until you have children. Boy was she right.

    • @fifthbusiness1678
      @fifthbusiness1678 ปีที่แล้ว

      We parents always have a favourite, like it or not.

    • @Admiral_John
      @Admiral_John ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It's true until you have grandkids... I told my son once "there are three people on this planet I loved unconditionally at first-sight. You, and you're two kids."

    • @trulybtd5396
      @trulybtd5396 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@fifthbusiness1678 Sure, but liking someone more doesn't mean you love them more.

    • @BlackDiamond2718
      @BlackDiamond2718 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The thing is that you do tend to favor things over others from simple color to your own flesh and blood. For me it can mean a big difference or a small one. If you don’t have favorites then that is wonderful. If you do then remind then that it does not change their value in any way.

    • @BlackDiamond2718
      @BlackDiamond2718 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@fifthbusiness1678favorite or not, keep parenting equal

  • @tomroxburgh2441
    @tomroxburgh2441 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    ‘These are the bigger things’

  • @MarcusLeepapi
    @MarcusLeepapi 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Really nice...

  • @michaelcarroll2824
    @michaelcarroll2824 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I wanted to be so mad at her... But the truth is, it's the nicest thing she's ever said about me.

  • @enzov9772
    @enzov9772 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This scene is great on so many levels but the one thing I wanted to point out is the "roles" the characters play. There are 2 people in this scene however they are playing 4 different people without a change of costume. Millie first plays the Surgeon General then Ellie's godmother while Jed initially plays the President of the United States then Ellie's dad. The transition of roles comes when Millie says "Jed!" at 1:40.

  • @mikeyoung9810
    @mikeyoung9810 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I watched this as it unfolded when it was new. I rewatched it recently and for the life of me I don't remember this scene.

  • @heisdeadjim
    @heisdeadjim 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    I'm Australian. I knew the States has a Surgeon General, but then I saw this scene and thought why is she wearing the rank of a Navy three star Admiral? Then I realised it wasn't quite a Navy uniform at all, but, the uniform of the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, and that the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps is one of the seven, soon to be eight, uniformed services of the United States.

    • @daviddundas4140
      @daviddundas4140 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Ive learned so much about the structure of US politics from watching this show, good to see Im not alone.

    • @MHurtado09
      @MHurtado09 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      *States have

    • @expediter99
      @expediter99 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      C Everett Koop... remember?

    • @jbauer140
      @jbauer140 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@daviddundas4140 and im sure this current administration ruined everything you learned about politics!!!! LMAO!!!

  • @Nekulturny
    @Nekulturny 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    My favorite part of that was where she drops the formality because of how blatantly absurd "Jed" was being.

  • @spacedad1853
    @spacedad1853 ปีที่แล้ว

    You cut it off?!! The next seen was the crying moment. Damn Aaron Sorkin for always making me cry.

  • @sammangalick5326
    @sammangalick5326 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Love this coming full circle with her helping him on Air Force One

  • @paulzammataro7185
    @paulzammataro7185 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Damn...I almost got choked up when he gave the letter back to her.
    .....but I caught it ....

  • @kevinjordan1146
    @kevinjordan1146 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I think one thing I forgot about West Wing was its score. The music in the background seems to fit each scene flawlessly.

  • @alvinwagner6085
    @alvinwagner6085 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    There is a difference between loving all your children the same and having a “favorite.” It’s possible to do both

    • @marcokite
      @marcokite ปีที่แล้ว +1

      yes, i was thinking that

    • @PaperbackWizard
      @PaperbackWizard ปีที่แล้ว

      The children can't always tell the difference, though, and *that* was Millie's point. Ellie grew up thinking her father didn't love her.

  • @EdgemanLL2
    @EdgemanLL2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    3:52 AWESOME MOVIE!!!!

  • @colin8696908
    @colin8696908 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Half way through I realized this had evolved into a episode of full house. I really have to start watching this show.

  • @TexasWildheartsFan
    @TexasWildheartsFan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Mary Kay Place is a national treasure...

  • @macbuff81
    @macbuff81 6 ปีที่แล้ว +142

    I really wish we had this type of President. An imperfect man, but a man of courage and reflection. Instead, we got the exact opposite now residing in the White House

    • @djshotty
      @djshotty 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Certainly Jed Bartlett was a President that Obama aspired to be.

    • @theolamp5312
      @theolamp5312 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Christian O. Holz - As much as I dislike DJT, I would prefer to have him be an honorable man, a president we could respect.

    • @Mark-xh8md
      @Mark-xh8md 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      No, that person left the white house on January 20th 2017

    • @rgwak
      @rgwak 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      t'rump has the attention span of a goldfish. And the throughline for every action and thought he has is: how does it affect me. Not one moment ever spent in the service of others, only a lifetime of lying, cheating, and stealing. From his marital affairs, to his fraudulent businesses, the only consistent thing about him is that he'll fuck you over without a second thought if it makes him feel better about the empty hole that is his soul.

    • @brontewcat
      @brontewcat 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      To G. That is the real issue with Trump - he has never served the public good and even now I don’t think he understands the concept. His ego drives him.

  • @briang9581
    @briang9581 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    It's funny that I watched this clip directly after one where the MS patient (Bartlet) got caught smoking in a theater's lobby.

  • @michaelmuldowney8
    @michaelmuldowney8 6 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    This shows the arrogant side of Jed - upset that his adult daughter did not support his run from President. A GOOD father would have respected her right to decide for herself. I did like though that after Zoe was kidnapped , Ellie was the only one not pissed at Jed over the Sharrif assassination.

    • @stephaniegittinger7980
      @stephaniegittinger7980 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      He is a good father. I always thought he was confused and frustrated, and maybe a little frightened by his inability to connect with her the way he did with her sisters. And maybe a little jealous of her close relationship with her mother.

    • @coena9377
      @coena9377 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I would challenge your premise that he isn't a good father. I think the point he was trying to make with that line was that they just didn't have a bond the way he did with his other children or the way she did with her mother. He was upset because he felt like he held an insignificant role in his daughter's life and was using her not being around much when he was running as an example of that, not being mad at her for it. He's always struck me as a rather exceptional father, even if he makes mistakes. One thing I thought was significant was that when he was mad at her and they were arguing in the oval office in the beginning the first thing he brought up was that she didn't come and visit very often.

  • @davidpaul9204
    @davidpaul9204 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Friend of the Bartlet's before Jed's political career. Both were Dr.'s, Jed in Economics and Abby in something medical.

    • @kevincarroll3914
      @kevincarroll3914 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thoracic surgery.

    • @markkond8565
      @markkond8565 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@kevincarroll3914 and Internal medicine.

    • @nates1092
      @nates1092 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Jed met Abby as undergraduates at Norte Dame. In season 6, Millie mentioned something about Jed getting a B+ in a class they took together, so I deduce that Millie was Jed and Abby’s friend since college.

  • @xaenon9849
    @xaenon9849 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    "THESE are the bigger things." The man has incredible perception.

  • @rugbynimbus
    @rugbynimbus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Poetic to be watching this while lightly toasted on legally purchased (and properly highly taxed and regulated) flower.

  • @michaelvidal1971
    @michaelvidal1971 6 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I think the reason he did not accept her resignation is that he wanted her around if he had an MS episode. Which was the reason for her going on the China trip.

    • @marcopl17
      @marcopl17 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Uh. His wife is a doctor...

    • @stephaniegittinger7980
      @stephaniegittinger7980 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@marcopl17 who legally isn't supposed to treat him. That's why she got in trouble earlier in the show.

  • @maxpeck4154
    @maxpeck4154 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I found it interesting in this episode that it is mentioned several times that marijuana "does not hold the same addictive properties as heroin or LSD". Hallucinogens are NOT known as addictive drugs. Sure, they can be abused but so can anything else. West Wing was quite accurate with regard to science, law, constitutionality, etc, but I think either someone didn't do their homework on this point, or it was used as a PSA of sorts to discourage the use of hallucinogens.

    • @mrpavopeacock
      @mrpavopeacock 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Out of curiosity, did we know that hallucinogens were not addictive in 2001?

    • @maxpeck4154
      @maxpeck4154 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@mrpavopeacock That has been widely known at least since the 50s. My mother did medical transcription when I was young and had a few Physician's Desk Reference and drug books lying around and I used to read a lot about LSD specifically.

  • @BOLANAREDE321
    @BOLANAREDE321 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    It's times like this that I think of the subtle arrogance that was played into the character of Jed Bartlett. It's very well acted, and probably quite accurate for men like him, thinking that they are so important.

    • @Chrissummerill
      @Chrissummerill 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Well he’s the president of the US. Leader of the free world. It’s pretty important. 😂

    • @BOLANAREDE321
      @BOLANAREDE321 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Chrissummerill Not that important. Not more important than the people who he's called to serve.

    • @cityboydanny1758
      @cityboydanny1758 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He’s the most powerful man on planet earth he’s pretty important

    • @BOLANAREDE321
      @BOLANAREDE321 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@cityboydanny1758 hardly the most powerful man on the planet. And any president who believes he falls into that category shouldn't be in the office.

    • @jbfarley
      @jbfarley 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      You're not smart

  • @charleschuckfinley3304
    @charleschuckfinley3304 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    If only Jed had been the real 45....

  • @HeikeWie
    @HeikeWie หลายเดือนก่อน

    "King Lear is a good play." Oh boy, is it ever!

  • @genehenrylindgren
    @genehenrylindgren 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    They are watching " Dial M for Murder" by Alfred Hitchcock.

  • @schytzo
    @schytzo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Imagine thinking LSD was in any way addictive when in the 1950s they used it to treat various addiction disorders.

  • @seanwebb605
    @seanwebb605 ปีที่แล้ว

    Well she took the time to write the letter of resignation. He should have given it a read. It might have been well worded. She seems like a very thoughtful woman. In addition doesn't the official records act require that all correspondence be filed, copied and stored?

  • @jimmy2k4o
    @jimmy2k4o ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My god King Lear’s a good play
    *I proceed to pause the tv and open up Google*
    I love sorkin because he gives you tastes of things you don’t know in a way that makes you want a whole meal of it.
    We’re meant to keep doing better, even if it’s just Googling a play synopsis.

  • @chewy739
    @chewy739 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love when they call him Jeb, It is like a wake up call to him.

    • @jbfarley
      @jbfarley 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Jed

  • @ktwashere5637
    @ktwashere5637 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It is quite outrageous that he's angry she wasn't there when he was running for President. SHE WAS AT MED SCHOOL AT THE TIME. Is she supposed to give up her life for his?

  • @TzunSu
    @TzunSu 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    It makes me a bit sad to make her state that LSD was addictive. In studies for 30+ years we've seen that it's the opposite, both humans and animals do not feel the urge to self-dose like they do in addictive substances.

  • @SeattlePioneer
    @SeattlePioneer 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    What is the movie they are watching?

  • @anthonyphilip1732
    @anthonyphilip1732 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Too bad fictional characters cannot hold real public office… oh wait, there was tfg.

  • @ered203
    @ered203 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    BTW - There are NO Addictive properties to LSD. Good writer or not, Sorkin is still a boomer.

  • @joecook5689
    @joecook5689 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Bartlett for president.

  • @1angelsigh
    @1angelsigh 6 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    lsd? oh west wing, you're usually so good

    • @50srefugee
      @50srefugee 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      And now, psilocybin (magic mushrooms) are in clinical trials for treating depression and (wait for it...) drug addiction.
      But you know, that doesn't matter. The Federal Government has no business telling people they can't ruin their own lives. Jed Bartlett may have been a good Dad, but he was President, not OUR Dad. Big, Big difference, that far too many real politicians forget.

    • @Penguin_of_Death
      @Penguin_of_Death 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@50srefugee *Jed Bartlet

    • @50srefugee
      @50srefugee 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Penguin_of_Death Yes, thanks. Fixed.

    • @ByWhatDesign
      @ByWhatDesign 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@50srefugee LSD in moderate quantities can cause, at best, extreme anxiety, at worst psychotic breaks in people. Others here are right about psilocybin mushrooms though. Good for testing PTSD.
      PS Heads up about pot: not good too have while young brain is still developing. Not touching it until 21 is advisable, though many cannabis doctors (e.g. in Canada) recommend not starting until 25 to be on the safe side (i.e. most brains are fully developed by then, so risk of affecting brain chemistry is way way way lower). Also, very small portion of the population that gets crippling paranoia accompanied by auditory hallucinations should stay off of pot for good since there's at least a correlation w/ onset of schizophrenia. Hopefully a West Wing crowd can appreciate nuance. If pot is safe for, say, 90% of people 90% of the time, that's a hell of a lot better than alcohol, but let's not treat it like pure magic.

    • @50srefugee
      @50srefugee 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ByWhatDesign The question isn't whether or not drugs are dangerous. That's like asking if table saws are dangerous--of course they are, but they can be useful enough to be worth the risk when used properly.
      The real question is, which is more dangerous, drugs, or anti-drug enforcement, especially by the federal government.

  • @paulshawley6490
    @paulshawley6490 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Such a great series and it's a shame that the picture quality is so awful.

    • @BlackDiamond2718
      @BlackDiamond2718 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      If only the president accepted the resignation of the director. 😂

  • @daltongalloway
    @daltongalloway 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Love seeing older stuff where the freak out about weed 😂 can’t believe that stuff ain’t 100% legal yet

  • @karanveersingh6367
    @karanveersingh6367 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    what's the name of the movie josh is watching?

    • @ulfben
      @ulfben  6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I am pretty sure it's Hitchcock's "Dial M for Murder". www.imdb.com/title/tt0046912/

  • @Helbinor
    @Helbinor 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Josh: You know it's going to seem to some people like you did it because your daughter asked you to.
    Jed: Yeah? You know Josh I think if you ever have a daughter you're going to discover there are worse reasons in the world to do something.
    TRUTH

  • @robertschmidt7879
    @robertschmidt7879 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I would like to make a few points if I could
    1. Other than Dr. Bartlett and his priest,. nobody called him Jed in the oval Leo, did it a couple times upstairs. But never in the oval.
    2. People in power need someone willing and close to them to call them on things. Maybe nobody else does, but even as a well qualified surgeon general, Millie put it on the table with her friend. That does make a difference in powerful positions.
    3. I would dearly love to hear from women who serving the uniform. Can we take the skirt and tie off and put them in the same uniform that everybody else wears. No I am not exhibiting prurient feelings towards the surgeon general, I would just like to see her and every other female officers stand in the same uniform. I happily invite constructive comments on that.

  • @SpydeyDan
    @SpydeyDan 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Is it "Sir, you're back," or "Sir, your back"?
    I've never understood that line. Neither read seems to fit the scene or make any sense in context.

    • @coena9377
      @coena9377 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      My interpretation was that it was "Sir, you're back". Meaning he was back to being the type of president he ran for office to be. Ethical, logical, and not the type of president to make small compromises of character because they think it might have a better payout in the end. That said, I'm not really sure. The line doesn't really make sense to me either.

    • @rangerdave1973
      @rangerdave1973 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      She's his doctor and was nagging him about his back

    • @jackgriffiths2020
      @jackgriffiths2020 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      It's 'So You're Back'

    • @GoldenfoxxPrime
      @GoldenfoxxPrime 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It's a pun, people. She meant one thing. He meant another.

  • @yumpinyiminy963
    @yumpinyiminy963 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Although LSD can be a wonderful experience, there is no physical addiction to it.

  • @MrMike77471
    @MrMike77471 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    This video cuts off about 30 seconds too soon. If memory serves, after his little quip to Josh about fathers and daughters, he goes to his seat in the front row, where he is sitting next to Ellie. After a couple of quick "back-and-forths", he looks at her and says something like "all you ever had to do to impress me...…..was come home at the end of the day." It's actually a poignant moment between a father and his daughter.
    Politically, I believe Martin Sheen is an idiot, but the man is one hell of an actor.

  • @phrophetsamgames
    @phrophetsamgames 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Legalize Weed!

  • @rangerdave1973
    @rangerdave1973 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    What movie are they watching?

    • @H1delta
      @H1delta 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I recognize Ray Milland and I believe it's "Dial M For Murder", a Hitchcock film.

  • @michaelvidal1971
    @michaelvidal1971 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I wonder if he refused to accept her resignation because he wanted her arou nd if he had am MS episode ?

    • @sethtubman1229
      @sethtubman1229 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Maybe but that attack was in season 6, this was season 2. Also, the Surgeon General is the head of the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps in charge of disseminating important *public* health issues to the American public. This is an echo (as many of the first couple seasons were of Clinton admin. controversies) of the controversy over Vice Admiral Joycelyn Elders, the then-incumbent Surgeon General, who endorsed masturbation as a form of "safe sex" at a U.N. conference on AIDS in 1994 and was fired by Bill Clinton as a result. The President has his own personal physician and medical staff responsible for his personal health and that of the First Family and the visiting public at the White House. In Bartlet's world, it was first Captain Morris Tolliver, who was killed on a medical mission to Jordan when Syria shot down his helicopter (and nearly led to Bartlet blowing up the Middle East as a result), then Admiral Hackett, who was on-duty during the MS attack around the State of the Union in "He Shall from Time to Time...", then Admiral Jarvis during the assassination attempt on the President. But he did deliberately have Millie go on the China trip because he knew he was having an MS attack and wanted a doctor around.

  • @MerchantIvoryfilms
    @MerchantIvoryfilms 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Millies resigned because she asked the producers for a raise...

  • @GMHSVE
    @GMHSVE 6 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Since when was lsd addictive?

    • @andrewhoyle1521
      @andrewhoyle1521 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Just thinking that... ITS NOT!!!!!

    • @joecook5689
      @joecook5689 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I know. How did sorkin's let that stupid statement in the script? Embarrassing. Like someone ever has ever needed more lsd to not have withdrawals.

    • @bcbock
      @bcbock 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@joecook5689 Ironically, Sorkin was drug addict during production of that show. Crack cocaine. He also used magic mushrooms and pot.

    • @joecook5689
      @joecook5689 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@bcbock I know. That was my point. He knows drugs. He knows lsd isn't addictive. It can fuck you up permanently, but your body doesn't need it to avoid feeling sick.

    • @rpgeek22
      @rpgeek22 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It was the late 90s they didnt have research we do now. If you watch the whole episode they even say 68% of americans dont support legalization, nowadays those numbers are reversed

  • @andyh4518
    @andyh4518 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I wonder if Josh and Donna ever had kids. It seems like being CoS to the POTUS and FLOTUS wouldn't leave anyone enough time for it.

    • @dcrab93
      @dcrab93 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      If having kids is important truly important you make the time. Then you put in the time

  • @kalijasin
    @kalijasin 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    “I will bear with the nonsense of the ChristianRight” 🙈

  • @alleyesallsides
    @alleyesallsides 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    LSD does not hold addictive qualities. And it is not comparable to heroin. Poor writing and research.

  • @evanolet
    @evanolet 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

    LSD is not addictive

  • @Pww642
    @Pww642 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Uhhhh LSD is not addictive, Millie.

    • @adamdymke8004
      @adamdymke8004 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah, but it makes the dialogue flow better.

  • @jimmy2k4o
    @jimmy2k4o ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Christian Right
    Hollywood left
    Aaflcio
    AARP
    Cannabis society
    Japan
    If you didn’t see this episode that must make your mind boggle.

  • @keithss67
    @keithss67 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    The Mormon mom from latter days

  • @wn8022
    @wn8022 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Pizza sub. Hot

  • @norvillerogers8326
    @norvillerogers8326 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Now we need General Milley to resign.

  • @thijsg8549
    @thijsg8549 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Implying lsd is addictive is despicable

  • @connordowning216
    @connordowning216 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Some Surgeon General you got there, comparing heroin addiction to LSD. 00:26 i don't actually recall anyone getting addicted to LSD

    • @connordowning216
      @connordowning216 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Leo Peridot LSD addiction?

    • @tacoheadmakenzie9311
      @tacoheadmakenzie9311 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      No, he thinks that LSD has no addictive properties...and he's right.

    • @connordowning216
      @connordowning216 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@tacoheadmakenzie9311 I wouldn't say it has no addictive properties but it's not a drug that you can integrate into your life easily so habits dont form

    • @tacoheadmakenzie9311
      @tacoheadmakenzie9311 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@connordowning216 Well, I would, because it is a proven fact that it doesn't. Lots of tests have determined that any addiction someone might feel to LSD is purely psychological. Good thing, really....

    • @connordowning216
      @connordowning216 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @mandellorian your wrong because humans can become addicted to eating toilet paper

  • @eliduncan-gilmour5028
    @eliduncan-gilmour5028 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The west wing calling lsd illegal...lmao

  • @boydmccollum692
    @boydmccollum692 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Jed’s pretty much a narcissist.

    • @jbfarley
      @jbfarley 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Nope

  • @joecook5689
    @joecook5689 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Lsd? Addictive?
    Nope. Sorry though.
    And Sorkin knows better. Weed, also not addictive.

    • @joecook5689
      @joecook5689 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @mandellorian it's psychologically addictive. But one doesn't physically withdraw like one does after stopping doing heroin or pills or meth. That's what I meant.