Inaugural address-west wing style.. consider

FADE IN: INT. TOBY'S OFFICE - DAY

Will is reading Toby passages from the speech that Stacy dropped off to him. Elsie

is also in the room.



WILL

"America needs a new doctrine for a new century..."



TOBY

Mr. Bailey...



WILL

"...based not just on our interest, but on our values, across the world."



TOBY

Define those values for me, please.



WILL

I don't have to. The President of the United States already has. "We are for freedom

of speech everywhere. Freedom to worship everywhere. Freedom to learn for every child."



TOBY

Just out of curiosity, how are you going to enforce a universal global right to

education?



ELSIE

The same way the U.S. enforced anything it wanted in the middle part of the 20th

century. Somebody called our father.



TOBY

What exactly are you doing here, anyway?



ELSIE

The First Lady likes my jokes.



TOBY

Excellent.



WILL

"It is our duty to give more than merely our support. We must give our strength

diplomatically, materially....



WILL and TOBY

"And if need be, militarily."



TOBY

I read it, I think, 16 years ago. It was about El Salvador and he had it stricken

from the record and there was a reason.



WILL

What?



TOBY

I don't know, but things have reasons.



WILL

Do they?



TOBY

Yes, they do.



WILL

Okay, but C.J. this morning put the body count at 15,000.



TOBY

You're talking about Khundu? That's what the hell this is about?



WILL

We're talking about everything. "And freedom from the tyranny of oppression, economic

slavery, religious fanaticism." Tell me if any of these describe anyone we know.



TOBY

This isn't what I meat by drafting new language.



WILL

What did you mean?



TOBY

Making the old language sound better. You're asking the two of us to create foreign

policy by ourselves. That's usually not a good idea. You've got your Pentagon, the

NSC and-- what do you call it?-- the State Department.



Bartlet picks up the speech off of Will's desk.



BARTLET

"A new doctrine for a new century, based not just on our interests, but on our

values across the world." Well, that's pretty spicey stuff.



WILL

You wrote it, sir.



WILL

"America stands today as the one truly indispensaple nation-- the strongest force and

the proudest voice for peace, pluralism and prosperity that the world has ever known."



TOBY

Okay, keep the ancient Romans out of the first ten rows, and we're fine.



WILL

"Today at the dawn of a new century, America needs a new commitment to protect our own

security, to model freedom to the world."



TOBY

To model it?



WILL

I figure if we're not going to help create freedom from tyranny, then let's at least

sell some BarcaLoungers.



TOBY

The U.S. doesn't help create freedom from tyranny?



WILL

I forget to add, "where our own interests aren't necesssarly involved." [reading speech]

"To do what we can to fulfill humanity's promise and to prove that self-determination is the watchword of all mankind."



BARTLET

We're for freedom of speech everywhere. We're for freedom to worship everywhere. We're

for freedom to learn... for everybody. And because, in our time, you can build a bomb

in your country and bring it to my country, what goes on in you country is very much my

business. And so we are for freedom from tyranny everywhere, whether in the guise of

political oppresion, Toby, or economic slavery, Josh, or religious fanaticism, C.J.

That most fundamental idea cannot be met with merely our support. It has to be met with

our strength. Diplomatically, economically, materially. And if pharoah still don't free

the slaves, then he gets the plagues, or my cavalry, whichever gets there first. The

USTR will go crazy and say that we're not considering global trade. Committee members

will go crazy and say I haven't consulted enough. And the Arab world will just go

indescriminately crazy. No country has ever had a doctrine of intervention when only

humanitarian interests were at stake. That streaks going to end Sunday at noon. So, if

you're on board with this, what I need you to do...



BARTLET

"Set free the oppressed, break every yoke, clothe the naked and your light shall break

forth like the dawn, and the glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard."