Word: lymans
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...that calls for a lockdown on the whole West Wing. By chance, a group of high school students who have won the opportunity to participate in Presidential Classroom are in the building. They are secured in the office’s cafeteria along with Deputy Chief of Staff Josh Lyman. In a subplot, Chief of Staff Leo McGarry interrogates an Arab-American White House staff member who is suspected of being involved with terrorist activities...
Using the students’ questions as starting points (“Why is everyone trying to kill us?”), Lyman and other senior staff members engage in a didactic discussion on everything from the origins of terrorism to the CIA and draconian war tactics. The President appears only once to passionately condemn the terrorists. “We don’t need martyrs right now. We need heroes,” he says. “A hero would die for his country but he would much rather live...
...write an episode that was literally didactic - that is, teacherly - by setting it in what was for all intents and purposes a classroom. The set-up: in response to a reported security breach, the White House "crashes" - no one is allowed to enter or leave - just as aide Josh Lyman (Bradley Whitford) is speaking to a class of honor students...
...will it be through the kind of uplifting wrap-ups that "The West Wing" specializes in, which rang a little more hollow than usual last night. At the end of the episode, after the White House is declared safe, Josh Lyman tells the students to go back, live their lives, pursue their dreams and be kids, without letting fear of terrorism dominate their existence...
...business,” he said. He adds that, “I’ve met quite a few impressive people, which is great.” His classmates return his praise. “He’s very enthusiastic,” said sailor Daphne W. Lyman ’05. “He’s a great guy, incredibly hospitable and generous with his time,” said Nicholas H. Ma ‘05, a friend of David?...