Robin sees this as a problem. I see this as an opportunity.

It could have been an opportunity if we'd caught it.

We caught it.

At 5:45. 5:45 doesn't do me any good, lewis.

5:45, network news is in makeup.

You have 12 people working for you. Why--

Guys, do I have to be here for this meeting?

Sorry, sir.

It's on the evening news.

It's buried. It's the third story.

It's got a bullet.

Sydney was at a protest rally.

They burned a flag.

Today?

About 13 years ago.

In front of the department of commerce. Anti-apartheid.

Let me see if I got this.

The third story on the news tonight was that someone I didn't know 13 years ago, when I wasn't president,

participated in a demonstration where no laws are being broken,

in protest of something that so many people were against, and it doesn't exist anymore?

Just out of curiosity, what was the fourth story?

Right. See, I think it's important when we deal with it...

Don't deal with it.

Excuse me?

They're trying to get us to swing at a pitch in the dirt.

Nobody wins these fights. It will go away.

Sir, I'm not sure that's the wisest course of action.

Aw, hell.

See, it's already distracting you.

Why don't you let us put together a...

No, you reminded me I'm supposed to have dinner with Sydney tonight.

Oh, it's terrific. Beth, I love it.

I can't believe I'm loaning you clothes.

I thought you owned every piece of clothing there was.

Well, work clothes.

I always have dinner at the white house wearing a suit.

I thought a dress would be nice.

Go ahead. Try it on.

I brought earrings, too.

Hello.

Hi. What are you doing?

Uh, just trying on dresses.

Listen, I feel terrible, but I'm gonna have to cancel our date tonight.

Another woman?

Ha. No. I gotta go to St. Louis to avert a massive airline strike.

Boy, if I had a nickel for every time I heard that one.

Well thanks for understanding, and I'll call you later this evening.

Ok. Bye.

Boy, I hate doing that. She was trying on dresses.

I tell any girl I'm going out with to assume that all plans are soft until she receives confirmation from me 30 minutes beforehand.

And they find this romantic?

Well, I say it with a great deal of charm.

Look! Look, there it is! Carmen's house of flowers.

Hey, Coop, we gotta stop.

I gotta get her some flowers.

-Here? -Now?

Well, that's what men do when they break a date.

That's not what men do. I know no men who do that.

Hey, Coop, I'm gonna hop out at the flower shop.

You're gonna hop out, sir?

No, he's not hopping. No hopping, sir.

Stay in the car. I'll get the flowers.

Then it's not gonna be personal.

At least let the agents do a security sweep.

We don't know who's in there.

You think there's a florist in there planning an assassination

on the off chance I might be stopping by?

It's possible.

No.

No.

You're not hearing me.

Listen to what I'm saying.

It was at the basketball game.

Excuse me.

No, girl. At the game.

I'm telling you, Kiki wasn't even there.

Excuse me.

Ohh. Hold on.

I will be right with you.

Hey I don't know if you're the one that I talked to on the phone, Virginia, dogwood, President... does any of it ring a...

Same girl. She remembered me.