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1.05: The Crackpots and These Women (with Eli Attie)

The West Wing Weekly

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The Burnt Out Rate of Being on the President's Staff

"It's one of the reasons i had to leave politics. To some degree, if you were an elected official, you mattered so much more than anybody who worked for you," she says. "You know, whatare you going to say if you need to pick bombing targets with the president? You know, you can't say, hey, no, m sorry."

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