10 Then attend it I shall

Roger Rees as Lord John Marbury in The West Wing. Episode 212 "The drop-in". TOM Mr. President? MARBURY Good evening! BARTLET John! Let me explain why you've been waiting. I have to see people in the order they arrive, and you got beat by Argentina. MARBURY Oh, uhh... Well, yes. BARTLET You also lost out on preferred seating for the State of the Union. MARBURY I'm required to attend the State of the Union? BARTLET Yes! MARBURY Then attend it I shall. BARTLET Okay. Tom? TOM Mr. President, it is with pleasure I present His Excellency, Lord John Marbury of Great Britain, and by request of the Secretary of State, ask that you accept his credentials from Her Royal Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, as Great Britain's Ambassador to the United States. Bartlet takes the folder from Marbury. BARTLET Where are you on the missile shield? MARBURY Well, I think it's dangerous, illegal... fiscally irresponsible, technologically unsound, and a threat to all people everywhere. BARTLET Leo? LEO I think the world invented a nuclear weapon. I think the world owes it to itself to see if it can't invent something that would make it irrelevant. MARBURY Well, that's the right sentiment, certainly a credible one from a man who's fought in a war. You think you can make it stop? Well, you can't. We build a shield, and somebody will build a better missile. BARTLET Well, it's a discussion for serious men. They say a statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years. I'd like us to be statesmen while we're still alive. Lord Marbury, I accept your letter of credence from Queen Elizabeth, and, by affixing my signature and seal, do hereby declare you to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary. They shake hands. MARBURY Well, thank you, sir. Marbury turns and shakes hands with Leo. LEO Congratulations. MARBURY God Bless America. LEO God Save the Queen. BARTLET Let's go. The photographers snap pictures of Bartlet and Marbury as they pose.

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