Summary
A defiant Leo (John Spencer) rejects the Congressional Oversight Committee's offer of a presidential public censure that would finally end its investigation of Bartlet's (Martin Sheen) concealment of his illness and spare Leo of any possible personal repercussions.
The staff is also dealing with a tell-all book written by someone whom no one can really remember working there. Sam (Rob Lowe) goes off the deep end trying to refute every inaccuracy in the book.
Meanwhile, a tongue-tied Josh (Bradley Whitford) hatches a shameless scheme to meet socially with attractive women's rights leader Amy Gardner(Mary-Louise Parker), and Bartlet wants to frame Charlie's (Dulé Hill) gift of a 1709 map of the Holy Land, but his staff warn him not to because Israel is not depicted on the map, regardless of the fact that Israel did not come into being until the 20th Century.
Eventually, and despite Leo's strong objections, Bartlet decides to accept censure.
Quotes
"I take a bullet for the President, he doesn't take one for me."- Leo McGarry
Later:
"I was wrong. I was. I was just, I was wrong. Come on, we know that. Lots of times we don't know what right and wrong is. But lots of time we do. And come on, this is one. I may not have had sinister intent at the outset, but there were plenty of opportunities for me to make it right. No one in government takes responsibility for anything any more. We foster, we obfuscate, we rationalize. 'Everybody does it.' That's what we say. So we come to occupy a moral safe house where everyone's to blame so no one's guilty. I'm to blame. I was wrong."- Pres Bartlet, explaining his decision to Leo