Toby and His Battle for Freedom : From the author of Toby: The Mouse Who Lived in a Pumpkin

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And I'm telling you that I met the man twice.

And I recommended a pre-emptive Exocet missile strike against his air force, so I think I know how They hang up on me every time. That's almost hard to believe. O'Brien, I understand your feelings, but please believe me when I tell you that I'm a nice guy having a bad day. I just found out the Times is publishing a poll that says a considerable portion of Americans feel the White House has lost energy and focus. A perception that's not likely to be altered by the video footage of the President riding his bicycle into a tree.

A good friend of mine's about to get fired for going on television and making sense, and it turns out I accidentally slept with a prostitute last night. Now would you please, in the name of compassion, tell me which one of those kids is my boss's daughter? That would be me. Leo's daughter's fourth-grade class. Well, this is bad on so many levels.

The First Commandment says "Honor thy father. If I'm gonna make you sit through this preposterous exercise, we're gonna get the names of the damn Commandments right! Okay, here we go. Then what's the First Commandment? If our children can buy pornography on any street corner for five dollars, isn't that too high a price to pay for free speech? On the other hand, I do think that five dollars is too high a price to pay for pornography.

May I have some coffee, Mr. Al, how many times have I asked you to denounce the practices of a fringe group that calls itself The Lambs of God? It is up to you, Al. Twenty-eight years ago, I come home from a very bad day at the State House. I get in the station wagon and put it in reverse, and pull out of the garage full speed. Abbey told me to not drive while I was upset and she was right. It seems my granddaughter, Annie, had given an interview in one of the teen magazines.

So I want you to tell me from what part of the Holy Scripture do you suppose the Lambs of God drew their Divine inspiration when they sent my 12 year-old granddaughter a Raggedy Ann doll with a knife stuck through its throat? And until you do, you can all get your fat asses out of my White House. I believe we can find the door. You know what the worst part about this is? Well, I think you dinged up your suspension pretty good.

No, Lloyd, it's the party they're having, right now, in the West Wing, at my expense. They're not having a party in the West Wing. I've worked with these people for two and a half years. They like to win and they like to gloat. I'm sure you're wrong. I'm sure I'm not. There are very serious people working at the White House.

A blow is struck for party unity today, there's no cause to gloat. Victory is mine, victory is mine. Great day in the morning, people, victory is mine. I drink from the keg of glory, Donna. Bring me the finest muffins and bagels in all the land. It's going to be an unbearable day. Landingham, does the President have free time this morning?

The President has nothing but free time, Toby. Right now he's in the residence eating Cheerios and enjoying Regis and Kathie Lee. Should I get him for you? Sarcasm's a disturbing thing coming from a woman of your age, Mrs. What age would that be, Toby? Can I have a cookie? Have a cookie, Sam. Sir, this may be a good time to talk about your sense of humor. I've got an intelligence briefing, a security briefing, and a minute budget meeting all scheduled for the same 45 minutes.

You sure this is a good time to talk about my sense of humor? It's just that it's not the first time that it's happened. We're talking about Texas, sir. USA Today asks you why you don't spend more time campaigning in Texas and you say it's because you don't look good in funny hats. It was big hats. What difference does it make? It makes a difference. The point is we got whomped in Texas. We got whomped in Texas twice. We got whomped in the primary and we got whomped in November. I think I was there. And it was avoidable. Okay, but none of my visitors are going to be able to understand my tombstone.

Twenty-seven lawyers in the room, anybody know 'post hoc, ergo propter hoc'? Ah, post, after hoc, ergo, therefore After hoc, therefore something else hoc. It means one thing follows the other, therefore it was caused by the other. But it's not always true. In fact it's hardly ever true.

We did not lose Texas because of the hat joke. Do you know when we lost Texas? When you learned to speak Latin? It's a flu shot. I don't need a flu shot. You do need a flu shot. How do I know this isn't the start of a military coup?

I want the Secret Service in here right away. In the event of a military coup, sir, what makes you think the Secret Service is gonna be on your side? Now that's a thought that's gonna fester. About a week ago I accidentally slept with a prostitute. You accidentally slept with a prostitute. Did you trip over something? A Proportional Response [ edit ] Josh: A couple of things for you to bear in mind. First of all, he didn't know she was a call girl when he slept with her. He didn't pay her. He didn't participate in, have knowledge of, or witness anything illegal.

Or for that matter, unethical, amoral, or suspect. A couple things for you to bear in mind. None of that matters on Hard Copy! As women are prone to do. That's not what I meant. That's always what you mean. You know what, C. Well, I've got a staff meeting to go to and so do you, you elitist Harvard fascist missed-the-dean's-list-two-semesters-in-a-row Yankee jackass! Feel better getting that off your chest there, C. I'm a whole new woman. You look like a million bucks, by the way. Don't try to make up with me. The President better not be planning on making any visits to this base.

If he does, he may not get out alive. Sitting there with military officers? Don't take the bait. Don't take the bait! You'd better believe I'm going to take the bait. There ought to be a law against it. Why'd you get him started? There is a law against it! How about threatening the life of the President?

He was talking to other people: They were military officers, how about treason? That was a member of our own party, Leo. That was a Democrat who said that! It's bad, I know. What are you going to do? Have the Justice Department bring him in pending felony charges.

What's the good of being in power if you're not going to haul your enemies in for questioning? We're really not gonna do anything about this? Yeah, cause what we really need to do is arrest people for being mean to the President. There is no law. There is no decency. What's the virtue of the proportional response?

What is the virtue of a proportional response? They hit an airplane, so we hit a transmitter, right? That's a proportional response. Sir, in the case of Pericles 1 -- Bartlet: That's roughly it, yes, sir. This is what we do. I mean, this is what we do. Yes, sir, it's what we do. It's what we've always done. Well, if it's what we do, if it's what we've always done, don't they know we're going to do it? Sir, if you'd turn your attention to Pericles 1 -- Bartlet: I have turned my attention to Pericles 1.

It's two ammo dumps, an abandoned railroad bridge and a Syrian intelligence agency. Those are four highly-rated targets, sir. But they know we're gonna do that. They know we're gonna do that! Those areas have been abandoned for three days now. We know that from the satellite, right? We have the intelligence. It's the cost of doing business. It's been factored in, right? Am I right, or am I missing something here? Then I ask again, what is the virtue of a proportional response? It isn't virtuous, Mr. It's all there is, sir. It is not all there is. Sir, Admiral Fitzwallace -- Admiral Fitzwallace: President, just what else is there?

Let the word ring forth, from this time and this place, gentlemen, you kill an American, any American, we don't come back with a proportional response. We come back with total disaster! Are you suggesting that we carpet-bomb Damascus? I am suggesting, General, that you, and Admiral Fitzwallace, and Secretary Hutchinson, and the rest of the National Security Team take the next sixty minutes and put together an American response scenario that doesn't make me think we're just docking somebody's damn allowance!

Did you know that two thousand years ago a Roman citizen could walk across the face of the known world free of the fear of molestation? He could walk across the Earth unharmed, cloaked only in the protection of the words civis Romanus -- I am a Roman citizen. So great was the retribution of Rome, universally understood as certain, should any harm befall even one of its citizens.

Where was Morris's protection, or anybody else on that airplane? Where was the retribution for the families, and where is the warning to the rest of the world that Americans shall walk this Earth unharmed, lest the clenched fist of the most mighty military force in the history of mankind comes crashing down on your house?! In other words, Leo, what the hell are we doing here?!

We are behaving the way a superpower ought to behave. Well our behavior has produced some crappy results; in fact I'm not a hundred per cent sure it hasn't induced it. What are you talking about?

And you think ratcheting up the body count's gonna act as a deterrent? You're damn right I- Leo: Oh, then you are just as stupid as these guys who think capital punishment is going to be a deterrent for drug kingpins. As if drug kingpins didn't live their day to day lives under the possibility of execution, and their executions are a lot less dainty than ours and tend to take place without the bother and expense of due process. So, my friend, if you want to start using American military strength as the arm of the Lord, you can do that.

We're the only superpower left. You can conquer the world, like Charlemagne! But you better be prepared to kill everyone. And you better start with me, because I will raise up an army against you and I will beat you! We are doing nothing. We are not doing nothing. Four high-rated military targets!

Bartlet And this is good? Of course it's not good.

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There is no good. It's what there is! It's how you behave if you're the most powerful nation in the world. It's proportional, it's reasonable, it's responsible, it's merciful! Four high-rated military targets. Which they'll rebuild again in six months. Then we'll blow 'em up again in six months!

We're getting really good at it It's what our fathers taught us. I could pummel your ass with a baseball bat. Bertram Coles -- Bartlet: Oh, I love anything that starts with "Bertram Coles". Coles goes on the radio yesterday, and he says people in his district love America. And you better not come down there, 'cause you might not get out alive. Bert's calling me out? No, apparently, the people in Bert's district are so patriotic, if the President of the United States himself were to show up Toby is on it.

Oh, by the way, who's that kid before, the one who figured out where my glasses were? Well, if you want him, that's your new body man.

I have to tell you, he's ordinarily an extremely kind man, placing a very high premium on civility. I think I should probably go. Can I see you inside, please? Come on, it's okay. I'm Charles Young, sir. But you prefer Charlie, right? Listen, Leo McGarry filled me in on the situation with your mother. I'm so very sorry.

I hope you don't mind, but I took the liberty of calling Tom Connolly, the FBI Director, and we had the computer spit out some quick information. Your mother was killed by a Western. Now, we have not had a whole lot of success yet in banning that weapon and those bullets off the streets, but we're planning on taking a big whack at it when Congress comes back from recess.

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So, what do you say? You want to come help us out? I've never felt like this before. It doesn't go away. Five Votes Down [ edit ] Josh: Forgive my bluntness, and I say this with all due respect, Congressman, but vote yes, or you're not even going to be on the ballot two years from now. How do you figure? You're going to lose in the primary. There's no Democrat running against me. I'm in your own party! Doesn't seem to be doing us much good now, does it?

Against an incumbent Democrat. You'll go to the press and endorse a challenger? We're going to do it in person. See, you won with fifty-two percent, but the President took your district with fifty-nine. And I think it's high time we come back and say thanks. We're going to have a party, Congressman. You should come, it's gonna be great. And when the watermelon's done, right in town square, right in the band gazebo You guys got a band gazebo? Doesn't matter, we'll build one.

Right in the band gazebo, that's where the President is going to drape his arm around the shoulder of some assistant DA we like. And you should have your camera with you. You should get a picture of that. President Bartlet's a good man. He's got a good heart. He doesn't hold a grudge. That's what he pays me for.

Nothing you need to concern yourself with, Mr. Merely a perception issue regarding Toby and the financial disclosure. Well, I like to roll up my sleeves and, you know Did you by any chance take your back pills? I don't mind telling you C. I was in a little pain there. Which did you take, sir, the Vicodin or the Percocet? I wasn't supposed to take 'em both? President, we're going to have someone take you back to bed. One of you's got a problem, and I'm here to help.

You guys are like family. You've always been there for me. You've always been loyal, honest, hard-working good people, and I love you all very much, and I don't say that often enough. Sam, of course you are. Sir, the situation basically is this. I arranged for a friend to testify to Commerce on Internet stocks, while simultaneously, but unrelated to that, bought a technology issue which, partly due to my friend's testimony, shot through the roof.

Toby's a nice name, don't you think? Can we possibly do this meeting at another time? No no no, I know my body. I know my muscles aren't, you know, but my mind is sharp. You all know that about me. Here's what I think we ought to do. There's two things in the world you never want to let people see how you make 'em: I'm curious about the President's farm in Manchester. What's that due to? Can you go into detail, please? The property now includes a helipad and the ability to run a global war from the sun porch.

You know, I realize that as an adult not everyone shares my view of the world, and with an issue as hot as gun control I'm prepared to accept a lot of different points of view as being perfectly valid, but we can all get together on the grenade launcher, right? The Crackpots and These Women [ edit ] Toby: It's not so much that you cheat sir, its how brazenly bad you are at it.

Give me an example. In Florida, playing mixed doubles with me and C. It was Steffi Graf , sir! I'll admit the woman bore a striking resemblance to her. You crazy lunatic, you think I'm not going to recognize Steffi Graf when she's serving a tennis ball at me? Andrew Jackson , in the main foyer of his White House had a big block of cheese. I am making a mental list of those who are snickering, and even as I speak I am preparing appropriate retribution.

The block of cheese was huge - over two tons. And it was there for any and all who might be hungry. Leo, wouldn't this time be better spent plotting a war against a country that can't possibly defend itself against us? We can do that later, Toby. Right now I'm talking about President Andrew Jackson. Sam Actually, right now, you're talking about a big block of cheese. And Sam goes on my list! Jackson wanted the White House to belong to the people, so from time to time, he opened his doors to those who wished an audience. And then he locked the doors behind them and made them eat two tons of cheese.

It is in that spirit Mandy doesn't go on the list? So it's just me It is in the spirit of Andrew Jackson that I, from time to time, ask senior staff to have face-to-face meetings with those people representing organizations who have a difficult time getting our attention. I know the more jaded among you, see this as something rather beneath you. But I assure you that listening to the voices of passionate Americans is beneath no one, and surely not the peoples' servants.

Is it "Total Crackpot Day" again? And let us please note that Josh does not go on the list. Hey, everybody, listen up - Zoe's down from Hanover and I'm making chili for everyone tonight! Everybody look down at the big seal in the middle of my carpet. You see how benevolent I can be when everybody just does what I tell them to do? They want me up in the plane or down in a bunker. They don't want you I didn't want to be friends with you and have you not know.

You're very sweet sometimes. Of course they don't want me, Josh! I'm a press secretary. I don't think they're going to be issuing a whole lot of releases. Sam and Toby are communications and my guess is that speech writing won't be a priority either. Come, have some fun. Do you know this? Do you think you have to be crazy to create something powerful? Josh, the Cold War is over. There's not going to be a nuclear— Josh: It's not going to be like that. It's not gonna be the red phone and nuclear bombs. What's it going to be? It's going to be this! It's going to be something like this.

Smallpox has been gone for fifty years. No one has an acquired immunity. Flies through the air. You get it, you carry a ten foot cloud around with you. One in three people die.

If people in New York City got it, you'd have to encircle them with million vaccinated people to contain it. Do you know how many doses of smallpox vaccines exist in the country? If people in New York City get it, there's gonna be a global medical emergency that's gonna make HIV look like cold and flu season. That's how it's gonna be, a little test tube with a We'll make more vaccine.

You better hurry, 'cause I'm the only one with one of these cards. One of its booster rockets didn't fire and it couldn't escape Earth's orbit. A sad reminder of the time when two powerful nations challenged each other and then boldly raced into outer space. What will be the next thing that challenges us, Toby?

That makes us go farther and work harder? You know that when smallpox was eradicated , it was considered the single greatest humanitarian achievement of this century? Surely we can do it again, as we did in the time when our eyes looked towards the heavens, and with outstretched fingers we touched the face of God.

Here's to absent friends and the ones that are here now. Willis of Ohio [ edit ] Sam: As Toby gradually moved his way through the grass, he came upon some garbage: Toby stopped for a moment and realized that he had thought of the garden as home and wondered if his travels would take him to a place as nice as where he had been raised. He wiggled his way through the bag and came across a large quantity of very crispy, salty potatoes that had flavorings he had never tasted before.

The mouse ate until his little belly protruded. Look at me, Hawkeye. I am as fat as that old toad, Major Hornsby. Read on your iOS and Android devices Get more info. Capabilities Text to speech.

About the author While writing Toby: The Mouse Who Lived in a Pumpkin, John Crespeno realized that his little gray mouse needed to venture forth beyond the protective environment behind the brown cedar fence and search for his family. The veteran teacher had always encouraged his own students to always take their assignments and projects to the next level.

By reuniting Toby with his family and overcoming obstacles that both students and adults face every day, the author created Toby and His Battle for Freedom. Crespeno continues to live and thrive in a suburb of Dallas, Texas. Additional information Publisher AuthorHouse. Content protection This content is DRM free. Additional terms Terms of transaction. Ratings and reviews No one's rated or reviewed this product yet. To rate and review, sign in.

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