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"All right, that's it, flatfoot. You want the benefits of free trade? Food is cheaper. Food is cheaper! Clothes are cheaper, steel is cheaper, cars are cheaper--. Phone service is cheaper! You feel me building a rhythm here? That's 'cause I'm a speechwriter, I know how to make a point. It lowers prices, it raises income--. Y'see what I did with "lowers" and "raises," there? It's called the science of listener attention. We did repetition, we did floating opposites--. And now you end with the one that's not like the others. Ready? Free trade stops wars. Heh! And that's it. FREE TRADE STOPS WARS! Can we figure out a way to fix the rest?

"One world, one peace, I'm sure I've seen that on a sign somewhere."

Officer Rhonda Sachs:"God, Toby. Wouldn't it be great if there were someone around here with communications skills who could go in there and tell them that?"

"Shut up."

--2.16, "Somebody's Going to Emergency, Somebody's Going to Jail"


His name is Toby Zachary Ziegler and he's the White House Director of Communications for the Bartlet Administration. His office is exactly sixty-three feet from the Oval Office.

He's 45, born December 23, 1954. Born in Brighton Beach, New York, he went to CCNY, and is a veteran (he did a tour of duty along the DMZ in Korea). Since then he's been behind-the-scenes in politics, a "professional political operative," but he never had a win until the Bartlet campaign. He and his ex-wife, Congresswoman Andrea (Andi) Wyatt, have twins, Huck and Molly.

Toby is a gifted speechwriter, but he's not the easiest guy to be around. He relaxes--if one can call it that--by bouncing a rubber ball. He's been known to play basketball and tennis, but that is definitely *not* relaxing. Neither is his furious passion for the Yankees. If you *must* get on his good side (too bad for you), give him pie.


Toby first arrives at Milliways near the end of season three of the series.

[Toby Ziegler is from the television series, "West Wing," and is the property of Warner Brothers. He appears here solely for the purpose of role-playing in Milliways Bar, from which no profit whatsoever is being made. Images of Richard Schiff belong to him.]