While the White House staff works intensely on Bartlet's crucial State of the Union speech, Bartlet suddenly demands the inclusion of a passage that promises a crusade to cure cancer.
Drew inadvertently demonstrates to Winfred-Lauder execs he is no longer needed and so is fired. Needing income, he rents a room to a gay couple played by Adam West and Max Gail. Lewis and Oswald build a home but need clowns to finish it.
Val and Maxine go undercover as anarchists to help the FBI arrest a group of anarchists and they accidently get Erik Estrada mistaken for one of them.