Hurricane Sarah and the trapped naval battle group: Nature threatens lives and exposes communication failures, forcing human-scale, intimate leadership (the President on the radio) against the indifferent storm.
Hurricane Sarah and the trapped naval battle group: Nature threatens lives and exposes communication failures, forcing human-scale, intimate leadership (the President on the radio) against the indifferent storm.
Events in This Arc
What opens as a practiced, image-first press moment—C.J. calmly enumerating the First Lady's gown, shoes and jewels while Sondra needles for more fashion minutiae—shifts abruptly when Josh forces the room …
When the fleet's radios fail and only the little maintenance cutter Hickory can be reached, President Bartlet personally takes a crackling patch-phone call from Signalman Harold Lewis. Harold, injured and …