Dick Rush

Dick Rush charges as a battle-tested legislative liaison, huddling with Toby Ziegler and Hill peers—Ed, Marty Beech, Henry—for 70 breathless minutes to forge unanimous battle cry: summon the lame duck session now. His counsel slices through Oval Office chaos, where Bartlet grips aspirin amid treaty desperation and Leo overrides Senate backlash fears. Offstage yet indispensable, Rush embodies the Hill's raw consensus engine, relaying pragmatic firepower that ignites White House ratification offensives and binds Toby's orbit to Bartlet's high-stakes nuclear brinkmanship.