National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Bartlet paces Oval shadows, draft in hand, as Sam unleashes logistical fury: NCI's elite oncologists, summoned alongside Sloane-Kettering's vanguard, stand as indispensable arsenal for the decade-long cancer-cure crusade—federal bastion unleashing top-tier experts whose mobilization in mere weeks crushes presidential ambitions under bureaucratic weight, exposing raw chasm between messianic vows and federal machinery's grinding inertia amid late-night shelving sighs.