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Plus We Have a Motorcade [Thursday, January 9, 2014, 1st period]
Josh wasn't in the classroom when it was time to begin. It wasn't because it was the first class of the day, either--he'd been up since 6 because he was a weirdo that way. No, he wanted to make an impression.
He'd called in a few favors (okay, a lot of favors) and instead of Josh entering the room, two Marine sentries came in, immaculately dressed in their dress uniforms, and stood at attention. They were immediately followed by five men in suits and serious expressions with very obvious earpieces in their ears. They glanced at each student, assessing them for danger, and then spread out around the room.
Finally, a familiar fanfare (at least if you were American) began playing and Josh strode into the room, waving like he was expecting to greet hundreds of onlookers. He then proceeded to walk around and shake the hands of each student individually, pausing to learn each of their names, before heading to his desk.
The Marines and Secret Service agents left.
"Wasn't that great?" Josh asked bouncily. "I've always wanted to do that. Anyway, I'm Josh Lyman, this is a class on the presidency and if you're in the wrong place, stand up so we can all make fun of you."
He wasn't really expecting anyone to do that.
"The presidency, or executive branch if you want to get fancy about it, is one of three alledgedly equal branches of the US federal government," he said. "But it's also the only one with its own theme music so that makes it better than everyone else. We'll get into the details about how much better it is later in the year, and we'll get some special guests if I can swing it, but for now, let's do the introduction thing so I can immediately forget all of your names again. I'll start. I'm Josh Lyman. I was the deputy chief of staff during most of the Bartlet administration, then became CoS for the first part of the Santos administration before coming here to mold you young people into not being complete idiots. My favorite president, other than the ones I worked for, is Thomas Jefferson, and if I could have a theme song, I'd pickmeta for Shaft because that's some great music."
He pointed at some poor student. "Now you. Name, grade if you haven't been a chief of staff for a president, favorite president or leader of whatever dimension you come from, and what you'd pick if someone played theme music before you walked into a room."
He leaned back against his desk. "And I need an assistant for this class if anyone's interested. I might find you some theme music too."
He'd called in a few favors (okay, a lot of favors) and instead of Josh entering the room, two Marine sentries came in, immaculately dressed in their dress uniforms, and stood at attention. They were immediately followed by five men in suits and serious expressions with very obvious earpieces in their ears. They glanced at each student, assessing them for danger, and then spread out around the room.
Finally, a familiar fanfare (at least if you were American) began playing and Josh strode into the room, waving like he was expecting to greet hundreds of onlookers. He then proceeded to walk around and shake the hands of each student individually, pausing to learn each of their names, before heading to his desk.
The Marines and Secret Service agents left.
"Wasn't that great?" Josh asked bouncily. "I've always wanted to do that. Anyway, I'm Josh Lyman, this is a class on the presidency and if you're in the wrong place, stand up so we can all make fun of you."
He wasn't really expecting anyone to do that.
"The presidency, or executive branch if you want to get fancy about it, is one of three alledgedly equal branches of the US federal government," he said. "But it's also the only one with its own theme music so that makes it better than everyone else. We'll get into the details about how much better it is later in the year, and we'll get some special guests if I can swing it, but for now, let's do the introduction thing so I can immediately forget all of your names again. I'll start. I'm Josh Lyman. I was the deputy chief of staff during most of the Bartlet administration, then became CoS for the first part of the Santos administration before coming here to mold you young people into not being complete idiots. My favorite president, other than the ones I worked for, is Thomas Jefferson, and if I could have a theme song, I'd pick
He pointed at some poor student. "Now you. Name, grade if you haven't been a chief of staff for a president, favorite president or leader of whatever dimension you come from, and what you'd pick if someone played theme music before you walked into a room."
He leaned back against his desk. "And I need an assistant for this class if anyone's interested. I might find you some theme music too."
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