Roger Rees as Lord John Marbury in The West Wing. Episode 212 "The drop-in".

TOM
Mr. President?

MARBURY
Good evening!

BARTLET
John! Let me explain why you've been waiting. I have to see people in the order they
arrive, and you got beat by Argentina.

MARBURY
Oh, uhh... Well, yes.

BARTLET
You also lost out on preferred seating for the State of the Union.

MARBURY
I'm required to attend the State of the Union?

BARTLET
Yes!

MARBURY
Then attend it I shall.

BARTLET
Okay. Tom?

TOM
Mr. President, it is with pleasure I present His Excellency, Lord John Marbury of
Great Britain, and by request of the Secretary of State, ask that you accept his
credentials from Her Royal Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, as Great Britain's Ambassador
to the United States.

Bartlet takes the folder from Marbury.

BARTLET
Where are you on the missile shield?

MARBURY
Well, I think it's dangerous, illegal... fiscally irresponsible, technologically unsound,
and a threat to all people everywhere.

BARTLET
Leo?

LEO
I think the world invented a nuclear weapon. I think the world owes it to itself to see
if it can't invent something that would make it irrelevant.

MARBURY
Well, that's the right sentiment, certainly a credible one from a man who's fought in a
war. You think you can make it stop? Well, you can't. We build a shield, and somebody
will build a better missile.

BARTLET
Well, it's a discussion for serious men. They say a statesman is a politician who's
been dead for fifteen years. I'd like us to be statesmen while we're still alive.
Lord Marbury, I accept your letter of credence from Queen Elizabeth, and, by affixing
my signature and seal, do hereby declare you to be Ambassador Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary.

They shake hands.

MARBURY
Well, thank you, sir.

Marbury turns and shakes hands with Leo.

LEO
Congratulations.

MARBURY
God Bless America.

LEO
God Save the Queen.

BARTLET
Let's go.

The photographers snap pictures of Bartlet and Marbury as they pose.

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