Close Encounters of the Theological Kind

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Jun 17, 2021

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“We’d like the White House to pay a little more attention to UFOs.”

This is the request made to White House Deputy Communications Director Sam Seaborn, played by Rob Lowe, in Season 1, Episode 5 (“The Crackpots and These Women”) of The West Wing.

“Are we paying any attention at all right now?” Sam asks.

“No,” he is told.

“Thank God.”

Reality occasionally im…

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