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The West Wing is an American serial political drama television series created by Aaron Sorkin that was originally broadcast on NBC from September 22, 1999 to May 14, 2006. The series is set primarily in the West Wing of the White House, where the Oval Office and offices of presidential senior personnel are located, during the fictitious Democratic administration of President …
John Hoynes is an American politician of the Democratic Party, who served as Vice President of the United States under Josiah Bartlet from 1999 to 2003, when he resigned due to a sex scandal. He returned to the political arena as a strong contender in the 2006 United States Presidential Election, and again his ambition was dashed by another sex scandal. Prior to his Vice …
He also nominated Arnold Vinick as his Secretary of State and Eric Baker as his new vice president. His priority legislation for the first 100 days was a major education reform bill, along with a lobbying reform bill (though the latter was strongly opposed by the more moderate incoming Democratic House Speaker Mark B.
Annabeth SchottAnnabeth Schott was a producer for The Taylor Reid Show who later accepted a job at the White House as Deputy Press Secretary after C.J. Cregg's promotion to Chief of Staff.
When President Bartlet was spending too much time consoling disaster survivors in Oklahoma, Berryhill was among those urging the President to return to Washington and continue his work, including the meeting with Chancellor Weisman. He was replaced by Arnold Vinick after the 2006 election.
Notes and referencesbartlet cabinetVice PresidentJohn Hoynes • Bob RussellSecretary of StateLewis BerryhillSecretary of the TreasuryKen Kato • Karen BrowningSecretary of DefenseMiles Hutchinson13 more rows
ListCHIEF OF STAFFPERIODSERVED UNDERLeo Thomas McGarryJanuary 20, 1999 — September 2005Josiah BartletGlen Allen WalkenClaudia Jean CreggSeptember 2005 — January 20, 2007Josiah BartletJoshua LymanJanuary 20, 2007 — PresentMatt Santos
C. J. CreggHe is resuscitated, survives, and later returns to work after Bartlet's last State of the Union address in a new role as Senior Counselor to the President. McGarry is succeeded as Chief of Staff by his personal recommendation, C. J. Cregg, who previously served as the White House Press Secretary.
Speaking to Empire Magazine, Sorkin explained how it was his biggest regret to not make her a series regular. He said: “I made a mistake with Emily Procter. I loved her on the show and when I had a chance to lock her up as a series regular, I didn't take it.
During the fourth season, Sam decides to run for Congress in his home district — the California 47th in Orange County, California — in a special election held after deceased Democratic candidate Horton Wilde posthumously makes history by defeating arch-conservative Republican incumbent Chuck Webb.
However, during the show's final season, Schiff said he felt let down by the writers as some of his episodes were cut "purely on a financial decision." He was particularly critical of the military shuttle leak storyline, which saw his character indicted for leaking classified information.
John Hoynes is an American politician of the Democratic Party, who served as Vice President of the United States under Josiah Bartlet from 1999 to 2003, when he resigned due to a sex scandal.
Owen Lassiter was an American Politician, serving as President of the United States during the late 70s and early- to mid-80s. He died in January 2004.
Despite his charm and charisma, Sam was written out of the show in the fourth season as a result of disagreements over pay and the diminishing size of his role on the show. Rob Lowe played Deputy Communications Director Sam Seaborn, a standout character of the first 4 seasons.
One of those clear parallels comes in the form of President Bartlet himself, who was, according to Martin Sheen, "largely drawn from Bill Clinton. ... He's bright, astute, and filled with all the negative foibles that make him very human.".
Given the number of intense speeches and shouting matches that President Bartlet engages in, it was clear that the series would need an actor with a true sense of gravitas to inhabit the role. Martin Sheen was clearly the right choice for his character; his six Emmy nominations for the role alone more than attest to that fact.
Martin Sheen is reported to have only originally agreed to appear in a minimum of four episodes in the series' first season. Sorkin later considered having Bartlet recur throughout the series, appearing in every other episode.
The West Wing: 10 Facts You Didn't Know About President Bartlet. Martin Sheen's Jed Bartlet is one of the most iconic television characters of all time. We reveal some surprising facts about The West Wing hero. For seven seasons between 1999 and 2006, The West Wing reigned as one of the best series airing on television.
For seven seasons between 1999 and 2006, The West Wing reigned as one of the best series airing on television. A large part of what made this series such an undeniable success, among critics and fans alike, was the prominent role of President Josiah Edward "Jed" Bartlet, as portrayed by the legendary actor Martin Sheen.
But it takes some truly special shows to have a fan base that's active and vocal over a decade after the series wrapped. Even though The West Wing ended in 2006, the fan community of the series is as vibrant as ever online - and one key player has been making that possible. Ever since 2010, a fan has been running an unofficial President Jed Bartlet ...
While Bartlet was a New Hampshire man instead of a man from Arkan sas like Cli nton, the parallels in their demeanor, their academic persona, their use of humor, and their diplomacy are clearly meant to exist in parallel with one another.
The son of Lee Babish, an appeals court judge in Chicago, and the grandson of Walter Babish, a former Chicago District Attorney who once received a gavel from Louis Brandeis-which was given to Oliver when he entered Yale Law (a tradition in his family dating back four generations).
After spending two years there he returned to Chicago, where he became the first non-Jewish attorney at Bronstein and Cohen-a prominent law firm that was known for only hiring Jewish lawyers. After only six years at the firm, they made Babish a partner and renamed the firm Bronstein, Cohen & Babish. However, after Babish divorced Liz Cohen, the daughter of one of the other partners, he left the firm because he felt "it was the right thing to do". He started his own legal consulting firm that worked with many local politicians and businessmen called Babish and Associates while also spending time as a visiting professor at the University of Chicago.
Oliver Babbish: I thought he'd thank you for your service.
While clearly a highly skilled legalist, Oliver's occasional passionate outbursts are somewhat surprising, though no more so than those of his prede cessor, Lionel Tribbey. Oliver has a strict personal moral code, which he will not (apparently) compromise. In the office he appears somewhat slapdash with regard to the day-to-day details of business, but when the President needs him he seems to be utterly focused.
Bartlet's best friend, Leo McGarry, persuades him to run for president around the fall of 1995, writing the slogan "Bartlet for America" on a cocktail napkin. Although initially a dark horse, Bartlet eventually defeats the Democratic frontrunner, U.S. Senator John Hoynes of Texas, whom Bartlet asks to join the ticket as his vice-presidential running mate. He defeats the Republican nominee for president, winning a close election with just 48 percent of the vote, 48 million popular votes and a 303–235 margin in the Electoral College .
Josiah Edward " Jed " Bartlet is a fictional character from the American television serial drama The West Wing, portrayed by Martin Sheen. The role earned Sheen a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama in 2001, as well as two SAG Awards . Bartlet's tenure as a Democratic President of the United States is a preeminent aspect ...
Bartlet's wife, Abigail Bartlet, is a thoracic surgeon and they have three daughters: Elizabeth Anne Westin, Eleanor Emily Bartlet, and Zoey Patricia Bartlet. There are two grandchildren from his oldest daughter, Elizabeth - Annie, who is 12 in the pilot (although she is shown as and is referenced as being much younger in later episodes), and Gus, who is about 5 in the fifth season. It is also revealed in the seventh season that middle daughter Ellie is pregnant with Bartlet's third grandchild. He is depicted as a stern but loving father, in contrast to his own father, who (as is seen in flashbacks) was cold and physically abusive. President Bartlet also has paternal feelings towards members of his staff, referring to Charlie Young (his personal aide) and Josh Lyman (his deputy chief of staff) as his sons, and telling C.J. Cregg (his press secretary and later chief of staff) that she is part of his family.
Zoey Bartlet is kidnapped on the day of her graduation from Georgetown University, possibly in retaliation for the assassination of the Qumari defense minister, Abdul ibn Shareef, which her father authorized. While Zoey is missing, President Bartlet fears he is incapable of maintaining the necessary dispassion while his daughter is in such danger and invokes Section 3 of the 25th Amendment, declaring himself incapacitated and transferring the powers of the presidency to the next person in the presidential line of succession. Due to the resignation a few days earlier of Vice President Hoynes, the Speaker of the House, Republican Glen Allen Walken, becomes Acting President of the United States. Zoey is recovered with only minor injuries several days later and President Bartlet reassumes his office shortly thereafter.
He receives a Congressional censure for covering up his MS while running for president.
Sorkin said he took some of Bartlet's characteristics from his own father, namely his "great love of education and literature [and] all things old," his " [belief] in a genuine goodness in people," and his "'Aw, Dad' sense of humor.".
Bartlet was born and raised in Manchester, New Hampshire. He is a direct descendant of Josiah Bartlett, a real-world signatory of the Declaration of Independence .
NBC’s The West Wing aired its final episode thirteen years ago this week, on May 14, 2006. The series has aged … unevenly. Allison Janney’s CJ Cregg remains as brilliant as ever, but Josh’s neg-heavy courtship of his assistant Donna now seems not only immature but probably unethical. Then there’s the political side. Conservatives dismiss the show as a pro-government fantasia where taxation is the panacea for society’s every ill, while liberals routinely point out how it’s rooted in a white, hetero POV that’s actually, ultimately, pretty centrist. Both of those takes are probably correct but what if — and I know this is radical — we looked at The West Wing not as a referendum on the American political system but as a … television program. Take a minute to absorb to the idea.
“What did liberals do that was so offensive to the liberal party? I’ll tell you what they did. Liberals got women the right to vote. Liberals got African-Americans the right to vote. Liberals created Social Security and lifted millions of elderly people out of poverty. Liberals ended segregation. Liberals passed the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act. Liberals created Medicare. Liberals passed the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act. What did Conservatives do? They opposed them on every one of those things. Every one. So when you try to hurl that label at my feet, ‘Liberal,’ as if it were something to be ashamed of, something dirty, something to run away from, it won’t work, Senator, because I will pick up that label and I will wear it as a badge of honor.”
In a flashback, Young Bartlet stands up to his asshole father and, sure, fails to mention the gendered pay gap he originally wanted to talk to him about, but he also lays out the most compelling case yet for his Catholicism: doing good stuff. It’s not enough to have the right beliefs or look to the correct leaders.
Editor 1: Wow, Bartlet is not here for that woman using the Bible to justify her homophobia! Editor 2: Yeah, he sure has a lot of examples of rules in the Bible that we don’t follow because that’s not the way people live anymore.
Much of it is in service of a greater good, but still. However, those who are pure of heart — Charlie, Zoey, kidnapped journalists, anti-landmine poets (Laura Dern!) — somehow bring out the best in the politicians around them. However corrupt Bartlet may have let himself become, he never wants to corrupt anyone else.
The West Wing offers a glimpse into the inner workings of the fictional Bartlet White House. The show's legitimacy, political slant, and idealist representations of Washington, as well as its notable writing and film merits, have generated considerable discussion.
Real people mentioned in The West Wing include Muammar Gaddafi, Yasser Arafat, Fidel Castro, Queen Elizabeth II, King Bhumibol Adulyadej, King Carl XVI Gustaf, Thabo Mbeki and Osama bin Laden .
Bartlet is stated to have won the election with 48% of the popular vote, 48 million votes, and a 303–235 margin in the Electoral College. Of three debates between Bartlet and his Republican opponent, it is mentioned that Bartlet won the third and final debate, held eight days before election day in St. Louis, Missouri. Josh Lyman says that in the days prior to the election "Bartlet punched through a few walls" as the result seemed too close to call, before the result broke his way. Leo McGarry says the same thing in " Bartlet for America " when he says, "It was eight days to go, and we were too close to call".
Many venues, including Funny or Die, Mad TV, and the Late Night with Seth Meyers have parodied the walk-and-talk cliche of the show, including the "ping-pong" dialogue, in which one character would speak barely a word before the other said another, and then repeated back and forth.
A major fan convention, "West Wing Weekend" took place in September 28–30, 2018, at the Marriott Hotel in Bethesda, Maryland. The convention featured guest appearances from some members of the series' cast, as well as a number of panels, fan-based programming, and special events.
One of the stranger effects of the show occurred on January 31, 2006, when The West Wing was said to have played a hand in defeating a proposal backed by Tony Blair 's government in the British House of Commons, during the so-called " West Wing Plot".
The West Wing is an American serial political drama television series created by Aaron Sorkin that was originally broadcast on NBC from September 1999 to May 2006.
socialite named Helen Baldwin, a woman with whom he was having an extramarital affair. He told her that he had seen evidence of life on Mars.
Bartlet counted on Hoynes to deliver the South, but eventually lost Texas in the general election, possibly due to Te xans taking offense to Bartlet's then-frequent jokes about the Lone Star State. In an attempt to show that he trusted him, Bartlet disclosed to Hoynes that he had multiple sclerosis.
President Lassiter was played by an unknown stand-in. His hands as he wrote his letter were the only physical time he was seen, and his image was seen on posters at his funeral.
Signature. Owen Lassiter was an American Politician, serving as President of the United States during the late 70s and early- to mid-80s. He died in January 2004 .
• Laurie (Lisa Edelstein): Sam Seaborn's friend. Law student working as a call girl (Season 1 and mentioned several times in 2).
• Al Kiefer (John de Lancie): Democratic pollster who had a short relationship with Joey Lucas. The senior staff cannot stand him and when Joey's abilities became apparent, she takes over his previous role as the Bartlet Administration's top pollster. (Season 1)
• Madeline "Mandy" Hampton (Moira Kelly): Political consultant during Bartlet's first campaign. Worked as a media consultant at Lennox-Chase after the campaign. Briefly consults for Democratic Senator Lloyd Russell before being hired by the White House as a political consultant and Media Director (Season 1). She is not seen or mentioned again after the first season.
• Angela Blake (Michael Hyatt): Worked for Leo McGarry while he was Secretary of Labor. While a politica…
• Matt Santos (Jimmy Smits): Democratic candidate for president in 2006 (Seasons 6–7). Succeeds Josiah Bartlet as President of the United States. (Season 7). Three-term U.S. Representative from Texas. Frustrated at legislative setbacks in the House, Santos is on the verge of announcing a decision not to seek re-election, but instead is convinced by Josh Lyman to launch a long-shot campaign for the presidency.
• Maureen Graty (Pamela Salem): Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (Season 6)
• Lord John Marbury (Roger Rees) is first introduced as the former British High Commissioner to India and an expert on the Indian subcontinent. He is later appointed Ambassador from the United Kingdom. Known for his colorful and flamboyant personality, he frequently pretends to mistake White House Chief of Staff Leo McGarry for the White House butler(calling him 'Gerald') and outwardly flirts wit…
• Bruno Gianelli (Ron Silver): A sharp political operative and consultant introduced in the third season as the campaign manager of Bartlet's 2002 bid for reelection, and continues in this role through the fourth season. His unmatched track record of victories includes a House district that no Democrat has won for decades, several different U.S. senators and state governors, as well as a win for an unspecified Israeli prime minister. The character reappears as Eric Baker's campaig…
• Danny Concannon; (Timothy Busfield): senior White House correspondent for The Washington Post and love interest for C.J. Cregg; the two have a child together and have been living together for three years (marriage not confirmed in dialogue) as revealed in the last episode (Seasons 1–2, 4–5, 7).
• Greg Brock (Sam Robards): White House correspondent for The New York Times. Greg Brock is also the name of a real editor for The New York Times. One of the most regularly referre…
• Abigail Ann 'Abbey' Bartlet, M.D. (Stockard Channing): First Lady of the United States (Seasons 1–7).
• Jonathan Bartlet: Younger brother of Josiah Bartlet (mentioned, never seen).
• Elizabeth "Liz" Bartlet Westin (Annabeth Gish): The President's eldest daughter, married with two children. (Seasons 5–7). President Bartlet thinks she is the real political mind in her marriage (not her husband) and she should run for office instead of him.
Josiah Edward "Jed" Bartlet is a fictional character from the American television serial drama The West Wing created by Aaron Sorkin and portrayed by actor Martin Sheen. The role earned Sheen a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama in 2001, as well as two SAG Awards.
Bartlet's tenure as a fictional Democratic President of the United Statesis a preeminent aspect of the series. His origin as a recurring character evolved due to Sheen's acting finesse; Sorkin and f…
Show creator Aaron Sorkin had not initially intended to feature the president at all, having envisioned the series as focused on the White House senior staff who execute and advise on major policy and political matters. "Then I felt that would become hokey," he said. "We'll constantly be just missing the president. As he walks around the corner, we'll see the back of his head." The character of Josiah Bartlet was then created as a recurring figure, and Martin Sheenwas signed t…
Bartlet was born in 1944 and raised in Manchester, New Hampshire. He is a direct descendant of Dr. Josiah Bartlett, a real-world signatory of the Declaration of Independence.
Bartlet is a devout Catholic. This is due to the influence of his mother, as his father would have preferred that he be raised Protestant. His relationship with his father was often strained and abusive. In a discussion with his subconscious, personified by the "ghost" of Mrs. Landingham, h…
The West Wing's portrayal of multiple sclerosis through Bartlet was applauded by Mike Dugan, president of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Dugan stated that the group was especially pleased that the affected character was a world leader, that the show educated viewers about MS and made it clear the disease is not fatal, and that Bartlet was shown as taking advantage of medical breakthroughs to treat his condition. "Since fiction often becomes more real to people t…
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