Awards:
John Spencer was nominated for a 2000 Emmy in the category of Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. He was nominated for his performance in this episode and in "Let Bartlet Be Bartlet."

This episode received a commendation for a 2000 Prism Award in the category of TV Prime Time Drama Series Episode. (edit) Music: The song played during the speech is Barbara Streisand's "Happy Days Are Here Again." (edit)

(referring to the song used to play Bartlet offstage after his speech):
Sam: Happy Days Are Here Again?
Mandy: He likes it.
Sam: Who?
Mandy: The President.
Sam: Well, we try not to let the President make aesthetic decisions. (edit) Bartlet: You know, you are what my mother calls a pain in the ass.
Toby: Well, that's what my mother calls it to. (edit) Josh: You know, I’m so sick of Congress I could vomit. (edit) C.J.: Mr. President. Did you by any chance take your back pills?
Bartlet: I don’t mind telling you C.J. I was in a little pain there.
Leo: Which did you take, sir, the Vicodin or the Percocet?
Bartlet: I wasn’t supposed to take ‘em both? (edit) Donna: You won our award for best gift valued over twenty-five dollars on the financial disclosure report.
Josh: Really?
Donna: Yeah.
Josh: What won it for me?
Donna: The 1189 dollar Viennatelli silk smoking jacket from Miss Sarah Wissinger.
Josh (remembering): Ah, yes.
Donna: You’re also the runner up, by the way, with the 345 dollar antique scrimshaw cigarette holder, also from Miss Sarah Wissinger.
Josh: Well, Sarah was very fond of me.
Donna: I’d imagine with that smoking jacket and the cigarette holder, you were quite the dandy. (edit) CJ: Excuse me, Toby. I'm heading out to lunch and I'm a little short. You wouldn't happen to have $125,000 I could borrow? (edit) Leo: There are two things in the world you never want to let people see how you make 'em: laws and sausages. (edit) Reporter: I'm curious about the President's farm in Manchester. The property value increased $750,000. What's that due to?
C.J.: Secret Service improvements.
Reporter: Can you go into detail, please?
C.J.: The property now includes a helipad and the ability to run a global war from the sun porch. (edit) Josh: You know, I realize that as an adult not everyone shares my view of the world, and with an issue as hot as gun control I'm prepared to accept a lot of different points of view as being perfectly valid, but we can all get together on the grenade launcher, right? (edit) Sam: I don't mean to step on your toes, but you might want to rethink marrying the lines, 'Kids are dead! Kids are dead!' and 'Happy Days Are Here Again'. (edit) Mandy: There's always resignation.
Jed: Hot damn! Now you're talking!
Toby: I think she meant me, Mr. President. (edit)

Toby: Women can't get enough of my 1993 Dodge Dart.

Dodge stopped making the Dart in 1976. (edit)

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