Writer:	Aaron Sorkin, Michael Oates Palmer, William Sind
Director:	Christopher Misiano
Star:	Martin Sheen (President Jed Bartlet),  Dulé Hill (Charlie Young),  Allison Janney (Claudia Jean "C.J." Cregg),  Richard Schiff (Toby Ziegler),  John Spencer (Leo McGarry),  Bradley Whitford (Josh Lyman),  Janel Moloney (Donna Moss (Episodes 23-, recurring previously)),  Joshua Malina (Will Bailey (Episodes 78-, recurring previously))
Recurring Role:	Melissa Fitzgerald (Carol Fitzpatrick),  Peter James Smith (Ed),  William Duffy (Larry),  Devika Parikh (Bonnie),  Kris Murphy (Katie Witt),  Timothy Davis-Reed (Mark),  Ralph Meyering Jr. (Tom),  Victor McCay (Henry),  Timothy Busfield (Danny Concannon),  Danica McKellar (Elsie Snuffin),  Thomas Kopache (Bob Slattery),  Steve Ryan (Miles Hutchinson)
Guest Star:	Abdoulaye N'Gom (Zake Kintaka),  Paul Kent (Cardinal Patrick),  Mark Chaet (Imam),  Dan Gerrity (Director #3),  Nicole Lyn (Stacy),  Joel Anderson (Clark),  Geoffrey C. Ewing (Beckwith),  Dan Ziskie (O'Donnell),  Timothy Rice (Chief Justice),  Faran Tahir (Manny),  Gibby Brand (Adam Kent),  Granville Van Dusen (Bryce Lilly),  John Cothran Jr. (Civilian Advisor)

Music Featured In This Episode: -"Heroes" by Jill Sobule (edit) Awards and Nominations:
This episode won the 2003 Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Drama Series along with many other episodes from the season (Aaron Sorkin, Thomas Schlamme, John Wells, Kevin Falls, Alex Graves, Christopher Misiano, Paul Redford, Kristin Harms, Llewellyn Wells, Neal Ahern, Jr.) (edit) Another Clintonesque situation the Bartlet administration finds itself in: the genocide in Kundu quite obviously reflects 1994 massacres in Rwanda. The subsequent Bartlet reaction reflects what, looking back, many people wish Clinton had done. (edit) Couldn't figure out the unusual word Leo used? It was the poetic term "cinquain", which is a stanza that contains five lines, as compared to the more familiar "quatrain" which contains four. The Japanese-influenced cinquain has 22 syllables, 5 unrhymed lines of 2, 4, 6, 8, 2 syllables, respectively. Another form of cinquain contains 5 rhymed lines of various syllables with a rhyme scheme of ababb. (edit)

Donna: Know what Jack will be wearing? A saber.
Josh: Please God, Donna, tell me that's not the only thing he'll be wearing. (edit) Bartlet: I don't know your name, but are you coming on to me? (edit) Bartlet: Why is a Kudanese life worth less to me than an American life?
Will: I don't know, but it is. (edit) Bartlet: I'm just as big a cotton candy-ass as they are.
Josh: Yes, sir.
Bartlet: You just going to let that hang in the air?
Josh: Of course not, sir. You're a much bigger cotton candy-ass than they are.
Bartlet: Damn right. (edit) Carol: Danny wants to see you.
C.J. (unaware Danny is walking behind her): Stop trying to get us together, okay? If I wanted Danny I could have him. And he's still a jackass from the foreign-ops vote and many other things. So tell him I'm getting my hair done.
Danny: Your hair looks great.
C.J.: There was no way you could tell me he was right behind me? You couldn't fit that in? (edit)

Goof: If you look carefully at the teleprompter after President Bartlet says, "We're being candid, at least," the word "obliged" is misspelled "abliged." (edit) The Republic of Equatorial Kundu is a fictional African country. (edit) Donna makes repeated reference to thirteen buttons on Jack Reese's dress blue uniform trousers, which is incorrect. Jack Reese is an officer, and an officer's dress blue and formal dress blue uniforms have one button and a zipper. Only enlisted personnel have a dress blue uniform with thirteen trouser buttons. (edit)

Danny: I talked to an officer who works in U.S. foreign intelligence activities there who believes that Miles Hutchinson is the commander in chief and in the course of the discussion he told me the president had rescinded Executive Orders 11905 and 12333.

Executive Orders 11905 and 12333, originally emplaced by Presidents Ford and Reagan respectively, deal with the activities of American Intelligence assets. In this particular case, the discussion is about the concept of political assassination. Section 5g of 11905 states: "No employee of the United States Government shall engage in, or conspire to engage in, political assassination." Section 2.11 of 12333 states: "No person employed by or acting on behalf of the United States Government shall engage in, or conspire to engage in, assassination."

There has been some activity on this matter on the front of 9/11 and terrorism, but whether this applies in the West Wing timeline is anyone's guess. (edit) Bartlet: "Talk about the very model of a modern major-general."

This line references "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General", a song from Gilbert and Sullivan's "Pirates of Penzance". (edit)