Writer:	Aaron Sorkin
Director:	Thomas Schlamme
Star:	Martin Sheen (President Jed Bartlet),  Dulé Hill (Charlie Young),  Allison Janney (Claudia Jean "C.J." Cregg),  Rob Lowe (Sam Seaborn (Episodes 1-84)),  Richard Schiff (Toby Ziegler),  John Spencer (Leo McGarry),  Bradley Whitford (Josh Lyman),  Janel Moloney (Donna Moss (Episodes 23-, recurring previously)),  Stockard Channing (Abbey Bartlet (Episodes 45-, recurring previously))
Recurring Role:	Marlee Matlin (Joey Lucas),  Anna Deavere Smith (Nancy McNally),  Ron Silver (Bruno Gianelli),  Bill O'Brien (Kenny Thurman),  Nicole Robinson (Margaret),  Glenn Morshower (Mike Chrysler),  Victor McCay (Henry),  Peter James Smith (Ed),  William Duffy (Larry)
Guest Star:	Connie Britton (Connie Tate),  Evan Handler (Doug Wegland),  Kris Arnold (Staffer),  John Emmanuel (Agent)

Music: "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean" plays before the rally. The song was composed by Thomas Beckett and performed by the RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra (edit) Awards and Nominations:
The episode was a 2002 Emmy Award Nominee for Outstanding Art Direction For A Single-Camera Series (Kenneth Hardy, Ellen Totleben).

Nominated for 2001 Golden Reel Awards in the category of Best Sound Editing in Television Series - Dialogue and Automated Dialogue Replacement (Walter Newman, Catherine Flynn, Thomas A. Harris, Jennifer Mertens, Eric Hertsguaard, Karen Spangenberg, Lisa Wolf Grove, Erin Donovan, Patrick Hanson, Dan Hiland, Gary D. Rogers, Eric Gotthelf, Troy Porter, Marsha Sorce, Laverne Dewberry)

Nominated for 2002 Shine Award for Series Storyline with the Part 1
(edit) At the end of this episode, Jed says "Break's over", which echoes the very first episode, and indicates that the campaign will mark a new beginning for the administration. (edit)

Connie: I was trying to find a Starbucks. A guy in a gas station said, "Round here, people don't pay four bucks for a cup of coffee."
Sam: New Hampshire. Live free or cheap. (edit) Bruno: I've been thinking it might not be such a bad idea to lock you all in here and set the place on fire. We have 48 hours before we kick off this campaign. We will work hard. We will work well. We will work together. Or so help me, mother of God, I will stick a pitchfork so far up your asses, you will, quite simply, be dead. (edit) Bartlet (to his old staff on the eve of the new campaign): It occurs to me, I never said I'm sorry. I am. For the lawyers, for the press, for the mess, for the fear. Bruno, Doug, Connie -- these guys are good. They want to win. So do we. The only thing we want more is to be right. I wonder if you can't do both. There's a new book... and we're going to write it. (edit) Bartlet: Did you know that hardly any of the guys who landed on the moon are married to the same people they were married to before they went there?
Abbey: What?
Bartlet: I'm just saying that it could be worse. I could have been an astronaut.
Abbey: You could not have been an astronaut.
Bartlet: I'd have been a great astronaut.
Abbey: You're afraid of heights, speed, fire and small places.
Bartlet: I'd have overcome it to go to the moon.
Abbey: I know you would have. (pause) There's something important I have to say. I haven't really made up my mind yet, but at the moment, I'm leaning towards voting for you. (edit) Bartlet (to C.J. about his orginal election): I was never supposed to win. . . . Then you guys came along and all of a sudden. . . . (edit)

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