Writer:	Aaron Sorkin
Story:	Peter Parnell
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))
Recurring Role:	Melissa Fitzgerald (Carol Fitzpatrick),  Jana Lee Hamblin (Bobbi),  Timothy Davis-Reed (Mark),  Gary Carlos Cervantes (Bobby),  Gregalan Williams (Robbie Mosley)
Guest Star:	Adam Arkin (Stanley Keyworth),  Purva Bedi (Kaytha Trask),  Michael Crider (David Housman),  Etyl Leder (Rebecca Housman),  Greg Wrangler (Secret Service Agent),  Eric Payne (Secret Service Agent),  Deborah Snipes (Staffer),  Robert Noble (Valet),  Kris Murphy (Katie),  Daniel Von Bargen (Gen. Shannon),  Paxton Whitehead (Bernard Thatch),  Yo-Yo Ma (Himself)

Awards and Nominations:
This episode won an Emmy in 2001 for Outstanding Cinematography for a Single Camera Series (Thomas Del Ruth).

It also was a 2001 Emmy Award Nominee for Outstanding Art Direction for a Single-Camera Series (Kenneth Hardy, Ellen Totleben).

Bradley Whitford won the 2001 Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in Drama Series for his performance in this episode and in "In the Shadow of Two Gunmen: Part 2"

This episode along with several others from the season won the 2001 Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series.

It was also a 2001 ASC Award Winner for Outstanding Achievement in Episodic Television Series

2000 DGA Award Winner for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Series Night

2001 Hollywood Makeup Artist and Hair Stylist Guild Award for Best Contemporary Hair Styling - Television - Single Episode (Jeffery Sacino, Tony Williams)
(edit) Music:
1. The brass quintet plays "Joy to the World" which was composed by George Frideric Handell
2. When Donna tells Josh not to be a yutz the quintet plays "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen"
3. "What Child Is This" from A Scottish Christmas
4. Praeludium from the "Suite #1 in G Major" for the Unaccompanied Violoncello. The song was composed by Johann Sebastian Bach and performed by Yo-Yo Ma
5. "Carol of the Bells" by Steve Banks from Winter Peace (edit)

Josh (about his session with Dr. Keyworth): He thinks I have an eating disorder. And a fear of triangles. That's not weird, is it? (edit) Leo: This guy's walking down the street when he falls in a hole. The walls are so steep he can't get out. A doctor passes by and the guy shouts up: "Hey, you! Can you help me out? " The doctor writes a prescription, throws it down in the hole and moves on. Then a priest comes along and the guy shouts up: " Father, I'm down in this hole. Can you help me out? " The priest writes out a prayer, throws it down in the hole and moves on. Then a friend walks by: " Hey, Joe, it's me. Can you help me out? " And the friend jumps in the hole. Our guy says, "Are you stupid? Now we're both down here. " The friend says: "Yeah, but I've been down here before and I know the way out. " (edit) C.J.: You see, you try very hard to be mean, but then you see that being nice is better.
Bernard: You're a freakishly tall woman.
C.J.: So, that moment's over, then?
Bernard: Yes. (edit) C.J.: What is the painting doing in the White House?
Bernard: It was on loan from the Musée D'Orsay to the National Gallery. The President, on a visit to the National Gallery -- and possessing even less taste in fine art than you have in accessories -- announced that he liked the painting. The French government offered it as a gift to the White House, I suppose as retribution for Euro Disney. So here it hangs, like a gym sock on a shower rod. (edit) Bernard: There's always an incident on a tour. People touch things.
C.J.: You should punish them for that.
Bernard: I've begged my superiors to allow me. (edit)

Instead of using recorded music and just mimic, Yo-Yo Ma actually played the song for each take. He did it about 45 times.
(edit) When Josh talks to Sam in his office, there is a Christmas stocking on the wall beside the chalkboard. Twenty minutes later, when Leo is there, the stocking has disappeared. (edit)

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