Writer:	Aaron Sorkin, Patrick Caddell
Director:	Laura Innes
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:	Kim Webster (Ginger),  Devika Parikh (Bonnie),  Timothy Davis-Reed (Mark),  Melissa Fitzgerald (Carol Fitzpatrick),  Kathryn Joosten (Delores Landingham),  Nicole Robinson (Margaret),  Charles Noland (Steve)
Guest Star:	Sam Anderson (John LaSalle),  Jonah Rooney (Morton Horn),  Joe D'Angerio (Joseph Russo),  Al Rodrigo (Commander Cale),  Sharon Omi (Gardner),  John Mariano (Bertram),  John Prosky (Aide #4),  Henry O (Jhin Wei),  Rich Cooper (Aide #3),  Cameron Daddo (Aide #2),  Ivar Brogger (Aide #1),  Deborah Hedwall (Josephine McGarry),  Annie Corley (Mary Marsh),  F. William Parker (Al Caldwell)

Music: At the end of the episode we hear a little bit of the song "We Gather Together" by The Cedarmont Kids. The song is from the album School Days. (edit) Awards and Nominations:
This episode was a 2001 Emmy Award Nominee for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series.

Also the winner, in conjunction with several other episodes, of the 2001 Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series. (edit)

C.J. (Attempting to get the attention of Bartlet): I’m gonna step out there and begin the singing and lute playing.
Bartlet: (Paying little attention) Whatever. (edit) Bartlet (addressing the turkey): By the power vested in me by the Constitution of the United States, I hereby pardon you.
Morton: Okay!
Bartlet: No, it's not okay! Morton, I can't pardon a turkey. If you think I can pardon a turkey, then you have got to go back to your school and insist you be better prepared to go out in the world.
Donna: You can't pardon a turkey, sir? (edit) C.J.: Whatever! I'm the Thanksgiving cruise director around here! (edit) C.J.: They sent me two turkeys. The more photo-friendly of the two gets a presidential pardon and a full life at a children's zoo, and the runner-up gets eaten.
Bartlet: If the Oscars were like that, I'd watch. (edit) Donna: Didn't you go to elementary school?
C.J.: Yes, right before being a National Merit Scholar! (edit)

Ironically enough, Toby tortured history when he complained about torturing history. Jamestown was incorporated in 1607, which was the seventeenth century, rather than the sixteenth, as Toby claimed. (edit)

Josh: I was just flipping a nickel in my office - sixteen times it came up tails.
This may well be a nod to Tom Stoppard's play - and later film - in which a flipped coin repeatedly defies the laws of probability. (edit)