The West Wing: The Long Goodbye
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7.2
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The Long Goodbye
- 78.
- Season: 4
- Episode: 13
- First Aired: 1/15/2003
- Prod Code: 175313
- This was the second of only two episodes to have not been written or co-written by Aaron Sorkin during his tenure as executive producer, the other being season one's "Enemies." edit »
- Talmidge Cregg: I started smoking again because I forgot that twenty years ago I quit. edit »
- C.J. (on cell phone to Toby): No. I didn't mean that you have no social skills, Toby. I, I'm sorry if you think I was being insensitive to you... I, I think you're very... You're a very pretty girl Toby. edit »
- Awards and Nominations:
Allison Janney was nominated for the 2003 Emmy Award of Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for her performance in this episode. edit » - Dayton, Ohio is the home town of Allison Janney and Martin Sheen. edit »
- The Dayton scenes in this episode were filmed in Oak Park, Illinois, and the restaurant scenes were filmed at Horwath's in Elmwood Park, Illinois. Those were, however, real copies of the Dayton Daily News in the first briefing room scene. edit »
- Stockard Channing, Dule Hill, Rob Lowe, Joshua Malina, Janel Moloney, John Spencer, and Martin Sheen do not appear in this episode. edit »
- Episode Title: Alzheimer's Disease, the disease from which C.J.'s father is suffering, is often referred to as "the long goodbye." This is especially true during the later stages of dementia, due to the slow deterioration of the patient's mental and physical state (on average eight years from the first signs of the disease to death). Former First Lady Nancy Reagan often referred to her husband's Alzheimer's as "the long goodbye" and the Reagan's youngest daughter, Patti Davis, wrote a book by that title reflecting on her father's descent into the disease.
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