"The West Wing" Transition (2006)

Director:

Nelson McCormick

Writers:

Aaron Sorkin (creator) and
Peter Noah (writer)

TV Series:

"The West Wing" (1999)

Original Air Date:

23 April 2006 (Season 7, Episode 19)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

THE PRESIDENT AND PRESIDENT-ELECT SEE FOREIGN POLICY DIFFERENTLY - Eyebrows are raised when the President-elect places a call to the president of China and offers a different position than that of Bartlet. Meanwhile, Josh picks his deputy chief of staff. |

Plot Keywords:

President | Political | Secretary | White House | First Lady

Cast

Alan Alda	...	Senator Arnold Vinick (credit only)
Kristin Chenoweth	...	Annabeth Schott (credit only)
Allison Janney	...	Claudia Jean 'C.J.' Cregg
Joshua Malina	...	Will Bailey (credit only)
Mary McCormack	...	Kate Harper (credit only)
Janel Moloney	...	Donna Moss
John Spencer	...	Leo McGarry (credit only)
Bradley Whitford	...	Josh Lyman
Jimmy Smits	...	President Elect Matthew Santos
Martin Sheen	...	President Josiah 'Jed' Bartlet
Janeane Garofalo	...	Louise Thornton
Teri Polo	...	Helen Santos
Lily Tomlin	...	Deborah Fiderer
Steve Ryan	...	Secretary of Defense Miles Hutchinson
Anna Deavere Smith	...	Nancy McNally

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Company:

John Wells Productions

Trivia:

Josh interrupts Sam in a meeting at a law firm, asking him to leave his job and come to work for the President. This is a direct reference to when we see in flashback Josh interrupting Sam at a similar meeting to leave a law firm and join the first Bartlet campaign in second season episode In the Shadow of Two Gunmen: Part 1.

Goofs:

Continuity: When the President meets the President-Elect, the President's lap-top computer appears, then suddenly disappears.

Quotes:

Louise Thornton: Rough day?
Josh Lyman: Nuh, typical.
Louise Thornton: You love it, you live for it, you were born to do it, I'm the same way. Everybody tells me to get a life, although I don't know why... I find life to be terribly overrated. It's actually quite boring when it's not disappointing. Say what you will about what we do, but boring it is not.
Josh Lyman: I know that you can parlay the Santos win into a doubling of your fee.
Louise Thornton: Tripling, if it figures into your memoirs.
Josh Lyman: Nothing is going to top this. Everything else's going to be a letdown.
Louise Thornton: Letdowns that make me semi-rich, that's a tradeoff I'm willing to endure.
Josh Lyman: You don't care about money.
Louise Thornton: Who doesn't?
Josh Lyman: You!
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