Twenty Five (The West Wing)
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| The West Wing episode | |
| "Twenty Five" | |
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| Episode no. | 88 |
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| Prod. code | 175323 |
| Orig. airdate | May 14, 2003 |
| Writer(s) | Aaron Sorkin |
| Director | Christopher Misiano |
| Guest star(s) | Mary-Louise Parker John Amos Taye Diggs Michael O'Neill Anna Deavere Smith Clark Gregg Harry Groener NiCole Robinson Trent Ford Alan Dale Vernee Watson-Johnson J. Patrick McCormack John Goodman (uncredited) |
| Season 4 September 25 2002 – May 14 2003 |
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"Twenty Five" is episode 88 of The West Wing.
The season four finale to The West Wing centers around the graduation of President Bartlet's youngest daughter, Zoey. In the post-graduation parties, and unwittingly under the influence of GHB, Zoey is kidnapped, resulting in a massive manhunt. Her father, under a huge amount of pressure feels he is unable to continue in his role as Commander-in-Chief and invokes the Twenty-fifth amendment. With the previous resignation of Vice-President John Hoynes from a sex scandal, this leaves the Speaker of the House, Glen Allen Walken, a prominent Republican politician in charge, and a White House in chaos....
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- Prior to taking the oath of office, Glenallen Walken is told that he must first resign from the House since "it's against the law to work for two branches of the government at the same time." Walken promptly responds by picking up a piece of paper and presumably writing "I resign, Glenallen Walken" or something to that effect. Strictly speaking, according to federal law, the act of being sworn in as acting president automatically counts as his resignation from the House [see U.S. Code Title 3 Chapter 1 Section 19, subsection (c)(3). Theoretically, one could argue that by resigning, Walken removed himself from the presidential line of succession and was therefore no longer eligible to assume the presidency.
- The episode marks the departure of creator/writer/producer Aaron Sorkin and producer/director Thomas Schlamme who left after overruns with budgets, script deadlines and conflicts with the NBC president, Jeff Zucker.
- The episode's director, Christopher Misiano won an Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series in 2003 for this episode. The episode was also nominated for, but did not win, Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series at the Emmys that year.
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