18th and Potomac

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“18th and Potomac”
The West Wing episode
Episode no.	Season 2 Episode 43
Guest stars	Stockard Channing Oliver Platt Marlee Matlin Anna Deavere Smith John Rubinstein Peter Michael Goetz Richard McGonagle Robert Walden Kathryn Joosten NiCole Robinson Gregalan Williams Victor McCay Glenn Morshower Bill O'Brien
Written by	Aaron Sorkin (teleplay) Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. (story)
Directed by	Robert Berlinger
Production no.	226221
Original airdate
Season 2 episodes
In the Shadow of Two Gunmen, Part I In the Shadow of Two Gunmen, Part II The Midterms In This White House And It's Surely To Their Credit The Lame Duck Congress The Portland Trip Shibboleth Galileo Noël The Leadership Breakfast The Drop-In Bartlet's Third State of the Union The War at Home Ellie Somebody's Going to Emergency, Somebody's Going to Jail The Stackhouse Filibuster 17 People Bad Moon Rising The Fall's Gonna Kill You 18th and Potomac Two Cathedrals
List of The West Wing episodes

"18th and Potomac" is the 43rd episode of The West Wing.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

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With disastrous hypothetical polling numbers from Joey Lucas in hand, staffers prepare to announce the President's condition. But first, both Sam and Oliver Babish question the First Lady about the matter. Meanwhile, a crisis erupts in Haiti; Josh deals with two Democratic senators who are less than enthusiastic about the Government's tobacco-industry suit; and male staffers can't help but give Mrs. Landingham car-buying advice. In this episode Donna is told by Toby about the President's condition. He tells her "You're the first of the assistant staff to know".In a brief conversation with Mrs Landingham, directly before she goes to collect her new car, the President says he'd like to have a word with her on her return, which of course he is never able to do.