Bartlet for America

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“Bartlet for America”
The West Wing episode
Episode no.	Season 3 Episode 53
Guest stars	Tim Matheson Joanna Gleason Mark Feuerstein Clark Gregg James Handy Steven Gilborn Doug Ballard Todd Waring Mark Hutter Kathryn Joosten NiCole Robinson Ashley L. Clark Carlos Jacott Randy Thompson Dennis Haskins Ellis E. Williams
Written by	Aaron Sorkin
Directed by	Thomas Schlamme
Production no.	227210
Original airdate
Season 3 episodes
Isaac and Ishmael Documentary Special Manchester Part I Manchester Part II Ways and Means On the Day Before War Crimes Gone Quiet The Indians in the Lobby The Women of Qumar Bartlet for America H. Con-172 100,000 Airplanes The Two Bartlets Night Five Hartsfield's Landing Dead Irish Writers The U.S. Poet Laureate Stirred Enemies Foreign and Domestic The Black Vera Wang We Killed Yamamoto Posse Comitatus
List of The West Wing episodes

"Bartlet for America" is the 53rd episode of The West Wing.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

[edit] Plot

It is Dec. 23, but no one at the White House is feeling much in the Christmas spirit. Indeed, the most pressing holiday matter is a threat to firebomb black churches in Tennessee on Christmas Eve. As for Leo, he and his new $650-an-hour lawyer are on Capitol Hill, where he's about to testify before the House committee probing the MS matter. The ground to be covered: Bartlet's failure to disclose his condition during his Presidential campaign (the reasons for it are recounted in flashbacks). Also recounted is the story of how Vice President Hoynes joined the ticket.