17 People

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“17 People”
The West Wing episode
Episode no.	Season 2 Episode 40
Written by	Aaron Sorkin
Directed by	Alex Graves
Guest stars	Emily Procter
Production no.	226218
Original airdate	April 4, 2001
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

"17 People" is the 40th episode of The West Wing.

[edit] Plot

Toby's investigation of the Vice President's activities leads to him asking Leo why the Vice President does not believe that Bartlet will seek reelection. Toby becomes the seventeenth person, as far as Leo and Bartlet know, to learn that the President has MS.

Josh and Sam gather people to punch up the jokes for the correspondence dinner. Sam and Ainsley debate the need for the Equal Rights Amendment to the constitution and Donna tells Josh the story of how she came back to work for him.