And It's Surely to Their Credit

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“And It's Surely to Their Credit”
The West Wing episode
Episode no.	Season 2 Episode 27
Written by	Aaron Sorkin (teleplay) Kevin Falls & Laura Glasser (story)
Directed by	Christopher Misiano
Guest stars	Stockard Channing John Larroquette Emily Procter Daniel Roebuck Tom Bower Paul Perri Steven Flynn Kathryn Joosten NiCole Robinson
Production no.	226205
Original airdate	November 1, 2000
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

"And It's Surely to Their Credit" is the fifth episode of the second season of the television series The West Wing, which premiered on NBC on November 1, 2000. The episode features Ainsley Hayes' (played by Emily Procter) first day as an Associate White House Counsel and fellow West Wing employees reactions to her employment. Elsewhere in the episode, CJ Cregg faces off with a retiring Army General (Tom Bower) who is planning to publicly criticize the President, Sam Seaborn tries to convince Josh Lyman to sue a variety of hate groups indirectly responsible for the assassination attempt on President Bartlet, and President Bartlet struggles to record his weekly radio address. John Larroquette also guest stars as the loud-mouthed, short-tempered White House Counsel Lionel Tribbey, who reluctantly comes to respect Ainsley.

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The title is a line from the song "He is an Englishman" in H.M.S. Pinafore, a comic opera by Gilbert and Sullivan which is the focus of a running gag throughout the episode.