In this White House

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“In this White House”
The West Wing episode
Episode no.	Season 2 Episode 26
Written by	Aaron Sorkin (teleplay) Peter Parnell & Allison Abner (story)
Directed by	Ken Olin
Guest stars	Emily Procter Zakes Mokae Michael Chinyamurindi Michael Cavanaugh Len Cariou Ted McGinley NiCole Robinson Sam Jaeger Brigid Brannagh Tom Gallop
Production no.	226204
Original airdate	October 25, 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

"In this White House" is the 26th episode of The West Wing.

[edit] Plot

Sam appears on political talk show Capital Beat with a "blonde leggy Republican" named Ainsley Hayes. She kicks Sam's butt in the debate (to great joy from Toby and a back-on-the-job Josh) and impresses President Bartlet sufficiently for him to tell Leo to hire her. While she goes to the White House intending to turn down the job offer and has a harsh discussion with Sam about their different political viewpoints, she accepts after watching them deal with a coup in Equatorial Kundu, which has occurred while the President of Equatorial Kundu is at the White House for a summit with pharmaceutical companies about the AIDS crisis in Africa. Josh and Toby are able to come up with a plan that will help the Kundunese President get desperately needed AIDS medications to his people, but the plan is torpoedoed when the coup occurs and the President's family is either murdered or forced to flee the country. President Bartlet offers his Kundunese counterpart asylum in the U.S., but the offer is refused and he returns to face a horrible fate.