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Multiple Emmy winner “The West Wing” peeks into the hectic life of Democratic President Bartlet and his accompanying Washington orbit. While characters practically run down corridors saving the country from each new disaster, audiences watch personal and professional dramas play out at the government’s highest levels...
...life,” he said. While these characters are Washington insiders, their attempts to find workable solutions to real-world problems make them widely relatable—and supposedly, unpartisan—though the seemingly universal democratic nature of the show reflects that in many ways the Bartlet administration is a wish fulfillment for the Clinton administration...
...ratings have firmed, and in some ways the show is better. Producer John Wells, now heading up the writers' team, kept the core of Sorkin's show but toned down the piety. The heroes are more self-doubting and fallible, and their adversaries more human. Last year President Bartlet (Martin Sheen) ran for re-election against a Republican so dim and loutish no one could have voted for him unless tricked by a butterfly ballot. This year--resolving a cliffhanger set up by Sorkin--Wing gave us John Goodman as a G.O.P. House Speaker (stepping in for Bartlet after...
...show is full of Ivy-educated characters: Josh went from Harvard to Yale Law School, former staffer Sam Seaborn (Rob Lowe) did time at Princeton, First Lady Abigail Bartlet (Stockard Channing ’65) graduated from Harvard Medical School, and her chief of staff, Amy Gardner (Mary-Louise Parker), went to Brown and Yale...
...fact, President Bartlet himself would have been a Harvard alum, but Martin Sheen, a diehard fan of the Fighting Irish, insisted that his character had graduated from Notre Dame...