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Attie, co-producer and member of the show??s writing staff, says he never expected to be writing for a television show. A Social Studies concentrator and Crimson editor who lived in Dunster House, he focused on academics while in college and planned to attend Harvard Law School...
...hope he’s going to be in a position where he can influence policy,” says Mark Goffman, one of the show??s writers. “The fact that he went to Harvard is something we’re playing with—how he has access because of Harvard, and in other ways, that somebody else might not have...
...went on to receive an Masters degree in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) in 1994—would know. If Harvard seems well-represented on the resumes of TV’s White House power brokers, it may be because so many of the show??s producers and writers themselves traversed the winding paths of the Yard. In addition to Goffman, Harvard trained three of the show??s producers: Eli Attie ’89, Lawrence O’Donnell ’76 and Paul Redford...
Attie served as Gore’s speechwriter during his 2000 presidential campaign. It was on the campaign trail that Attie remembers first watching “The West Wing.” He recalls being immediately impressed by the show??s seriousness and its reverence for the political process...
Attie was drawn to the show??s representation of White House insiders as driven and decent people. “The thing ‘The West Wing’ always intended to do was to show the kind of people you hoped would be running the country,” he says...