Episode

The Crackpots and These Women

by Aaron Sorkin, Anthony Drazan, Elisabeth Moss, Janel Moloney, Nicholas Cascone and 17 others

The staffers spend the day ("Big Block of Cheese day") dealing with private organizations, aka the crackpots. Throughout the day, Sam deals with a UFO nut, CJ gets a proposal to build a wolves-only road, Toby and Bartlet clash over everything, and Josh is

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Characters

Aaron Sorkin (2)Martin Sheen (2)President Josiah Bartlet (1)Jed Bartlet (1)

“What will be the next thing that challenges us, Toby? That makes us go farther and work harder? You know that when smallpox was eradicated, it was considered the single greatest humanitarian achievement of this century? Surely we can do it again, as we did in the time when our eyes looked towards th…”

— Aaron Sorkin, Jed Bartlet, Martin Sheen, imdb.com

Tagged: Challenges, smallpox, Achievement, Century, Heavens

“It was not a space ship from another planet, just another time — a long since abandoned Soviet satellite. One of its booster rockets didn't fire and it couldn't escape Earth's orbit. A sad reminder of the time when two powerful nations challenged each other and then boldly raced into outer space. Wh…”

— Aaron Sorkin, President Josiah Bartlet, Martin Sheen, imdb.com

Tagged: Space, space race, UFO, The West Wing, Bartlet Speeches