Written by Aaron Sorkin
Directed by Thomas Schlamme

Special guest star Stockard Channing as First Lady Abigail Bartlet

Guest starring

Anna Deveare Smith as Nat'l Security Advisor Nancy McNally
Kirsten Nelson as young Mrs. Landingham
Jason Widener
Don McManus
NiCole Robinson as Margaret
Lawrence O'Donnell, Jr.
Gregalan Williams
John Bennett Perry

Co-starring

Melissa Fitzgerald as Carol
Devika Parikh as Bonnie
William Duffy as Larry
Peter James Smith as Ed
Kim Webster as Ginger
Patrick Thomas O'Brien as Hanson
Christopher Murray as Tony Phillips
Shelley Malil as Renfro
Angel Tiffe as Greenway
Jane Lynch as reporter in briefing room
Charles Noland as reporter
E.E. Bell as advisor #2
Robert A. Becker as Monohan
Trevor Eddy as young Bartlet's friend
Doris McMillon as Sandy
Ivan Allen as news anchor
Lewis Grenville as reporter
Wendy Poole as staffer

Featured music

"Brothers in Arms" by Dire Straits