The West Wing - Twenty Five

Season 4 finale. Bartlet hands over power to speaker of the house.

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[An0nym0usMaN]

Except, it would be so funny to have Roseanne as first lady.

[mikesendker]

Shut up. When Jed Bartlet speaks you don't question. ;)

[observer9670]

John Goodman was a big fan of TWW and did this episode and the three episodes in the following season for scale. He requested not to have screen credit on the first two episodes of season 5. Goodman is a native of Missouri and in deference to him, John Wells made his character from Missouri in the first episode of the following season.

[ers586]

For those watching this scene who are unfamiliar with the episode, the President's daughter had been kidnapped by terrorist. This Democratic President did not want to be in a position where he would have to choose between what was best for his daughter or what was best for the country. Because the post of Vice President was vacant due to a resignation, the next person in line--the Speaker of the House--was a Republican.

[WARP10CK]

John Goodman a Republican I like :)

Too bad reality is not like this series.

[ohlsen1973]

I can only guess what would happen, if this happened for real. One thing I know is that all branches of the armed forces would go to Defcon 2, if not Defcon 1 and all government agencies would be placed on Alert status "Severe"

[tvdeskscreen]

wow imagine that, a US where Martin Sheen is replaced by John Goodman. If only our country was like that...

[histre101]

@ajaxthesquishy nice try, sorry you are so wrong...

[ajaxthesquishy]

@msr91331 I read somewhere that the West Wing operates on a totally fictional timeline beginning around the mid 1970s. So it's possible that Carter was never president and thus the Dept. of Education was never founded.

[histre101]

@msr91331 ah, no......... HHS and Education are part of the president's cabinet

[msr91331]

The departments of Health and Human Services and that of Education are seperate departments with seperate secratries. They got this wrong.

[misterb24]

@NaturalEnquirer I would hope the Secretary of Agriculture gets a vote due to the fact that his department employs over 100,000 americans and has an annual budget in excess of 130 billion US dollars.