And somehow not so different - North Korean missile launches, trouble with public education, school vouchers, gun control, questions on global warming, and so on. Further, when this was made in the early 2000s, many of the issues were already decades old at that time and only being rehashed once again - for instance: gays serving in the military was an issue in the 1940s, the 1960s, the 1980s and, once again, at the time of this series. What is eerie was the trouble with the space shuttle Columbia not being able to safely reenter the atmosphere.
@@avae5343 It's what the rest of the world (and, it seems, the writers/directors/producers/actors/bus boys and caterers) of this series want the White House to be .. that's not corny, that's idealistic.
The NASA writer wouldn't have been that bad. Not outstanding like Sam, but "very unique" and "extremely historic" would neither have been written nor cleared by NASA public affairs.
Still, NASA was stuck with a crappy PR department for a long time. I mean, WHY antagonize the Star Trek crowd? Go ahead and name a shuttle, a FLYING shuttle after the TV series.
@@patrickconrad396 I would have loved to have the for real thing happen with the experts in the chairs. One of them could have made essentially the same joke about being a smart arse that CJ did and Jed could've had fun at her expense.
My favorite cold opening still has to be when they started up a fireplace in the State Dining room even though it was sealed off which started a massive fire alarm. Then Charlie had to wake up the President and went, "You know how you told me not to wake you up unless the building were on fire?"
@@callmehanson9466 , I appreciate your use of the subjunctive mood, but even Sorkin, who loves style, knew that it would be out of character for Charlie's character. But to be fair, it certainly qualified as a "cold" open.
This is pretty good. Really good. My personal favorite is Enemies. Josh gets stuck in the Oval and Bartlett just wants to keep talking about national parks. 😂
“While we’re at it, do we have to say ‘live’ twice in the first two sentences, like we just cracked the technology? We’re also broadcasting in living colour, right?” Gotta love CJ.
There's another reason not to use the word "live" the second time. They're talking about images they're receiving from Galileo. Those images aren't "live". They're being shared immediately, but they're still 18 hours in the past. Sam's line about them being the first to see the images is more accurate.
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The “How you doing, Mr. President?” Cracks me up every single time!😅
I love how CJ seemed so stuck in the mud at the start of the episode, wanting to just nail a Presidential broadcast. Then, at the end of the episode, she found the theme they were struggling to find for the whole event. "We have, at our disposal, a captive audience of schoolchildren. Some of them don't go to the black board and raise their hand 'cause they think they're gonna be wrong. I think you should say to these kids you think you get it wrong sometimes, you should come down here and see how the big boys do it. (...) Some of them will laugh, and most of them won't care, but for some, they might honestly see that it's about going to the blackboard and raising your hand.... and that's the broader theme."
I hadn't watched The West Wing in a long time. After watching this video, between Sam's stirring speech writing for the Galileo V mission and the soaring opening credits music, I was nearly in tears. This show is really that good, but even more so, it speaks to a yearning to have leaders who are smarter than the rest of us and at the same time are men and women of conscience and good will. Naturally, I immediately found the entire episode on MAX and watched it through... and a few more after that. Aaron Sorkin sure knows how to write 'em good!
Watching this show and listening to Sam speak, taught this Hispanic inmigrant to love English, but also the purpose of an essay, which is cautivating an audience.
I’m Scottish and it gets me misty eyes too. As much as USA, and Russia deserve basically all the credit. Space travel is a an accomplishment every human can feel proud of and should feel hopeful about going forward.
@@jimmy2k4o As an American I respectfully disagree. Competition got humanity into the upper atmosphere and the moon. Only unity can take us to the other planets and beyond.
I think you do need to be grown up; at least in your head otherwise, you could be 5 for all I care; to appreciate this scene. It brings me to tears hearing this and thinking I belong to the same species as the man who wrote this, the fact that it's fiction notwithstanding . I'm sad there are people who aren't moved by some of the writing on this show.
My pet hate is "very real", as in "very real concerns". As opposed to slightly imaginary concerns. Drives me NUTS! Also, (here in the UK at least) a politician can't say "people" - it has to be "hard working families" as if people not in families don't work hard, or matter.
@@grahamnicholls6070Coming at you from 5 years in the future, I think the phrase “hard working families” does good work to define and uplift the group being discussed in relation to referring to an unspecified “people”. Although if Sam were to write it I’m sure he would come up with something better.
1962-- I was a third grader on the lunchtime playground with my little black transistor radio close to my ear, eagerly listening to a live broadcast of one of the very first missions in space. Dodgeball, 4-square, and the monkey bars could wait for another day. I was witnessing history. God Bless America! 🇺🇲
I don't know how many times I have seen this. I am continually impressed by the writing on this program. I started to think that ALL Presidents should be like this.
The original concept of the show was to focus on West Wing staff. Rob Lowe was supposed to be the main character and star. He got relegated to a cast member so he finished his contract and left. I wish he wouldn't have done that because he was so good in the show. It was nice to see him come back for a couple episodes in the final season.
Sam's interactions with Ainsley Hayes in general, and with Josh at the beginning of S02 were beautiful. But Rob Lowe was an otherwise forgettable pretty face. In light of Sheen's consistently show-stopping performance season after season, I think we'd all have been better off with a more capable actor in Lowe's place. TWW was supposed to be a vessel for Lowe, but his '90s appeal hasn't aged well. Insert anyone from the FRIENDS main cast and I honestly think they'd do better. To be clear: I'm saying characters from a sitcom would have been, at least, more entertaining. More ideally, someone with more than one-dimensional acting capabilities would have been cast to bring some depth to the role. TWW would have been better without Rob Lowe.
@@TigDegner Nope .. you picked the wrong youtube post to air your grievances. This speech is a show stopper. And it was a shame to lose him. This is about as capable as you get.
This scene simultaneously means so much, understands so much and explains so much, especially now that we're working so hard to explore and colonize Mars. I can never adequately explain how passionate and excited I am about NASA and its missions, but "he said it right."
I’m so glad these clips always include the intro, there’s something about the way the moments lead up to it, the way the music fades in before the cut and the unabashedly patriotic, grandiose and inspirational aura of it that makes it perfect.
Actually, Rob Lowe, who played Sam Seaborne, was phenomenal at delivering the lines written for him; Rob did not actually write the lines. The writing in this series has got to be some of the best ever done and the directing, dictating the timing of the lines delivered, was equally impressive. One of the strongest casts ever assembled.
Reminds me of that moment after ' the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels tonight' (iirc...) speach ... 'When did you write that last part ...?' 'In the car ...' 'Freak ...'
Actually, the re-write contains a mistake. He says, "You, me and 60,000 of your classmates . . . will watch." Me cannot be the subject of a sentence, even if included in a crowd. It should have been, You, I and 60,000 of your classmates. On a brilliantly-written show, that is surprising.
The is a great example of “show, don’t tell” for expressive writing. The NASA writer was very much expressing what what happening, while Sam’s version is telling the story of Galileo V. The same information, but much more engaging.
I have to say, No single show or movie has ever raised my opinion of an actor as much as the west wing raised my appreciation for Rob Lowe. He shows how fantastic of an actor he is during his run
This had to be THE best show EVER !!!! I miss The West wing. Truly great writing, superb acting. Man do I miss those days. So much CRAP on these days. So many shows being brought back. Never the same.
Oh, the writing on this one..... It gives me goosbumps still. Sorkin was extraordinary on most WW episodes, but he created magic in some. Like this for example. (and who better to deliver this hopefull message then Sam :))
There are very few shows that I made a point to watch throughout my time and West Wing was one of them. Before WW it was Cheers and most recently all seasons of Game of Thrones. Yes I said all seasons!
"God forbid that while talking to 60,000 public school students, the President should appear smart!" If only we listened President Bartlett. If only we listened.
Apparently they took a pole back in the Bush v Gore days of politics asking "who would you rather be you're president? George Bush Jr., Al Gore or Jed Bartlet" Bartlet won by a landslide!
Just finally getting into this show. Been a Sorkin fan for years and I see why the show gets so much hype. This scene in particular with Sam making the new intro is such a standout though cause it uses this little bit of conflict between him and the NASA guy to show the difference between strong and week writers. While the NASA guy is trying to hyperbole and throw in big adjectives to make it seem like a big deal, Sam (and Sorkin) understand that in a moment like this, you don't need to make it seem bigger. He understands that the moment itself is already big, all he needs to do is tell you what's happening and you feel the weight of it all.
We underappreciate speechwriters in politics. It’s a real pitcher/catcher, quarterback/center, etc type relationship between a politician and their one or two primary speechwriters (in Bartlet’s case, Toby & Sam). Every POTUS or Governor needs at least that one person who just understands their inner voice and can channel their thoughts into language without dictation. Like Reagan and Peggy Noonan or Obama and Jon Favreau
I love this show, miss it a lot and how accurate it was but always bugged me he said nasa is great at naming things and then mentions The Sea of Tranquillity... NASA was formed in 1958 but the sea of tranquillity was named in 1651
@ 1:20 Cal State Northridge having a “Planetary Geologist” on staff + consulting with POTUS?! Hmm not seeing that happening in this universe. Wonder who wrote that and why? A nod to a friend?
Why can't things be as pretty as that speech all the time ... I'm crying here. *looks down at other comment I made 6 months ago - seems youtube wants me to see this, and cry, every so often, damn and blast ze youtube widgets, they know me so well!*
It is incredible how idealistic this was. It feels like a different age.
And somehow not so different - North Korean missile launches, trouble with public education, school vouchers, gun control, questions on global warming, and so on. Further, when this was made in the early 2000s, many of the issues were already decades old at that time and only being rehashed once again - for instance: gays serving in the military was an issue in the 1940s, the 1960s, the 1980s and, once again, at the time of this series. What is eerie was the trouble with the space shuttle Columbia not being able to safely reenter the atmosphere.
It feels like romantic fiction
@@avae5343 It's what the rest of the world (and, it seems, the writers/directors/producers/actors/bus boys and caterers) of this series want the White House to be .. that's not corny, that's idealistic.
@@briansmith9439 It's not that the issues were different, it was the way we perceived them. Not much hope these days.
Shivers Everytime I see this clip
"We're both writers." "Yes I suppose if we broaden the definition to those that can spell." Sam just ended that man's life.
The huge difference between technical writers and political speech writers.
The NASA writer wouldn't have been that bad. Not outstanding like Sam, but "very unique" and "extremely historic" would neither have been written nor cleared by NASA public affairs.
Still, NASA was stuck with a crappy PR department for a long time.
I mean, WHY antagonize the Star Trek crowd? Go ahead and name a shuttle, a FLYING shuttle after the TV series.
@@veramae4098 it was the Trekkies who led the campaign to have it named Enterprise
"He's going to make some changes."
"You going to clear them with me?"
"I doubt it."
This is peak West Wing right here. Everything about this cold open, it’s like a microcosm of the entire show. Very unique. Extremely historic. 😂
And very much live! 🤣
Possibly the greatest cold open to the greatest show ever made.
This is my favorite episode. For this opening alone. Rob Lowe's delivery is epic.
@@patrickconrad396 I would have loved to have the for real thing happen with the experts in the chairs.
One of them could have made essentially the same joke about being a smart arse that CJ did and Jed could've had fun at her expense.
My favorite cold opening still has to be when they started up a fireplace in the State Dining room even though it was sealed off which started a massive fire alarm. Then Charlie had to wake up the President and went, "You know how you told me not to wake you up unless the building were on fire?"
@@callmehanson9466 , I appreciate your use of the subjunctive mood, but even Sorkin, who loves style, knew that it would be out of character for Charlie's character. But to be fair, it certainly qualified as a "cold" open.
This is pretty good. Really good. My personal favorite is Enemies. Josh gets stuck in the Oval and Bartlett just wants to keep talking about national parks. 😂
"I don't show off". 15 seconds later: "I converted it to Celsius in my head"
He did it just to annoy CJ. 😀
Now the rest of America needs to do that and start its journey into the 20th century.
Alison Janney's expression after the delivery of "I converted it to Celsius in my head" is pure platinum.
"I don't show off"
Agreed. I LOVE THIS PREZ!! If only…
“We’re both writers”. 😂😂
her delivery of her "AHA!" moment is also pure gold! This is the ONE time she FINALLY had one on the President . . . . nope lol!!
“ I strongly suggest. I Strongly Suggest. I STRONGLY SUGGEST!”
How do you NOT get misty-eyed (and goosebumps) from such a poetic moment of writing?? Thank you, Mr. Sorkin!
So very true!
@@GaryThomasGeorge This scene ALONE is what made me want to watch the entire series. I was not disappointed in the slightest.
The music helps and gets me everytime
It gets me every time!
I love how President Bartlet stands in awe as Sam "writes".
“While we’re at it, do we have to say ‘live’ twice in the first two sentences, like we just cracked the technology? We’re also broadcasting in living colour, right?”
Gotta love CJ.
There's another reason not to use the word "live" the second time. They're talking about images they're receiving from Galileo. Those images aren't "live". They're being shared immediately, but they're still 18 hours in the past. Sam's line about them being the first to see the images is more accurate.
The “How you doing, Mr. President?” Cracks me up every single time!😅
Man, I really miss this show. The decency, the intellect, and the hope.
I love how CJ seemed so stuck in the mud at the start of the episode, wanting to just nail a Presidential broadcast.
Then, at the end of the episode, she found the theme they were struggling to find for the whole event.
"We have, at our disposal, a captive audience of schoolchildren.
Some of them don't go to the black board and raise their hand 'cause they think they're gonna be wrong.
I think you should say to these kids you think you get it wrong sometimes, you should come down here and see how the big boys do it.
(...)
Some of them will laugh, and most of them won't care, but for some, they might honestly see that it's about going to the blackboard and raising your hand.... and that's the broader theme."
I love how flustered CJ gets when Bartlet is in an exploratory mood
"He said it right..." You MUST love CJ Craig reaction when Bartlett says it...
I hadn't watched The West Wing in a long time. After watching this video, between Sam's stirring speech writing for the Galileo V mission and the soaring opening credits music, I was nearly in tears. This show is really that good, but even more so, it speaks to a yearning to have leaders who are smarter than the rest of us and at the same time are men and women of conscience and good will. Naturally, I immediately found the entire episode on MAX and watched it through... and a few more after that. Aaron Sorkin sure knows how to write 'em good!
Yeah. I got chills. That poor writer had no idea what he was up against when he tried to tilt windmills with Sam Seborn.
Watching this show and listening to Sam speak, taught this Hispanic inmigrant to love English, but also the purpose of an essay, which is cautivating an audience.
You know when you mix all the paint together you get this weird mess..
That’s the English language. We take the best bits from other languages.
This cold open really warmed my heart. But the intro theme nearly brought me to tears. You can just feel the patriotism. It just fills you with hope.
I sure does.. every time I hear it - and I'm not even American!
I’m Scottish and it gets me misty eyes too. As much as USA, and Russia deserve basically all the credit. Space travel is a an accomplishment every human can feel proud of and should feel hopeful about going forward.
@@jimmy2k4o As an American I respectfully disagree. Competition got humanity into the upper atmosphere and the moon. Only unity can take us to the other planets and beyond.
That is what patriotism is supposed to do. Fill you with hope. Hope for a better future, for everyone.
2:20 I love the look he gives CJ before answering the second question. He wants to give the answer, but he doesn't want to get reprimanded again. 😄
This dynamic between CJ and the President. Gold.
As a grown man, I shouldn't tear up every time I hear Sam's speech.
Same, but I mean, that just shows how good a speech it is XD.
Yes, you should tear up. That’s precisely the point!
I think you do need to be grown up; at least in your head otherwise, you could be 5 for all I care; to appreciate this scene. It brings me to tears hearing this and thinking I belong to the same species as the man who wrote this, the fact that it's fiction notwithstanding . I'm sad there are people who aren't moved by some of the writing on this show.
Yes, yes you should.
After all of our tears, as Bartlet would say "What's Next?"
The best cold open of any show ever.
Chills down my spine listening to Sam write that opening.
Me too.
I love how Sam polished up the speech and made it amazing
Oh goodness Lord Jed is sooooo good with his adoptive kids isn't he? It's cute to just look at.
The best series ever on TV.
When I write anything, this comes into my mind.
Me to. Very unique is one that bothers me all the time.
The mere fact that this clip includes the whole into is a sign of pure genius. And I love you for it!
This is one of the best episodes of the show. And at the end Bartlet tells CJ "You said it right that time"
iandhr1 Galileo VI!
Sam Seaborn embodies everything I want to be
Thank you. Thank you. THANK YOU. Nothing drives me more mad than the use of the phrase "very unique". "Unique" does not need a qualifier.
My pet hate is "very real", as in "very real concerns". As opposed to slightly imaginary concerns. Drives me NUTS!
Also, (here in the UK at least) a politician can't say "people" - it has to be "hard working families" as if people not in families don't work hard, or matter.
It was completely obvious, he was clearly confused.
@@grahamnicholls6070 Can I put up 'uncountable'? Sometimes things are very, very countable. Just saying....
@@grahamnicholls6070Coming at you from 5 years in the future, I think the phrase “hard working families” does good work to define and uplift the group being discussed in relation to referring to an unspecified “people”. Although if Sam were to write it I’m sure he would come up with something better.
This has too be the (or) one of the best t.v shows ever made I should know I’ve been watching it for over 20 years
1962-- I was a third grader on the lunchtime playground with my little black transistor radio close to my ear, eagerly listening to a live broadcast of one of the very first missions in space. Dodgeball, 4-square, and the monkey bars could wait for another day. I was witnessing history. God Bless America! 🇺🇲
This show got me through the Bush years.
By many accounts bush was actually quite smart, he was just a bad public speaker.
I don't know how many times I have seen this. I am continually impressed by the writing on this program. I started to think that ALL Presidents should be like this.
I love CJ's little in-joke about "in living color". NBC was the first network to switch to all color broadcasting in the 60s.
I recently saw Sorkin's adaptation of "To Kill a Mockingbird". Such great writing!
I get the feeling Aaron Sorkin would have done a great job writing a movie about NASA in the 60s.
I never tire of this opening.
This episode has been in my mind for the last couple of weeks whilst waiting for the Artemis I launch.
Even the music was awesome. The best political drama ever.
More than that, best drama period.
Just one example for why Rob L. should not have left TWW.
The original concept of the show was to focus on West Wing staff. Rob Lowe was supposed to be the main character and star. He got relegated to a cast member so he finished his contract and left. I wish he wouldn't have done that because he was so good in the show. It was nice to see him come back for a couple episodes in the final season.
Sam's interactions with Ainsley Hayes in general, and with Josh at the beginning of S02 were beautiful. But Rob Lowe was an otherwise forgettable pretty face. In light of Sheen's consistently show-stopping performance season after season, I think we'd all have been better off with a more capable actor in Lowe's place.
TWW was supposed to be a vessel for Lowe, but his '90s appeal hasn't aged well. Insert anyone from the FRIENDS main cast and I honestly think they'd do better. To be clear: I'm saying characters from a sitcom would have been, at least, more entertaining. More ideally, someone with more than one-dimensional acting capabilities would have been cast to bring some depth to the role.
TWW would have been better without Rob Lowe.
@@TigDegner Nope .. you picked the wrong youtube post to air your grievances. This speech is a show stopper. And it was a shame to lose him. This is about as capable as you get.
@@TigDegner yeah. I’m gonna disagree. Sam was one of my faves
This scene simultaneously means so much, understands so much and explains so much, especially now that we're working so hard to explore and colonize Mars. I can never adequately explain how passionate and excited I am about NASA and its missions, but "he said it right."
Not a month goes by without me thinking about this and NEVER do I hear anything about Nasa in the news without thinking "PLEASE say it right"
The West Wing is where I come when I need:
a) to think
b) to think about more than my own life
c) to be both inspired and cheered up in my thinking.
Damn, the writing on this show. The cast, everything... I feel proud, patriotic, and inspired every time I watch it.
That musical intro will get me every time.
I’m so glad these clips always include the intro, there’s something about the way the moments lead up to it, the way the music fades in before the cut and the unabashedly patriotic, grandiose and inspirational aura of it that makes it perfect.
God Sam was so good at writing !!
Actually, Rob Lowe, who played Sam Seaborne, was phenomenal at delivering the lines written for him; Rob did not actually write the lines. The writing in this series has got to be some of the best ever done and the directing, dictating the timing of the lines delivered, was equally impressive. One of the strongest casts ever assembled.
Reminds me of that moment after ' the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels tonight' (iirc...) speach ...
'When did you write that last part ...?'
'In the car ...'
'Freak ...'
I think you mean Aaron Sorkin, haha.
Don't you mean Aaron Sorkin?
Actually, the re-write contains a mistake. He says, "You, me and 60,000 of your classmates . . . will watch." Me cannot be the subject of a sentence, even if included in a crowd. It should have been, You, I and 60,000 of your classmates. On a brilliantly-written show, that is surprising.
The is a great example of “show, don’t tell” for expressive writing. The NASA writer was very much expressing what what happening, while Sam’s version is telling the story of Galileo V. The same information, but much more engaging.
I have to say, No single show or movie has ever raised my opinion of an actor as much as the west wing raised my appreciation for Rob Lowe. He shows how fantastic of an actor he is during his run
Such great writing, and they knew it and made it a meta part of the show
This had to be THE best show EVER !!!! I miss The West wing. Truly great writing, superb acting. Man do I miss those days. So much CRAP on these days. So many shows being brought back. Never the same.
The last expression from CJ is what steals this scene, my opinion.
Who else felt like this today when NASA showed the first Webb image? I got tingles.
Possibly my favorite opening of the WW. Boy that Aaron Sorkin..."He said it right".
This is the show that made me want to be a writer.
The way The president looks at Sam dominating the opening is how a proud father looks at his son..
In one episode Bartlett told Sam that some day he would be President. Wish they'd make that sequel.
Oh, the writing on this one..... It gives me goosbumps still. Sorkin was extraordinary on most WW episodes, but he created magic in some. Like this for example.
(and who better to deliver this hopefull message then Sam :))
There are very few shows that I made a point to watch throughout my time and West Wing was one of them. Before WW it was Cheers and most recently all seasons of Game of Thrones. Yes I said all seasons!
This, when Sam talks to Leo's daughter about schools, and the cancer speech. Great writing delivered perfectly.
When writers for shows were incredible...and acting was super.
*2 seasons later.*
"Where did you write that last part?"
"In the car."
Damnit Sam you bloody genius you.
"freak"
Thanks for uploading it with good quality.
WHY... WHY... is this great show NOT still on the air????
I used to love this show and watched all of it on Netflix!
Wow. I actually wept. Thanks for posting this clip to remind us of the dreams that matter.
How I miss this series!
Loved this series.....
IF....I ever have to go to a desserted Island....I'm NOT taking a Volleyball, but rather the West Wing CD Set.
Absolutely. And, maybe, also take Ainsley Hayes to do the bossa nova once in a while.
crimdell
Oh my yes! She was, without a doubt, the cutest Republican I've ever seen.
A "desserted" island? That sounds like a sweet place :D :D xD
DVD set. Sounds great!
A CD player and lots of batteries. Unless your island is Hawaii.
"God forbid that while talking to 60,000 public school students, the President should appear smart!"
If only we listened President Bartlett. If only we listened.
Only the best television show in history.It was the first to demonstrate the public's deep hunger for intelligent programming.
Why can't we have someone like Bartlet as our president?!
Because the US has a strong element of anti-intellectualism in politics
Apparently they took a pole back in the Bush v Gore days of politics asking "who would you rather be you're president? George Bush Jr., Al Gore or Jed Bartlet" Bartlet won by a landslide!
We did. His name was Barack H. Obama.
Back in the day, when being the president of the united states meant something.
It still means something...that's why it hurts so bad.
It does, once more. Now more than ever, the spirit of Galileo V lives again!
and it means something again... “my whole soul is in this”
It does..... again
@@lionelraoul Take heart Lionel - it's gonna get better...(Feb 2021)
Just finally getting into this show. Been a Sorkin fan for years and I see why the show gets so much hype. This scene in particular with Sam making the new intro is such a standout though cause it uses this little bit of conflict between him and the NASA guy to show the difference between strong and week writers.
While the NASA guy is trying to hyperbole and throw in big adjectives to make it seem like a big deal, Sam (and Sorkin) understand that in a moment like this, you don't need to make it seem bigger. He understands that the moment itself is already big, all he needs to do is tell you what's happening and you feel the weight of it all.
Man, I love this show. :)
“I don’t show off.” Three lines later, “I converted to Celsius in my head.”
Sam knows President Bartlet's voice.
It happens over time ;-)
Sam IS President Bartlet's voice.
We underappreciate speechwriters in politics. It’s a real pitcher/catcher, quarterback/center, etc type relationship between a politician and their one or two primary speechwriters (in Bartlet’s case, Toby & Sam).
Every POTUS or Governor needs at least that one person who just understands their inner voice and can channel their thoughts into language without dictation. Like Reagan and Peggy Noonan or Obama and Jon Favreau
God, I miss this show. Even more I miss there being smart people in the White House.
Oh, the f'ers are smart, but full of self-interest and lack of humanity.
The relief and joy right now are indescribable.
HANDS DOWN, my favorite presidential administration.
Love the speech. Goosebumps
This music makes you want to salute
Please, please, oh Lordy, let there be a Jed Bartlet in real life to become the President of the United States of America in my lifetime.
I don’t know if we’re there quite yet. But we’re on the right track, that’s for sure!
This. This was the scene that made me know for certain that Sam would be President one day. PLEASE revive the show with him running for President!!
Yes!!!
I still get teary eyed at the end to this day.
Rob Lowe at his best. Love Rob Lowe and The West Wing!❤️❤️
yeah i just cant seem to get into the west wing after rob left the show. I honestly wish they had kept him on through out the entire series
Damn i miss this show.
I'm change that to "Perseverance" and I'm all in!
God forbid a president while talking to school children should appear smart! oh my how far we have fallen.
The end of the secen is a class in how to write impactful speeches
I love this show, miss it a lot and how accurate it was but always bugged me he said nasa is great at naming things and then mentions The Sea of Tranquillity... NASA was formed in 1958 but the sea of tranquillity was named in 1651
The best thing is, I understand exactly what he means. I react to names like Galileo V in exactly the same way.
you left in intro in.... nice
@ 1:20 Cal State Northridge having a “Planetary Geologist” on staff + consulting with POTUS?!
Hmm not seeing that happening in this universe. Wonder who wrote that and why? A nod to a friend?
At 2.22 don't you just love the way the President looks sideways to CJ as if to say ohhh... I'm screwed.
Yeeeessssssss
Wow, they really do walk and talk "walk with me" so much on this show. Family Guy were not wrong!
Walk the talk is a very sorkin'y method
I need a President to say it right!
Why can't things be as pretty as that speech all the time ... I'm crying here.
*looks down at other comment I made 6 months ago - seems youtube wants me to see this, and cry, every so often, damn and blast ze youtube widgets, they know me so well!*