Debate Camp (West Wing)

Infobox Television episode
Title = Debate Camp
Series = The West Wing


Caption =
Season = 4
Episode = 70
Airdate = October 162002
Production = 175305
Writer = Aaron Sorkin (teleplay)
William Sind & Michael Oates Palmer (story)
Director = Paris Barclay
Guests = Mary-Louise Parker
John Amos
Marlee Matlin
Kathryn Joosten
Kathleen York
NiCole Robinson
Bill O'Brien
Glenn Morshower
Thomas Kopache
Jeffrey Pierce
Bruce French
Eyal Podell
Episode list = List of "The West Wing" episodes
Season list = Infobox The West Wing season 4 episode list
Prev =
Next ="Debate Camp" is episode 70 of "The West Wing".

Plot

As the West Wingers prep for the presidential debates at a North Carolina conference center, a vexing question about a failed nomination from very early in the Bartlet Administration leads to flashbacks of the administration's first weeks in office. Among other events around that time:
*Toby's marriage to Rep. Andrea Wyatt was about to end, as she was eager to begin trying to start a family but Toby was not comfortable with the idea and kept avoiding discussions and doctors' appointments with the reason/excuse being the ground-running start of the new Administration. In the present, Toby is seeking a reconciliation with his ex-wife, and Sam and Charlie are helping him in the effort to win her back.
*C.J. is approached by a journalist who has suggestions for policy that she politely declines, and the journalist then says he will pray for her. C.J. is aghast to find out he represents the Christian Coalition and he's going to pray for her because he thinks she's going to Hell.
*Sam is the only senior staffer opposed to the planned nomination of an African-American leader from Florida as the Attorney General. Sam cites the candidate saying that he wasn't scared of whites when he heard their footsteps behind him but was scared of African-Americans in the same situation. Sam was overruled and the nomination became a fiasco that lingered after the leader was removed from consideration for the AG job.
*President Bartlet is surprised to learn he can have anything he wants loaned to him from the Smithsonian for the White House, and says he wants Apollo 11. Meanwhile, the Israeli Air Force weighs in on the Qumari matter by striking two terrorist camps in-country via F-15s. The terrorists later begin moving a ship full of missile parts towards Qumar, and the President decides to have the Navy intercede and seize the vessel. Joey Lucas reports that the president is likely to lose New Hampshire. This episode also informs that Toby and Congresswoman Wyatt have been trying to have children for at least 4 years, the length of the first term in office.

External links

* [http://epguides.com/WestWing/ The West Wing Episode Guide]