2x04 In This White House - The West Wing Episode Guide

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- Episode 02x04

Episode: 02x04
Title: In This White House
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 226204
First Aired: Oct. 25, 2000

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The West Wing - 02x04 In This White House

Summary: After outdoing Sam on a television program, Bartlet offers to hire Ainsley Hayes, a Republican adviser, as assistant White House counsel, despite being from the Republican party. However, Bartlet's offer shocks the rest of the staff and causes resentment to build. Meanwhile, Toby and Josh attend a summit concerning the cost and availability of AIDS medication in the African countries that need it the most.

Who appeared in this episode?

President Josiah 'Jed' Bartlet	played by Martin Sheen
Ainsley Hayes	played by Emily Procter
President Nimbala	played by Zakes Mokae
Nimbala's Translator	played by Michael Chinyamurindi
Pharmaceutical Executive	played by Michael Cavanaugh
Pharmaceutical Executive	played by Len Cariou
Mark Gottfried	played by Ted McGinley
Bill Kelley	played by Sam Jaeger
Harriet	played by Brigid Brannagh

	Season 2 / Episode 4: - In This White House Leo McGarry: You have an interesting conversational style, do you know that? Ainsley Hayes: It's a nervous condition. Leo McGarry: I used to have a nervous condition. Ainsley Hayes: How did yours manifest itself? Leo McGarry: I drank a lot of scotch. Ainsley Hayes: I get sick when I drink too much. Leo McGarry: I get drunk when I drink too much.
	Season 2 / Episode 4: - In This White House Ainsley Hayes: The bill contained plenty of money for textbooks, Mark, and anyone who says otherwise is flat-out lying. And we should tell the truth about this. Textbooks are important, if for no other reason than they'd accurately place the town of Kirkwood in California and not Oregon.

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MISTAKES/GOOFS

CONT: Ainsley's line during the debate about Kirkwood is different when replayed on the TV in her apartment.
FACT: President Nimbala points out to the drug representative that his company has high profits from sales of fluconazole, to which Toby remarks that, "There is more money to be made in giving a white guy an erection than curing a black man of AIDS." Fluconazole has nothing to do with erections. It's used to treat fungal infections, not erectile dysfunction.
CHAR: In the segment marked "Tuesday", Bartlett asks Leo, "Did you see Sam get pureed on Capitol Beat last night?" In the next segment however, Leo says that "the woman who was on Capitol Beat with Sam Sunday."
FACT: Ainsley is alerted to a call from the White House by the phone number 456-1414 showing up on her caller ID. White House phones will not show up on caller ID as anything more than the area code (though the recipient would know it was a White House call, since most blocked calls don't display the area code).