You're listening to The West Wing Weekly. I'm Rishikesh Hereway, and I'm Joshua Molina.

Today we're talking about the episode Swiss Diplomacy, it's episode 9 from season 4.

It was written by Kevin Falls and Eli Addy. It was directed by Christopher Missiano, and

at first aired on November 20th, 2002. And today we're joined by the writers Kevin Falls

and Eli Addy. Hooray!

Enjoy. Good to have you.

Good to have you. Thanks for being here.

It's so great to be here.

Normally at this point I would give a synopsis of the episode, but with the writers here

in the room I feel like really I have to turn it over to you.

Make them do it? Yeah, can you synopsize?

Give us the three sentences that describe this episode.

First of all, this is the first episode after Bartlett's re-election, and he's exulting in

his re-election, but then hit with a lot of problems. One of them is that the IA toll

is sun needs a heart and lung transplant, and this is the only country where it can be

done. So the president has to allow him to enter the country, even though the IA toll ends

up publicly attacking him for it. At the same time, since it's right after Bartlett's

re-election, there's concern among a number of Democrats who want to run for president

in the next election that hoins. The incumbent vice president is already looking to lock

up the field, and as anybody, it will lock up the nomination rather and to sort of sign up

precinct captains in Iowa and New Hampshire to support his campaign, and that's good politics

for him, but then there's so many Democrats who want to run for an open seat that it actually

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