2.13: Bartlet's Third State of the Union (with Don Baer, Fmr. White House Communications Director)

The West Wing Weekly

Joshua Malina & Hrishikesh Hirway

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4.9 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2017

⏱️ 67 minutes

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In this episode, we're joined by Don Baer, who was the chief speechwriter for President Bill Clinton, to tell us what it's really like to write a State of the Union Address. And when you're done listening and you're ready to go home, we only have one question for you: How's Grampy?

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0:00.0	You're listening to The West Wing Weekly. I'm Rishikesh Hereway.
0:09.0	And I'm Joshua Molina.
0:10.5	Today we're talking about season 2 episode 13. It's called Bartlett's Third State of the
0:15.9	Union. We're going to be joined later by Don Bear, who is the Chief Speechwriter for
0:20.2	President Bill Clinton.
0:21.5	And this is our first episode of the New Year. Woo! It's not actually the New Year as
0:26.5	we record, but let's pretend it is like they do on TV.
0:30.1	Happy New Year, dude!
0:31.4	Everything feels so different, doesn't it?
0:33.9	Mm-hmm.
0:34.4	Ooh, thank God we're out of 2016.
0:37.4	Only good things happening in 2017 so far.
0:40.2	That's right.
0:41.2	This episode has a story by Alison Abner and D.D. Myers. It was directed by Christopher
0:46.8	Miseano, and the teleplay is by Aaron Sorkin. It first aired on February 7th, back in the
0:55.0	year 2001.
0:56.0	We're back to your dreaded February's.
0:58.3	We're back to a month of awkward pronunciation.
1:02.3	Do you know Alison Abner?
1:03.6	I do not. I think she's Lil.
1:05.7	Jeez.
1:07.8	She's married to Jean Spurling, West Wing consultant, former Director of National Economic
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