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The West Wing Weekly

4.15: Inauguration: Over There (with Gene Sperling)

The West Wing Weekly

Joshua Malina & Hrishikesh Hirway

Tv & Film

4.912.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2018

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

For our discussion of Inauguration: Over There, Josh regales Hrishi with tales of shooting in his underwear and throwing snowballs at Janel Moloney. Plus, we’re joined by West Wing writer and former Director of the National Economic Council Gene Sperling (@genebsperling). He tells us how the Clinton administration's regrets over the handling of the Rwandan genocide led to the Bartlet administration's doctrine for the use of force.

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0:00.0

We're back. You're listening to The West Wing Weekly. I'm Joshua Molina.

0:10.9

And I'm Rishi Kei Shirewe. Today we're talking about episode 15 from season 4. It's the second

0:15.6

part of the inauguration two-parter. It's called inauguration over there.

0:20.1

The story is by David Girkin and Jean Spurling, to whom we'll speak a little bit later.

0:25.1

And the teleplay is by Aaron Sorkin. This episode was directed by Leslie Linka Glatter.

0:30.8

And this episode is really a continuation of the last episode. The president is about to

0:35.8

give his inaugural address. But first we go back in time. Whereas in part one, we started

0:41.1

six days earlier. We're now closer to the inauguration itself. And the battle over the foreign

0:46.0

policy section is still being hammered out. Danny Kinkanen is digging further on his stories.

0:53.9

Although his reporting now involves getting Donna in trouble and Charlie is still working

0:58.8

on trying to get a Bible. That makes it sound like it's a less exciting episode than it

1:02.3

actually was. I think this episode is great. It's a very good episode. These two together

1:06.2

are wonderful. As Josh mentioned, we're going to be joined later by Jean Spurling, who

1:11.2

has half of the story by credit in this episode. But he's also the director of the National

1:16.2

Economic Council for both President Clinton and President Obama. This episode starts with

1:21.9

Will asking Toby. You don't ever worry about the window breaking.

1:26.1

That's ensuring that before the end of act three, the window will break. Indeed. Chekov's

1:32.2

window. Exactly. Yes. Good episode for Toby's boss, which leads me to shout out to our

1:41.1

listener and now friend Colin, Colin and Sarah, Colin having donated to the radio

1:47.7

topia campaign and bought lunch with us. We had lunch this past Sunday. That was a good

1:52.9

fun and proving that he was a better guest than we were hosts. He brought us each gift.

1:58.2

He brought us each a signed Richard Schiff. I think that money went to the, I almost said

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