You're listening to The West Wing Weekly. My name is Rishikesh Herway.

And my name is Joshua Molina.

Today we're talking about episode three from season six. It's called Third Day Story.

It was written by our dear dear friend Eliaddy. It was directed by our dear one dear, because

he hasn't been on as often. Friend Christopher Missyana. And at first aired on November

3rd 2004. In this episode, the White House is in chaos without Leo, who suffered a hard

attack at Camp David. But before signing the Middle East Peace Accord, the president

wants the staff to get the support of Congress and the United Nations. Josh and Toby are

pulling in opposite directions without a chief of staff to direct them. CJ does the best

she can to maintain some order. And Donna returns to work, but she's in a wheelchair. And

Charlie reveals that he could graduate from Georgetown, but he's putting it off.

Because he's afraid of swimming. There is no swim test for Georgetown's graduation, by the way.

There is a swim test for Cornell. Really? Yes. But my parents attended. And they're fine,

fine swimmers as a result. There's some notable things about this episode that I thought we

could mention off the top. One, this is the first time that Melissa Fitzgerald is given a guest-starring

credit. Oh, that's funny. I did notice it. Yeah. I was wondering if I just hadn't noticed it

before, but she's got that nice up front credit. Yeah. But it goes fits.

Armin Mueller-Stahl is also given an up front credit, but then I didn't see him in the episode.

And I had to go back and he's on a TV. We don't see him in person, so to speak, in the episode.

Screen in a screen? Interesting. Yeah. He got a special guest star credit for that.

He's a Hollywood-heavyweight. Another thing about this episode that is different from others is

we get the title across the picture of the White House as we're entering. We don't get our trademark

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