You're listening to The West Wing Weekly. I'm Joshua Molina. And I'm Rishikesh

your way. Today we're talking about the Dover Test, it's season six, episode six.

It was written by Carol Flint and directed by Laura Innis and it first aired on November

24th, 2004. It's my dad's birthday. Nice. What birth day or do you not want to date him?

There's a crazy thing I don't actually know. You don't know how old your dad is.

But the crazy part is that I think maybe nobody really knows.

Including your dad?

In order to get my dad off to school, there is a possibility that they might have fudged

his age in order to be like, yeah, he's old enough to go to school. And then that's

just been his official age of record. But it's actually possible that he might be a year

younger than he actually is. How about that? They just really wanted him out of that.

I just found this out like recently. I was like, oh, you know, because it was my dad's

birthday not too long ago. And I asked, I said something to my sister about it. And she said,

well, you know, we don't actually know how old that is. That's wild. Yeah.

I think I would find that unsettling. Yeah. Where I he. But I feel like I can,

with great accuracy, say this was his 60th season of this birthday. Fair enough.

Accepted. In this episode, the United States peacekeeping compound is attacked.

And an American soldier is killed and others are wounded. As the White House struggles to

control the story, the father of the slain soldier speaks out against the mission. He's no fan

of President Bartlett's. Meanwhile, Democratic Congressman Matthew Santos attaches the

patient's bill of rights. He wrote to a Republican piece of legislation that effectively keeps

the Democratic elements while maintaining a Republican agenda. And Leo gets a lesson in

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