This episode is a documentary special, featuring former real-life West Wing inhabitants -- plus a President or two for good measure. The show features interviews with David Gergen, Dee Dee Myers, Leon Panetta, and Paul Begala, former Clinton staffers, plus former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, and Presidents Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton, interspersed with highlights of The West Wing.

Starring:

ROB LOWE as Sam Seaborn
STOCKARD CHANNING as First Lady Abigail Bartlet
DULÉ HILL as Charlie Young
ALLISON JANNEY as C.J. Cregg
JANEL MOLONEY as Donna Moss
RICHARD SCHIFF as Toby Ziegler
JOHN SPENCER as Leo McGarry
BRADLEY WHITFORD as Josh Lyman
and MARTIN SHEEN as President Josiah Bartlet

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An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood, by Jimmy Carter
Time and Chance : Gerald Ford's Appointment With History
On Speaking Well : How to Give a Speech With Style, Substance, and Clarity, by Peggy Noonan
Diplomacy, by Henry Kissinger
Restoring America's Future : Preparing the Nation for the 21st Century : A Report, by Leon E. Panetta
'Is Our Children Learning?': The Case Against George W. Bush, by Paul Begala
Buck Up, Suck Up... and Come Back When You Foul Up, by James Carville & Paul Begala
Eyewitness to Power: The Essence of Leadership, Nixon to Clinton, by David R. Gergen
The Clinton Years, by Robert McNeely