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| Rob Lowe as | Sam (Samuel Norman) Seaborn | Deputy Communications Director |
| Dulé Hill as | Charlie (Charles) Young | Personal Aide to the President |
| Allison Janney as | C.J. (Claudia Jean) Cregg | Press Secretary |
| Janel Moloney as | Donna (Donnatella) Moss | Assistant to Deputy Chief of Staff |
| Richard Schiff as | Toby (Tobias Zachary) Ziegler | Communications Director |
| John Spencer as | Leo Thomas McGarry | Chief of Staff |
| Bradley Whitford as | Josh (Joshua) Lyman | Deputy Chief of Staff |
| and Martin Sheen as |
Jed (Josiah Edward) Bartlet | President of the United States |
| Special Guest Star Timothy Busfield as |
Danny (Daniel) Concannon | Washington Post Reporter |
| Guest Starring | ||
| Emily Procter as | Ainsley Hayes | Associate White House Counsel |
| Eugene Lazarev as | Vasily Konanov | Ukrainian reformer |
| Mike Starr as | Tony Marino | former Senator |
| NiCole Robinson as | Margaret | Hooper (last name) / Assistant to Chief of Staff |
| David Kaufman as | Bob Fowler | in Toby's meeting |
| Richard Tanner as | Joe Fox | in Toby's meeting |
| Tegan West as | Peter | Senator's Aide in Sam's meeting |
| Brian Stepanek as | Senator's Aide #2 | in Sam's meeting |
| Wayne Wilderson as | Senator's Aide #3 | in Sam's meeting |
| Co-Starring | ||
| Devika Parikh as | Bonnie | Communications' Aide |
| Melissa Fitzgerald as | Carol | Fitzpatrick (last name) Assistant to the Press Secretary |
| Sima Kostov as | Russian Woman | Hooker |
| Kris Murphy as | Katie | Witt (last name) / Reporter |
| Charles Noland as | Steve | Reporter |
| Amy Turner as | Waitress |
Or another time they'll say that, "We're going to have a scenario involving a foreign leader that's come to the White House. Are there any kind of interesting experiences you've had?" And I might reel off three or four, some of the weird foreign leaders who have come to the White House and give them a little scenario that they can use in the show in some fashion. - Marlin Fitzwater
"Popular Politics"
by Terence Smith
September 8, 2000
Online NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
here's where they are as of Monday, September 25th [2000]. They're finishing up episode six, and he just turned in episode seven today. He started to brainstorm episode eight during the Forum
Posted at TheWestWing@egroups.com
by Jenn
September 26, 2000
Message 6797
Notes from the Harvard Law School Forum with Aaron Sorkin
The people who have had this job before, the Joe Lockharts and the Marlin Fitzwaters, do have trouble envisioning an ongoing relationship, a romantic relationship, between a press secretary and a member of the press. - Terence SmithI do too. C.J. does too. And I sort of think that that relationship is not going to be going any further. I think that Danny, Tim Busfield's character, wants it to, and that'll be interesting stuff to play, too, because I think that C.J. has definitely decided this is not good because it's already come up in her professional life, where people are asking, "Are you making that decision because of Danny or because of, you know, what's really going on?" And that's not good. - Allison Janney
"Popular Politics"
by Terence Smith
September 27, 2000
Online NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
The new Republican-era consultants are providing more than political balance. They bring with them behind-the-scenes anecdotes from previous administrations. Fitzwater, for example, who had an extraordinary 10-year run with Reagan and Bush, has already detailed an insider's version of Boris Yeltsin's first visit to the White House. Yeltsin was in Parliament at the time, challenging Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. He wanted to meet President Bush, but the president thought Gorbachev would take offense if he received Yeltsin in the Oval Office."Yeltsin refused to come in the building, in effect, unless he could meet the president," Fitzwater recalls. A compromise was struck: Yeltsin agreed to meet Bush in the national security adviser's office, "so he could say he met the president and we could say he never got into the Oval Office."
Sorkin loves the anecdote - and says it may show up in an episode.
"Inside The West Wing's New World"
by Sharon Waxman
November 2000
George Magazine
"One thing that I share with Ainsley is that I love to eat. I eat all the time," says Procter, who inherited her father's fast metabolism but also runs, bicycles, dances, and weight trains for insurance. "It was in my second episode that [Ainsley] was eating a lot and eating everybody else's leftovers, and I just sat there dumbfounded, thinking, 'There's no way that he knows this about me.' My family called me and said, 'Now, did you tell him that?' It's just kind of known in my family, if you haven't finished it, I will eat it."
"'West Wing' conservative branches out"
by Virginia Rohan
May 18, 2001
Bergen Record