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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 Stars | ||
| Oliver Platt as | Oliver Babish | White House Counsel |
| Ron Silver as | Bruno Gianelli | Campaign Strategist |
| Emily Procter as | Ainsley Hayes | Associate White House Counsel |
| Guest Starring | ||
| Connie Britton as | Connie Tate | Campaign Strategist |
| Evan Handler as | Doug Wegland | Campaign Strategist |
| Mark Feuerstein as | Cliff (Clifford) Calley | Donna's date |
| Miguel Sandoval as | Victor Campos | California Labor Leader |
| NiCole Robinson as | Margaret | Hooper (last name) / Assistant to Chief of Staff |
| Nicholas Pryor as | Clement Rollins | "Clem" / Special Prosecutor |
| Thom Barry as | Mark Richardson | Congressman / Black Caucus |
| Edmund L. Shaff as | Bill Horton | Secretary of Interior |
| Co-Starring | ||
| Jana Lee Hamblin as | Bobbi | Reporter |
| Devika Parikh as | Bonnie | Communications' Aide |
| Melissa Fitzgerald as | Carol | Fitzpatrick (last name) Assistant to the Press Secretary |
| Kim Webster as | Ginger | Assistant to Communications' Director |
| Timothy Davis-Reed as | Mark | O'Donnell (last name) / Reporter |
| Charles Noland as | Steve | Reporter |
| Max Chalawsky as | Kinnis | |
| Felix Solis as | Hammaker | |
| Andrea C. Robinson as | Barbara | |
| Tom McCarthy as | Thomas | Randall (first name) Senator |
| Lewis Grenville as | Reporter | |
| Stephanie Cantu as | Reporter | |
| Nadia Axakowsky as | Reporter |
... We're shooting the season opener right now (a two-parter) and I'm writing epsiode 3. I'm sending Donna on a blind date with a guy it turns out she likes. I want her to be tired. No sleep. I call everybody in and say "What are reasons why Donna would be tired?" Then we play Top This. My reason "The dog in the apartment above her was barking all night." Pretty easy to top. And Eli [Attie, Al Gore's chief speechwriter] does it on the first try. "She's the one sorting the documents and putting them into cartons for the Special Prosecutor." Yes. Now we're in our story. Everybody goes back to what they were doing and I start to write the scene but I don't get very far before I have to shout down to Eli's office and say, "Um...what's in the cartons, what documents are we talking about, what got subpoeanad?" 20 minutes later Eli hands me the memo I'm looking at right now titled "What in Donna's Pile of Documents" and off that I write the scene. But that's not a good example. A better example comes from one of our new consultants, Gene Sperling, Bill Clinton's chief economic adviser. He wants me to write about the estate tax. Sexy. In Gene's hands it is. First, because I don't know anything about the estate tax, he writes me a page and half memo called "You're an Idiot". I read it and say, "Okay, now I understand the estate tax (or at least I can throw some big words around) where's the story?" Gene says, "The republicans want to and Bartlet's gonna do what a weak president who needs to run for re-election never does, he's gonna veto the repeal." I like what I'm hearing, I understand almost half of it, we take it from there. - Aaron "Benjamin" Sorkin
Posted at mightybigtv.com Forum
by Aaron "Benjamin" Sorkin
July 22, 2001
No name available on this episode yet, but we find out in episode three that when Josh was four, he wanted to be a ballerina. I don't know how that comes up, but my guess is that it's something CJ has been waiting to use against him. I don't know for sure though. Also, Donna goes on a blind date, and I think this is where charming Republican Cliff comes in.
Posted at AaronSorkin@yahoogroups.com
by List Owner
July 29, 2001
Message 6195
And in one scene involving a Latino lobbyist, Seaborn shows off his conversational Spanish, something Lowe had to learn -- pronto. "As you might guess, Sam doesn't just speak regular Spanish," Lowe says. "It's speed-bag, 100-mile-an-hour, rat-tat-tat-tat-tat." Adds Sorkin, "I tend to torture Rob a little."
"High and Lowe"
by David Hochman
September 5, 2001
Entertainment Weekly
"When we started, Washington was a gridlocked, partisan place. The public enjoyed a show like ours with idealized people, who want to get things done. Now everyone in Washington has come together for a war of good vs. evil and we're talking about a repeal of the estate tax [on the show]. That doesn't work." - Aaron Sorkin
"Reality intrudes on West Wing"
by Tom Jicha
January 21 2002
South Florida Sun-Sentinel