When John Spencer talked about his admiration for Martin Sheen/Josiah Bartlett, I was so touched. RIP John Spencer.
@hanscombe728 жыл бұрын
That moment when Leo Breaks down when Jed gives him the napkin breaks my heart. The symbol of a life long love story between two great men.
@jcfra4203 жыл бұрын
Imagine the greatness our country could achieve if we actually had a President like Jeb Bartlett.
@mister-v-3086 Жыл бұрын
I have...and it's made me cry,
@Shadow20845 жыл бұрын
The West Wing was without a doubt my most favorite television show. I love it still.
@kmoore0280910 жыл бұрын
Casting Martin Sheen as the President for The West Wing is probably one of the best casting decisions made by any television program anywhere. I love how they worked in a lot of Sheen's personal quirks (like his inability to remember names) into his character.
@grumpyscatsbestfriend59906 жыл бұрын
We sure could use a Jeb Bartlet in Washington, today.
@madprofessor59664 жыл бұрын
Please God yes!!
@jg60224 жыл бұрын
*Jed*
@prospero41834 жыл бұрын
A fake president. Seems kinda like ever democratic candidate that we have now
@JCaroleClarke6 ай бұрын
The best president we never had...
@theolamp53128 жыл бұрын
I must admit that Martin Sheen is my favorite actor in this incredible series. And, the whole ensemble cast is magnificent. But, in seeing this, I have a soft spot in my heart for John Spencer. In every scene, he was so spot on. Leo/John made the series so much better than it would have been without him. He will always be missed.
@georgegretser21783 жыл бұрын
John Spencer - the role of a lifetime. So well played
@Sergigrinkovvolponyfan6 жыл бұрын
I cried seeing John Spencer. I love Martin Sheen! And love the whole cast!
@tmseh4 жыл бұрын
🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 *Bartlett 2020!* 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 "When the President stands, nobody sits."
@AndSoItGoes243 жыл бұрын
I seriously considered writing in Jed Bartlet for the election this year. After all, it’s really who I want to be President come January 20, 2021.
@tmseh3 жыл бұрын
@@AndSoItGoes24 👍👍👍👍👍✌
@shelleyking8450 Жыл бұрын
When Martin did that first scene, he locked himself into the center of the best series that was ever on television.
@MarcusLeepapi9 жыл бұрын
Yes, Martin Sheen is a great actor. The show was a great show.
@daveinindy5 жыл бұрын
GOD this was a great show.
@deborahreardon4875 Жыл бұрын
This is one of my favorite series. Have just bought the West Wing series on DVD. LOOKED FOR IT A VERY LONG TIME. Wish with all my heart our country would have a President and Staff such as this. I believe we did with President Obama and his wife. If you’re a good person as a President, believe in the importance of the position and the people who you have the job of protecting, you age, and when you look back at Clinton, Kennedy, Ike, Jimmy Carter, and Obama, they all aged, because of their integrity, decency, honesty, and hard work for the Nation they swore to protect and defend. God bless them all.
@chrisdickerson3786 Жыл бұрын
I never missed a episode of this show truly amazing actors
@jeffpierce9296 Жыл бұрын
The episode, In Excelsis Deo, made me cry. After hearing Mrs. Landingham talk about both sons dying in Vietnam and then asking Tobey if she could go with him to bury the Korean War Vet, with the children in the background singing, Little Drummer Boy...it was too much. Very well done. My favorite episode of any show.
@patriciaeddishaw9244 Жыл бұрын
That drummer boy scene is my favorite. I play it every year. It's become my go-to tradition for how I get myself psyched for doing my Christmas prep work
@RosieGaelic Жыл бұрын
My god Jed…..I don’t even want to know you!
@linzzyy5 жыл бұрын
mere words cannot express my love for this show... I would have to have a Sorkin-like gift to describe my adoration for Pres Sheen, excuse me, Bartlet
@jamesgoines76635 жыл бұрын
Thanks. The actors, acting, scenes, scenery, writing, and even the music were the Best of the Best
@lauriel87356 жыл бұрын
Its so nice to see what a white house can be. Even if its only TV.
@prospero41834 жыл бұрын
That's the only time u will see it. Real people have to deal with the real world. The press who hate u, where u have to justify what u do, say or think. Good god the republicans in west wing make better democrats than Biden or Clinton. I think walker or vinick would have made a better president than bartlet but that's not the show
@dee_dee_place Жыл бұрын
I loved Martin Sheen as the Chief Of Staff in "The American President". Andrew Sheppard asked him, "why haven't I ever seen your name on a ballot?" Well, "The West Wing" put his name on a ballot & it was Josiah Edward "Jed" Bartlet. Well Done, Mr. Sheen, Well Done! To think that Mr. Sheen suffered a terrible heart attack in the middle of making ""Apocalypse Now" in 1979, & he came back in such a big way now, wow, just wow. The thought of it makes me smile. If you guys have never seen his film "The Way" please watch it. He made it with his son, Emilio Estevez.
@zzzroxyzzz5 жыл бұрын
I might be crazy but I think if Martin Sheen actually ran against Trump he might have a good shot lol
@stormwatcher595 жыл бұрын
He would have my vote...no matter who he ran against!
@samsung32543 жыл бұрын
@@stormwatcher59 I can't vote being in a different country and all but I would apply for citizenship just to make that happen! 👍
@PeterSedesse Жыл бұрын
a message from the ghost of Christmas future.... there is a guy named Zelensky you might want to check in on.
@A_10_PaAng_111 Жыл бұрын
And some idiot Americans actually think this show is real.
@jennyandthemachines Жыл бұрын
Someone ask Sorkin to run
@jkrasney12 ай бұрын
Excellent Lou Gehrig attribute at the conclusion of this post.
@waltershattenkirk30876 жыл бұрын
There are but a few brilliantly written and casted movies and TV series. TWW sits atop them all.
@AndreAFirenze9 жыл бұрын
I serve at the pleasure of President Bartlet
@davivify9 жыл бұрын
And don't forget FDR - there's a parallel to having a physical handicap. But more than that, there's this bigness of heart and this great good humor.
@michaelhayden5264 Жыл бұрын
Not only didn’t they plan to have a president, they didn’t even have a First Lady. Martin and Stockard met for the first time on the first morning’s shoot.
@BehindTheHarleyShop10 жыл бұрын
LOVED this show. The President cracks me up!
@tinafarrar2527 Жыл бұрын
Casting all with the writings was PERFECT!
@JCaroleClarke6 ай бұрын
Oh, to be as brilliant as Bartlett and his staff.
@iRDaBrit6 ай бұрын
I miss them all so, so much.
@davidbennettracing5387 жыл бұрын
I think that the closest we came as citizens of the world, to seeing president Bartlet in the White House was president Obama.
@sithlordofoz5 жыл бұрын
What - yes we can (but we didn't)? I think Bartlet did better - and he was fake.
@JeffrevinYT8 жыл бұрын
"I am the Lord, your God. Thou shall worship no other God before me." ~ Jed Bartlett
@JnEricsonx5 жыл бұрын
I loved that bit. I'm a atheist and even I knew that.
@danielorovec85064 жыл бұрын
If only there was this man and his advisers in power now
@jeremybr20204 жыл бұрын
Even though this is a fictional show, it does show rather well what it is we would want and what we pretty much expect a President to be. Or at least aspire to be. And we usually see some of these good qualities in our Presidents. Obama, Clinton, the Bush's, Reagan, Kennedy........they all have or had at least one or 2 of these notable qualities that we expect. It is only now in our current times that we have a President who doesn't possess a single one of those redeeming qualities. Not a single one. Trump is the total antitheses of the character President Bartlett. And it is such a tragedy that politics has become so tribal and toxic that millions of "party over country" Americans could be so blind and willfully ignorant that they would elect a person with such abhorrent qualities simply because he was the Republican nominee. Had Trump been with the Democrats, every single one of his now supporters, would be outright disgusted and horrified at his actions and behavior. You know that is a 100% fact. And if you don't believe that, then you're simply lying to yourself.
@BradyPostma3 жыл бұрын
I'm a life-long Republican, and I completely agree with every word. I pray someday we'll have those traits back on the oval office, and maybe even back in the Republican Party.
@dee_dee_place Жыл бұрын
I agree wholeheartedly. I'm a Democrat & Barack Obama was the 1st Democratic Nominee that I voted for as my POTUS. I research all the candidates & choose the one who has the best track record (politically or in the private sector) OR the lesser of the two evils. When DJT ran against HRC, it was like seeing the opposite sides of the same plug nickel. I couldn't vote for either of them. If my state didn't allow for a write-in candidate, I wouldn't have voted for POTUS for the 2nd time in 38 yrs. (The 1st time I skipped voting, I was sicker than a dog & couldn't get out of bed.) We need to find better candidates to run for office. The old guard needs to go, no matter which party they are affiliated with. The majority of them have forgotten the reason they are in our government... to be our voices in the capitol, state or federal.
@jeremybr2020 Жыл бұрын
@@dee_dee_place I hear you. Unfortunately, with our current system, namely, the Electoral College, I find myself having no desire to go out and vote because my vote counts for nothing. I live in Texas, so unless it's a Republican vote, then it's pretty useless. Try as I may, I don't think I will ever understand how or why it is the Electoral College was ever formed. Logically, it makes no sense. The POTUS is a national position. States don't matter. It's the President of the UNITED States. And the argument about how states such as California would have a major influence to the election because they have such a large population and the majority are liberals. My answer would be....SO THE HELL WHAT. Just because you live in California, doesn't mean you are forced to be Democrats, no more than I am forced to be Republican just because I live in Texas. When we vote for the POTUS, we vote as Americans. Not Texans or Californians. Just like any other vote in political office, the majority wins. If the majority of Americans vote for a particular candidate, then they are the winner. How we have strayed from such a simple and logical system is baffling to me. The more I think about this, and the way that one party has tainted the system just for the purpose of stealing elections when they didn't earn them, makes me angrier and angrier.
@richardhutchison31234 жыл бұрын
Such a bad turn of events from then to 2019 in December when POTUS is impeached!
@thomaswilkinson32414 жыл бұрын
He jokes about being a Despot without ever being one, unlike someone else who claims to be a democratic leader while actually being a Despot.
@Tazdingo014 жыл бұрын
Imagine if he was the president now instead of Trump. Hundreds of thousands of lives will have been saved.
@Egilhelmson Жыл бұрын
Saved in what war? Oh, that’s right, Trump didn’t start any, and reduced the two he had to trivial sizes.
@AndreAFirenze9 жыл бұрын
my personal top ten of TWW characters: 1. Charlie 2. President Bartlet 3. Josh 4. Leo 5. C.J 6. Donna 7. Sam 8. Toby 9. Doctor (Mrs) Bartlet 10. Zoey
@robertchandler40337 жыл бұрын
have you seen AINSLEY HAYS or are you new ?
@AndreAFirenze7 жыл бұрын
are you kidding me? of course i've seen Ainsley. She is not in my top ten, but it's my top ten.
@robertlembo4 жыл бұрын
Some Presidents don't deserve term limits
@jeffreyrain5514 жыл бұрын
Wow, great piece
@xypaddy15 жыл бұрын
The funny is absolutely amazing !! :D
@libertyann4395 жыл бұрын
Where is this guy? Can we elect him?
@libertyann4393 жыл бұрын
Love to see him dress down the right-wingers!
@lizziebkennedy75052 жыл бұрын
“The league of ordinary nations.”
@jamesduggan72004 жыл бұрын
We see Pres. Bartlett enter limping in with the aid of a walking cane. Now we've seen all seven seasons we wonder if the injury was a cover story for his MS? I like to believe the writer(s) thought that far ahead.
@davidphipps93313 жыл бұрын
He...ran into a tree and broke his leg...
@jamesduggan72003 жыл бұрын
@@davidphipps9331 oh, did he? I thought that might have been an MS cover story. Thx
@morpheus6362 жыл бұрын
@@davidphipps9331 The president, while riding a bicycle during his vacation in Jackson Hole, came to a sudden arboreal stop.
@DT-hp8de8 жыл бұрын
Bethersonton? lol
@jeremybr20208 жыл бұрын
I've watched this video several times now, and I noticed something for the first time. I don't see one clip with Rob Lowe in it. Wonder why that is?
@MrPeterpiper19698 жыл бұрын
+jeremybr2020 Rob Lowe left the show early in Season 4 and didn't return until very near the end of Season 7. This was made during Season 6. Rob does appear in a couple of clips but he wasn't interviewed for the documentary itself because he was working on something else.
@jeremybr20208 жыл бұрын
Ahhh I see now. Ty for that update. It's always nice here on KZfaq, to get a constructive response once in a while. :)
@claudecall8 жыл бұрын
+jeremybr2020 That's also why you don't see any interview clips with Sorkin, either.
@Mark-xh8md6 жыл бұрын
The opening paragraph just described everyone who ever went into politics. No one ever said: "Gee! Today I want to do evil for the country, and I hate my family and staff".
@linzzyy5 жыл бұрын
up until two years ago I would have agreed with you
@JnEricsonx5 жыл бұрын
I read a quote once that went something like this, "No one ever went into politics solely to mess with the lives of others." Well...that shit went up in smoke.
@cryofpaine4 жыл бұрын
Do evil? No. Serve themselves and accumulate power and wealth? Absolutely. I would bet money that the last truly selfless President we had - the last President who honestly went into it to try and make things better - was Carter. All you have to do is look at what they've done since leaving office. Selling books, giving speeches, campaigning - all self-serving. What's Carter doing? 95 years old (95!) and he's building houses for the homeless. THAT is a true leader.
@MarcusLeepapi9 жыл бұрын
Very nice...
@coyotesayswhat10 жыл бұрын
why can't Martin run for president?
@77777Spooky9 жыл бұрын
He said himself, "celebrity does not equal credibility" or something to that effect, when asked that question.
@christelheadington11366 жыл бұрын
We got into the "trickle down" BS , by electing an actor.
@easwarsankar5 жыл бұрын
Christel Headington actually it’s the other way around - we got an actor despite his trickle down business
@christelheadington11365 жыл бұрын
Easwar Sankar-Do you know I was talking about Reagan.He's the actor the GOP hired to read the script,that originated the "trickle down".
@easwarsankar5 жыл бұрын
I didn't realize when I read it but I am aware of Reaganomics. Interesting to note that John Spencer says what he meant about both Martin & Jed, the character. I wouldn't mind voting for Martin Sheen if he came up with a good plan.
@geoffreyrichardson87383 жыл бұрын
Here's an idea, why doesn't Martin Sheen run for president of the United States of America
@MrPhotoman756 жыл бұрын
4:20 Martin Sheen believes the character of Bartlet is taken from JFK, Carter and Clinton. I think that there's a bit of Reagan in there as well. Like JFK, Ronald Reagan was an idealist and also had a charisma that set him apart from other presidents. The best presidents have been those that, love him or hate him, you knew where the guys stood on issues. Clinton and Carter were more wishy-washy in my opinion, more politicians than statesmen.
@cryofpaine4 жыл бұрын
Reagan if he had been a liberal. I can see that.
@terrygracy8345 Жыл бұрын
Carter def wasn’t wishy washy. He was very smart, knew it and didn’t want to play politics. His way was the right way which was why he is seen as not being very successful. Just couldn’t broker deals Clinton, knew you had to make deals and understood how the game worked
@presidenziaulhaq210 Жыл бұрын
1:13
@CWPTraining3 жыл бұрын
Wouldn't " Joe Bethersonton " have TWO " T's " ?!?!? Very cornfusing
@allendracabal0819 Жыл бұрын
I assumed he meant one T near the start of the name, as opposed to a double T (two consecutive Ts).
@edwardcoyle54254 жыл бұрын
Ahhhhhh, let Bartlett be Bartlett. Ronald Reagan Not Kennedy, Carter or Clinton.