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  Episode 309
BARTLET FOR AMERICA

Background
Personal
Donna dated Republican Congressional lawyer Cliff Calley until she learned he'd been transferred from the Ways & Means Committee to the Oversight Committee, thus putting at the head of the investigation into Bartlet's MS revelation.
Political
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Synposis
While the White House is festooned with Christmas finery, Leo (John Spencer) fears the worst when he testifies in the Congressional investigation into the President's (Martin Sheen) possible lack of public disclosure about his illness while flashbacks reveal the background leading to Bartlet's decision as governor to not come forward with the damaging information. In addition, the President personally investigates a series of church firebombings in the South after a two-year probe proves fruitless and threatens using troops to protect parishioners the next day on Christmas Eve. Rob Lowe, Bradley Whitford, Richard Schiff, Allison Janney, Dule Hill, Janel Moloney and Stockard Channing also star. TV-PG

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