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| − | Josiah Bartlet's 1998 campaign slogan. It was seen at the beginning of Season Four, in the flashbacks to that first run at the [[White House]]. It is also to some degree echoed in Leo's decision in Season One, that the time has come to "[[Let Bartlet Be Bartlet]]". |
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| + | |title = Bartlet For America |
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| + | |image = Bfa1998.png |
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| + | |candidate = [[Josiah Bartlet]] |
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| + | |party = [[Democratic Party]] |
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| + | |manager = [[Leo McGarry]] |
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| + | |staff = [[Toby Ziegler]]<br/>[[Josh Lyman]]<br/>[[Sam Seaborn]]<br/>[[C.J. Cregg]] |
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| + | |period = [[1997]] — [[1998]] |
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| + | |result = [[United States Presidential Election (1998)]] winner<br/>1998 Democratic Presidential Nominee |
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| + | }}'''Bartlet For America''' is the 1998 Presidential Campaign run by [[Josiah Bartlet]] and [[Leo McGarry]], his campaign manager, for the Democratic nomination for [[President of the United States]]. |
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| + | == About == |
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| + | Leo McGarry, following his tenure as Labor Secretary in the mid-'90s, sought out his old friend, then-Governor of [[New Hampshire]], Jed Bartlet, to encourage Bartlet to run for President. McGarry coined the campaign title and slogan, writing down the words on a cocktail napkin which he presented to Governor Bartlet. Though Bartlet hesitated at first, he ultimately decided to run. |
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| + | With McGarry in the lead, the campaign team consisted of [[Cal Mathis]] as a point man, along with campaigners Jerry, Mack and Steve. Toby Ziegler was hired by Leo and this was his introduction to the Governor, who was familiar with the other 4 campaigners. After a while of a slogging campaign, in which the team was more concerned with politicising than content, Leo got fed up and fired the lot, save for Toby, at a Nashua campaign event in October 1997.<ref>[[In the Shadow of Two Gunmen (Part I)]]</ref> Ziegler was very surprised, given he'd expected himself to be the sole campaigner fired and had spent the morning getting drunk at a bar as a result of his assumption. |
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| + | Beforehand, McGarry went to D.C. to ask his friend Noah Lyman's son, Josh, to come see Bartlet in Nashua. |
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| + | == Notes and references == |
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| + | {{References}} |
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Latest revision as of 02:30, 17 November 2019
Bartlet For America is the 1998 Presidential Campaign run by Josiah Bartlet and Leo McGarry, his campaign manager, for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
About
Leo McGarry, following his tenure as Labor Secretary in the mid-'90s, sought out his old friend, then-Governor of New Hampshire, Jed Bartlet, to encourage Bartlet to run for President. McGarry coined the campaign title and slogan, writing down the words on a cocktail napkin which he presented to Governor Bartlet. Though Bartlet hesitated at first, he ultimately decided to run.
With McGarry in the lead, the campaign team consisted of Cal Mathis as a point man, along with campaigners Jerry, Mack and Steve. Toby Ziegler was hired by Leo and this was his introduction to the Governor, who was familiar with the other 4 campaigners. After a while of a slogging campaign, in which the team was more concerned with politicising than content, Leo got fed up and fired the lot, save for Toby, at a Nashua campaign event in October 1997.[1] Ziegler was very surprised, given he'd expected himself to be the sole campaigner fired and had spent the morning getting drunk at a bar as a result of his assumption.
Beforehand, McGarry went to D.C. to ask his friend Noah Lyman's son, Josh, to come see Bartlet in Nashua.