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  • First Episode: 1-03: A Proportional Response
  • Most Recent Episode: 7-01: The Ticket


Daniel "Danny" Concannon is the White House correspondant for the Washington Post played by Timothy Busfield on the television serial drama The West Wing.

In addition to having a long-standing on-again/off-again romance with White House Press Secretary turned Chief of Staff C.J. Cregg, Danny is also the correspondant who is the most steadfastly supportive of the Bartlet administration, and he appears to have a good friendship with President Josiah Bartlet, Leo McGarry, Charlie Young and Josh Lyman as well.

Danny won the Pulitzer Prize for journalism and like the President is a graduate of University of Notre Dame.



Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.



Sometime in the future, after President Bartlet has left the White House, Danny and C.J. Cregg rekindle their romantic relationship, move to Santa Monica, California, and have a baby.

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