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  Bartlet4America.org - Jed Bartlet
Bartlet holds a Ph.D. in economics [1.9], spent an unspecified period of time as an economics professor [1.5], and is a Nobel laureate in economics [1.2].
Bartlet rather inexplicably appointed a judge to the Tenth Circuit who calls sexual harassment "a flight of fancy for the overindulged." Abbey is not amused [4.18].
Bartlet reacts very poorly to attacks that in any way involve his daughters; as Leo puts it, "we won't be able to get him to focus on his breakfast order because he'll be asking for the launch codes" [5.16].
b4a.healthyinterest.net /char/jed.html   (1794 words)

  
  Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Josiah Bartlet
Bartlet was born and raised in New Hampshire.
Bartlet is a devout Roman Catholic; this is due to the influence of his mother, as his father would have preferred that he be raised Protestant.
Bartlet's close friend, Leo McGarry, convinces him to run for president around the fall of 1997, writing the slogan "Bartlet for America" on a cocktail napkin (the napkin became an offbeat icon of the show, and is given to Bartlet by McGarry's daughter Mallory in the final episode of the show, "Tomorrow").
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Josiah_Bartlet   (1169 words)

  
 Josiah Bartlet at AllExperts
Bartlet's close friend, Leo McGarry, convinces him to run for president around the fall of 1997, writing the slogan "Bartlet for America" on a cocktail napkin (the napkin became an offbeat icon of the show, and is given to Bartlet by McGarry's daughter Mallory in the final episode of the show, "Tomorrow").
In 2002, Bartlet is elected to a second term, defeating the Republican nominee, Gov. Robert Ritchie of Florida, by a landslide in what had been expected to be an election as close as the one four years earlier.
While Zoey is missing, President Bartlet fears he is incapable of maintaining the necessary dispassion while his daughter is in such danger and invokes Section 3 of the 25th Amendment, declaring himself incapacitated and transferring the powers of the presidency to the next person in the presidential line of succession.
en.allexperts.com /e/j/jo/josiah_bartlet.htm   (1193 words)

  
 Josiah Bartlett
Josiah Bartlett (November 21, 1729 - May 19, 1795), New Hampshire physician and statesman, was a signatory of the Declaration of Independence.
The fictional President of the West Wing, a popular television drama series, is named "Josiah Bartlet".
Despite the spelling difference, the character (played by Martin Sheen) claims to be a direct descendant of the New Hampshire signer of the Declaration of Independence.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/jo/Josiah_Bartlett.html   (342 words)

  
 Mr. President: The West Wing's Josiah Bartlet's Fanlisting
Bartlet served on the New Hampshire State Board of Education and was a three-term member of the United States House of Representatives and either a representative or senator in the New Hampshire State Legislature (the show does not make clear which).
President Bartlet's daughter, Zoey, was kidnapped on the day of her graduation from Georgetown University, possibly due to the Bartlet-ordered assassination of the Qumari defense minister.
Bartlet is currently in the last year of his term, with elections likely to occur in November of 2006 (early in the show's seventh season).
fan.vintage-dreams.net /jed/about.php   (657 words)

  
 The West Wing/Josiah Bartlet - The TV IV
In 2002, Bartlet was elected to a second term, defeating the Republican Florida governor, Rob Ritchie, by a considerably wider margin in what had been expected to be an election as close as the one four years earlier.
Bartlet's daughter, Zoey, was kidnapped on the day of her graduation from Georgetown University, possibly due to the Bartlet-ordered assassination of the Qumari defense minister.
Bartlet is currently in the last year of his term, with elections likely to occur in November of 2006 (in the show's seventh season).
tviv.org /The_West_Wing/Josiah_Bartlet   (716 words)

  
 Very Real Questions for Fictional President
Bartlet wrestled with how his chances for re-election might be affected by public knowledge of his ailment, which, until then, had been known to only a small number of aides.
Bartlet for a news conference at which he was to disclose his illness, the White House press secretary told him to start by calling on a medical reporter in a certain seat who, strange to say, had my name.
Bartlet in a wheelchair, could go undetected for years at a time, and that could be in remission and undetectable in checkups because there was no laboratory test for it.
www.joshlyman.com /articles/vrqffp.html   (1669 words)

  
 Josiah Bartlet - West Wing Wiki - a Wikia wiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Josiah Edward Bartlet, known as "Jed," was born in the early 1940s in New Hampshire.
Bartlet might have attempted to play baseball for Notre Dame, but would be noted by Toby Ziegler and Charlie Young years later as being a bad pitcher.
As President-Elect, Bartlet was mad that the Republican President seemed to be sticking him with a military conflict in the Philippines.
westwing.wikia.com /wiki/Josiah_Bartlet   (1777 words)

  
 Salon.com Arts & Entertainment | The POTUS with the mostest
And Bartlet dismissed the anti-abortion leaders with a frank speech that was in stunning contrast to the usual timid "balance" of prime-time topical dramas.
Bartlet is the feel-good Democratic president, the antidote to all the heartbreak of the past few years.
Bartlet was running a distant third in the national polls, far behind the favorite, Sen. John Hoynes (Tim Matheson), a political insider from the South.
archive.salon.com /ent/col/mill/2000/10/18/west_wing/print.html   (2159 words)

  
 The West Wing episode guide • thecustard.tv
Bartlet reveals his role in the death of five alleged terrorists and CJ is forced into making a deal with reporter Danny to bury the truth.
Bartlet is dismayed after a celebrated North Korean pianist asks to defect while the State Department is embroiled in delicate negotiations with the North Korean government over their nuclear programme.
Bartlet's daughter Ellie is annoyed after her research is hijacked to discredit the President by a conservative Republican, and she is later moved to defend the need for research without political interference at a news conference.
www.thecustard.tv /shows/thewestwing.html   (6528 words)

  
 Josiah Bartlet - Demopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Josiah Bartlet is the Democratic President on NBC's The West Wing.
Bartlet did not even expect to win the nomination; the original frontrunner was Texas Senator John Hoynes, but Hoynes later claimed that when he lost strategist Josh Lyman to Bartlet, he lost the race.
Bartlet is a smoker, but his major health concern is his relapsing/remitting multiple sclerosis, which was disclosed to the public in 2001.
demopedia.democraticunderground.com /index.php/Josiah_Bartlet   (337 words)

  
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Bartlet was elected president in November of 1998 and began his first term in January of 1999.
Bartlet was nearly thrown out of the London School of Economics when he was 26 over a controversial paper he wrote.
Bartlet's grandmother taught in a "two room school house" to the children of Italian stonecutters in the basement of a rectory.
members.tripod.com /wing_nuts/potusbio.htm   (1494 words)

  
 Josiah Bartlet
Bartlet is a native of New Hampshire, where he was twice a Governor and three times a Congressman prior to running for president.
Bartlet graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Notre Dame with a major in American Studies and a minor in theology.
Bartlet likes to scare his staff spouting trivia at them.
www.joshlyman.com /jed.html   (461 words)

  
 Floridian: The politics of illness
In last season's closing episodes, the physically fit, mentally alert Bartlet wrestled with how his chances for re-election might be affected by public knowledge of his ailment, which, until then, had been known to only a small number of aides.
Preparing Bartlet for a news conference at which he was to disclose his illness, the White House press secretary told him to start by calling on a medical reporter in a certain seat who, strange to say, had my name.
Sorkin asked his research staff to find an affliction that did not put Bartlet in a wheelchair, could go undetected for years at a time and could be in remission and undetectable in checkups because there was no laboratory test for it.
www.sptimes.com /News/101501/Floridian/The_politics_of_illne.shtml   (1782 words)

  
 TAP: Web Feature: The Case Against Jed Bartlet:. by Garrett Epps. August 7, 2002.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
And series creator Aaron Sorkin seems to have intended Bartlet to be the figure most liberals wish Clinton had been: brilliant (Bartlet is a Nobel-prize winning economist), devout (a Notre Dame graduate, he is a faithful Catholic who confesses on his knees in the Oval Office) and scrupulously honest.
Asked to respond to a plea for increased veterans' benefits, for example, Bartlet drones on about the origins of the term "red tape"; offered a draft speech by a geeky NASA flack, he humiliates the man by dissecting his grammar.
It's hardly surprising: Most politicians are egomaniacs, and Bartlet walks around asking people questions such as, "Which Plantagenet do I remind you of?" But he shows no awareness that for most of us, watching the show in our darkened homes, real politics actually isn't primarily about the individual yearnings of politicos.
www.prospect.org /webfeatures/2002/08/epps-g-08-07.html   (1118 words)

  
 FIC: What One Hundred People, Real And Fake, Think About Josiah Bartlet
Abigail Larkin Bartlet: That she wasn't property to be stolen, and that she chose him over Ron because she always had the sense to recognize truth and greatness when she saw it.
Josiah Bartlett, his great-grandfather: That it was amazing how the American dream could be transmitted down two centuries of clouded bloodlines.
Catherine Bartlet, his grandmother: That as proud as she always was of her grandson, he did have a tendency to bite off more than he could chew.
www.sparkgirls.com /stories/violet/what_100.html   (2421 words)

  
 FIC: What One Hundred People, Real And Fake, Think About Josiah Bartlet
John Bartlet Jr., his brother: That he was always fighting with their father.
Abigail Larkin Bartlet: That she wasn't property to be stolen, and that she chose him over Ron because she always had the sense to recognize truth and greatness when she saw it.
Catherine Bartlet, his grandmother: That as proud as she always was of her grandson, he did have a tendency to bite off more than he could chew.
sparkgirls.com /stories/violet/what_100.html   (2421 words)

  
 The West Wing: President Josiah Bartlet
Josiah 'Jed' Bartlet, Ph.D. Martin Sheen as President Bartlet © NBC
On the other hand, C.J. speaks of Whiffenpoof's dinners in association with Bartlet, which points to Yale [#102].
"That was impressive!" Leo tells Bartlet after being briefed on the first step in a military operation to stop a genocide.
westwing.bewarne.com /pres.html   (2145 words)

  
 Bartlet for President - No, Seriously
It was simply too dangerous to juxtapose the noble, intelligent, charismatic, fundamentally decent Josiah Bartlet against real flesh-and-blood pols, especially in a year which will in all likelihood be an election year not only in the US but Canada as well.
How many write-in votes Josiah Bartlet or Martin Sheen will actually get in the November election is something we'll probably never know.
Once again, it's difficult not to compare Josiah's compassion and strong leadership with the perceived lack of direction by Jean Chretien or Joe Clark, his compassion with the alleged right-wing exclusion of Stockwell Day, and his presence with the invisibility of poor, beleagured Alexa McDonough.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/west_wing/50643   (428 words)

  
 Josiah Bartlett - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Josiah Bartlett (November 21, 1729–May 19, 1795), was an American physician and statesman who, as a delegate to the Continental Congress for New Hampshire, signed the Declaration of Independence.
Josiah was born in Amesbury, Massachusetts to Stephen and Hannah-Mary (Webster) Bartlett.
Bartlett, New Hampshire is named in his honor, and The Josiah Bartlett elementary school is a visible presence on its major roadway.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Josiah_Bartlett   (1670 words)

  
 Challenge to George's reign is pure Hollywood - www.smh.com.au   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The barn-storming, out-of-nowhere early leader for the Democratic presidential nomination is Governor Howard Dean, eerily similar, as a former governor of Vermont, to the idealised Democrat confected for The West Wing.
(Josiah Bartlet is a former governor of New Hampshire, adjacent to Vermont and similarly small).
This is exactly the biggest problem confronting the fictional Bartlet because his alter ego, Aaron Sorkin, executive producer of The West Wing, who also created and wrote the show, regards and depicts the conservative Christians of middle and southern America as Bartlet's enemy, and thus the enemy of enlightened reform.
www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/01/11/1073769454315.html   (939 words)

  
 Washingtonpost.com: Journalism Internships for College Students
With the slogan "Josiah, won't you please come home?," the magazine got more than 1,000 people to sign petitions urging Sheen or, even better, the entire "West Wing" cast and crew to visit their tiny state.
In the show's season finale, Bartlet struggled to decide whether to run for office again, after revealing that he hid from the public the fact that he has multiple sclerosis.
Martin Sheen, who plays President Josiah Bartlet, receives direction in front of a prop sign in Bluemont, Loudoun County, which is substituting for Bartlet's home town in New Hampshire.Jon Monheim, a drummer with the Loudoun Valley High School band, gets ready for a rehearsal.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/post/intern/stories01-4.htm   (955 words)

  
 Josiah Bartlet - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
Bartlet representa en numerosos aspectos al 'presidente liberal ideal', poseedor de un fuerte intelecto, una gran (pero no infalible) integridad personal y tacto, pero concienciado con la compasión hacia los desafortunados y poseedor de sentido del humor.
Bartlet es presentado como un padre duro pero cariñoso, al contrario que su padre, el cual (como se puede observar en flashbacks) era frío y psicológicamente abusivo.
Bartlet cursa actualmente el último año de su mandato, con unas elecciones que tendrán lugar en Noviembre de 2005 (durante el principio de la séptima temporada).
es.wikipedia.org /wiki/Josiah_Bartlet   (752 words)

  
 Mr. President: The West Wing's Josiah Bartlet's Fanlisting   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Welcome to the TFL.org approved fanlisting for the West Wing's Josiah Bartlet.
Josiah or Jed (his nickname) was played by the talented Martin Sheen.
A fanlisting is simply an online listing of fans of a subject, such as a TV show, actor, or musician, that is created by an individual and open for fans from around the world to join.
fan.vintage-dreams.net /jed   (99 words)

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