100,000 Airplanes

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“100,000 Airplanes”
The West Wing episode
Episode no. Season 3
Episode 55
Guest stars Mary-Louise Parker
Marlee Matlin
Traylor Howard
Bill O'Brien
Nancy Linehan Charles
Howard S. Miller
Nicholas Hormann
Brian Baker
Charles Walker
Written by Aaron Sorkin
Directed by David Nutter
Production no. 227212
Original airdate
Season 3 episodes
  1. Manchester Part I
  2. Manchester Part II
  3. Ways and Means
  4. On the Day Before
  5. War Crimes
  6. Gone Quiet
  7. The Indians in the Lobby
  8. The Women of Qumar
  9. Bartlet for America
  10. H. Con-172
  11. 100,000 Airplanes
  12. The Two Bartlets
  13. Night Five
  14. Hartsfield's Landing
  15. Dead Irish Writers
  16. The U.S. Poet Laureate
  17. Stirred
  18. Enemies Foreign and Domestic
  19. The Black Vera Wang
  20. We Killed Yamamoto
  21. Posse Comitatus
List of The West Wing episodes

"100,000 Airplanes" is the 55th episode of The West Wing.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

While the White House staff works intensely on Bartlet's crucial State of the Union speech, Bartlet suddenly demands that a passage ambitiously promising a crusade to cure cancer within 10 years be included. Sam is interviewed for a Vanity Fair profile by Lisa Sherborne, who was once his fiancée. Attracted to a prominent women's rights leader, Amy Gardner, Josh tries to persuade her that her burgeoning romance with a Congressman is solely a result of political machinations. Pollster Joey Lucas studies the responses from focus groups to Bartlet's upcoming speech.

The title refers to Sam's explanation of why overreaching is good:

"In 1940 our armed forces weren't among the 12 most formidable in the world, but obviously we were going to fight a big war. And Roosevelt said the U.S. would produce 50,000 planes in the next four years. Everyone thought it was a joke and it was 'cause we produced 100,000 planes. Gave our armed forces an armada which would block out the sun."


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