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While President Bartlet and his staff nervously await the results of a poll to determine his favorability rating, he begins a heady transfer of ambassadors and members of the Federal Election Committee designed to kickstart campaign finance reform and defuse a embarrassing incident overseas. Specifically, wheeler-dealer Bartlet recalls the married Ambassador to Bulgaria who is discovered to be romancing the daughter of the country's prime minister, but faces another crisis at home when Sam is photographed by a newspaper giving a graduation gift to a known call girl. Meanwhile, C.J. anxiously paces the White House corridors and wonders if she is being marginalized by Leo for past mistakes.

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June 2, 2012

• Actress Kathryn Joosten, who played Delores Landingham, died at age 72 of lung cancer.

March 7, 2012

• According to Vanity Fair The West Wing has influenced a generation of White House staffers, calling it the Sorkinization of modern politics. A number of political staffers have suggested that the show, which made politics 'sexy' and 'idealistic' led to them getting involved in politics.

February 23, 2012

• Bradley Whitford will star in a pilot from producer Josh Friedman. The show, called The Asset also starts Ali Larter as a CIA Agent and features Whitford as her supportive superior.

February 15, 2012

• Allison Janney will guest star on an episode of The C Word, which stars Oliver Platt. She will portray "an ultra-successful Hollywood producer who wants to purchase Cathy and Paul's life rights in order to tell their story on the big screen."

February 10, 2012

• Bradley Whitford will guest star on an upcoming episode of Parks and Recreation playing a councilman who bears a resemblance to Josh Lyman. The episode, called Live Ammo, based on a line from the episode The Lame Duck Congress. Whitford will not share any scenes with his West Wing costar Rob Lowe.

January 24, 2012

• The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announces the nominees for the 84th Annual Academy Awards. Glenn Close receives a nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for Albert Nobbs and Aaron Sorkin receives a nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay for Moneyball. Other nominated films include The Artist (with John Goodman, James Cromwell and Nina Siemaszko), Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (with Goodman), Midnight in Paris (with Kurt Fuller), Moneyball (with Glenn Morshower and Nick Searcy) and The Help (with Allison Janney).