Look, it’s true: Every so often, I make hot chocolate in my “Bartlet for America” mug and sip it wistfully, imagining a world in which we’d had a President Bartlet instead of a second ...

Look, it’s true: Every so often, I make hot chocolate in my “Bartlet for America” mug and sip it wistfully, imagining a world in which we’d had a President Bartlet instead of a second ...

“I just encourage people to get in the game,” says Sheen, who played President Bartlet. “It’s ok to expect more from our leaders,” says McCormack.

The first lady was followed by President Bartlet himself, or rather the actor who played him, Martin Sheen, who passionately recited from a poem by the poet Rabindranath Tagore, which conveyed ...

When NPR was offered the chance to interview Martin Sheen and Melissa Fitzgerald about The West Wing, I dashed through the newsroom with an energy to rival the show's iconic walk and talks.

So when NPR was offered the opportunity to interview President Jed Bartlet — er, I mean actor Martin Sheen — and co-star Melissa Fitzgerald about the show's legacy, I dashed through the ...