The West Wing 20 Hours in America: Part I (1999–2006) watch online HD

After Bartlet gives a campaign speech at an Indiana farm, Josh, Toby and Donna are left behind by the presidential motorcade and must work their way across the state with the help of the farmer's daughter and, later, a teenage campaign volunteer, enduring many setbacks along the way. Josh and Toby obsess and bicker over how best to play the president's intellectualism, viewed by many as snobbery, against Republican opponent Robert Ritchie's "regular guy" persona, while Donna must keep them on track and communicate with the real Americans they encounter along the way. Back at the W.H., the president deals with a terrorist attack at an Iowa college swim meet, meets with Leo, Nancy and Fitzwallace to discuss how to handle the prospect of the U.S. and/or Israel being accused of a conspiracy in the assassination of Qumari defense minister Abdul Shareef, and interviews secretarial candidates, including a second round with Debbie Fiderer; the wandering party finally arrive at a city with an ...

Bartlet mentions President D'Astier of France. This is the name of the newly elected French president who is invited to a formal state dinner in the movie Hallo, Mr. President (1995), also written by Aaron Sorkin.

Features a young John Gallagher Jr., who would later star in The Newsroom (2012) written and created by "The West Wing" creator Aaron Sorkin.

Stockard Channing no longer receives top billing.

Donna quotes a woman who went on a shooting spree because it was a Monday. Later in the show they play the song about that event. Tori Amos sings the song " I Don't Like Mondays."

In most of the episodes involving Air Force One - the usual pilot for Air Force One is Col. Gantry - but in this episode, Bartlet (Martin Sheen) tells one of the secretarial candidates the plane is flown by an Air Force General, and in another scene - the General's voice is overheard.

While lost in Indiana, Josh (Bradley Whitford) mentions they could fly into Dulles, BWI, or LaGuardia. LaGuardia is a four-hour drive from D.C. and it would make little sense to fly there. D.C.'s third airport is Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

Qumar is not a real country.

"Previously on the West Wing" spoken by Leo (John Spencer).

Tyler (John Gallagher Jr.) mentions changing time when "crossing from Unionville into Dearborn County," but Unionville and Dearborn County are about 100 miles apart.

Unionville, Indiana, where Jed (Martin Sheen) is giving his speech, is close to Bloomington, Indiana, an urban area where Josh (Bradley Whitford), Toby (Richard Schiff), and Donna (Janel Moloney) wouldn't have been stranded for long. There is also no passenger train station in Bedford, Indiana.

When one of the reporters tells C.J. (Allison Janney) about the Abbey incident, he claims the story came from The Milwaukee Sentinel. Milwaukee's newspaper has been named The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel since the two papers merged in the early 1990s.

After Bruno Gianelli says "The world was created in less time" than six weeks, President Bartlet responds, "And you'll tell us all how you did it." A nearly identical exchange takes place between Steve Jobs and Andy Hertzfeld in Steve Jobs (2015), which was also written by Aaron Sorkin.

Guest star John Gallagher Jr. who appears on this episode and the next later worked with Aaron Sorkin in a leading role in his HBO drama The Newsroom.

When Toby and Josh are headed to the airport, they are pushed an hour back because Dearborn County, Indiana does not observe daylight saving time. As of 2006, every County in Indiana observes daylight saving time. Only Arizona, Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands do not.