What Kind of Day Has It Been

"What Kind of Day Has It Been"
The West Wing episode
President Bartlet is rushed into his limo by Secret Service agents after shots ring out
Episode no.	Season 1 Episode 22
Directed by	Thomas Schlamme
Written by	Aaron Sorkin
Production code	225921
Original air date	May 17, 2000 (2000-05-17)
Guest appearances
Timothy Busfield as Danny Concannon Jorja Fox as Agent Gina Toscano Janel Moloney as Donna Moss Elisabeth Moss as Zoey Bartlet Suzy Nakamura as Cathy Michael O'Neill as Agent Ron Butterfield John Amos as Percy Fitzwallace Tim Matheson as Vice President John Hoynes Kathryn Joosten as Dolores Landingham
Episode chronology
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"What Kind of Day Has It Been" is the 22nd episode of The West Wing, the season finale of the show's first season. It originally aired on NBC on May 17, 2000.^[1] Events circle around the attempted rescue of a US fighter pilot in Iraq, and the president taking part in a town hall meeting in Rosslyn, Virginia. The episode was written by Aaron Sorkin and directed by Thomas Schlamme. "What Kind of Day Has It Been" is also the name of the first-season finales of both the series Sports Night and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, as well as the series finale of The Newsroom, all of which were created by Aaron Sorkin. It was also a quote by Leo in the fourth-season episode "Commencement" in the situation room.^[2] Sorkin claimed that he took the phrase from Robert Whitehead, lead producer of Sorkin's A Few Good Men, who used to start meetings at the end of rehearsal days by asking this question.^[3]