1. This show is about the United States in a parallel time and space, and history changed in 1960. S1E01, the play mentions Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Fulbright Scholarship, Gaddafi and Castro, S1E09, mentions Eisenhower, who was in office from 1952-1960, S1E14 mentions that the last time a president intervened in a federal case was In 1963, the then president was Burt Lincoln. In real history, in 1960, Kennedy was elected, and in 1963, Kennedy was assassinated, and Johnson took over. And of Lincoln's son, only the eldest son lived to marry and have children, and the only grandson died before the age of 17. Probably the screenwriter is to continue the Kennedy brothers' lives to Lincoln's grandson, this Burt Lincoln should be the great-grandson of Abraham Lincoln.
2. The president's background is extremely noble. He is a representative of the Continental Congress in New Hampshire, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, a descendant of Josiah Bartlett, and has the same name as his ancestor. He was the governor of New Hampshire and a Nobel laureate in economics. The president believes in Catholicism, and the people in the play act as if he is the first Catholic president. In real history, Kennedy is the only American president who believes in Catholicism. Suddenly, Arron Sorkin feels the disdain of the Kennedy family. .
3. President Butler's main resume is governor, economist. Clinton's main resume is also a governor, and his main political achievement is to invigorate the economy. Chief of Staff Leo, who was labor secretary six years ago, reasoned that the last Republican president in the show was a four-year White House tour. The person who achieved this in real history was Bush Sr., Clinton's predecessor. The vice president in the play was a senator, and Clinton's vice president, Al Gore, took the Rep.-Senator line. The trade with China initiated by President Butler was also a policy of the Clinton administration. But the "don't ask, don't tell, don't investigate" that the protagonists want to overthrow in the play is also Clinton's compromise policy on homosexuality in the military. Previously, the US military's attitude towards homosexuality was outright rejection.
4. The Fulbright Scholarship that Josie won, founded in 1946 and named after the sponsor, Senator Fulbright, is a public-funded study abroad program for international exchanges, with only the humanities and social sciences direction, and is basically an exchange of social sciences There are thousands of people in the exchange plan every year, but Josie basically does not participate in any diplomatic events in the plot.
5. The vice president is the most interesting person, or I am most interested. He had a very bad relationship with the president at first, because his partner with the president was not out of friendship, but a strong alliance in the party's primary election. The vice president's attitude was a bit high, which made the president angry. Most of the vice president thought to himself that Lao Tzu was also chosen by himself, so why did he always act as a backer for you, so he was very hard-hearted. Therefore, I was first scolded by the president, and then taught by the president's chief of staff. However, the feng shui turns, S1E04 is a gun ban bill (the gun ban bill has always been the star bill of the Democratic Party) to canvass votes, without him, it will not be able to get votes, and the value will be shown all at once, and both the chief and deputy chiefs of staff have to surrender obediently. It can be seen that the initial toughness was well-founded. S1E08, the cabinet meeting, the president openly attacked the vice president, the leaker was not the vice president, but the chief of staff immediately determined that the vice president leaked the secret. S1E16, Grain Alcohol Subsidy At 50:50 in the Senate, the VP refuses to vote the way the president wants because he has been opposing the policy. Leo was kicked out of the West Wing of the White House again. Although the president was very dissatisfied with the vice president in his heart, he was very polite on the surface. If nothing else, based on the evaluation of the president's staff, everyone knows that He Yings has no values, but he just managed to achieve the second place in the party's primary election, forcing the president to put down his posture and ask him to be the vice president. You know, the mass base must be very hard. It's a pity that he didn't control his crotch - this is putting Clinton's shortcomings on the vice president. Personally, I envy this kind of person who has no values. If he controls his crotch, there will be no Latino congressman in the seventh season. Although the Latin man has values and I agree with his values, PS Latin man In fact, he didn't control his crotch, and he was really lucky. Later in the S7 campaign, the metaphor of the seven dwarfs actually came from the campaign of Clinton VS Bush Sr., because at that time Bush Sr. was gaining popularity with the Gulf War, and there were no decent bigwigs in the Democratic Party to participate in this election.
6. Conclusion: President Butler is a more idealized Clinton.
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