"And It's Surely to Their Credit" is the fifth episode of the second season of the television series The West Wing, which premiered on NBC on November 1, 2000.
The episode features Ainsley Hayes's (Emily Procter) first day as an Associate White House Counsel and fellow West Wing employees' reactions to her employment, as she is a Republican in a Democratic administration. Early in the day, she is presented to her new boss, White House Counsel Lio...
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"And It's Surely to Their Credit" is the fifth episode of the second season of the television series The West Wing, which premiered on NBC on November 1, 2000.
The episode features Ainsley Hayes's (Emily Procter) first day as an Associate White House Counsel and fellow West Wing employees' reactions to her employment, as she is a Republican in a Democratic administration. Early in the day, she is presented to her new boss, White House Counsel Lionel Tribbey (played by John Larroquette), who is angry about her hiring and distrustful of her motives. He also is angry about two junior West Wing staffers who have represented the White House badly before Congress, and he assigns Ainsley to visit Capitol Hill and try to placate the Republican leadership. Before leaving, she points out to Tribbey that, like her, he serves the president from a sense of civic duty despite disagreeing with many of his positions, and he responds with a reference from a Gilbert & Sullivan operetta; however, they...
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