The Show’s Political Consultants
During its second season, Co-Executive Producer Kevin Falls ran the writing room. He called it “an intimidating room to be in” due to all the high-powered consultants they were employing: Marlin Fitzwater, Bush’s press secretary; Dee Dee Myers, Clinton’s press secretary; Gene Sperling, Clinton and later Obama’s chief economic advisor; and columnist Peggy Noonan. In addition, on staff were former Carter aide Pat Caddell and Senator Daniel Moynihan’s chief of staff, Lawrence O’Donnell. Falls told the Hollywood Reporter,: “Some of these people answered to American presidents and about the only subject I could address with confidence was when we’d break for lunch.”
