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With President Joe Biden away from the White House, it was left Friday to a different man with Oval Office expertise to face on the entrance of the Rose Garden and provides a rousing name to service.

Martin Sheen and others from the solid of “The West Wing,” the hit drama a couple of liberal president and his workers, have been invited by first woman Jill Biden for an occasion to mark the twenty fifth anniversary of the present.

Sheen exhorted the group to seek out one thing value preventing for, “one thing deeply private and uncompromising, one thing that may unite the desire of the spirit with the work of the flesh.”

His voice and hands rose, his cadence matching perfectly that of President Jed Bartlet, the character Sheen played for seven seasons.

“When we find that, we will discover fire for the second time, and then we will be able to help lift up this nation and all its people to that place where the heart is without fear, and their head is held high,” Sheen said.

“The West Wing” remains a favorite of many who now work in Washington, both liberal and conservative. Among those spotted in the Rose Garden were House Foreign Affairs Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, and Joe Walsh, once a tea party-aligned Illinois congressman who is now a sharp critic of former President Donald Trump and supporting Vice President Kamala Harris.

Asked to name his favorite character, Walsh replied: “I’m partial to Martin Sheen because I want to be president one day.” (Walsh ran and misplaced a longshot Republican main problem to Trump in 2020.)

It was clear within the speeches and the get together’s touches that not less than just a few “West Wing” followers work within the White House.

There was the U.S. Marine Band taking part in the opening notes to the present’s theme as Biden and the solid walked out. There have been references to “big blocks of cheese” — a present custom of requiring staffers to satisfy with eccentric or off-beat characters — and the walk-and-talk dialogues by which characters moved by way of the halls at excessive pace.

Waiters handed out bourbon-and-ginger ale cocktails known as “The Jackal,” a reference to press secretary C.J. Cregg’s dance and lip sync routine in a single iconic episode.

After Sheen’s deal with, Sorkin acknowledged the solid members in attendance. Among them: Richard Schiff, who performed communications director Toby Ziegler; Janel Moloney, who performed assistant Donna Moss; and Dulé Hill, who performed the president’s physique man, Charlie Young.

He additionally famous the absence of some high-profile actors — Allison Janney, Bradley Whitford and Rob Lowe — who he mentioned have been on set elsewhere.

“The rest of us are apparently unemployed,” he joked.

After the group laughed, a voice chimed in from Sorkin’s proper.

“Not yet!” Jill Biden mentioned.