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The Best and Worst TV Presidents of All Time, Ranked: ‘The West Wing,’ ‘Veep’ and More Shows
From Jed Bartlet in The West Wing to Selina Meyer in Veep, Closer ranks some of the best and worst fictional presidents on popular TV shows.
Martin Sheen said that The West Wing ’s Commander in Chief, whose accomplishments included negotiating peace in the middle east, was initially based on “all the best parts” of Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and John F. Kennedy. “I don’t want her to ever get so polished she resembles a lifetime politician,” Téa Leoni told Entertainment Weekly of playing Madam Secretary ’s CIA operative-turned-president. “Her campaign slogan is ‘Continuity with change,’” Julia Louis-Dreyfus told ET, calling Selina the “bottom of the barrel” in presidents.
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