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Big Block of Cheese Day is a fictional workday on the television program The West Wing. On Big Block of Cheese Day, the White House Chief of Staff, Leo McGarry, encourages his staff to take meetings with fringe special interest groups that normally would not get attention from the White House. Big Block of Cheese Day is "celebrated" in episodes 105 and 216. “The West Wing†redirects here. ...
Cheese is a solid food made from the milk of cows, goats, sheep, and other mammals. ...
Joshua B. Bolten, the current White House Chief of Staff. ...
Leo Thomas McGarry is a fictional character played by John Spencer on the television serial drama The West Wing. ...
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White House Communications Director Toby Ziegler refers to it as "Throw Open Our Office Doors To People Who Want To Discuss Things That We Could Care Less About" Day, and Deputy Chief of Staff Josh Lyman refers to it as "Total Crackpot Day". The White House Communications Director is responsible for developing and promoting the voice of the administration. ...
Tobias Zachary Toby Ziegler, is a fictional character played by Richard Schiff on the television serial drama The West Wing. ...
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Big Block of Cheese Day is supposed to be a regular event (taking place on the first of every month), but for practical reasons, occurs at Leo's discretion (Toby Ziegler noted once that it had happened only twice within a twelve months period), possibly as a way to keep West Wing staffers alert. Leo has a standard speech that goes, "President Andrew Jackson, in the main foyer of his White House, had a big block of cheese. The block of cheese was huge — over two tons. And it was there for any and all who might be hungry. Jackson wanted the White House to belong to the people, so from time to time, he opened his doors to those who wished an audience. It is in the spirit of Andrew Jackson that I, from time to time, ask senior staff to have face-to-face meetings with those people representing organizations who have a difficult time getting our attention. I know the more jaded among you, see this as something rather beneath you. But I assure you that listening to the voices of passionate Americans is beneath no one, and surely not the people's servants." In episode 216, Leo is interrupted several times by staffers walking into the meeting late, and once by Josh adding, "And a Wheat Thin the size of Lake Tahoe." For other uses, see Andrew Jackson (disambiguation). ...
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Real-life inspiration Although there has never been a real-life Big Block of Cheese Day, the inspiration for the day in the West Wing universe (as recounted by the character Leo McGarry) is that America's seventh president, Andrew Jackson, had a two-ton block of cheese in the White House foyer from which everyone was welcome to eat. For other uses, see Andrew Jackson (disambiguation). ...
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The book Real Life at the White House (ISBN 0-415-92320-4), by John Whitcomb and Claire Whitcomb, confirms that this story does draw on actual events. Andrew Jackson did once receive a 1,400 pound, four foot in diameter, two foot thick (635 kg, 1.2 m diameter, 60 cm thick) block of cheese as a gift.[1] After two years of aging, he held a public "cheese tasting". The event was heavily attended and the cheese was consumed in two hours.
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The Peters map is also called the Gall-Peters projection. In episode 105, "The Crackpots and These Women," C.J. Cregg meets with a group that would like to build a highway for wolves and Sam Seaborn meets with a staffer of US Space Command concerned about UFOs. Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ...
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Peters map The Gall-Peters projection is one specialization of a configurable equal-area map projection known as the equal-area cylindric or cylindrical equal-area projection. ...
The Crackpots and These Women is the 5th episode of The West Wing. ...
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United States Space Command was a unified command created in 1985 to help institutionalize the use of space in U.S. deterrence efforts. ...
An unidentified flying object, or UFO, is any real or apparent flying object which cannot be identified by the observer and which remains unidentified after investigation. ...
In episode 216, "Somebody's Going to Emergency, Somebody's Going to Jail," Toby Ziegler meets with the fictional group "World Policies Studies," which objects to the World Trade Organization, and C.J. Cregg meets with "The Organization of Cartographers for Social Equality", which would like legislature to support a specific map projection. The fictional cartographic organization prefers the equal-area Peters World Map or Gall-Peters projection to the more common Mercator projection (in reality, the Gall-Peters projection has its own problems of distortion, and neither is used by any serious cartographic organization[citation needed]). Somebodys Going to Emergency, Somebodys Going to Jail is the 38th episode of The West Wing. ...
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The Mercator projection shows courses of constant bearing as straight lines. ...
Peters map The Gall-Peters projection is one specialization of a configurable equal-area map projection known as the equal-area cylindric or cylindrical equal-area projection. ...
Mercator world map Nova et Aucta Orbis Terrae Descriptio ad Usum Navigatium Emendate (1569) The Mercator projection is a cylindrical map projection presented by the Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator, in 1569. ...
References - ^ Bartlet4America.org — Leo McGarry profile
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A photograph of the Cheshire Cheese Press monument that commemorates the production and presentation of the Mammoth Cheese. ...
External links - History textbook illustration of Andrew Jackson's block of cheese
- The West Wing Unofficial Continuity Guide — Was there really a Big Block of Cheese in the Jackson White House?
- Big Block of Cheese Dot Com — Website inspired by West Wing's Big Block of Cheese Day
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