Watch The West Wing Season 1 Episode 7: The State Dinner Online

	IMDB Rating: 8.3/10 from 350 votes
	Release: 1999 / The West Wing / Season 1 / Episode 7
	Genre: Drama
	Director: Thomas Schlamme
	Stars: Rob Lowe, Moira Kelly, Dule Hill
	Synopsis: While preparing for (and enduring) a state dinner for the newly-elected president of Indonesia, staff deal with a multitude of other problems: Josh and Mandy argue over the best way to handle an FBI standoff with militants in Idaho; Leo (and eventually Bartlet) intervenes in a negotiations between the Teamsters Union and national reps for the trucking industry; Toby tries to convince an Indonesian cabinet member to release a friend of his, an activist or incites anti-government protests, from prison; Sam witnesses Laurie at work as a call girl, serving as the state dinner date for a big fund raiser; and a pre-season hurricane initially threatens the Atlantic Coast, and then moves out to sea, where it puts an entire naval fleet in peril.