Needless to say, the writers of the final West Wing episode didn’t have a copy of the Heritage Guide to the Constitution . Asked by his First Lady who decided that Inauguration Day should be in January, President Bartlet actually answered “Franklin, Madison, Adams” or something like that. Was there really no one on this seven-year-old show on American government who knew that the Framers set March 4 as inauguration day and it was changed during FDR’s administration?