Katherine "Kate" Harper is a fictional character on the television show The West Wing. Fiction is the telling of stories which are not real More specifically fiction is an imaginative form of Narrative, one of the four basic Rhetorical modes. Television ( TV) is a widely used Telecommunication medium for sending ( Broadcasting) and receiving moving Images, either monochromatic She is played by Mary McCormack. Mary Catherine McCormack (born February 8, 1969) is an American television and Film Actress. Harper is a commander in the United States Navy, and serves as the Deputy National Security Advisor (under Dr. Commander is a Military rank which is also sometimes used as a military title depending on the individual customs of a given military service The Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, commonly referred to as the Deputy National Security Advisor, is a member of the Executive Office of Nancy McNally) to President Josiah Bartlet. Dr Nancy McNally is a Fictional character on the Television series The West Wing, played by Anna Deavere Smith. The President of the United States is the Head of state and Head of government of the United States and is the highest political official in United States by Dr Josiah Edward "Jed" Bartlet is a Fictional character played by Martin Sheen on the Television serial Drama

Kate Harper was born into a Navy family, and grew up at various naval bases in Florida, in rather poor living conditions. Florida ( is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States, bordering Alabama to the northwest and Georgia to the

She joined the Navy and claims to have one time served aboard a submarine. A submarine is a Watercraft that can operate independently below water as distinct from a Submersible that has only limited underwater capability She was recruited into the Central Intelligence Agency. near as long as it used to be several months ago It has been actively summarized and split into sub-articles and there is a dynamic talk page discussion of all During this time, she was involved in covert operations in Iran, Cuba, Africa, Kosovo, and North Korea, which were subsequently blacked out of her official file. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Iran topics. The Republic of Cuba (ˈkjuːbə or) consists of the island of Cuba (the largest and second-most populous island of the Greater Antilles) Isla de la North Korea is the commonly used short form name for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (or DPRK) a State located in East Asia, She also served at the US Embassy in Mongolia. Mongolia (mɒŋˈɡoʊliə, literally Mongol country/nation,) is a Landlocked Country in East In 2004 or 2005, she was assigned to the White House, to her current post as Deputy National Security Advisor. "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. See also Executive Office of the President of the United States The White House, formerly known as the Executive Mansion, is the Official residence

Harper came to prominence during the events leading up to President Bartlet's landmark Israeli-Palestinian peace summit at Camp David. Palestinian people or Palestinians ( الشعب الفلسطيني, ash-sha`b al-filasTīni; الفلسطينيون, al-filasTīnīyyūn The Naval Support Facility Thurmont, popularly known as Camp David, is the rustic 125-acre (0 Harper expresses general support for the Palestinians in the matter, clashing with Will Bailey and other senior staffers in that regard. William 'Will' Bailey is a Fictional character played by Joshua Malina on the Television serial Drama The West Wing She and then-White House Press Secretary C.J. Cregg were Bartlet's only supporters among senior administration officials for pressing ahead with the peace talks in the face of opposition from Chief of Staff Leo McGarry and Secretary of Defense Miles Hutchinson. The White House Press Secretary is a senior White House official with a rank one step below Presidential Cabinet level Claudia Jean 'C J' Cregg is a Fictional character played by Allison Janney on the television serial drama The West Wing. The White House Chief of Staff is the highest-ranking member of the Executive Office of the President of the United States and a senior aide to the President Leo Thomas McGarry is a Fictional character played by John Spencer on the television serial Drama The United States Secretary of Defense ( SECDEF) is the head of the U Miles Hutchinson is a Fictional character on the NBC Television series ''The West Wing'' played by the late actor Steve Ryan. During the actual summit, Harper was one of the key negotiators with the Chairman of the Palestinian Authority, and convinced him that a peace agreement would mean the end of the Palestinians' "Right of Return" to pre-1967 Israel. The Palestinian right of return ( Arabic: حق العودة Ḥaqq al-ʿawda; Hebrew: זכות השיבה zkhut hashivah) is a political

Following the summit, she continued as an advisor to President Bartlet, most notably when he considered reopening American relations with Cuba. The Republic of Cuba (ˈkjuːbə or) consists of the island of Cuba (the largest and second-most populous island of the Greater Antilles) Isla de la This incident brought to the forefront her past dealings as an officer in the CIA and a flashback showed she had crossed paths with Leo McGarry when he was involved with an electoral fraud engineered by a rabidly anti-Cuban U. near as long as it used to be several months ago It has been actively summarized and split into sub-articles and there is a dynamic talk page discussion of all S. Senator. When the current CIA Director talked about Cuba during "Ninety Miles Away", she makes it clear she does not believe a word he says (this also mirrors President Bartlet's attitude towards the Director, whom he neither trusts nor respects). " Ninety Miles Away " is episode 129 of The West Wing.

She has been married twice, with one of her husbands being an official at the Paraguay desk at the U.S. Department of State, and celebrates her "annivorceries" (the anniversaries of her divorces). Paraguay, officially the Republic of Paraguay ( Spanish: República del Paraguay; Guaraní: Tetã Paraguái) is one of the only She also speaks fluent Arabic as well as Mandarin Chinese at, by her own admission, "a second-grade vocabulary. Arabic (ar الْعَرَبيّة (informally ar عَرَبيْ) in terms of the number of speakers is the largest living member of the Semitic language " (Toby Ziegler notes that, despite this, her vocabulary contains the words for "hydraulic lift. ")

Starting in the 7th season and through the end of the series, she is in a romantic relationship with White House Communications Director Will Bailey. William 'Will' Bailey is a Fictional character played by Joshua Malina on the Television serial Drama The West Wing She has stated that she does not "live and die with the Democratic Party", despite working for a liberal White House and dating the equally liberal Will Bailey, hinting to him that she might have voted for moderate Republican presidential candidate Arnold Vinick, and that her position as Deputy National Security Advisor would not be threatened by a party-change in the White House. William 'Will' Bailey is a Fictional character played by Joshua Malina on the Television serial Drama The West Wing Arnold Vinick is a Fictional character on the Television series The West Wing played by Alan Alda. It is unclear what became of the romance, as Will Bailey moved to Oregon to take up a seat in Congress, at Kate's own prompting. When saying: "I am not moving to Oregon", Kate would dismiss this and say: "I think you are". Their relationship status is left unresolved as the series ends.

By the time of the dedication of the Bartlet presidential library in New Hampshire, several years after Bartlet has left the White House, Harper has written a book, which Charlie Young regards as "hogwash. In the United States, the Presidential library system is a nationwide network of libraries administered by the Office of Presidential Libraries which is part of the National New Hampshire ( is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. Charles 'Charlie' Young is a Fictional character played by Dulé Hill on the Television serial Drama The West Wing " It is not clearly stated whether or not she and Will, who also appears at the dedication having become a Congressman, are together by that time.

See also

• The West Wing
• List of characters on The West Wing
• List of politicians on The West Wing
• List of The West Wing episodes