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Post by Lemon Lyman on May 19, 2003 13:15:14 GMT
Personal Background [/b]
[/li][li]Leo was 55 years old the first year of the administration (The Pilot) Script Book
[/li][li]Both Leo's father and his grandfather were alcoholics. Late one night, Leo's father came home very drunk, went out to the garage, and shot himself in the head after an argument with Leo's mother (Take Out the Trash Day)
[/li][li]He has two sisters - Elizabeth (In Excelesis Deo) and Josephine (Shibboleth) - and a nephew who gave him an ashtray he made at summer camp (A Proportional Response). He refers to Josy’s kids so has more than one nephew or niece
[/li][li]Jenny, Leo's wife, left him after he admitted that for the duration of the Bartlet Administration, Leo considered his job more important than his marriage (Five Votes Down). After he and Jenny split, Leo moved into a hotel because he wanted Jenny to have the house (Mr Willis of Ohio). Jenny asked Leo for a divorce, (Mr Willis of Ohio) and when the papers arrived, Leo signed them (The Portland Trip).
[/li][li]Leo's daughter, Mallory O’ Brian, a fourth grade public school teacher, dated Sam Seaborn, to Leo's dismay and amusement (Six Meetings before Lunch). Sam also once hit on Leo's wife, Jenny, at a Party fundraiser (The Pilot).
[/li][li]Leo spent Christmas Eve, 2001, with Jordan Kendall. Jed Bartlet said Leo and Jordan were like a screwball comedy (Barlet for America)
[/li][li] Josh describes him as Boston Irish Catholic, but he has also lived in Chicago
[/li][li]He spent 28 days in an alcohol and substance abuse treatment center called Sierra Tucson for addiction to Valium (Lord John Malbury) and he hasn't had a drink or a pill in six and a half years [(Take out the Trash Day).
References
"Bartlet4 America.Org"
"Inside Bartlet's White House" by Keith Topping
"Inside the West Wing" by Paul Challen
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Post by Lemon Lyman on May 19, 2003 13:31:38 GMT
Professional Background
[/li][li]Leo did not attend Notre Dame (The Portland Trip),but he is, according to Sam, a lawyer (War Crimes).
[/li][li]Leo is a veteran who flew planes during the Vietnam war (The Short List). Years later, he found out that his commanding officers gave him orders to bomb civilian targets -- a war crime (War Crimes). Leo flew an F105 fighter out of Thailand, where he hit a target that he believed to be military (War Crimes).
[/li][li]He served as the Secretary of Labor six years ago (In Excelsis Deo)
[/li][li]Leo made $40,000 a pop on the lecture circuit (Five Votes Down).
[/li][li]Leo first approached Jed about running for President in November 1997, at the State House in Concord, while Bartlet was Governor; he'd scribbled the words "Bartlet for America" on a napkin, which he gave to Jed (Bartlet for America). Years later, Bartlet gave Leo the napkin framed, and Leo has it in his office.
[/li][li]Not only did Leo convince Jed Bartlet to run, he also served as General Chairman of the campaign (Bartlet for America), assembled a killer staff (In the Shadow of Two Gunmen), and got what the media dubbed a "dark horse candidate" elected (The Pilot).
[/li][li]He inflicts the annual Big Block of Cheese Day tradition upon his staff, complete with speech - which dates from Andrew Jackson’s time in The White House (The Crackpots and these Women, Somebody’s going to Emergency, Somebody’s going to Jail)
[/li][li]He offered to take a leave of absence from the White House to join Josh's legal team, were he to sue the Ku Klux Klan (And it’s surely to their Credit)
[/li][li]Leo has his own cabin on Air Force One (Manchester).
[/li][li]Leo's assistant is Margaret (The Pilot) She gets quite bent out of shape when he makes appointments himself (Manchester).
References
"Bartlet4 America.Org"
"Inside Bartlet's White House" by Keith Topping
"Inside the West Wing" by Paul Challen
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Post by Lemon Lyman on May 19, 2003 13:51:43 GMT
Other Facts
[/li][li]To relax, Leo likes to do The New York Times crossword puzzle, and he doesn't believe in instant replay in football (The Pilot).
[/li][li]Leo and his wife had a maid named Ruth (The Pilot)
[/li][li]Leo and the President have been friends for 40 years (The Pilot) and good friends for eleven (H.Con 172). They're such good friends, in fact, that Leo lent Jed his $4000 Lynex Titanium touring bike, who then rode it into a tree (The Pilot)
[/li][li]When Leo was facedown in a hotel parking lot, he called Jed for help (He Shall, From Time To Time).
[/li][li]Leo speaks Latin - at least enough to translate the phrase "post hoc, ergo propter hoc".
[/li][li]He bought his wife a Harry Winston pearl choker because he thinks she has a great neck (Five Votes Down)
[/li][li]Leo keeps golf clubs in his office closet (The War at Home)and his office décor includes a model plane and a model ship (Enemies, Foreign and Domestic).
[/li][li]Breakfast is his favorite meal to eat out (Barlet for America)
[/li][li]Leo and his wife had season tickets for the opera (Enemies)
[/li][li]The worst kept secret in Washington is that Leo is a recovering alcoholic (The Short list).
[/li][li]Except that night during the Bartlet for America campaign in St. Louis, Missouri just before the final debate - and nine days before the election - Leo drank the contents of his hotel room's minibar. He told very few people of his relapse, but Gibson, a CEO, potential campaign donor, and potential candidate for Congress in 2000, Leo had met with earlier that evening, returned to get his briefcase discovered and realized Leo was drunk (Bartlet for America)
[/li][li]Leo attends an AA meeting - one that's held in secret and referred to as a card game - alongside three senators, two cabinet secretaries, one federal judge, two agency directors, and Vice President Hoynes (Five Votes Down)
[/li][li]He can recite the ingredients in tomate du saltambique off the top of his head (The Stackhouse Filibuster)
[/li][li]There's no one Jed Bartlet would rather see in the Oval Office than Leo (Bartlet for America).
[/li][li]His middle name is Thomas (Ways and Means)
References
"Bartlet4 America.Org"
"Inside Bartlet's White House" by Keith Topping
"Inside the West Wing" by Paul Challen
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Post by Joey Lucas on Aug 26, 2003 14:03:13 GMT
From BravoTV.com:
As the White House Chief of Staff, Leo must be all things to all people, but his loyalties remain with President Bartlet. Originally from Boston, Leo served as a pilot in Vietnam before becoming the Secretary of Labor, which led to his current position. Leo's personal vices include alcohol and Valium, which have landed him in treatment before. His wife of ten years, Jenny, considers his "addiction" to the job a vice, and has filed for divorce. They have a daughter, Mallory.
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Post by sweetknees on Jun 14, 2004 17:14:18 GMT
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Post by Doggett210 on Aug 1, 2004 16:36:11 GMT
I agree. Leo needs a love interest other than Jordan. I mean, I liked Jordan, but they weren't right together. He needs to be with someone who understands him and will let him be Chief of Staff to the fullest. The only person I can think of would be his assistant, Margaret.
Her famous, "I leave when you leave" is absolute proof that she supports him fully and, even though it hasn't been alluded to yet, loves him on some level.
Plus, he does have feelings for her also. We see this when Bartlet asks what he can do for him and he replies that he's fine, "I've got Margaret."
Leo and Margaret would be, without a doubt, a really hot couple. What do you think?
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Post by sweetknees on Aug 6, 2004 16:38:06 GMT
Totally agree but never going to happen! We see interaction all the time between CJ and Toby, Josh and Donna and Margaret and Leo and nothing will ever come of any of them as they love each other in their own way and on another level.
Having said that with Wells in control now you never know what will happen. Going on the ER thread it will be a plane crash then a tidal wave then a thunder bolt of lightening and then a love scene..........Please come back Sorkin!!!! We want the humour back!!!
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Post by Doggett210 on Aug 20, 2004 2:09:52 GMT
Yeah....I need Sorkin back in the worst way!!! In the US we're facing season 6 and, if rumors serve well, we're gonna say farewell to Bartlet and, most likely, Leo before the end of season 6. Yeah....come back Sorkin cause, without you, life SUCKS!!!!!  |
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Post by yes on Mar 5, 2005 3:24:16 GMT
Aside from being the second most powerful person in the country (even more powerful than the Vice President), I think Jed Bartlet is married to Leo in more ways than to Abbey. Time and again we are shown this special relationship, especially during crisis like in Two Cathedrals or Bartlet For America. I think that if Abbey and Leo both have to be rushed to the hospital at the same time Jed would visit Leo first.
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