FLOTUS

[Lemon Lyman]

Personal Background [/b]


[/li][li]Jed and Abbey, who have been married for 32 years (Five Votes Down) have three daughters -- Elizabeth (Pilot),Eleanor (Ellie) and Zoey (Five Votes Down) and one granddaughter, Annie (Pilot)
[/li][li]The Bartlets own a farm in Manchester valued at $750,000 due to Secret Service improvements, which include a helipad and the ability to run a global war from the sun porch (Five Votes Down). They also have cattle, horses, and an old red pickup truck (Manchester). The Manchester house seems to be Abbey's retreat from the chaos of Washington (Bad Moon Rising)
[/li][li]Abbey is the person in the White House who's known President Bartlet the longest (Bartlet for America). And sometimes, when she's away too long, he forgets that he can't fix everything (The State Dinner)


References
"Bartlet4 America.Org"
"Inside Bartlet's White House" by Keith Topping
"Inside the West Wing" by Paul Challen

[Lemon Lyman]

Professional Background [/b]


[/li][li]Abbey Bartlet is a medical doctor (He Shall, From Time to Time), with an M.D. from Harvard, she is board certified in internal medicine and thoracic surgery, she is an adjunct professor of thoracic surgery at Harvard Medical Center and is on staff at Boston Mercy Hospital and Columbia Presbyterian. She has been practicing medicine for 26 years (The Fall’s Gonna Kill You). Jed claims he never saw her study in med school (He Shall, From Time to Time)
[/li][li]The first lady is leading the charge against child labor (The White House Pro-Am) and was upset when the president weakened the language on Social Security and Medicare, and dropped the Violence Against Women Act from his State of the Union address (Bartlet’s Third State of the Union).
[/li][li]An AS335 F1 Twinstar medivac helicopter was named after her (The Fall’s Gonna Kill You) and she attended the dedication of a statue to Nellie Bly in Cochrans Mills, Pennsylvania, denying the president personal Staff Time! (And It’s Surely to Their Credit)
[/li][li]During the campaign, she violated the medical ethics of the state boards of Arizona, Missouri and New Hampshire (18th and Potomac) by prescribing drugs for herself and then administering them to her husband (Gone Quiet)
[/li][li]Abbey did not keep written records of her treatment of the president, which was also a violation of medical ethics (18th and Potomac)
[/li][li]She prefers being called Dr. Bartlet, although she started referring to herself as Mrs. Bartlet during the campaign (18th and Potomac)
[/li][li]According to Josh and Amy Gardner, Abbey feels guilty because she's not doing enough for women (The Women of Qumar)
[/li][li]The first lady's chief of staff was Lilly Mays (The White House Pro-Am).


References
"Bartlet4 America.Org"
"Inside Bartlet's White House" by Keith Topping
"Inside the West Wing" by Paul Challen

[Lemon Lyman]

Other Facts[/b]


[/li][li]The first lady has a fascination with Ouija boards (The Crackpots and These Women)
[/li][li]She has a friend named Phyllis who has never liked Jed Bartlet, and a friend, Susan, who thinks the president is xenophobic because he doesn't like Mexican food (The White House Pro-Am)
[/li][li]Although Abbey is friends with CJ and other staffers, she is hard to talk to sometimes, as she switches back and forth between "Abbey" and "The First Lady" (Dead Irish Writers)
[/li][li]When Jed cooks, Abbey waits until the girls eat it first to make sure it isn't inedible or lethal (Indians in the Lobby
[/li][li]Abbey dated Ron Ehrlich for six months, approximately thirty years ago. (The White House Pro-Am), despite already having been married to Jed for two years at that time (Five Votes Down)



References
"Bartlet4 America.Org"
"Inside Bartlet's White House" by Keith Topping
"Inside the West Wing" by Paul Challen

[Joey Lucas]

From BravoTV.com:

The First Lady, known simply as Abbey, has been married to Josiah Bartlet for over thirty years. She is the only person that can get in his face and give him the reality check he often needs. With a medical degree from Harvard University, Abbey is licensed in both thoracic surgery and internal medicine. On top of that, and mothering her three grown daughters, she is also an adjunct Professor of Thoracic Surgery at Harvard Medical School and on the staffs of both Boston Mercy Hospital and Columbia Presbyterian. She is spiritual (and has been known to use the Ouija board), but not as devoutly religious as her husband.