The White House Counsel's Office

[Lemon Lyman]

Lionel Tribbey – White House Counsel[/b]

[/li][li]Tribbey served as Bartlet's fourth White House counsel (Bad Moon Rising)
[/li][li]According to the President, he is a brilliant and fair-minded, hot-tempered attorney (And It’s Surely to Their Credit)
[/li][li]He has a cricket bat given to him by Her Majesty Elizabeth Windsor (And It’s Surely To Their Credit)
[/li][li]He left a lucrative law practice in Chicago and a seven-figure income to serve in the White House even though Bartlet is too moderate for his taste on affirmative action, capital gains, public schools and free trade (And It’s Surely To Their Credit)
[/li][li]He was replaced by Oliver Babish (Bad Moon Rising), but he was still the White House Counsel while Sam was making recommendations for presidential pardons (Somebody’s Going to Emergency, Somebody Going to Jail)

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

[Lemon Lyman]

Oliver Babish -White House Counsel[/b]

[/li][li]The fifth person to serve as Bartlet's White House counsel; Babish had been on the job three months when the president revealed that he has MS (Bad Moon Rising)
[/li][li]Babish is from Chicago, and Leo McGarry begged him to take the job (Bad Moon Rising)
[/li][li]On his desk he has a gavel given to his father's father by Justice Brandeis (Bad Moon Rising)
[/li][li]His kids know Bartlet's kids, he and the president have built hospitals together, and he was Midwest finance chairman on the campaign, but they've never played chess together (Bad Moon Rising)
[/li][li]The president is uncomfortable with him because he thinks Babish looks down on him for not being a lawyer (Bad Moon Rising)
[/li][li]He has been divorced four times. Oliver claims that he has never found anything charming (The Fall¡¦s Gonna Kill You)
[/li][li]Not surprising with his sparkling personality, Babish has been kicked out of bars (Indians in the Lobby)

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

[Lemon Lyman]

Ainsley Hayes – Associate White House Counsel[/b]

[/li][li]A Republican political analyst whom Leo McGarry hired as associate White House counsel on Bartlet's orders, after she took Sam Seaborn for a ride on Capital Beat (In this White House)
[/li][li]Ainsley attended Smith College, Harvard Law School(The Lame Duck Congress), clerked for Dreifort (In this White House) and has wanted to work in the White House since she was two (In this White House).
[/li][li]Her father's father served as state chairman of the North Carolina Republican party (In this White House) and her father is proud of her (The War at Home)
[/li][li]She is friends with Bruce and Harriet (In this White House)
[/li][li]She likes to drink Fresca and seems to have an insatiable appetite (The Portland Trip). She is not a teetotaler, however, as she sometimes drinks Pink Squirrels in her basement office while listening to hits from the sixties (Blame It on the Bossa Nova) (Barlet’s Third State of the Union)
[/li][li]Ainsley played the trombone in high school (The Portland Trip) and has no pets, though she is considering acquiring one (In this White House).
[/li][li]She had a guy named Kirk decorate her office (Bad Moon Rising)
She was on a panel at Smith College with Rebecca Walker, Gloria Steinem, Anne Coulter, and Naomi Wolf to discuss the ERA (17 People)
[/li][li]She's an Episcopalian (Bad Moon Rising)


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

[DarkHoarse]

Much as I hate being a pedant, I think it's Ainsley Hayes (not Haynes).

You are doing a tremendous job!

(sorry for being picky)

[Lemon Lyman]

Thanks - it must have been the spell check - blasted invention!

[Flamingo]

Didnt Ainsley know Cliff Calley aswell- Maybe from college? Thats why she set him up with Donna