Post by Lemon Lyman on May 24, 2003 20:18:37 GMT
Delores Landingham
[/li][li]Assistant to the President
[/li][li]A feisty mix of efficient assistant and walking reality check for the President, Mrs. Landingham ruled the inner sanctum with an iron fist -- and a jar of coveted cookies.
[/li][li]Mrs. Landingham enforced strict rules about appropriate language in the Oval Office and was not afraid to reprimand the President or the Chief of Staff (Pilot)
[/li][li]Her assistant was Nancy (Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc).
[/li][li]She drank beer (The Crackpots and These Women) and kept the President's chili recipe at her desk (The Crackpots and these Women). She also withheld food from the President (Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc).
[/li][li]Her twin sons, Andrew and Simon, attended medical school together and went to Vietnam when their lottery numbers were called up after their second year. They chose not to get deferments and joined up as medics. They were pinned down in a fight in Da Nang and killed on Christmas Eve, 1970 (In Excelsis Deo)
[/li][li]Mrs. Landingham worked for Bartlet for at least 12 years (In the Shadow of Two Gunmen) probably longer, considering his observation that she hadn't missed a day's work in 14 years (The Crackpots and These Women). Although they seemed close, the President rarely called her by her first name, perhaps because they met when he was a teenager, and she was an administrative assistant for his father (Two Cathedrals).
[/li][li]She liked the movie Dial M for Murder (Ellie).
[/li][li]Mrs. Landingham was killed in a car accident in 2001, struck by a drunk driver at 18th and Potomac just after she picked up her brand new car -- for which she paid sticker price (18th and Potomac).
Notable Quotes
[/li][li]"There's no need to adopt a tone, Mr. President." (Mr Willis of Ohio)
[/li][li]"Their father and I begged them, but they wanted to go where people needed doctors. Their father and I begged them, but you can't tell kids anything. So they joined up as medics and four months later hey were pinned down during a fight in Da Nang and were killed by enemy fire. That was Christmas Eve 1970. You know, they were so young Charlie, they were your age. It's hard when that happens so far away, you know because, with the noises and the shooting, they had to be so scared. It's hard not to think that right then they needed their mother. Anyway, I miss my boys." (In Excelsis Deo)
[/li][li]"Once again you display an immaturity about vegetables that I think is not at all presidential." (Let Bartlet Be Bartlet)
[/li][li]"Tell the President if he doesn't like his salad, he knows where he can put his salad." (Mandatory Minimums)
[/li][li]"Maybe after the ceremony you can get one of the fourth graders to come in and show you how to use the intercom." (Shibboleth)
[/li][li]"Ah, sarcasm. The grumpy man's wit." (The Drop In)
[/li][li]"Charlie, please don't use the word erotic in the Oval Office." (Ellie)
[/li][li]"'Caesar's wife must be above reproach.'" (18th and Potomac)
[/li][li]"Governor, does it ever frustrate you to constantly aim for humour and yet miss so dramatically?" (Bartlet for America)
[/li][li]Assistant to the President
[/li][li]A feisty mix of efficient assistant and walking reality check for the President, Mrs. Landingham ruled the inner sanctum with an iron fist -- and a jar of coveted cookies.
[/li][li]Mrs. Landingham enforced strict rules about appropriate language in the Oval Office and was not afraid to reprimand the President or the Chief of Staff (Pilot)
[/li][li]Her assistant was Nancy (Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc).
[/li][li]She drank beer (The Crackpots and These Women) and kept the President's chili recipe at her desk (The Crackpots and these Women). She also withheld food from the President (Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc).
[/li][li]Her twin sons, Andrew and Simon, attended medical school together and went to Vietnam when their lottery numbers were called up after their second year. They chose not to get deferments and joined up as medics. They were pinned down in a fight in Da Nang and killed on Christmas Eve, 1970 (In Excelsis Deo)
[/li][li]Mrs. Landingham worked for Bartlet for at least 12 years (In the Shadow of Two Gunmen) probably longer, considering his observation that she hadn't missed a day's work in 14 years (The Crackpots and These Women). Although they seemed close, the President rarely called her by her first name, perhaps because they met when he was a teenager, and she was an administrative assistant for his father (Two Cathedrals).
[/li][li]She liked the movie Dial M for Murder (Ellie).
[/li][li]Mrs. Landingham was killed in a car accident in 2001, struck by a drunk driver at 18th and Potomac just after she picked up her brand new car -- for which she paid sticker price (18th and Potomac).
Notable Quotes
[/li][li]"There's no need to adopt a tone, Mr. President." (Mr Willis of Ohio)
[/li][li]"Their father and I begged them, but they wanted to go where people needed doctors. Their father and I begged them, but you can't tell kids anything. So they joined up as medics and four months later hey were pinned down during a fight in Da Nang and were killed by enemy fire. That was Christmas Eve 1970. You know, they were so young Charlie, they were your age. It's hard when that happens so far away, you know because, with the noises and the shooting, they had to be so scared. It's hard not to think that right then they needed their mother. Anyway, I miss my boys." (In Excelsis Deo)
[/li][li]"Once again you display an immaturity about vegetables that I think is not at all presidential." (Let Bartlet Be Bartlet)
[/li][li]"Tell the President if he doesn't like his salad, he knows where he can put his salad." (Mandatory Minimums)
[/li][li]"Maybe after the ceremony you can get one of the fourth graders to come in and show you how to use the intercom." (Shibboleth)
[/li][li]"Ah, sarcasm. The grumpy man's wit." (The Drop In)
[/li][li]"Charlie, please don't use the word erotic in the Oval Office." (Ellie)
[/li][li]"'Caesar's wife must be above reproach.'" (18th and Potomac)
[/li][li]"Governor, does it ever frustrate you to constantly aim for humour and yet miss so dramatically?" (Bartlet for America)
