- Her assistant is Carol.
- She has a masters from UC Berkeley and went to school for 22 years. She was a National Merit Scholar and had fine SAT scores.
- Her Secret Service name is “Flamingo”
- She’s 38 years old as of the pilot.
- She was called amateur twice in five minutes.
- She thinks she only has so many more times she can go into the Oval Office and say “you’re wrong” (but she can sing a song if she wants).
- She has “me time” working out in the mornings.
- She has a cat, as well as a goldfish named Gail, given to her by Danny Concannon.
- She’s Catholic and thus knows Schubert’s “Ave Maria”.
- She’s self-conscious about the size of her neck.
- Her sense of humour is very dry.
- She has sensitive alabaster skin.
- She has no opinion on capitol punishment.
- She likes goldfish – the cheese things you’re served at a party. She also likes grasshoppers and beer.
- White House Reporter Danny Concannon asked her out about forty-nine times and she said yes to one of them. From time to time, she has been known to grab Danny and kiss him, but she as a problem with the press secretary dating a reporter. It’s an unavoidable conflict of interest.
- She was pushed into a pool by Roberto Benigni, at which point she was a 6’ girl in a wet Donna Karan dress. She also fell into her own pool because she didn’t have her contacts in and had broken her glasses. She has very poor eyesight.
- She’s not in her freshman year anymore and understands more than people think.
- After having pain for about a month that she said would go away when she died, she had emergency “woot canaw” (root canal) and was unable to brief.
- If blood is gushing from the head wound she’s just received from a stampeding herd of bison, she WILL do the press briefing. President’s orders!
- She got in the President’s face, when she didn’t think it was a good idea.
- They call her…The jackal! Or so goes the song she lip-synchs to at parties. If you haven’t seen CJ do the Jackal, then you haven’t seen Shakespeare the way it’s meant to be done.
- She drove her boyfriend’s Porche once and backed it into a pond, resulting in a loss of driving priveleges and the boyfriend.
- She worked at Triton-Day, a film and television advertising firm in Beverly Hills before working on the campaign. She was fired by her boss, Isabelle, because Roger Becker thought she was a smart mouth. She made $550K/year at Triton-Day. She also did work with EMILY’S List (the girl’s group with a stupid name), which raises money for women candidates. Until Bartlet for America, she had never worked on a national campaign, only state-wide. She earned $600/week on the campaign. Toby, who she’d known before, brought her on under orders from Leo McGarry.
- She accidentally confirmed to Bill Kelly of the Cleveland Courier that there was a Grand Jury Investigation, which she knew from a witness. She was so worried that she couldn’t sleep all week and rode the Life Cycle to tire herself out. If it had been a real cycle, she would’ve been in Belgium.
- When she heard Ainsley was being hired, she slammed the door so hard it broke. She broke the White House. She also screamed where there were people.
- She thinks Ainsley kills her pets.
- Toby says she’s a beautiful woman and no one ever said she was ambitious or stupid, but she says that took two years.
- She could easily pass a class in “Abstinence only”
- She was punished for mocking Notre Dame on the eve of a Michigan Game
- During the first White House Thanksgiving, she was sent home with a fever and all sorts of flu-like symptoms. Because of this, she didn’t realize she would have to pick the turkey to receive a presidential pardon, nor did she know she would have to lead the children in song.
- Her 70-year-old father lives in Napa, and CJ doesn’t get to see him enough. She writes him e-mails and signs them “Claudia”
- She is often made to look stupid.
- She received the Matrix Award for Women in Communications.
- Her love for Lord John Marbury is real, it’s not a schoolgirl crush – he calls her Principesa.
- She once had a crush on Davy Jones and wrote him a fan letter and he wrote back.
- When it comes to sports, she’s “inadequate”
- She’s good in bed.
- At one point, she was seeing Tad Whitney, but he stopped calling her.
- She and Mark Godfrey have done things together.
On “Cheese Day”, she got stuck with a meeting with Cartographers for Social Equality and was “freaked out”.
- She quits a lot.
- When asking the President about his physical, she only ever asks “Is there anything else I NEED to know?”
- She doesn’t usually misspeak, but she did after the President’s MS announcement. She was benched and later offered to resign, but the President didn’t accept.
- She doesn’t know how to play pool but will play for money.
- She’s too sexy for her shirt, skirt, shoes, blues, and the other thing now that she knows the song “I’m too Sexy” isn’t about someone having a problem.
- She’s got a strange fascination with government agencies.
- She has a killer body and can’t help but be coy.
- She has an aversion to Chemistry ((My kind o’ girl!!)) but was seated next to a chemist at a dinner.
- She thinks Republicans have a secret handshake.
- Her father fought in Korea, then came home and raised a family on a teacher's salary. He was the son of immigrants. CJ believes he would've retired as superintendent had it not been for affirmative action - he ended up retiring as head of the Math dept. at William Henry Harrison Jr. High. He's not doing so well and is starting to forget things and be confused easily.
- She's adamantly in favour of women's rights around the globe, including in Qumar where women are beaten and persecuted for things such as rape and adultery. She does not believe we should sell weapons to those places.
- When they first moved into the headquarters in Manchester, CJ, Toby, and Sam were playing basketball and CJ accidentally threw the ball through the window.
- She wants to see the butter cow, butter Elvis, and butter last supper with butter on the table - a cow made of butter is how she likes her irony served.
- She takes inspiration from the Goff family of New Hampshire...except their mill burned down.
- She's very protective of her reporters.
- She frequently gives her reporters additional worthless knowledge.
- She likes getting drunk with the first lady
- She is on dangling modifier patrol.