- She never brings him coffee.
- She has never gotten a message wrong, though it’s hard to tell because of her “distinctive penmanship style” that Josh calls illegible.
- She’s 25 as of Septembre, 1999.
- She was interested in a guy named Donald, but he never called her.
- Her roommate has cats. Whenever Josh suffers a downfall, he shows up at her apartment and yells at the cats.
- She wants to buy a DVD player.
- Her entire family is Protestant.
- She wants to learn to ski because she likes the equipment. S he got all teary-eyed when Josh gave her “The Art and Artistry of Alpine Skiing” by Heimlich Beckengruber, complete with a sweet personal note.
- She tends to call an obscure fact and blow it out of proportion when she reads on her own.
- She has sensitive alabaster skin.
- Her “Fan-ship” of David Hasselhoff borders on stalking.
- Her friend Curtis fixes chairs and she throws him work when she can.
- She calls herself the “Deputy Deputy Chief of Staff”
- She often has to assist with the taping of the President’s weeklly radio address.
- She’s tuned to Josh.
- It was her who figured out Josh didn’t break his hand on a glass.
- She accidentally dropped her underwear on the floor in front of Karen Kahill.
- She has x-ray vision but it doesn’t always work.
- She thinks Josh should date Joey Lucas.
- Josh has never taken her to Hawaii.
- She attended the University of Wisconsin where she majored in political science, government, sociology, psychology, and biology, with minors in drama and French. She had to drop out after two years because her boyfriend (who was older) wanted her to work and pay for things until he finished his med school residency.
- She played the flue in high school and was the best in her row but quit because she asked herself “Will I meet interesting men playing the flute?” and her answer was no.
- Donna is friends with Stephanie Gault, who she met at Wisconsin and bonded with over mutual loathing for the same ex-boyfriend. When Stephanie needed a favour, Donna told her what to say to Sam to get him to do it.
- She was the one who figured out Stackhouse had an autistic grandson.
- She raises her hand to speak in the Oval Office.
- She lets Josh ramble on about Senate rules.
- She was the first assistant to know about the President’s MS.
- In her world, we should all love each other so long as it doesn’t cost her anything.
- She’s not cheap, nor is she xenophobic, but she objects to her tax dollars being sent to Mexico.
- In her parent’s basement in Madison, one would find the Lindbergh baby.
- She framed Roger Rabbit!
- She started working for Josh in February, then left and came back in April. S he and Josh argue about the date of her employment every year because he chooses to celebrate the April date. He gave her absolutely no grief when she came back, instead saying “Thank God, there’s a pile of stuff on your desk”, and now he “snarks” her every April. She came back to josh after a fiasco with her old boyfriend. She was in a car crash, and while her boyfriend was on the way to the hospital to pick her up, he stopped off to meet his friends for a beer. All that was injured in said crash was her ankle, but she told Josh she injured it slipping in the driveway because she forgot to put down the kitty litter.
- She grew up in a condo near a farm and it was cute and it was peppy until Josh came along and sucked her into his world of crime.
- She always did well on her 19th Century English Literature midterms.
- She saw and slept with Clifford Calley, a lawyer on House Gov. Oversight.
- When called to testify before the committee, she lied.
- Thought she doesn’t keep a scrapbook or correspondence, she keeps a diary.
- She had a plan – in order to keep organized a storeroom at the OEOB, she made a list with the box numbers and a corresponding description. Then the list got put into one of the boxes.