- His work on the Bartlet campaign helped to get the President elected. During the campaign, he crafted a significant portion of the President’s stump speech, acceptance speech at the convention, Inaugural Address, and State of the Union.
- Same is a counselor to the President, mostly on domestic maters though generally not security-related. He works with Toby Zielger, the Communications Director and CJ Cregg, the Press Secretary, on crafting their message and getting it out to the electronic and print media. And while his functions are generally seen to be politically skewed, it is important to remember that it is NOT the DNC but rather tax dollars that pay his salary.
- He knows nothing about the White House or its history.
- Sam attended Princeton and Duke, graduating from Duke’s law school in 1991. He is 31 years old as of the Pilot.
- Sam worked at Dewey Ballatine after graduating law school. He is, from all we can tell, a damn good lawyer, the one most of the people on the staff want to have representing them.
- In the private sector, he bills out at $500/hr.
- He once accidentally hit on Jenny McGarry at a party fundraiser because he didn’t realize who she was. Now she hates him.
- He can recite the members of Congress in alphabetical order.
- He got in trouble with Laurie, who put herself through law school by being a high-priced call girl with Cashmere Escorts. He slept with her, not knowing what she did. He was photographed with her when he gave her a graduation present: A “really nice pen” and a briefcase.
- He can’t find his way from the Westchester Airport to Westley, Connecticut, but he can describe the route from Nova Scotia to DC off the top of his head.
- He’s nuts for dental hygiene.
- He doesn’t mind selling off entire states.
- He’s a perfectionist.
- The nicest thing Mallory O’Brian has ever said to him was that he was “So exactly like [her father].” He likes her romantically, and she invited him to the opera. They went on one date and a few “group things”, but he never called her after the “Laurie Picture Incident”.
- He likes to sail and once fell out of a boat. He also thinks sculling on the Potomac in the morning looks god.
- His middle name is Norman, but he was supposedly having it legally changed to “On-Time”
- He’s opposed to school vouchers but will argue in favour of them if you make an appointment.
- He and Toby put Roberto Mendoza on the Supreme Court Bench.
- He worked as a Congressional Aide.
- He was engaged to a woman named Lisa, they were going to get married the September before Bartlet got elected.
- He was about to be made a partner at Gage Whitney Pace, the second-largest firm in Manhattan, when he left for Bartlet’s campaign. He was making $400,000 a year and paying 27x the national average in Income Tax. The deal he made that sealed it for him with the partners involved the liability shield of a boat called the Indio. It was an oil tanker that wasn’t good enough in regards to the steering and navigation, and Sam wasn’t bothered by the fact that the boat was cheap for a reason until he had a change of heart at the 11th hour and told his clients the Indio wasn’t good enough. They laughed him out of the room.
- He’s thinking of writing “Pilgrim Detectives”, an action-adventure series.
- He accidentally said to Karen Kahill that there were remaining nuclear weapons in Kyrgystan.
- He wants to kick the press corps out and move them to the OEOB, freeing up much-needed office space and a swimming pool. He realizes there are flaws in his logic there.
- He used to be friends with Tom Jordan.
- He got his ass kicked by Ainsley Hayes on Capitol Beat. He didn’t want her to work in the White House.
- He was the recording secretary for Princeton’s Gilbert and Sullivan Society.
- He is very often left out of the loop.
- His father has had a woman in an apartment in Santa Monica for 27 years. Sam found out on a Tuesday.
- He talked about the innocence of Daniel Gault for 23 pages in the middle of his masters thesis. He learned (The Friday after he learned of his father’s infidelity) that Gault was a spy.
- He got “spanked” by a GAO intern.
- Nicknames: “The Housekeeper” (himself), “Princeton” (Secret Service, Toby), “Spanky” (CJ)
- He plays computer Solitair in free time.
- His favourite writers are Toby and Charles Dickens.
- He is in favour of tax cuts for those who it’ll help the most.
- He was the last on the Senior Staff to find out about the President’s MS.
- He was a pallbearer at Mrs. Landingham’s funeral.
- He “dabbles” in terrorism (knowledge, not practice!).
- He wants the President to apologize not for political reasons.
- When he was 4, he wanted to be a fire-fighter.
- He speaks fluent Spanish.
- He doesn’t know of a good reason not to abolish the penny.
- He likes to stick to principles
- He’s destroyed all his belongings outside a Starbucks before but didn’t know there was funding available.