- He was second choice for Communications Director and was offered the job only after David Rosen turned it down.
- His mother calls him a pain in the ass.
- His ex-wife is Representative Andrea “Andi” Wyatt. He still wears his wedding ring. She calls him “Pookie” and signed him up for a charity benefit. When they were married, they had rules: They could talk about anything but why they couldn’t live with each other.
- His brother is Dr. David Ziegler, who has post-graduate degrees in physiology and biology. David has been on four space shuttle missions including one in which he studied the effects of 0 gravity on the inner ear structure of Japanese red-bellied newts.
- Toby is in his forties.
- He’s Jewish and attends temple on Saturday morning with Rabbi Glassman.
- He drives a 1993 Dodge Dart.
- He knows nothing about the stock market, but he bought $5000 of stock because he liked a company’s webpage. The value increased to $125,000 after he arranged for Theodore MacGreggor, someone he’d known since he was a kid, to testify to the Committee of Commerce about the future of Internet stocks. To avoid the appearance of corruption, his salary was reduced to $1 for the year and he cashed in his stocks.
- He can name all 14 punctuation marks in standard English grammar.
- He enjoys smoking cigars and can blow smoke rings.
- He has a French friend who is imprisoned in Indonesia for teaching students how to protest.
- He was raised on “Sesame Street”, Julia Child, and “Brideshead Revisited”.
- He is opposed to the death penalty.
- The wildlife lobby was worried about him, but he’s “Mr. Wildlife.” He doesn’t like the outdoors.
- He is from New York and is an avid Yankees fan. He also likes the Knicks.
- He thought he was going to get fired and was the only one who wasn’t!
- Aside from a brief period of being in elementary school, he’s been a professional political operative all his life. Jed’s campaign was the first he won.
- He knew CJ before the campaign.
- A few weeks into the Bartlet Administration, he wrote a memo against using tents for entrances/exits, which the President signed at his urging.
- He knows Anne Stark “A little” and misinterpreted his relationship with her. He made an amateur mistake and gave her a quote, which she fed to a reporter.
- He scares people.
- Very often, he leaves Sam out of the loop (The Drop-in, MS, etc.)
- He likes to bounce a red rubber ball against the wall of his office, both to “summon” Sam and to express anger/frustration.
- He was the architect of the State of the Union.
- He isn’t allowed to get arrested anymore.
- When he was young, in 1968, his sisters would take him to protests.
- He was the 17th person to know about the President’s MS. He figured out something was up after Hoynes started acting strangely.
- He likes to drink.
- He was a pallbearer at Mrs. Landingham’s funeral.
- He was offered a “life-boat” job as a news producer, which he turned down.
- He has no qualms about killing everyone except the Yankees, Red Sox, Knicks, Lakers, Laker Girls, and people who work at the Palm.
- In order to be happy, all he needs are sports, Laker Girls, and a well-prepared steak…and Italian…and Chinese…
- He plays pool.
- He greatly dislikes compromising.
- He isn’t into art.
- He won a lot of money in the football pool.