Sam is going to run for President someday.
~ Hartsfield's Landing

His Secret Service code name is Princeton.
~ In Excelsis Deo

He was Editor of the Duke Law Review (Journal).
~ Game On

He works 50 feet from the Oval Office.
~ A Proportional Response

He eats hot dogs at 9:30 a.m. because that's when they're fresh.
~ In the Shadow of Two Gunmen, Part 1

He didn't marry Lisa because she'd be
Lisa Sherbourne Seaborn.
~ 100,000 Airplanes

He also didn't marry Lisa because he didn't know what the cool restaurant was,
and he didn't care. When he got hungry, he wanted to eat.
And he didn't know where the Tommy Hilfiger party was,
and he didn't know what to do once he got there.
~ 100,000 Airplanes

He went to work at Dewey-Ballantine right after law school.
~ Pilot

He went to work at Gage Whitney Pace after Dewey-Ballantine.
~ Implied

He made $400,000 a year.
~ The Fall's Gonna Kill You

He billed out at $500 per hour.
~ The State Dinner

He once started an email to his Father, "Dear Jackass".
~ The Stackhouse Filibuster

He smokes cigars.
~ Mr. Willis of Ohio

Sam feels uneasy talking to a reporter named Karen Cahill.
He has been known to confuse words and fall down in front of her.
However, he cares very much that she's aware of his cuteness.
~ The Leadership Breakfast

He plays poker with the President and senior staff members.
~ Mr. Willis of Ohio

He spent $30 at Kinko's while he was in college.
~ The Stackhouse Filibuster

He is less visually observant than others
but he makes up for it with cunning and guile.
~ Bad Moon Rising

Sam once received a letter asking him to donate his brain
to a medical school in Grenada
and he considered it just to get it over with.
~ Enemies Foreign and Domestic

His physics professor in college was Dr. Dalton Milgate.
~ Dead Irish Writers

He wouldn't let Professor Milgate smoke in the White House.
~ Dead Irish Writers

He doesn't believe in being casual with the truth.
~ H. Con-172

He has a Lakers pennant in his office.
~ Arctic Radar

He plays Solitaire on his computer.
~ The Stackhouse Filibuster

He's from Southern California.
~ Game On

He has seen the Butter Cow and the Butter Last Supper at the 4-H Convention.
~ The Two Bartlets

He went to "Dungeons and Dragons Camp".
~ The Two Bartlets

He was the Recording Secretary for the
Princeton Gilbert and Sullivan Society for two years.
~ And It's Surely to Their Credit

He wanted to change his middle name to "On Schedule".
~ Six Meetings Before Lunch.

He is staggeringly over-qualified to write a birthday message
to one of the Assistant Deputies of Transportation.
~ Enemies

He doesn't like to eat cartoon characters that can talk or hatch a plan.
~ Enemies Foreign and Domestic

Sam gave Laurie a Fisher Space Pen
and a Coach Beekman briefcase
in British tan with brass hardware
for her graduation from law school.
~ Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics

Sam gets things fast; that's what he does.
~ Dead Irish Writers

He loves Josh like a brother.
~ 20 Hours in America, Part 2

While driving, he likes to navigate by the North Star,
which once turned out to be a Delta Shuttle from LaGuardia.
~ Celestial Navigation

He has an early American flag in his office that says
"Don't Tread on Me".
~ Pilot

He says "nervous hoolelia" because his Mother said it,
but he doesn't know what it means
and he thinks she made it up.
~ Mandatory Minimums

Sam once called Toby "baby".
~ Night Five

He practices tossing sugar packets.
~ Somebody's Going to Emergency, Somebody's Going to Jail

He dabbles in the study of terrorism.
~ Isaac & Ishmael

He can sing "Gaudeamus Ignitur" in Latin.
~ Debate Camp

Sam attended Princeton University as an undergraduate.
~ The U.S. Poet Laureate, Game On

He attended Duke Law School to earn his law degree.
~ Game On

Sam's Father had a mistress in a Santa Monica apartment for 28 years.
~ Somebody's Going to Emergency, Somebody's Going to Jail

He looks good in a tux and he knows it.
~ The State Dinner, Dead Irish Writers

He impersonates President Bartlet.
~ Debate Camp

He impersonates George Bailey from "It's a Wonderful Life".
~ Game On

His assistant's name was Cathy
and he loved her like a sister
but never saw her naked.
~ The Crackpots and These Women

He can start a fire with newspaper and kerosene.
~ The Leadership Breakfast

He and Josh almost burned down the White House
from the Roosevelt Room fireplace.
~ The Leadership Breakfast

Sam's Father is an Elk.
~ The Women of Qumar

When he writes something, he signs it.
~ And It's Surely To Their Credit

He can identify a garter snake.
~ Manchester, Part 2

He wanted to be a fireman when he was 4 years old.
~ Ways and Means

He watches Monday Night Football.
~ Enemies

He has friends he likes to visit in The Hamptons.
~ The Stackhouse Filibuster

He ran for Congress in the California 47th District.
~ Swiss Diplomacy

He's never been antiquing.
~ Celestial Navigation

He's never seen a good hockey game.
~ Stirred

He's been called "Skipper" by Mallory.
~ Six Meetings Before Lunch

He's been called "Spanky" by CJ.
~ In the Shadow of Two Gunmen, Part 2

He's been called "Sam, Sam, the Sunshine Man" by CJ.
~ 100,000 Airplanes

He's been called "Mr. Schmutzy Pants" by CJ.
~ 20 Hours in America, Part 2

He's been called "Cupcake" by Janet.
~ The Red Mass

He's been called "freak" by Bruno.
~ 20 Hours in America, Part 2

He and Josh were called "The Keystone Kops" by Leo.
~ In Excelsis Deo

He and Josh were called "Fred and Ethel" by CJ.
~ The Leadership Breakfast

He and Toby were called "Abbott and Costello" by Andi.
~ Night Five

He and Toby were called the "Batman and Robin" of speechwriting.
~ The Fall's Gonna Kill You

He once called himself "The Housekeeper".
~ The Stackhouse Filibuster

He used to have a variety of medicine bottles on his desk.

He believes his Princeton Tigers
could beat CJ's Cal Bears
at logarithms.
~ The U.S. Poet Laureate

He works out in the gym.
~ Pilot

He speaks Spanish.
~ Ways and Means

He likes bananas.
~ The Stackhouse Filibuster

He likes Chinese food.
~ Five Votes Down

He likes turkey.
~ Mandatory Minimums

He likes ham and cheese sandwiches.
~ The State Dinner

He likes chicken salad sandwiches.
~ The State Dinner

He likes pickles.
~ The State Dinner

He likes french fries.
~ Mr. Willis of Ohio

He loves crab puffs.
~ The Midterms

He likes a good piece of fish.
~ Mandatory Minimums

He doesn't believe a good piece of fish ever hurt anyone.
~ Mandatory Minimums

He was given a chess set by the President for his work on the State of the Union Address.
It was a gift to the President from the Prime Minister of India.
This was a Lotus set, hand-carved, camel bone
and it came from a direct descendant of Tan Sen.
~ Hartsfield's Landing.

He likes to visit Bermuda.
~ In Excelsis Deo

He sleeps in boxer shorts and a t-shirt.
~ 20 Hours in America, Part 1

He hit on Leo's wife, Jenny, at a party,
not knowing she was Leo's wife.
~ Pilot

He once wore the same suit to work 2 days in a row.
~ Pilot

Sam wanted to write stories about Pilgrims as crimefighters in big hats.
~ Shibboleth

He drinks beer.
~ The Midterms

He drinks Jack Daniels.
~ 100,000 Airplanes

He drinks coffee.
~ Celestial Navigation

He drinks milk.
~ Pilot

He drinks water.
~ Mandatory Minimums

Sam was a pallbearer at Mrs. Landingham's funeral.
~ Two Cathedrals

He sometimes wears glasses.
~ Pilot

He can recite the names of the members of Congress
in alphabetical order.
~ Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc

He said Toby is his favorite writer.
~ The Stackhouse Filibuster

He said Dickens is his favorite fiction writer.
~ The Stackhouse Filibuster.

He didn't want CJ to be "beholden" to him
after he pushed her to the ground during the Rosslyn shootings.
~ In the Shadow of Two Gunmen, Part 2

He has foul weather gear.
~ Take This Sabbath Day

He serves at the pleasure of President Bartlet.
~ Let Bartlet Be Bartlet

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