Personal Background
- Jed and Abbey, who have been married for 32 years [1.4], have three daughters -- Elizabeth [1.1], Eleanor [2.15], and Zoey [1.5] -- and one granddaughter, Annie [1.1]
- The Bartlets own a farm in Manchester valued at $750,000 due to Secret Service improvements, which include a helipad and the ability to run a global war from the sun porch [1.4]. They also have cattle, horses, and an old red pickup truck [3.1]. The Manchester house seems to be Abbey's retreat from the chaos of Washington [2.18].
- Abbey is the person in the White House who's known President Bartlet the longest [3.9]. And sometimes, when she's away too long, he forgets that he can't fix everything [1.7].
- To give her husband that last-minute energy he thought was missing, Abbey hacked his tie in half moments before he was to be introduced at the one and only debate of the 2002 Presidential election [4.6].
- Jed gets turned on when Abbey's hair is wet [4.18].
- As acknowledgment of the "nice job with, you know, the raising of the kid," Jed gave Abbey a gorgeous pearl necklace as they headed for the graduation ceremony at Georgetown [4.22].
- In her desperation after Zoey's abduction, Abbey attempts to go into the pressroom and make a personal appeal to her daughter's kidnappers because she'd seen other mothers do it. When CJ and Amy coaxed her into CJ's office and called a doctor for her, Abbey said she wanted whatever drug Zoey got [4.23].
- After Zoey's rescue, Abbey took her daughter up to Manchester to recover -- and requested that Jed not join them [5.7].
- When Abbey's anger with Leo fades, she resumes her former, affectionate relationship with him, choosing to invite him to the New Hampshire house for the weekend instead of going to Jenny's wedding [5.11].
