Professional Backgound
- Charlie originally applied for a job as messenger at the White House [1.3].
- Despite excellent grades and ACT scores, Charlie decided to put off college until his sister graduates from high school [1.3]. He started night classes in the summer semester of 2001 [2.21] and according to Sam, is a junior, creditwise. Intellectually speaking, Charlie's got some game [2.19].
- His job often requires 20-hour days, long trips at the last minute, a lot of wait and hurry-up, and the ability to make himself invisible in plain sight or an undeniable force to those who want more time than the President can give, even if they are kings or prime ministers. Charlie is often referred to as the President's body man [1.3].
- Charlie's close relationship with the President is such that when he heard of a sniper firing three rounds at the White House, he burst through security into the Oval Office to ensure that his boss was okay [4.20].
- Charlie caddied for three summers at Sandy Hooks, a golf course Peyton Cabot Harrison frequented [1.9]. He also used to be a waiter at the Gramercy Club, an all-white club of which Ken Cochran used to be a member [1.21].
- He is paid $600 a week [1.19].
- Charlie once accidentally used his influence as the President's body man to get the Pentagon to look into the fact that some military families are paid so little that they qualify for food stamps [4.12].
- Occasionally, Charlie staffs the First Lady due to scheduling changes. While in Orange County, Charlie was really looking forward to telling Abbey that if she talked about health insurance for poor women while wearing a $4,000 dress, she would look like a dilettante [4.17].
- Sometimes Charlie takes his roast beef sandwich with ketchup on a kaiser roll into Toby's office to watch tennis, ramble on about a gossip columnist's questionable grasp on grammar, and mock Toby's inability to identify a salad [4.21].
