Personal Background
- Hoynes is from Texas [1.4].
- The vice president is 15 years younger than the president [1.8].
- He is a recovering alcoholic who attends AA meetings every week at 11 p.m. downstairs in the OEOB under the guise of card games. Other attendees include three senators, two cabinet secretaries, one federal judge and two agency directors, all Democrats. The door is guarded by a secret service agent [1.4].
- Hoynes refused to kick Leo McGarry out of his AA meetings, even though other members had concerns about anonymity due to Leo's presence. Hoynes hasn't has a drink since he was 22 [3.17].
- Hoynes' wife is named Suzanne [4.21].
- Hoynes had an affair with socialite Helen Baldwin while in office. She signed a low seven figure deal to write a tell-all book, which led to Hoynes' resignation when he realized the fact that he'd shared classified information with her would come out [4.21].
- Despite his extramarital affair, Hoynes cited his family as the reason he wouldn't stay in office through the coming press frenzy. He didn't want to put his family through that [4.21].
- According to CJ, Hoynes is quite a womanizer -- she warns him that if he tries to smear these women in the papers, she'll go the press about the one-night stand they had ten years ago [5.15].