Eclectica
- Bartlet (while riding Leo McGarry's $4,000 Lynex titanium touring bike he swore he'd never lend to anyone) sprained his ankle by coming to a sudden, arboreal stop [1.1].
- The President once considered becoming a chemistry professor, despite never having studied chemistry [2.8]. He likes to think of the road not taken [4.2].
- President Bartlet received a $145 Armani cravat from his brother-in-law, which he subsequently gave to the Salvation Army [1.4].
- Bartlet is a deeply religious man and a practicing Catholic who has read the Bible cover to cover. Although he doesn't believe the government should legislate against abortion, he has worked to discourage women from seeking abortions [1.4].
- The President's notorious sense of humor has gotten him in trouble with Texans and twelve guys named Flippy [1.2]. And according to Josh, the President has never spoken briefly in his life [1.15].
- There's nothing Bartlet likes more than watching his staffers enjoy each other outside of work. To that end, he occasionally plays poker with them [1.6], plays basketball with them [1.5], and subjects them to dinners which he cooks himself, especially when the First Lady is out of town [1.5].
- Toby and Josh, in particular, have noted Bartlet's "obsessive need to win" and his tendency to bring in ringers, like Steffi Graf, while playing mixed doubles with Toby and CJ, or a former Final Four player to beat Josh, Toby, et al at basketball [1.5].
- Jed claims to have been given Scopa d'Assi cards -- an obscure Italian game with the cards written in Latin -- from Sinatra [5.6]
- Bartlet doesn't care what anyone says, he believes cellular technology doesn't work yet [4.9].
- Though Bartlet does play some physical sports, he doesn't golf, and prefers chess [1.4]. His favorite pastime, however, seems to be tormenting people with obscure trivia questions like which three words in the English language begin with "dw," or which fruit has its seeds on the outside [1.6].
- Bartlet is a national parks buff who has visited all 54 parks; he'll have to make a trip to Big Sky, which he designated a national park in early 2000 [1.8].
- Although the President gave up smoking years ago, he occasionally bums cigarettes off of reporters on Air Force One [2.15] and smokes two a day, though not inside the White House since he accidentally burned some priceless antiques [2.14]. Abbey doesn't allow him to smoke in the Residence [5.2].
- Bartlet has accidental death insurance, but no life or medical insurance, as he has considerable personal worth [2.19].
- The President likes the movie Dial M for Murder [2.15], the song Happy Days Are Here Again [1.4], and once played the stage manager in a production of Our Town [1.6]. Bartlet has strong opinions about music, specifically that "Modern music sucks. Anything written after 1860 sucks" [2.9]. He does, however, particularly enjoy Patriotic Song, which he thinks should be sung in the dining hall of Christ College [3.22].
- Jed chooses which team to bet on in a pool by which team has the most players from Notre Dame [3.5].
- Bartlet has a hard time remembering people's names [1.22], and has yet to find the underground tunnels beneath the White House, though he searches almost every day [1.10].
- Despite his claim that he could have been an astronaut, Abbey says that Jed is afraid of heights, speed, fire, and small places [3.2]. According to CJ, he's not very good with matches, either [5.6].
- He once shook hands with Hubert Humphrey [2.17], and he copied his personal postal code from FDR, though he considers it an "homage" [3.19].
- President Bartlet speaks ecclesiastical Latin well enough to rail against God [2.22].
- The President is not comfortable with violence, and has never served a day in uniform, aside from being Commander-in-Chief of the New Hampshire National Guard [1.2].
- Bartlet has given two depositions: once when a meter reader slipped in his driveway, and another involving his great-aunt's will [2.19].
- The President has a bad back, but doesn't like to take his pain pills -- vicodin and percocet [1.4]. He was the kid in biology class who laughed all the time [4.9].
- In 1971, Bartlet came home from a bad day the New Hampshire State House (for reasons that remain obscure, considering he was supposedly not the Governor at that time) and backed his station wagon through the garage door [1.1]
- Bartlet is allergic to eggnog [1.10], and does not like to eat vegetables, though both the First Lady and Mrs. Landingham withhold food (i.e. red meat) from him [1.19].
- Herb and Marjorie Douglas, the Bartlets' old next door neighbors, are still angry with the President because he accidentally ran them over with his car [1.17].
- Abbey's friend Susan doesn't like Jed; she thinks he's xenophobic because he doesn't like Mexican food [1.17] (though Bartlet seemed to like Mexican food when he accompanied Zoey to the Playa Cantina in Los Angeles [1.16]).
- Though he has never been able to understand cricket, the President enjoys watching women's softball on television [1.22].
- They've always been iffy about Jed Bartlet in Maine [4.4].
- Bartlet believes you only need to win by a one-vote margin, and the rest is just ego. He won re-election by about 3.5 million, but it's okay, because Toby says Bartlet has a "pretty healthy ego" [4.9].
- Leo is surprised to hear Jed say "You're right," and suggests that perhaps the President has only just learned this phrase [4.10].
- Jed likes to see staffers enjoying each other outside of the office, which is perhaps why he participates in poker games on "nights off" [4.20].
- It's been said that Jed has a pleasant speaking voice and oratorical style [4.22].
