Eclectica
- To relax, Leo likes to do The New York Times crossword puzzle, and he doesn't believe in instant replay in football [1.1]. He also finds a certain cooking show that Margaret likens to soft porn "relaxing" [4.2].
- Leo and his wife had a maid named Ruth [1.1].
- Leo and the President have been friends for 40 years [1.1], and good friends for eleven [3.10]. They're such good friends, in fact, that Leo lent Jed his $4000 Lynex Titanium touring bike, who then rode it into a tree [1.1].
- When Leo was face-down in a hotel parking lot, he called Jed for help [1.12].
- Leo speaks Latin -- at least enough to translate the phrase "post hoc, ergo propter hoc" [1.2].
- He bought his wife a Harry Winston pearl choker because he thinks she has a great neck [1.4].
- Leo keeps golf clubs in his office closet [2.14], and his office décor includes a model plane and a model ship [3.19]. He tunes his office radio to WNKW, The Music of Your Life [4.8]
- Breakfast is his favorite meal to eat out [3.9].
- Leo and his wife had season tickets for the opera [1.8].
- The worst kept secret in Washington is that Leo is a recovering alcoholic [1.9].
- Leo really likes to make elaborate, multimedia presentations in the Situation Room [4.3].
- He doesn't like human names for pets [4.9].
- Leo is Boston Irish Catholic [1.9]. Leo is also from Chicago [2.19].
- He spent 28 days in an alcohol and substance abuse treatment center called Sierra Tucson for addiction to Valium [1.11], and he hasn't had a drink or a pill in six and a half years [1.13].
- Except that night during the Bartlet for America campaign in St. Louis, Missouri just before the final debate -- and nine days before the election -- Leo drank the contents of his hotel room's minibar. He told very few people of his relapse, but Gibson, a CEO, potential campaign donor, and potential candidate for Congress in 2000, Leo had met with earlier that evening, returned to get his briefcase discovered and realized Leo was drunk [3.9].
- Leo attends an AA meeting -- one that's held in secret and referred to as a card game -- alongside three senators, two cabinet secretaries, one federal judge, two agency directors, and Vice President Hoynes [1.4].
- He can recite the ingredients in tomate du saltambique off the top of his head [2.17].
- There's no one Jed Bartlet would rather see in the Oval Office than Leo [3.9].
- His middle name is Thomas [3.3].
- Despite mocking Jed Bartlet for his two-cigarettes-a-day habit, Leo occasionally smokes [4.19].
- Leo gets paper-thin pastrami, roast beef, corned beef, turkey, Russian dressing, and seedless rye for poker nights at the White House [4.20].
