Eclectica
- Sam and Laurie met in a bar and went home together; the next day he found out she was a call girl [1.1].
- Jenny McGarry, Leo's wife, dislikes him because he tried to hit on her at a party fundraiser [1.1].
- Sam may drive a white SUV of some kind [2.3].
- Sam doesn't think it's a good idea to be casual about the truth [3.10].
- For some reason Sam owes Mandy Hampton lots of favors [1.11].
- Sam does not know anything about the White House or its history [1.1], but he can recite the members of Congress in alphabetical order [1.2].
- He thinks of Cathy as a younger sister, except she gets paid and she frightens him. He has never seen her naked [1.5].
- Sam likes sailing competitively, though he apparently has trouble staying in the boat [1.14].
- He can't find his way from the Westchester airport to Wesley, Connecticut, but can describe the route from Nova Scotia to D.C. off the top of his head [1.15]. He seems to have some trouble folding maps [4.6].
- A medical school in Grenada has requested that Sam donate his brain to them for study. Sam declined [3.19].
- His middle name is Norman, although he considered having it legally changed to "on time" [1.18].
- Sam and Josh were old friends before they started working on the Bartlet campaign together (possibly from when Sam was a congressional aide?) [2.1]. According to Josh, Sam has never let him down [4.1].
- >CJ has been known to call Sam "Spanky" [2.2].
- Sam was recording secretary of the Gilbert and Sullivan Society at Princeton [2.05], he's nuts for dental hygiene [1.15], and it's possible that he used to play the clarinet [2.16].
- When Sam spends time with friends at a Frank Lloyd Wright house in Sag Harbor, he claims they wear sweaters, just like a Tommy Hilfiger ad [2.17].
- Toby is Sam's favorite writer. His favorite fiction writer is Charles Dickens [2.17]. He reads whatever CJ puts in front of him [4.4].
- Sam is less visually observant than others but he makes up for it with cunning and guile [2.19].
- Sam can do a "pretty good" impression of Jed Bartlet [4.5].
