Miscellaneous White House Staff

• Widely disliked Democratic pollster from California who wanted President Bartlet to support a constitutional amendment against flag burning. 
• Toby Ziegler describes Kiefer as "the guy who runs into the 7-11 to get Satan a pack of cigarettes." 
• Kiefer was romantically involved with Joey Lucas [1.16].

Joey Lucas

• Former manager of Bill O'Dwyer's 2000 campaign in the California 46th. 
• Lucas is deaf, and her translator is Kenny Thurman. 
• Joey is short for Josephine. The name Lucas is of Dutch origin and she is a Quaker. She attended UCLA and Stanford. 
• She is opposed to the death penalty [1.14].
• She was romantically involved with Al Kiefer while flirting with Josh Lyman [1.16]. She and Al broke up, but she never dated Josh, instead telling him that Donna "likes" him [2.14].
• After Josh vouched for her, Joey was the 20th person to learn of Jed Bartlet's MS [2.20]; she put a poll in the field to gauge reaction by giving the Governor of Michigan a degenerative disease [2.21].

Notable Quotes

"Mr. President, 72% of Hispanics are strongly opposed to such a law. The Republicans will never put it on the table because they'll risk losing the second largest ethnic block of voters in the country. But if you need a counter argument, then I'd mention to Monsieur de Tocqueville, over here, that aside from it being bigoted and unconstitutional, it's ludicrous to think that laws need to be created to help protect the language of Shakespeare." [1.20]

"Joshua Lyman, you have the cutest little butt in professional politics." [2.13]

"If you polled 100 Donnas and asked them if they thought we should go out, you'd get a high positive response. But what the poll wouldn't tell you, is it's because she likes you, and she knows it's beginning to show, and she needs to cover herself with misdirection." [2.14]

"There are people you haven't persuaded yet. These numbers mean dial it up. Otherwise, you're like the French radical watching the crowd run by and saying, 'There go my people. I must find out where they're going so I can lead them.'" [2.14]

"Josh is feeling burned and he's letting his emotions and, dare I say, ego, drive what I think is a very delicate situation." [3.1]

Kenny Thurman

• Joey Lucas' sign language interpretor [1.14].
• Kenny learned of the President's MS when he helped Joey with the poll to gauge voter reaction [2.21]

• Fired Debbie DiLaguardia after she recommended Charlie, rather than a contributor's son, for the position of Personal Aide to the President [4.2].

• Worked on the vice president's campaign and in his public affairs office; aides thought she was getting a bit of a crush on Hoynes, so they moved her to personnel  [1.13].
• Her father was an alcoholic  [1.13].
• Claypool is a family friend and she gave him a copy of Leo McGarry's confidential personnel records [1.13]. 
• She was fired by Sam Seaborn, but Leo decided to give her a second chance [1.13].

• A Duke basketball player, two-time ACC Player of Week, and supposed associate director of the President's Council on Physical Fitness [1.5].
• Bartlet used him as a ringer in a staff basketball game against Toby and Josh [1.5].

• A friend of Margaret's who works for the President's Council on Physical Fitness [1.19].

• On a Presidential trip to Cairo, she handed CJ Cregg a priceless statue of the Egyptian cat goddess Bast [2.17].

• Martha speaks with Josh about the moose meat he received as a gift in Finland that ends up on ebay [3.20].

• The head of the White House Visitor's Office and a bit of a snob [2.10].

• Works in the White House Military Office, also known -- over CJ's strong objections -- as WhamMO [2.7].

• Either a political or a legislative liaison [2.6].

• Security Guard at the West Wing entrance  [4.3]

• A former White House photographer, hired by Sam. He was fired.
• He's the author of The Camera Doesn't Lie: What I Saw in the Bartlet White House [3.10].

• A White House staffer in the 1940s who was accused of treason [2.16].
• He was special economic assistant to FDR and special liaison to State for Eastern European affairs until he was jailed for lying in front of HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee) because the U.S. attorney couldn't make the espionage case [2.16].
• Earl Lydecker was the sole witness who testified against him; according to retired KGB colonel Oleg Prosorov, a search of the files in Lubyanka revealed only one reference to Gault: that he was approached in 1943 and labelled "highly uncooperative" and a "poor prospect for recruitment" [2.16].
• Gault died of a heart attack in prison six months later, but diplomatic cables intercepted by U.S. Army signal intelligence in the 1940s and decrypted in the 1970s confirm that he was an agent called Blackwater [2.16].
• He was a delegate at Yalta, and he returned to the United States by way of Rostov where he was awarded the Order of Lenin [2.16].
• Shaba Demsky was murdered in 1952 to protect his identity [2.16].

• Works in the White House kitchen. He speaks Portuguese and Batak but not English, and was drafted into service by Donna to facilitate a conversation between Josh, Toby, and a Indonesian staffer [1.7].

• A White House staffer who was working on a compromise over school vouchers [2.19].
• CJ Cregg questioned him about some information that was leaked to the Baltimore Sun [2.19].

• The only person in tech support whom Mrs. Landingham would trust to work on her computer [2.3].
• His wife works nights and sometimes he brings his young son, Jeffrey, to work with him [2.3].

• A stenographer who leaked details of a Cabinet meeting to Danny Concanon [1.8].

• Works in political liaison and corresponds via email with Margaret [1.19].

• Either a political or a legislative liaison [2.6].

• Either a political or a legislative liaison [2.6].

• Works for Charlie Young [4.12].

• She had an extra ticket for the Red Mass, which she gave to Amy Gardner [4.4].