Apr 21, 2022 · Lionel Tribbey works for a time as the fourth White House Counsel to serve under President Josiah Bartlet . Career Tribbey is regarded by the Bartlet administration and by the president himself as a brilliant attorney. He also very outspoken, to the point of yelling frequently at people, no matter their rank within Bartlet's staff.
Leo Thomas McGarry is a fictional character played by American actor John Spencer on the television serial drama The West Wing. The role earned Spencer the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2002. The character of McGarry, a former Secretary of Labor, begins the series as the White House Chief of Staff. He is President Josiah …
Leo McGarry 155 episodes, 1999-2006 Bradley Whitford ... Josh Lyman 155 episodes, 1999-2006 Martin Sheen ... President Josiah Bartlet 155 episodes, 1999-2006 Janel Moloney ... Donna Moss 150 episodes, 1999-2006
Oct 15, 2020 · NBC John Spencer as Leo McGarry on The West Wing. During The West Wing’s seventh and final season, which ran during the 2005-2006 TV season, tragedy struck the show when Emmy-winning actor John ...
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Vice President-Elect in 2006, died before inauguration | Matthew Santos |
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Leo McGarry is the former United States Secretary of Labor, former White House Chief of Staff, Senior Counselor to Democratic President Josiah Bartlet, Democratic Vice Presidential nominee for the 2006 election and, posthumously, Vice President-Elect of the United States .
Leo also claimed that while he was Labor Secretary, the National Enquirer ran a story that he had "married Elizabeth Taylor while skydiving over New Mexico". Angela Blake, later a Legislative Director in the Bartlet White House, was Leo's "number two" at the Labor Department.
In June 1993 , Leo voluntarily admitted himself to the Sierra Tucson Rehabilitation Facility to treat his addiction to alcohol and Valium, spending nearly a month there. When he got out, only his family, President Bartlet, the FBI and the Secret Service knew.
Leo McGarry served as the U.S. Secretary of Labor in the early-mid 1990s. He likely served under a Republican president, indicating that he was widely respected across party lines, and was frequently involved in foreign policy matters beyond his core Labor portfolio - this included arranging a meeting between the then-president and the Dalai Lama and organising a summit of Bay of Pigs Veterans in the mid-1990s. Leo also claimed that while he was Labor Secretary, the National Enquirer ran a story that he had "married Elizabeth Taylor while skydiving over New Mexico". Angela Blake, later a Legislative Director in the Bartlet White House, was Leo's "number two" at the Labor Department. He also worked extensively in Democratic politics, advising many candidates and "shaping every presidential election of the past quarter-century".
In season six Leo had a heart attack outside Camp David, leading to his replacement by White House Press Secretary C.J. Cregg. He later returned to work after Bartlet’s last State of the Union Address in his new role as Senior Counselor to the President.
On Election Night, Leo went up to his hotel room in Houston to rest before the results came in. He collapsed in the bathroom of an apparent heart attack, and was later found by Annabeth Schott and rushed to the hospital, only to be pronounced dead.
On Election Night, Leo went up to his hotel room in Houston to rest before the results came in. He collapsed in the bathroom of an apparent heart attack, and was later found by Annabeth Schott and rushed to the hospital, only to be pronounced dead. His death ninety minutes before the polls closed in California and other western states likely gave some thought prior to casting their vote, but the Santos-McGarry ticket still narrowly won the election over Vinick-Sullivan’s by a small 30,000 vote margin in Nevada, making McGarry posthumously the Vice President-Elect.
Leo Thomas McGarry is a fictional character played by American actor John Spencer on the television serial drama The West Wing. The role earned Spencer the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2002. The character of McGarry, a former Secretary of Labor, begins the series as the White House Chief of Staff.
As Senior Counselor, Leo encourages staffers to present new ideas and resurrect old policy initiatives that have been abandoned out of political necessity, insisting that they could "accomplish more in one day in the White House than in a lifetime" once they leave. He maintains a board in his office that shows how many days remain for the Administration and the initiatives which have been proposed. Among these initiatives are a serious attempt at health care reform, new foreign policy approaches in Latin America, and trying to convince Congress to enact an earned income tax credit (called by Charlie Young and Annabeth Schott a 'poor tax' to make it easier to defend). Leo also leads an attempt to open negotiations between the US and Cuba to lift the blockade and reestablish diplomatic relations, an issue which faces significant opposition from Republicans, Democrats, and the intelligence community. The initiative is eventually endorsed by President Bartlet in a televised address to the nation, vindicating Leo's efforts and allowing him to accomplish what he had failed to do as Labor Secretary at a summit in 1995.
In an earlier draft of the pilot script, dated February 6, 1998, McGarry is called "Leo Jacobi" and is described as being aged 55 and "professorial".
Early life. Leo McGarry is from Chicago, Illinois, although Josh Lyman refers to a family connection of Leo's to Boston, Massachusetts to discuss Leo's alcoholism with him. He is of Irish and Scottish ancestry, and has at least two sisters, Elizabeth and Josephine, the latter serving as a school district superintendent in Atlanta.
McGarry amassed significant wealth during his time in the private sector as a member of the board of directors of a defense contractor with his friend Ken O'Neil, Mueller-Wright Aeronautics, for ten or twelve years. Leo would later discover that O'Neil broke conflict of interests laws making millions of dollars.
In 1997, Leo travels to New Hampshire in an attempt to persuade his old friend Governor Josiah Bartlet to run for the Democratic presidential nomination. Having persuaded Bartlet, McGarry becomes his campaign manager and general chairman of the "Bartlet For America" campaign, hiring Josh Lyman, Toby Ziegler, C.J. Cregg, and Sam Seaborn as advisors. Eventually, Governor Bartlet, who was considered to be an insurgent candidate by the media, defeats Senator John Hoynes of Texas for the nomination, and goes on to win the presidency, appointing McGarry as his Chief of Staff.
In 1997, Leo travels to New Hampshire in an attempt to persuade his old friend Governor Josiah Bartlet to run for the Democratic presidential nomination. Having persuaded Bartlet, McGarry becomes his campaign manager and general chairman of the "Bartlet For America" campaign, hiring Josh Lyman, Toby Ziegler, C.J. Cregg, and Sam Seaborn as advisors. Eventually, Governor Bartlet, who was considered to be an insurgent candidate by the media, defeats Senator John Hoynes of Texas for the nomination, and goes on to win the presidency, appointing McGarry as his Chief of Staff.
Disappears after the first season of The West Wing and is never mentioned again. Angela Blake ( Michael Hyatt ): Worked for Leo McGarry while he was Secretary of Labor .
Lionel Tribbey ( John Larroquette ): The fourth White House Counsel of the Bartlet administration, but the first to appear in the series. He is shown to have extremely liberal views and to be incredibly animated and theatrical in his displeasure that the President tends to be more moderate in action.
Delores Landingham ( Kathryn Joosten and Kirsten Nelson in flashback in " Two Cathedrals "): The President's executive secretary (Season 1–2). Killed in a car accident (Season 2 episode "18th and Potomac"). Appears in flashbacks (Seasons 3–4). Often referred to simply as "Mrs. Landingham".
Mike Chysler ( Glenn Morshower ): (occasionally "Jack"); adviser to the President during his first term, regularly appearing in the Situation Room. Briefs the President on the DEA hostage crisis; also advises the President during the prelude to the assassination of Abdul Shareef near the end of Season 3.
Some reviewers have likened the character to Bill O'Reilly, the combative host of the news commentary show The O'Reilly Factor. Will Sawyer ( Michael O'Keefe ): Appears in the episode "War Crimes" (Season 3.05) as a White House correspondent while awaiting a new overseas assignment after escaping from Myanmar.
Lt. Colonel Gantry: pilot of Air Force One, heard several times on personal announcements on the plane. Colonel Jesse Weisskopf ( James Morrison ): pilot of Air Force One, seen in the episode "Angel Maintenance" (Season 4) informing the President on the status of the plane.
Greg Brock ( Sam Robards ): White House correspondent for The New York Times. Greg Brock is also the name of a real editor for The New York Times. One of the most regularly referred to White House correspondents, second only to Danny Concannon.
By Andrea Reiher. Updated Oct 15, 2020 at 9:00am. NBC John Spencer as Leo McGarry on The West Wing. During The West Wing’s seventh and final season, which ran during the 2005-2006 TV season, tragedy struck the show when Emmy-winning actor John Spencer died of a heart attack.
During The West Wing’s seventh and final season, which ran during the 2005-2006 TV season, tragedy struck the show when Emmy-winning actor John Spencer died of a heart attack.
It is a theatrical staging of the season three episode “Hartsfield’s Landing.”. The role of McGarry is played by Emmy-winning This Is Us star Sterling K. Brown.
In an eerie coincidence, McGarry suffered a massive heart attack on the show in season six, but the writers had him recover from that and he went on to be chosen as Matt Santos’ (Jimmy Smits) running mate in his presidential bid to succeed President Bartlet (Martin Sheen) as the president of the United States.
In the early, best seasons of The West Wing, when the show was about how furiously the protagonists had to struggle to achieve any kind of change, Toby Ziegler represented a crucial component, a misanthropic idealist whose grumbling rage masks an irrepressible desire to do what's right. Toby was simultaneously the most and least optimistic senior advisor to Bartlet, functioning as his better angel but also his worst critic. The character suffered in later seasons, particularly once Sorkin left, and Schiff himself complained about the leak storyline he was handed in season seven, which never jibed with the character he helped conceive. But in those early seasons, I lived to watch Ziegler go nose-to-nose with the President and challenge his pragmatism. – DS
Jed Bartlet. Played By: Martin Sheen. Number of Episodes: 154. The initial plan for President Bartlet was to pop in every few episodes for a quick scene here and there – The West Wing was meant to focus on the staff instead.
He went on to appear in almost every episode in the series, entirely because of how incredible the character Sorkin and Sheen created together was. Bartlet wasn’t a phantom figurehead; he was inspiring, frustrating, flawed, genius, courageous, and paternal. He’s remembered as one of the greatest fictional presidents, and deservedly so. We dream of a real commander in chief who was half the president Bartlet was. – KO
Bartlet wasn’t a phantom figurehead ; he was inspiring, frustrating, flawed, genius, courageous, and paternal. He’s remembered as one of the greatest fictional presidents, and deservedly so. We dream of a real commander in chief who was half the president Bartlet was. – KO.
Played By: John Laroquette. Number of Episodes: 1. Lionel Tribbey was the first, and maybe the best, of many White House Counsels who would come down the pike, brandishing a cricket bat and unfurling furious monologue after furious monologue as he's forced to add a Republican (Ainsley Hayes) to his staff.
Lionel Tribbey was the first, and maybe the best, of many White House Counsels who would come down the pike, brandishing a cricket bat and unfurling furious monologue after furious monologue as he's forced to add a Republican (Ainsley Hayes) to his staff.
The degree to which Vice President Hoynes was or was not antagonistic to the Bartlet White House was unpredictable and ever-changing; his arguments with Leo, C.J., Josh, and especially the President were electric. He was the best kind of complicating factor in the West Wing universe.