Delores Landingham (played by Kathryn Joosten and known universally as Mrs. Landingham) is a character in the television series The West Wing. Mrs. Landingham appears in the first two seasons of the show as the secretary of President Josiah Bartlet (played by Martin Sheen).
Mrs. Landingham appears in the very first episode of The West Wing. She is the personal secretary to President Josiah Bartlet, and to a large extent controls access by the oth...
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Delores Landingham (played by Kathryn Joosten and known universally as Mrs. Landingham) is a character in the television series The West Wing. Mrs. Landingham appears in the first two seasons of the show as the secretary of President Josiah Bartlet (played by Martin Sheen).
Mrs. Landingham appears in the very first episode of The West Wing. She is the personal secretary to President Josiah Bartlet, and to a large extent controls access by the other characters to the President. She often addresses the President in a direct, abrupt maternal way that would be considered inappropriate by other members of the White House staff. She is the only White House staffer whom the president nearly always addresses formally; he typically calls her "Mrs. Landingham," although he addresses other, more senior members of his staff, and Mrs. Landingham's eventual replacement, by their first names. In the show, she describes herself as a surrogate big sister to Bartlet.
In the second-season episode "18th...
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