Martin Sheen and Mrs. Landingham

Factual Questions
1

In the TV show “The West Wing”, the President (Martin Sheen) has a secretary Mrs. Landingham, played by Kathryn Joosten.

In the movie “The American President”, Sheen is AJ MacInerney, aide to the president (Michael Douglas). Before one meeting, he asks an unshown secretary Mrs. Landingham for something.

Does the name Landingham have some significance to Sheen?

Let the Truth of Love be lighted/ Let the Love of Truth shine clear. Sensibility/ Armed with sense and liberty
With the Heart and Mind united in a single/ Perfect/ Sphere. - Rush

2

Probably not to Sheen, but Aaron Sorkin wrote the script for THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT and created THE WEST WING. It’s most likely his doing.

“East is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does.” – Marx

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