Ted Mitchell — Corporate Placement Intermediary

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Ted Mitchell functions as a discreet private‑sector intermediary who the President taps to engineer quiet personnel exits by offering lucrative corporate board appointments. He moves between the White House and corporate networks to place senior public figures into private‑sector roles, converting political leverage into calibrated job offers. In the processed material he arrives politely, embraces the President, and obligingly accepts Bartlet’s directive to recruit Ambassador Ken Cochran to a board post—slightly puzzled but willing—confirming his role as a pragmatic conduit for personnel management and reputational containment.

3 appearances

Also known as: Ted, Mr. Mitchell

Ted Mitchell …'s Journey

A timeline through the narrative

3 moments

S1E21 · Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics

Containment and Coercion: Bartlet Shields Sam and Clears the Board

Slightly puzzled but eager to oblige; feels honored to be trusted with a quiet political favor.

Responds obligingly to the President's private request to 'hire a guy' (Ken Cochran), sits with Bartlet exchanging pleasantries, and prepares to place Cochran on a corporate board as a face‑saving …

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S1E21 · Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics

Bartlet Engineers Cochran's Exit

Slightly puzzled but cooperative; accepts the favor request with the demeanor of a pragmatic intermediary.

Ted Mitchell sits in the Oval/outer office waiting for the President; he receives Bartlet's curt instruction to hire Cochran and absorbs the request with polite puzzlement and immediate willingness to …

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S1E21 · Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics

Closing the Soft‑Money Loophole — Bartlet's Lobell Deal

Cooperative and slightly bemused; prepared to oblige despite the oddity of the request.

Ted Mitchell arrives, embraces the President, listens as Bartlet asks him to 'hire a guy'—agreeing, slightly puzzled, to place Cochran on his corporate board as a favor and reputational fix.

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