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=== Career prior to the White House === Sam was a staffer for several congressmen and the [[Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee]]. He was also a practicing lawyer, working at the law firm of [[Dewey Ballantine]] in [[New York City]] before joining the fictional Gage Whitney Pace (aka "Gage Whitney"), reputedly the second biggest law firm in [[New York City]]. Sam worked there for seven years and was concentrating on helping an oil company with a deal that would protect them from litigation in the event of an oil spill when his "old friend" (though it is never made clear when or how they met) [[Josh Lyman]] comes to visit him. Josh is running [[John Hoynes]]' presidential campaign and comes to try to recruit Sam as a speechwriter. Sam declines, explaining that he is about to be made partner and is getting married soon (the engagement later fell through). Sam returns to work but, feeling guilty about the deal he is making, begins trying to convince the oil company to buy newer, better tankers than the ones they want, unleashing the wrath of his boss and jeopardising his promotion to partner. In the midst of this, Josh returns from a trip to New Hampshire during which he has seen Hoynes' dark-horse challenger, [[Jed Bartlet]], speak to a small audience of voters. Josh has been sufficiently inspired to abandon Hoynes' campaign and go work for Bartlet, which in turn convinces Sam to do the same. Sam becomes part of the talented team of staffers who help Bartlet to a very unlikely victory in 1998.
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