Téa Leoni and Tim Daly are graduates of the same high school, the Putney School in Vermont: Tim in 1974 and Téa in 1984.
Patina Miller's (Daisy Grant) real pregnancy was worked into the show.
Téa Leoni and Tim Daly have been dating since December 2014.
Vocabulary: Seventh Floor - shorthand for the most senior leadership of the U.S. State Department. It is where the offices of the Secretary of State and their most senior aides are located. Sixth Floor - Where many of the U.S. State Department's regional and other assistant secretaries have their offices. Shorthand for the assistant secretary level of the department's leadership.
Former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, during a eulogy for SOS Madeleine Albright, said that, along with SOS Colin Powell, the three former Secretaries, "loved and actually watched" the series.