Institutional secrecy and triage vs. staff solidarity: the NSC evacuation card and continuity planning create an institutional hierarchy of survival that fractures trust among White House staff (institutional prerogative vs communal ethics).
Institutional secrecy and triage vs. staff solidarity: the NSC evacuation card and continuity planning create an institutional hierarchy of survival that fractures trust among White House staff (institutional prerogative vs communal ethics).
Events in This Arc
A tonal shift is staged in two beats: Leo's playful, Jacksonian 'big block of cheese' speech—equal parts ritual and reproof—performs unity while staff privately mock the ceremony. Immediately after, Leo …
An N.S.C. officer, Jonathan Lacey, quietly slips Josh a green evacuation card and explains it directs him where to go in the event of a nuclear attack. Josh's instinct is …
In the Residence at night, after lighthearted conversation and a family-style toast, Josh produces the green evacuation card he's been carrying and refuses it publicly. Faced with the symbolic offer …