Eudora Welty

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Eudora Welty provides a key quote for President Bartlet's Georgetown commencement address. Bartlet suggests her words over Gandhi's, and Will Bailey agrees they fit better. This preference positions Welty as a prime literary source in White House speech preparation, where her phrasing sharpens the speech's tone amid Bartlet's worries about Zoey heading to France. She anchors the address in American literary tradition, aiding rhetoric that balances public duty and private emotion.

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Eudora Welty's Journey

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S4E22 · Commencement

Welty vs. Gandhi — A Father's Anxiety Before the Podium

Not an emotional participant — functions as a rhetorical presence influencing tone.

Referenced by Bartlet and Will as the alternative literary voice for the speech; her work is invoked as a tonal choice that would shape the address differently than Gandhi's quote.

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S4E22 · Commencement

Pocketed Anxiety — Final Edits and the Walk to Commencement

Not applicable — referenced as a textual authority shaping the President's rhetorical choice.

Mentioned indirectly as the source of the preferred quotation; her words function as the rhetorical choice that shapes the speech's tone.

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