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Georgetown Commencement Crowd

enthusiastic supportive celebratory

The Georgetown Commencement Crowd fills the ceremony space and breaks into applause and cheers as President Bartlet and the Georgetown Chancellor descend the stairs and emerge through double doors to Pomp and Circumstance. Bartlet laughs quietly while waving alongside the Chancellor. The audience's enthusiastic support creates a ceremonial frame around Bartlet's public role, even as his private fears about Zoey surface. Zoey snaps her father's picture amid the ongoing cheers, exchanging smiles.

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Also known as: Crowd

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3 moments

S4E22 · Commencement

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

Celebratory and expectant — focused on ritual and honor rather than the President's private anxieties.

The assembled crowd applauds and cheers as Bartlet and the Chancellor descend and walk out, providing the supportive public frame against which Bartlet's private concern is juxtaposed.

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S4E22 · Commencement

Pocketed Anxiety — Final Edits and the Walk to Commencement

Warmly approving and celebratory; unaware of the President's private worry.

Applauds and cheers as Bartlet and the Chancellor appear; their enthusiasm sanctifies the ritual and contrasts with Bartlet's private tension.

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S4E22 · Commencement

A Father's Smile — Zoey's Quiet Photograph

Warmly celebratory; engaged and deferential toward the procession.

The assembled crowd applauds and cheers as Bartlet and the chancellor descend and walk out, providing the public, celebratory backdrop that transforms private tension into a shared civic moment.

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