Unnamed Coach

Visiting NCAA coach grips Vice President Hoynes' hand in the White House lobby's glare, jersey aloft as flashes erupt and laughter echoes from Hoynes' banter on triumphant seasons and returning starters. Composed reserve steadies him amid the photo-op's warmth, projecting community anchor and normalcy's facade even as Secret Service surges shatter the moment, hustling Hoynes away into crisis shadows. He stands placid, a humanizing emblem of constituent optics—athletic success bridging political ritual and national peril—his silence amplifying the jolt from levity to lockdown urgency.