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Various Clerical People

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Prayer Breakfast Attendees fill the White House room during Cardinal Patrick's invocation for President Bartlet, safe evacuation of 500 American missionaries and children from Khundu, and relief for violence victims there. They respond in unison with 'Amen,' sit to eat breakfast, and witness Archbishop Zake Kintaka's direct challenge to Bartlet over U.S. inaction and racial double standards in foreign policy crises. Their presence underscores tensions between ritual prayer and urgent moral demands on administration leadership.

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S4E14 · Inauguration Part I

Amen, But Not Enough — Zake's Moral Rebuke

From solemn and prayerful to attentive and unsettled as the moral confrontation unfolds.

Various clerical attendees stand for the invocation, respond with an 'Amen', then sit to eat; they become witnesses to the confrontation, shifting from reverent participants to an uneasy audience during …

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