Object
Margaret's Dictation Notepad
Margaret bursts through the door, fingers thrusting the crumpled urgent note into Leo's palm mid-sentence; he devours the scrawled lines in a heartbeat, jaw clenching as frustration surges, then fists it savagely before flinging it back and bolting—Josh's tobacco crusade evaporates in the shockwave, Ritter and Joey frozen as crisis rips Leo from the war room, Josh left pivoting alone into congressional fire.
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Purpose
To record spoken dictation and rapid notes during Leo's late-night memo sessions; a portable writing surface for Margaret to capture orders, edits, and conversational details.
Significance
Functions as a tactile marker of the mechanical pace and impersonality of White House work—its filled pages registering the unrelenting flow of duties and the emotional distance that surfaces in the scene; exchanging pads underscores exhaustion and bureaucratic momentum.
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