Object
Photo I.D. (Rhetorical Prop)
A wallet‑sized photographic identification card implied rather than physically produced: a laminated rectangle that would bear a headshot and printed personal details. In the Roosevelt Room the card exists as a spoken prop — characters name it aloud, do not handle it, and use its bureaucratic specificity to land a joke about border control. The invocation shifts tone, drawing attention without becoming a physical exhibit.
2 appearances
Purpose
To verify personal identity for border control or administrative checks (invoked verbally here as a stand‑in for documentary proof).
Significance
Serves as a rhetorical device that punctures the conservationists' idealism with everyday bureaucracy. The mention frames political realism and voter concerns, functioning emotionally as a comic, practical rebuke rather than an evidentiary object.
Appearances in the Narrative
When this object appears and how it's used