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Bartlet's Campaign Call Reminder Messages
Charlie shoves these terse pink slips across the Oval Office desk amid Tokyo market chatter—urgent reminders for campaign calls to Wyman, Gates, McNamara. Bartlet eyes them keenly, confirms the trio with clipped precision, then snatches them up, stuffing into his briefcase as resolve hardens his features. He rejects Charlie's desk-bound plea, banishing the fundraising taint from sacred space, carrying them toward the Residence's shadowed privacy.
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Purpose
Reminders prompting President Bartlet to make targeted campaign phone calls to key supporters Wyman, Gates, and McNamara.
Significance
Bartlet seizes them to enforce a razor-sharp ethical line—no campaigning poisons the Oval's air—modeling restraint that reins in staff's midterm fervor amid post-assassination highs, his exit a deliberate pivot from power to personal duty.
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