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Old Ebbitts
Sam's voice slices through Communications Office static, thrusting Old Ebbitts as 1 PM battleground for lunch with Ritchie's envoy Kahn—tables set for strategy feasts, cutlery clinking under murmurs of leaked-ad countermeasures, air thick with partisan calculation and bipartisan feint. This DC power trench, Sam's instinctive neutral pick, crackles with promise until Kahn swerves to Charlie's, stranding diplomatic hunger amid White House crises.
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S3E19
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Sam Seizes Urgent Call from Kahn to Arrange Strategic Lunch
Sam proposes Old Ebbitts as the instinctive neutral 1 PM lunch venue during his phone negotiation with Kahn, embodying DC's historic power-dining tradition where partisan whispers hide behind clinking silverware, rejected in favor of Charlie's but highlighting Sam's bold outreach initiative.
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Evoked as bustling, historic neutrality primed for intrigue
Functional Role
Initial proposed site for clandestine strategy session
Symbolic Significance
Classic Washington battleground for feigned civility
Access Restrictions
Public but insider-favored for discretion
Clinking cutlery and murmured deals
Central DC accessibility
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