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Leo McGarry's Former Residence

Bartlet hurls it like a gauntlet—Leo's former residence, shadowed keeper of a historical U.S. map stripped of modern borders, mirrors Oval Office standoff. Walls cradle artifacts of unyielding accuracy, defiant against anachronism's mockers; principle's fortress where chief strategist's past fuels present fire, truth's map unfurling amid scandal's roar, levity masking intellectual steel.
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S3E10 · H. Con-172
Bartlet Defends Historic Map Against C.J.'s Backlash Warning

Leo's former residence is referenced by Bartlet as the current home of his analogous historical U.S. map, invoked to parallel the 1709 map's controversy—evoking personal history to steel his argument against relocation, layering domestic nostalgia onto the political standoff.

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Implicitly nostalgic and principled, shadowed by past marital life

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Repository for evidentiary prop in absentia

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Bastion of uncompromised historical fidelity mirroring Bartlet's stance

Walls holding defiant artifacts Echoes of Leo's personal past

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