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Eau Claire, Wisconsin (city)

A regional city with specific political and cultural significance in the context of the West Wing narrative.
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S1E4 · Five Votes Down
Primary or Perish — The Air Force One Ultimatum

Eau Claire, Wisconsin is invoked as the threatened setting for a manufactured presidential visit—a small Midwestern town whose town square, band gazebo, and municipal staging will be repurposed into a weapon of optics and public humiliation against Katzenmoyer.

Atmosphere

Imagined as festive yet exposed—flagpoles and a band gazebo primed for cameras, the noise of a jetlandings turning normality into spectacle.

Functional Role

Site for the threatened future event that serves as the mechanism of political annihilation (staged optics and press coverage).

Symbolic Significance

Represents small‑town vulnerability to national optics; a stage where local loyalty can be publicly re‑recast by presidential presence.

Access Restrictions

Public town square—open to residents and press; in the threatened scenario it would be temporarily dominated by White House security and media.

Town square with a band gazebo Air Force One's loud landing as a sensory detail Municipal furnishings repurposed as press and photo opportunities (camera-ready spaces)

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