Location

White House Prayer Breakfast

Guests fill tables for Cardinal Patrick's invocation blessing Americans and Khundu victims. Archbishop Zake Kintaka rises, voice sharp, accusing Bartlet of inaction and racial bias in crisis response. Bartlet concedes sketchy briefings amid clinking silverware and frozen attendees, prayer ritual yielding to raw policy demands in a sunlit room thick with moral tension.

1 events

1 rich involvements

Detailed Involvements

Events with rich location context

S4E14 · Inauguration Part I

Amen, But Not Enough — Zake's Moral Rebuke

The White House prayer breakfast room is the immediate stage for the event: a ceremonial, enclosed space where ritual invocation and informal meals occur, and where a private moral rebuke becomes public theater confronting presidential authority.

Atmosphere

Ceremonial and reverent at first, quickly shifting to tense, uneasy, and morally charged as the rebuke unfolds.

Functional Role

Stage for public confrontation and moral appeal within a ritual setting.

Symbolic Significance

Embodies the collision of spiritual authority and political power; a sacred setting used to hold the administration morally accountable.

Access Restrictions

Restricted to invited clergy and the President; a private institutional gathering rather than a public forum.

attendees standing around tables set with plates of food a formal invocation recited aloud followed by a collective 'Amen' participants sit to eat while the confrontation continues

Events at This Location

Everything that happens here

S4E14 · Inauguration Part I

Amen, But Not Enough — Zake's Moral Rebuke

At a White House prayer breakfast Cardinal Patrick leads a solemn invocation for Americans and the victims of erupting violence in Khundu. The ritual is abruptly ruptured when Archbishop Zake …