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Acadia National Park (West Wing — coastal reference)
Acadia National Park registers here as a windswept, coastal refuge invoked from the Oval Office: granite headlands, spruce-and-fir ridges, and salt-bright coves that catch sunrise like a private revelation. Bartlet names it as an often-overlooked jewel during a midnight lecture, using its quiet grandeur as a rhetorical anchor—a tactile counterpoint to policy fatigue that summons maritime cold, gull-voiced silence, and the moral pull of protected places while keeping the scene intimate and reflective.
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Bartlet's Midnight Parks Lecture
Acadia is mentioned to show Bartlet's awareness of coastal and northeastern parks often overlooked in national conversation.
Atmosphere
Evoked as windswept and intimate—salt‑bright coves and granite headlands.
Functional Role
Broadens the aesthetic range of Bartlet's examples, humanizing him further.
Symbolic Significance
Represents the domestic, local dimension of national stewardship.
Mention of coastal coves and sunrise on granite
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