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Oriental Hotel, Bangkok

Presidential anticipation electrifies the air as Bartlet fixates on the Oriental Hotel's James Michener suite in Bangkok, its typewriter keys scarred by literary odysseys amid Thai royal shadows. June's stay beckons with silk-shrouded luxury, river whispers threading diplomatic pomp and historic hush—staff scribble notes, envisioning humid corridors where global summits simmer in gilded repose, far from Oval crises.
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S2E12 · The Drop-In
Bartlet Banters with Wit Before Formally Crediting Thai Ambassador Sumatra

The Oriental Hotel in Bangkok emerges as a vivid conversational focal point, exalted by Bartlet and enriched by Sumatra's Michener anecdote, fueling presidential enthusiasm and prompting a logged itinerary note—foreshadowing cultural respite from crises, infusing the ceremony with anticipatory allure.

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Exotically historic and literarily haunted

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Referenced future diplomatic lodging and cultural touchstone

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Beacon of poised luxury amid political tempests

James Michener's scarred typewriter in namesake suite Silk-shrouded riverside luxury

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