England
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England is invoked at the close as ‘His Royal Majesty, The King of all England’ — another playful misnomer Bartlet uses to keep the children's attention and reassert levity after the interruption.
Playful, slightly grandiose, serving to reestablish lightness.
Rhetorical device to pivot the children back into the Q&A and restore normalcy.
Underscores the President's skill in performance and the slipperiness between theatre and duty in public life.
England is playfully invoked as 'His Royal Majesty' in Bartlet's continuing attempts to keep the exchange lively; its mention is part of the recovery ritual he uses to return attention to the staged performance.
Mock-regal, playful; a deliberate tonal maneuver to restore lightness after the announcement.
Comedic/tonal tool to re-center the audience and deflect the recent sorrow.
Represents tradition and ceremony, useful to the President as a stabilizing, theatrical device.
England is cited by Marbury as unprotected by NMD shield despite alliance, contrasting Alaska's vulnerability and underscoring treaty-bound exposure in transatlantic security debate.
Vulnerable island outpost
Diplomatic leverage point
Alliance faultline in missile shadow
Marbury retorts he resides in unprotected England, underscoring shield's exclusion of allies and heightening transatlantic bargaining tension in the debate.
Precariously exposed island amid threats
Lever in alliance negotiation
Test of U.S. commitment to UK
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