Sex‑Ed Report (Printed Disclosure Packet — Leo's Office)

The disclosure reports sit in the office as combustible paper evidence: Leo forbids Margaret from reading them while she warns they will be in the newspapers—these pages provide background pressure that heightens the urgency and stakes of the political decisions discussed.

The disclosure reports are an operatic offstage threat — Margaret reads them, Leo snaps at her to stop, and they represent combustible public material that raises the stakes for secrecy and political damage control.

A confidential, stapled commissioned report is dramatically dropped by Josh onto C.J.'s desk; its blunt findings immediately reframe the day's concerns from optics to policy truth, acting as the catalytic prop that forces strategic choice.

The commissioned sex‑education report is physically dropped onto C.J.'s desk by Josh and functions as the event's detonator: its plain cover and blunt findings instantly reframe the staff's late‑night calculus by contradicting the abstinence‑only bargain and recommending 'abstinence‑plus.' The packet's presence forces immediate triage decisions about messaging, congressional bargaining and whether to bury, own, or spin the findings.

A stapled report is being read by C.J. on the couch at the start of the scene — its presence gives her the pretext for focus and signals this conversation is part of active press-triage. The report also functions as the tangible briefing that anchors the meeting's urgency and C.J.'s preparedness.

A stapled report is physically present and read by C.J. at the start of the scene — it anchors her posture and signals ongoing briefing work. The report functions as the mundane paperwork backdrop against which the urgent verbal news arrives, emphasizing that crisis management interrupts routine duties.

The commissioned sex‑education report is the focal prop: Bartlet reads its blunt findings, repeatedly censors a specific sexual term by scribbling on the page, and uses the document as both information and a shield against saying the word aloud. It catalyzes embarrassment and precipitates a choice about disclosure when Mrs. Landingham asks to see it.

The printed sex‑education report functions as the catalytic object of the scene: its findings force a moral-versus-political decision. Bartlet labels it 'incendiary,' C.J. pleads for its publication, and Bartlet orders it effectively mothballed (put in a drawer and rhetorically 'thrown out with the trash'), turning paper into a pawn in personnel protection.

The printed Sex‑Ed Report is the contested object of the scene: its findings are read aloud by C.J., it is described as "incendiary," and Bartlet decides it will be set aside in a drawer until after the midterms. The report functions as both evidentiary truth and political liability, the physical stand‑in for the moral choice.