Margaret's Appointment Books

Sam barrels to Margaret's desk in the shadowed hush of Leo's outer office at night, leaning close as fingers drum the worn surface during casual greeting turned Haiti intel drop. This wooden sentinel guards access to the chief of staff, strewn with crisis remnants, absorbing proactive pleas amid re-election frenzy and foreign policy pivots.

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Purpose

Verify scheduled appointments for Leo McGarry

Significance

Skeptical ledger flip guards the power threshold, catalyzing Bruno's mythic unmasking and igniting re-election tensions amid MS fallout and staff fractures.

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S3E2 · Manchester Part II

Bruno Gianelli's Arrival and Leo's Revelation of His Elite Pedigree

Margaret consults her appointment books on her desk to cross-check Bruno's claimed meeting, using them as a ritual barrier of verification that underscores White House protocol; narratively, they symbolize the administrative steel gatekeeping the chaotic re-election inferno, heightening tension before Leo's mythic override.

Before: Closed and resting on Margaret's desk in Leo's outer office

After: Opened and examined, returned to desk in Leo's outer office

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