Presidential privacy and personal humanity vs. communications/press opportunism: President Bartlet’s desire for a small personal Christmas errand (private human ritual) collides with staff (communications/press) who seek to leverage any presidential mo...
Presidential privacy and personal humanity vs. communications/press opportunism: President Bartlet’s desire for a small personal Christmas errand (private human ritual) collides with staff (communications/press) who seek to leverage any presidential moment for optics.
Events in This Arc
In the Oval, Mandy pushes to turn a small presidential outing into press fodder while Bartlet firmly asserts a private boundary: this is a quiet, personal ritual, not a photo …
President Bartlet quietly stages a small, clandestine Christmas outing to a rare-book shop and insists on privacy despite Mandy's media instincts. He walks Josh through the covert logistics — agents, …
In a cramped rare-books aisle a petty spat between Mandy and Josh about photographers ripples outward: Mandy's jab about "a few photographers" exposes underlying friction, and Josh disarms it with …