Abbey's Truman Biography for the Governor

Abbey's fingers graze the Truman biography's cover as aides muscle her suitcase toward the door, Carrie nodding swift confirmation—distracted heft amid folded clothes and averted eyes, the volume a historical anchor in bedroom shadows where silence screams relational rupture, priming her resolute departure.

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Purpose

Travel gift for the Governor

Significance

Abbey deploys it as minutiae shield against Bartlet's gaze, its packing a tense prelude to MS-fueled fury and tears—trust fractures, isolation coils, presidential secrets exacting intimate toll.

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S2E14 · The War At Home

Abbey's Distracted Departure Prep and Evasive Chill

Referenced in Abbey's distracted query to Carrie, confirmed as Truman biography for Governor; it functions as symbolic gubernatorial gift, grounding her travel prep in policy outreach while evading Bartlet's probe.

Before: Prepared for travel, location unspecified

After: Confirmed for inclusion in Abbey's departure items

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