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Copy of George Perkins Marsh's 1845 Speech

Bartlet lunges for the shelf behind Charlie's Oval Office desk, fingers closing on worn volume mid-crisis whirl—leather spine cracking open to unleash George Perkins Marsh's Vermont thunder on agriculture's perils. He shoves it into Charlie's hands, pages fluttering like urgent missives, launching paternal barrage that drills history's soul past dates into ecology's raw birth via Haeckel, Charlie's eyes widening as tome weighs mentorship's gravity against submarine shadows.

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Purpose

Serves as educational primer for studying George Perkins Marsh's 1845 speech on agriculture and foundational ecology concepts coined by Ernst Haeckel

Significance

Ignites Bartlet's fierce investment in Charlie's intellect amid Oval frenzy—transforms chaos respite into profound lesson on history's living pulse, teasing warmth fractures presidential armor to reveal nurturing core fueling loyalty through geopolitical storms.

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S3E8 · The Women of Qumar

Bartlet Mentors Charlie on History Beyond Dates

Bartlet retrieves the worn volume of George Perkins Marsh's 1845 speech from the shelf behind Charlie's desk, using it as the tangible launchpad for his lesson on historical depth and ecology's origins, thrusting it into the mentorship moment to symbolize intellectual inheritance amid White House frenzy.

Before: Shelved behind Charlie's desk area, accessible yet dormant.

After: Retrieved and presumably handed to or referenced for Charlie's study, now activated as assigned reading material.

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