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Government-wide Accountability for Merit System Principles Speech
Crisp yet archived pages bearing the lofty title 'Government-wide Accountability for Merit System Principles' ignite Sam's brainstorm spark in the Roosevelt Room's late-night frenzy. He pitches it as ripe for joke salvage amid Correspondents' Dinner prep; Josh bolts groaning to fetch this old October relic, yanking it from obscurity as Donna's smack-fueled eruption hangs in the air, raw anniversary pain slicing through banter.
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Purpose
Source material for extracting recyclable self-deprecating jokes in the President's Correspondents' Dinner speech
Significance
Embodies Bartlet staff's ritual plunder of past speeches for humor, bridging policy pomposity with personal vulnerability—Josh's retrieval quest punctuates erupting tensions, exposing emotional fissures beneath professional grind.
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