President Jed Bartlet's Dark Tailored Suit Jacket (performative prop)

The President's jacket is discussed as a staging element (to be removed for a more casual, intimate town hall look). It functions as a tactile costume choice signaling tone and showmanship, a prop whose presence creates debate about authenticity.

Bartlet's tailored suit jacket functions as a ceremonial prop marking his movement and status; he instructs Charlie, who takes the jacket as part of the ritual of arrival and departure, smoothing the scene's optics and allowing Bartlet to conduct focused business.

Bartlet removes and hands this tailored presidential jacket to Charlie as he issues low-key, personal instructions (gifts for Harrison), signaling a transition from ceremony to administrative work while freeing the President to move through rooms.

A jacket functions as the tactile hinge between thought and action: Toby puts it on at the scene's close, signaling his transition from frozen anxiety to movement. The jacket's handling underscores the performative, physical step required to leave private terror and go where decisions will be met in person.

A jacket functions as the physical pivot from stasis to motion: Toby 'slowly puts on his jacket' after Bartlet's command. The garment carries symbolic weight — preparation, reentry into public duty — and marks the moment Toby converts fear into action.

President Bartlet's jacket functions as a staged prop and symbolic instrument: by offering to remove it and then doing so, Bartlet signals a shift from performative humor to earnest engagement, using the jacket to close the distance between speaker and audience.

President Bartlet removes his jacket onstage as a performative gesture to signal informality and the end of formal remarks; the jacket functions as a tactile punctuation mark that allows backstage to breathe and cues a shift from rhetoric to exit choreography.

President Bartlet's jacket is used as a deliberate performance prop: its removal under stage lights signals informality and candor, eliciting audience applause and functioning as a tactile pivot from joke to serious critique.

President Bartlet's jacket, removed moments before the signal exchange, functions as a tactile, theatrical device that sets the informal tone of the town‑hall; its removal precedes and frames the staff's need to manage private news delicately within an intimate public moment.

Bartlet's jacket serves as a performative prop: he removes it onstage during the town‑hall to connect with the audience. The jacket marks the intersection of public persona and backstage business — as gestures of image management overlay the private relay of urgent news.

President Bartlet's jacket is discussed as a deliberate staging device (should he remove it mid‑town hall?). It functions as a small costume choice that modulates tone between formality and intimacy and is central to Mandy and Sam's debate on optics.