President Bartlet's Oval Office Single-Seat Armchair (upholstered)

The President's armchair receives Bartlet after he rises from the couch; it visually frames him as both private person (slouching, taking pills) and as commander (sitting up, answering the phone), absorbing his posture changes during the shift from anxiety to action.

The President's armchair serves as his focal point for action: he sinks into it to converse more formally, then rises to pick up the phone and make the personal call to the pilot, anchoring his shift from private repose to exercised authority and intimacy.

The armchair functions as Bartlet's central perch and staging prop; he sits in it to deliver most of his lecture, then leans back into it when concluding. It visually centers him in the room and supports his conversational authority while staff cluster around.

Bartlet is initially seated in the armchair with his feet propped on the desk, signaling casual authority; he rises from it to meet Hoynes, transforming the chair from a place of repose into the vantage point for a moral rebuke.

The Oval Office armchair holds the President at the start of the event, framing his vulnerability; he rises from it, and the act of leaving its physical security precipitates his dizziness and near-fall, turning a piece of furniture into a staging prop that marks transition from private repose to public crisis.

Bartlet moves to the armchair to take a more active posture for conversation and later picks up the phone from his desk; the armchair signals a modest shift from relaxation to engagement and acts as his anchor for receiving operational updates.