Call-to-Action Instructions (Letter, Fax, Western Union)

A compact set of low‑technology paper artifacts: loose handwritten or typed letters, a single printed fax page with a stamped header, and a Western Union telegram stub. Pages sit thin, creased, occasionally smudged with toner; staff finger, fold, stamp, annotate, and slide copies across desks. Bartlet intones the trio as concrete channels; aides instantly catalog addresses, prepare bundles for volunteers, and ready distribution logistics as the backstage crisis ignites.

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S1E4 · Five Votes Down

Triumph on Stage, Crisis Backstage

Bartlet's speech explicitly invokes paper artifacts — letters, faxes, Western Union — as civic tools; the mention functions narratively as a call to action and a reminder that the public must be mobilized following the staff's backstage scramble.

Before: Conceptually in the speech as specific calls to constituents; physical copies not singled out onstage.

After: Remain rhetorical and procedural tasks for staff to operationalize in response to the lost votes; implied as next‑step artifacts to be produced/distributed.

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