Location
Town Hall — Backstage/Preparation Area (interior)
A cramped, high-stakes prep zone that breathes urgency: staff cluster over cue sheets and microphones while watches and phones count down. The prep began ten minutes earlier, leaving last-minute runners—muffins and coffee in hand—stumbling through with frantic updates. Donna issues clipped, authoritative directives as Josh arrives scattershot, exposing the tiny combustible panic beneath public performance. This space functions as the administrative antechamber to a public forum, where logistics harden into rhetoric and timing determines control.
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S1E16
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20 Hours in L.A.
Bartlet Deflects the Flag-Burning Outcry
Town Halls are explicitly named by Bartlet as one of the arenas where the flag‑burning debate will continue; here they function narratively as the future, grassroots stages that diffuse the question beyond the presidency and into local performance politics.
Atmosphere
Evocative of combustible public forums — implied as heated, participatory, and performative.
Functional Role
Future battlegrounds for public debate and constituent pressure.
Symbolic Significance
Represents the decentralized, populist energy that will sustain and amplify the controversy.
Access Restrictions
Open to public participation; monitored by local officials and media.
Microphone-centered interaction
Crowd-driven applause and shout responses
Close physical proximity between officials and citizens
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