Zimbabwe
Detailed Involvements
Events with rich location context
Zimbabwe is invoked rhetorically to expose the impracticality of policing a doctor's private counseling under the gag rule; the country functions as an illustrative foreign setting beyond U.S. oversight.
Hypothetical and remote; used to dramatize policy absurdity.
Illustrative foreign policy example
Symbolizes the distance between Washington policy and on-the-ground realities
Zimbabwe is invoked hypothetically by Abbey when questioning enforcement of a gag rule overseas; it functions as the distant, concrete example that reveals the policy's absurd reach and enforcement impossibility.
Conceptual and distant; provides moral gravity and practical absurdity to the gag rule discussion.
Illustrative policy target; frames the debate about the real-world implications of aid riders.
Represents the limits of Washington control over private life and medicine in faraway places.
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In a quiet, late-night bedroom scene Bartlet and Abbey process the political fallout from Will Bailey's off-the-cuff climate remark and the DAR incident. Abbey reveals she defused a potential DAR …
In an intimate, late-night bedroom scene Bartlet and Abbey process the political fallout from Will's gaffe and Abbey's own messy interventions. Abbey unloads years of domestic disappointments and admits she …