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Teriman Resort

Teriman Resort appears only as a trailing reference inside Donna's six‑page Madison memo, a named offstage leisure destination conjured but never visited. The single mention summons the contrast between curated retreat and the charged fluorescent corridors of the West Wing: sun-warmed calm, distant surf, and private repose imagined as an ideological foil. The name functions as rhetorical ballast, a shorthand for escape and perspective used to press the administration toward conviction and morale.

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S1E19 · Let Bartlet Be Bartlet

Donna's Madison Memo — A Check on Defeatism

Teriman Resort is mentioned by Donna as a rhetorical contrast — an imagined retreat and place of perspective invoked inside the memo. It functions as an offstage image that helps frame the memo's pastoral and reflective arguments against the corridor's cramped, reactive energy.

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Evocative, idealized calm contrasted with the corridor's tension — a remembered or imagined respite that highlights present friction.

Functional Role

Referenced location serving as rhetorical ballast in the memo and a metaphorical counterpoint to West Wing fatigue.

Symbolic Significance

Symbolizes perspective, retreat, and the possibility of rest that the staff lacks; represents what principled leadership could reclaim.

Mentioned contrast to the fluorescent-lit corridor Evokes sun-warmed calm and distance from crisis Serves as textual imagery within the memo rather than a physical set piece

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S1E19 · Let Bartlet Be Bartlet

Donna's Madison Memo — A Check on Defeatism

Donna catches Josh in the corridor and presses a six‑page memo arguing for English as the national language into his hands. When Josh brusquely dismisses her James Madison material, Donna …