Object
Josh Lyman's Green Evacuation Card
A small, green laminated card issued by national security personnel, roughly wallet-sized and printed with terse evacuation instructions. Jonathan Lacey slips it into Josh's hand; its presence stiffens the room. The card names a secure underground command center as Josh's destination and physically embodies an official escape plan.
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Purpose
To direct the cardholder to a designated evacuation shelter — specifically an underground command center — in the event of a nuclear attack.
Significance
The card crystallizes a brutal institutional choice: professional survival versus personal loyalty. Receiving it isolates Josh, forces moral reckoning about who is protected, and converts bureaucratic procedure into an intimate instrument of exile and guilt.
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