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Percy Fitzwallace

Fitzwallace retires almost immediately after the resolution of the Zoey Bartlet (Elisabeth Moss) kidnap crisis at the beginning of season five and is replaced as chairman by General Nicholas Alexander (Terry O'Quinn).

Situation Room

The New York Times commented on Clinton's expression in the photograph, writing, "She is what the French critic Roland Barthes called the 'punctum,' the not necessarily conspicuous detail that gives a photograph its emotional resonance."

Air Force Brigadier General Brad Webb was sitting at the table monitoring the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound when Michael Leiter, then Director of the United States National Counterterrorism Center, entered the room.


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