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.section{padding:94px 0}
.section.tight{padding:65px 0}
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.section.navy{background:var(--navy);color:white}
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.breadcrumb{font-size:11px;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:.1em;color:#856a45;margin-bottom:18px}
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.prose h2{font-size:36px;color:var(--navy);margin:0 0 22px}
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.aside-nav{border-top:3px solid var(--gold);align-self:start;position:sticky;top:25px}
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.copyright a{color:#d2c6af}
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.photocredit a{text-decoration:underline}
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/* 2026-11-04 production hotfix: ensure hero copy cannot collapse into a one-letter column. */
.hero-text{min-width:0}
.hero-copy{min-width:0;width:100%;box-sizing:border-box}
.hero h1{overflow-wrap:normal;word-break:normal;hyphens:none}
.hero .lead{overflow-wrap:break-word}
@media(min-width:951px){.hero-copy{padding-left:max(36px,calc((100vw - 1160px)/2));padding-right:clamp(36px,3vw,65px)}}

/* Artwork fallback when historical photo CDN is unavailable. */
.hero-photo.image-failed,.page-image.image-failed,.bleed-image .photo.image-failed{
  background:radial-gradient(ellipse at 60% 23%,#3c5a75 0%,#1d3b5b 53%,#10283f 100%);
}
.hero-photo.image-failed:before,.page-image.image-failed:before,.bleed-image .photo.image-failed:before{
  content:"";position:absolute;inset:13% 12%;
  border-top:2px solid #ddbd80;border-bottom:6px double #ddbd80;
  opacity:.6;
  background:repeating-linear-gradient(90deg,transparent 0 13%,#cfb785 13% 14.5%,transparent 14.5% 28%);
  clip-path:polygon(0 28%,50% 0,100% 28%,100% 100%,0 100%);
}
.hero-photo.image-failed:after,.page-image.image-failed:after{
  content:"THE OVAL OFFICE";position:absolute;left:0;right:0;top:auto;bottom:18%;
  text-align:center;color:#f2e8d7;font:23px Georgia,serif;letter-spacing:.13em;
  background:none;height:auto;
}
.hero-photo.image-failed figcaption{z-index:2}
.image-failed img{display:none!important}