text: No , what struck Jacob as oppressively squalid was the subject matter he was forced to contemplate week after fleeting , age-inappropriate sexual liaisons in the Oval Office ; the seep of money into every cranny of the political system ; Trent Lott ; Newt Gingrich .
  
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  Jacob wasn 't thinking about the oval office at all , in fact Jacob didn 't even exist .