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Reeves, thought Bowers has he continued to contemplate all that had occurred
in such a short period of time.
Despite the analytical nature of the planning,just in case , he, along with
everyone else, had thought that
Norm Weisskopf would not be taken from them.
But now, President Weisskopf had been killed& and in a traumatic and brutally
quick fashion. Now, all of wise preparations that had been made at the
insistence of the President himself, and with the assent of
Congress, had come into play.
After the President, the White House and the Congress itself had been
attacked at the outset of the war, in March of 2006, killing the Vice
President and many members of Congress, the Continuation of
Powers Acts had been proposed and enacted in Congress. Since that time, the
Vice President s entourage always included the necessary personnel and legal
authority to quickly swear him in as
President in the event of a successful attempt on the President s life.
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Defense, traveled with just such an entourage at all times. No more than three
of the people in the line of succession were permitted by law to be at any one
event simultaneously. And all six of them were required to be situated in at
least three different localities, separated by no less than three hundred
miles each, at any time.
In this case, John Bowers was sworn in as the 45thPresident within five
minutes of the official confirmation of the President s death. In a clear
voice, he recited the Presidential Oath to a U.S. District
Judge, one of the special group of six who now traveled with the first six
successors at all times.
I, John Bowers, do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office
of President of the United
States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the
Constitution of the United
States, so help me God.
As it turned out, and as had been the case on March 15th, 2006, one-third of
the line of succession to the Presidency had been killed. In March of 2006, it
had been the Vice President and the Secretary of
Defense. In May of 2009, it was the President himself and, once again, the
Secretary of Defense, for
George Crowler had died from his wounds early on the morning of June 1st.
Americans in general were reacting with shock and outrage to the attack, and
particularly to the death of their beloved President. Since the times of
George Washington, there had not been a President who was more widely accepted
and revered by virtually all of the citizenry than Norm Weisskopf. In both
cases, their leadership during military conflict and the perception that their
unique capabilities contributed monumentally to the salvation of a people was
what engendered their universal acceptance and respect.
In George Washington s case, his providential leadership was called into play
during the nation s traumatic birth. In Norm Weisskopf s case, such
leadership was needed in a battle for the preservation of the nation s
founding principles and in defense of its people s very lives and freedoms.
For both men, there had been no viable contender& against Norm Weisskopf, the
principle contender had failed to garner even one electoral vote.
From opinions expressed in editorials, on call-in talk shows, over the
internet, and in barbershops across the land, the outrage and anger were
palatable. But after well over three years of war, the anger was not a
blustering, or a passion-of-the-moment kind of anger. To those watching
closely, it was more of a determined set to the jaw, a more deeply engrained
resolve kind of an anger, one that grits its teeth and is determined to
persevere, no matter the cost, no matter the length of time required.
And it was a mindset that was shared by the vast majority of the people and
was now being reflected in the vast majority of the media outlets, who,
through the course of the war and as a result of their own losses and
betrayals, had adopted a much more American and liberty-oriented
viewpoint& more similar in nature to the news media of World War II. JT
Sampson s example and leadership in this area had proven indispensable to the
change in nature, and this was particularly evident in his response to the
President s death.
The result was becoming clear: America was coming even closer together,
becoming more united, more resolute and more determined as a result of the
killing of their President. And in this way, the plans of
America s enemies had not panned out, even if they didn t know it yet.
Despite the immediate loss, despite the slight hesitancies and mistakes that
necessarily accompany such an abrupt transfer of power, it was the additional
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unity, determination, and resolve that would figure most heavily into the
course of future events as far as the United States was concerned qualities
that would be very much needed for the free world to persevere.
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In China:
When Jien Zenim received verification that the final phase of operation
Hung-Lu-Dung had proven successful, and that President Weisskopf was dead, he
was elated. As a part of his long-term planning, he had initially calculated
that the successor to George W. Bush, who had been a strong foreign policy
President for the Americans, and who had represented a major obstacle in
Zenim s plan for Asian hegemony for the People s Republic, would either be the
wife of the President before Bush, or someone closely associated with that
former administration. He had done all in his power to engineer it that way.
In much the same way as the American presidential administration of the 1990s
had been one of the most enabling features of Zenim s plan, that next
administration would have enabled him to usher in the final phases of his, and
the leadership in China s long-held beliefs and goals for China. The 1990s
American administration was something that had been financed, cajoled,
blackmailed, subverted, and used to the benefit of the PRC for all of its
eight years. The resulting bonanzas that had accrued to China in technology,
manufacturing, currency, and economy had ensured the furtherance of the final
phases of
Zenim s planning. He had engineered things that that way, too.
But he had miscalculated. The successor to Bush had been a shock and surprise.
Weisskopf had proven even more resolute against the PRC than Bush. Norm
Weisskopf had become the greatest impediment
Jien Zenim had ever encountered in American leadership, and his election to
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