Chapter four
WASHINGTON, DC — MONDAY, MARCH 31, 2240 HOURS (EST)In the Oval Office, the President of the United States was reading the morning’s newspaper press clippings. He noticed the Toronto Tribune. The president started each day by arriving in his office at precisely eight o’clock. It was an off day for world news events, except for the Canadian blockbuster. The prime minister had won the federal election with a solid majority, 208 of 265 seats.
Meanwhile, here, south of the border, the president’s years in power were slipping by nearly unnoticed by the American and Canadian public, so it seemed. In his own country the media considered the president a weak politician. Some called him a Democratic Republican. One Washington writer referred to the tall, slim, bald man as “the preside
