CHAPTER THIRTY SEVEN
3:40 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time
The Oval Office
The White House
Washington, DC
Wallace Speck stood away from the group. He glanced around the Oval Office.
In front of him, three tall windows, with drapes pulled back, looked out on the Rose Garden. Outside, it was a sunny day.
There were a dozen people in the room, men in suits, men in military dress greens, Secret Service agents. Mark Baylor sat in a high-backed chair in the sitting area. Beneath his feet was the Seal of the President of the United States. All of the people were in Baylor’s orbit.
A large flat-screen TV was mounted on the far wall. Everyone stared at it. On the screen, Speaker of the House Clement Dixon stood at a sturdy wooden podium on the steps of the Capitol Building. There was a bank of mi
