Orion Protocol, The
Chapter One
January 27/Oval Office/the White House
"Two months ago, if anybody had said we were gonna catch this in the first hundred days, I'd have thought they were high."
The fifty-eight-year-old former senator from Colorado and newly
elected President of the United States stared out the much-photographed
bay window of the Oval Office and into the cut-back winter Rose
Garden.
"What was it Truman said?"
On the desktop, the blade end of his letter opener, engraved with the
presidential seal, tapped out a rhythmic figure from the William Tell
Overture known to Americans who came of age in front of three black-and-white channels of network TV as the theme from The Lone Ranger.
"Truman, sir?"
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