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    Mr. President
    Mr. President
    Mr. President
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    Mr. President

    By Dick Francis and Stephen Arr

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJun 1, 2011
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      Mr. President - Dick Francis

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Mr. President, by Stephen Arr

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      Title: Mr. President

      Author: Stephen Arr

      Illustrator: Dick Francis

      Release Date: June 6, 2010 [EBook #32719]

      Language: English

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      Mr. President

      By STEPHEN ARR

      Illustrated by DICK FRANCIS

      He had been overwhelmingly elected. Messages of sympathy poured in, but they couldn't help ... nothing could.

      eorge Wong stood pale and silent by the video screen, listening to the election returns, a long-stemmed glass of champagne clutched forgotten in his trembling right hand.

      The announcer droned on: —latest returns from Venus, with half of the election districts reporting, give three billion four hundred and ninety-six million votes for Wong, against one billion, four hundred million for Thompson, one billion one hundred million for Miccio, and nine hundred million for Kau. These results, added to the almost complete returns from Earth and the first fragmentary reports from Mars, clearly indicate a landslide vote for Wong as the next President of the Solar Union. The two billion votes from Ganymede and Callisto, which will be received early tomorrow morning, cannot appreciably affect the results. The battle for the twenty-five Vice-Presidents is less clear. It is certain that Thompson, Miccio, Kau, Singh, and DuLavier will all be among those elected, but in what order is not yet....

      Wong leaned over and snapped the video off. His shoulders sagged. He leaned against the console as though too tired to move, a slight, narrow-shouldered man with a very high

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