Three Brothers Plus One: Book V111 Part 1 Grace as Plus One Part 2 My Memoirs

By Alfred Sanford Hamby

Grace wishes to make her own way like her other three brothers and attempts to balance her new political life with her husbands. He husband for months at a time is left alone and therefore becomes involved in extra martial affairs. As Secretary of State, the fourth in line to become the President of the United States without actually being voted for, wants to show the world that she can do the job and becomes involved in all sorts of foreign policies that have been historically established and some of her own.,

There is presented some actual data about the life of Alfred Hamby, the author of the 8 series of Three Brothers Plus On, while growing up into maturity. There are four (4) possibilities that are presented in regards to his growing up. You must use your imagination and maybe combine all his life stories into one (1) to get the real truth and or just take one (1).

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• Release date: Jul 29, 2011
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Alfred Sanford Hamby

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Copyright © 2011 by Alfred S. Hamby.

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Three Brothers Plus One Book II 978-1-4363-7327-2/ 978-1-4363-7328-9

Three Brothers Plus One Book III 978-1-4415-4391-2/ 978-1-4415-4392-9

Three Brothers Plus One Book IV 978-1-4415-4602-9/ 978-1-4415-4603-6

Three Brothers Plus One Book V 978-1-4415-9187-6/ 978-1-4415-9188-3

Three Brothers Plus One Book VI 978-1-4535-7816-2/ 978-1-4535-7817-9

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CONTENTS

Introduction Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

Chapter 29

Chapter 30

Chapter 31

Chapter 32

Chapter 33

Chapter 33

Chapter 34

Chapter 35

Chapter 36

Chapter 37

Chapter 38

Chapter 39

Chapter 40

Chapter 41

Chapter 42

Chapter 43

Chapter 44

Chapter 45

Chapter 46

Chapter 47

Chapter 48

Chapter 49

Chapter 50

Part A Introduction

Chapter 51

Chapter 52

Chapter 53

Chapter 54

Chapter 55

Chapter 56

Chapter 57

Part B

Chapter 58

Chapter 59

Chapter 60

Chapter 61

Chapter 62

Chapter 63

Part C

Chapter 63

Chapter 64

Chapter 65

Chapter 66

Chapter 67

Chapter 68

Chapter 68

Chapter 68

Chapter 69

Chapter 70

Chapter 71

Part D

Chapter 72

Chapter 73

Chapter 74

Chapter 75

Chapter 76

Chapter 77

Chapter 78

Chapter 79

Chapter 80

Chapter 81

Chapter 82

Part E

Chapter 83

Chapter 84

Chapter 85

Chapter 86

Chapter 87

Chapter 88

Chapter 89

Chapter 90

Chapter 91

Chapter 92

Chapter 93

Chapter 94

Chapter 94

Dedication

I would like to thank my wife Theresa Collins Hamby, my wife, of over 53 years and still growing strong (February 8, 1958) for giving me the opportunity to write this historical fictional novel.

God Bless my mother Beatrice Traister Hamby and my father Fred James Hamby where ever they are.

I would like also Grace Longo Gambino, a long time college friend (Pace University Class 1957) for her creative help and suggestions

PART 1

Three Brothers

Plus One-Grace as

Plus One

Introduction

Chapter 1

The Habetrawongo through natural birth had three boys and had always wanted a girl and at the first opportunity they did adopt a girl. She was three and one half (3/12) and was kidnapped from Naples, Italy and brought to Little Italy by the Italian Mafia and ran away from them to be found by the three brothers in Greenwich Village Park, New York. The three brothers had decided to take her home and ask their mother to adopt her rather than sending her to some chartable institution.

Our mother had come from a middle income family living in Williamsburg section of Brooklyn and after her divorce and remarry we moved to Astoria, Queens, New York. Now the four of us and our two parents had enjoyed a reasonable good life and all four of us had taken the advantage of scholarships to get a great education. Gerry the oldest had become an Attorney, Alfred had become a financial auditor after he had completed his MBA, Robert had become a physician that specializes in cardiology and Grace had become a journalist and a free-lance writer. From hardly anything the four had risen to the tops of their particular profession, from the bottom to the top and that’s the American way.

Grace as a free-lance writer associated with all classes of people to get interesting stories that sell. She had also joined the local political parties and was introduced to many Politian’s at various functions in New York City and Washington DC. She always wrote positive things about the legislatures that she had meet and out of the blue she was invited to a Presidential Cocktail Party and actually met the President and some of his staff members. She was an extrovert and was able to converse knowledgeable with everyone.

She was a big hit and so someone on the Presidential Staff had invited her to a Whitehouse for lunch in the Oval room of the President. The President had walked in and had greeted everyone. He had seated himself down directly opposite Grace and then the President had passed her a message inviting her the next day to his oval office as a private citizen and she was going to be the only one present besides his Press Secretary. At this meeting she was offered the job as Secretary of State. Even-though she had never held a political office, the President had said. She was more than qualified for his top political officer as Secretary of State and she was shocked by the offer and without thinking about the consequent of the position she had graciously accepted his offer and this was the beginning of Graces political future.

She was a big hit with the press and she had come across on television to the nation and to the world as a big hit as well. The President for one political reason or another had fired his Secretary of State. The press had believed it was about Japan and the oil dispute and the way he had handled it. Grace had written some very positive stories about the whole affair.

Gerry was his Chief of Secret Service and was always in the President’s office advising him on security matters. The day that the President had fired his Secretary of State, the President had let his hair down and had a personal conversation about him and his family; the Habetrawongo destiny and Gerry had casually mentioned Grace, as only a joke and he had spoken very well about her background and her accomplishments in foreign affairs. He jokingly again had mentioned he had thought that Grace would be a great candidate as his new Secretary of State because she had a great deal of knowhow, maximum, in the way that she so far has handled the press and more than likely could do the same for our foreign relations, foreign policy and foreign ambassadors certainly her relationship with foreign countries and was she, certainly, was well liked by almost everyone that he had spoken to. On second thought he had had thought that he has gone a little too far in recommending his sister for the job as Secretary of State and so he had dropped the issue and had gone onto another issue, security when he goes on the road to foreign countries.

After Gerry had left his Oval office, the President was really pleased with the way that his Chief of Secret Service was handling things and he would really think positively as his Secretary of State if the FBI and Congress approved of her. He had gotten back a favorable report on Grace from the FBI and as a matter of fact, it was much matter than some of the other candidates that were recommended for that position and so he had tossed it over and over in his mind and had finally consulted some of Congressional advisors and had finally made up his mind to recommend her to Congress as a non-experienced first female Secretary of State.

From a freelance writer to the Secretary of State and the fourth (4) persons in line to become the President of the United States and this could never be accomplished in any other Democratic Country except maybe India.

Chapter 2

Grace was sleeping in her new office on a six (6) foot sofa, and with three cushioned black leather pillows. She had a very busy day; she had gone before a Congressional Committee to be confirmed as Secretary of State and after a give and an all morning session by a vote of 7-6 of thirteen (13) members of the political Congressional Committee, the President had a majority of votes on this committee she was confirmed and then went over to her Senior members of her Department of State that had given her a very hard time but at the end of the grueling meeting, they had congratulated her.

As a reward for her prior service to the President she was given a brand new office and a new cell phone number. As Secretary of State, her office was now next to the President, also and had the privilege of seeing him any time she wishes. She was now the ambassador of the United States, traveling to trouble spots to explain the American policy to her foreign ambassadors and foreign ambassadors at the same time. Once a month she was required to submit to the President a list of her travel plans and when approved sends the approved list to the Travel Department to make all of her travel arrangements. If her husband Vic wanted to go he was more than welcome but since he was not in governmental service, he would only advice his wife on non-governmental issues which means he must keep quiet and just listen.

Grace was tossing and turning and could not really get a good sleep and so she finally got up and made for herself a hot cup of coffee and then had called her husband and told him that she will not be coming home tonight; she has a great deal of reading to catch up on and her whole current library and she had also inquired about her darling daughter, Anna and her health and his and had apologized and she will attempt to see both of them over this coming weekend.

She then walked over to her very large wall to wall library of books and found what she was looking for; what are the responsibilities of the Secretary of State and the duties of the Secretary of State.

Let’s see which one shall I read and study first. There were volumes and volumes of books on the shelves on all political topics and as she had glance through them she had come across one labeled The Responsibilities to the President, the Nation and to the World.

The Secretary of State is the administrators of the Department of State and the principle spokesperson for the President on U.S. policies. The secretary serves as a member of the President’s inner cabinet and by law as a member of the National Security Council. They have primary responsibility for preparing the budget for foreign affairs programs, diplomatic missions, and foreign aid to developing nations, and contributions to multinational organizations such as the World Bank, the United Nations, the Inter-American Develop Bank, and the International Monetary Fund. She is also the most senior member of the Cabinet, being fourth in line for the President Succession.

Grace had to read four or five times the President Succession and then mentally said to herself; at a very important conference where the President, Vice President and the Speaker of the House are together some crazy may attempt to blow all of them up, she maybe become the President. She must make absolutely sure that she never ever attends such a gathering where all four (4) are in attendance. In that instant she may be sworn in as the first female President that was not elected by the people at a ballot box.

Duties of the Secretary of State;

Under the Constitution, the President of the United States determines U.S, foreign policy. The Secretary of State appointed by the President with advice and consent of the Senate, is the President’s chief foreign affairs advisor. The Secretary of State carries out the President’s foreign policies through the State Department and the Foreign Services of the United States.

Created in 1789 by the Congress as the Department of Foreign Affairs, the Department of State is the senior executive Department of the United States Government. The Secretary of State’s duties relating to foreign affairs have not changed significantly since then, but they have become far more complex as international commitments multiplied. These duties—the activities and responsibilities of the State Department—include the following:

1- Servers as the President’s principal advisor on U.S. foreign policy

2- Conducts negotiation relating to U.S. foreign affairs

3- Grants and issues passports to American citizens and we exequaturs to foreign consuls in the United States

4- Advices the President on the appointment of U.S. ambassadors, ministers, consuls, and other diplomatic representatives

5- Advices the President regarding the acceptance, recall, and dismissal of the representatives of foreign governments

6- Personally participates in or directs U.S. representatives to international conferences, organizations, and agencies

7- Negotiates, interprets, and terminates treaties and agreements

8- Ensures the protection of the U.S. Government to American citizens, property, and interests in foreign countries

9- Supervises the administration of U.S. immigration laws

10- Provides information to American citizens regarding the political economic, social, cultural, and humanitarian conditions in foreign countries

11- Informs the Congress and the American citizens on the conduct of U.S. foreign relations

12- Promotes beneficial economic intercourse between the United States and other countries

13- Administers the Department of State

14- Supervisors the Foreign Services of the United States

15- And a host of miscellaneous duties that are much too much for her to do

In addition, the Secretary of State retains domestic responsibilities that Congress entrusted to the State Department in 1789. These include the custody of the Great Seal of the United States, the preparation of certain presidential proclamations, the publication of treaties and international acts as well as official record of the foreign relations of the United States, and the custody of certain original treaties and international agreements. The Secretary of State also serves as the channel of communication between the Federal Government and the States on the extradition of fugitives to or from foreign countries.

Chapter 3

Madame Secretary it’s time for you to get up because you have an appointment to speak at a press conference at 3 PM this afternoon What time is it? Its 10 AM Let me introduce myself I am your private secretary, Mrs. Jenny Brown. I am in charge of your activity schedule and the very first thing that you have to do is to get fitted for a bullet proof vest and then prepare your physically and mentally for the press conference where you well be introducing yourself to the world. Do you mind me calling you Jenny?’ Not at all and most of my friends call me Jenny also. I was reading and studying my duties and responsibilities and simply fell asleep. I had prepared for you a hot cup of coffee and some white bread toast and I well order lunch for you to be served at 12:30 (PM) and what would you like me to do first? Could you call my husband and tell him that she was sorry never mind I will, see him later and tell him to turn on his television set at three (3) PM to Fox news channel to watch my press conference." And she had left and a few minutes later female tailor was invited in by Jenny to fit Grace with her tailored bullet proof vest and some tailored suits. It was one (1:00) PM when she had finished finishing Grace with her bullet proof vest and three business suits then a female make beautician came in to make her look more respectful. She was now ready for her first news conference.

Chapter 4

Ladies and gentlemen of the press, I would just like to make a very brief statement before I answer some of your many questions. It’s a pleasure to be appointed as Secretary of State by the President and by Congress and I will do my very best that I can to uphold the citizens of the United States and their trust in me to carry out my duties as Secretary of State. From time to time, I will hold press conferences and bring you guys up to date on world affairs and now I will accept some questions. Since she is not familiar with any of you guys, I will accept one question from each of the five (5) rows going from female to male reporters and so we will start off with the first question from the female reporter in the first row over there.

1- How does it feel to be the most fourth powerful women in the World of the United States; as Secretary of State you know that you are the fourth in line to become President according to the U.S. Constitution

    I haven’t given it much thought, next question. It’s interesting to know anyway.

2- "How did you climb the political ladder so quickly, and what kind of favors did you offer to achieve those goals?"

    Hard work as a freelance writer of foreign affairs, I had published many articles on the foreign crisis that we are currently having in the Mid-East, Japan, the oil Opec Nations, and other nations abroad including our border security between us and Mexico and I honestly believe that I can do a great job in settling some of these difficult foreign policy issues and next

3- What makes you think that you are better than professionals who have been working on the foreign policy issues for years?

    I bring new ideas-next.

4- "How do you feel about the United Nations and its anti-American policy on almost everything and will you support a reduction of fees paid and the movement of the United Nations to another country?’

    I will listen to my advisors, and study the issues and make my recommendations to the President and Congress when I have all the facts. I certainly understand that there is a group of nations that are trouble makers and I will meet with their leaders and discuss what’s bothering them and hopefully we will solve the issues—next.

5 Are you going to look into the oil crisis that we are having?

    "Yes, but I am limited to foreign producers of oil only. The oil that was discovered in Colorado on government land, I will have to discuss and coordinate our foreign policy with the Secretary of Home Land Security. As I understand it the oil find in Colorado is as follows;

1- 8-times as much oil as Saudi Arabia

2- 18-times as much oil as Iraq

3- 21-times as much oil as Kuwait

4- 22-times as much oil as Iran

5- 500-times as much oil as Yemen

6- Or more than 2 Trillion barrels of untapped on government owned property

See—web site; StansberryOnline.com

You will have to discuss all the domestic oil issues involved in the Colorado discovery with the Secretary of Homeland Security—Ladies and Gentlemen that will finish my first Press Conference and thank you all." With that statement Grace had walked out.

Chapter 5

Grace had received a telephone call from the President and he had congratulated her and his secretary and had hung up without any further comments.

Gerry was announced by her secretary and she was more than welcome to come into the President’s Oval Office. He had given her a very light kiss on her check and then congratulated her on her Press Conference. She had brought over with her the bullet proof vest and she tried it on and it was a perfect fit. She was to wear it outside her office at all times and he has assigned twenty eight (28) females Secret Service agents, and twenty-eight (28) agents for her protection four per day and she was to be protected 24/7, also whenever she goes out of her office here at the Whitehouse she must wear her bullet proof vest and he will not take no for an answer. She had started to cry and Gerry had been seated next to her on the right side near Grace and had leaned over and hugged her and stated that she was the greatest sister in the world and his other two brothers also agree with him.

We are planning a family and close friend’s congratulation party for you at your old hang out in the city at H&H Import and Export firm. As you know your interest in the firm is no longer, everything was turned over to your husband Vic. I know, she had been briefed about my ownership in various enterprises." Lydia, Bob, Al, Angie, Gladys, Washington, Mahe and her husband Vic were announced and naturally they were all invited in. It had turned out to be a catered affair that the President and his secretary had arranged for the balance of the afternoon but it had lasted the most of the evening and night until about midnight. The President, the Vice President, the Speaker of the House and some Congressional men and women had walked into the Oval office also about 4:00 PM (4:30) it was one big congratulations office party.

Chapter 6

It had taken Grace a couple of days to straighten her head around and with the help of her secretary; she had finally put together a schedule of things that she must accomplish, she will attempt to visit all of the nations in the United Nations in course of one year to two years.

1- Her first foreign trips were going to be to England.

2- Followed closely to Western and Eastern Europe

    Mideast, Russia

    Her next trip will be

3- Will be to China India, Australia

    Her following trip will be to the

4- Phillippeans and Japan and some smaller South Pacific Islands

Her trips to her immediate neighbors to the north and south will be Canada, Mexico and Central American countries and finally if she is still in office she would finish up with two days in each of the South American countries and finally off the countries to Africa for about one months. She will take a commercial flight from Washington National and travel with her private secretary, and some of her administrative staff. She has some specialized staff in the State Department and they will meet her in the countries that they specialize in. If her husband was available, she would take him along. Gerry and his security team including the FBI were going to be kept quit busy checking everything out a few days before each trip to each country.

She was now her own boss and was going to do what she always wanted to do, bring some peace and some stability to the world. She was sick and tired of all the trouble that we were having worldwide and the United Nations was a separate issue that she would have to deal with separately. She was now in charge of our foreign policy and she while she was in office attempt to make all the countries love us once more, she had hoped. Currently they don’t.

Her very first foreign ambassador was from Japan. He was quite polite and cordial and was very sorry about our past problems and had hoped that things would be better in the future between our two nations. They had signed a letter of good well and economic agreements; a new import and export agreement between the two nations and verbally that we could supply them with sufficient oil to support their needs and growing economy.

Her first trips were going to England, Germany, France, and to Russia to touch base with their foreign ministers to resolve some of the touchy foreign policy issues. She will get in touch with her brother Gerry to setup some security and leave early next week. She will give to her secretary her tentative schedule and she will make all of her travel arrangements.

The very first long distance telephone call was to her friend Gloria to setup and arrange a meeting with the Prime Minister of England to discuss oil and the trouble that the US was having in the Mid-East.

Gloria had met her at the private section at the far end of Heathrow. Grace had come with her private secretary, her specialist on Mid-East and oil, her press reporter and her security that her brother had provided for her and wearing her bullet proof vest. Gloria had stated that "she always worn her bullet proof vest since she was because she was almost assassinated in Paris. Her husband Sir Gallagher 11 was the chief of MI-6 would not allow her to go out without wearing one because the English society is a mixture of all kinds of Muslin’s sect’s that breed terrorists and other terrorists organizations; from all around the world and her kingdom and anyone of the English possessions were allowed free entry into the country. In London for example, there are about ten thousand (10,524) security cameras in around London boroughs that cost exceeds 200 million pounds and yet 80% of the crimes go unsolved. These figures were obtained by the Liberal Democrats on the London Assembly using the Freedom of Information Act.

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23412867-tens-of-th . . .

19 Printer computer pages—Ten of thousands of CCTV cameras, yet 80% of crimes unsolved

The intense anti-terror security measures in London are altering the relationship between the citizens and the public and therefore, I hope you are wearing your bullet proof vest and because of this we didn’t announce your arrival here in London. There is a private limousine waiting for us that is bullet proof, also. Even though there was no announcement of her arrival to England the photographers and reporters were always around Gloria and so she secretly took her casual limousine that she takes to go to her country estate to minimize the situation but yet she had seen two or three of them with their zoom camera’s taking pictures from that hanger already. Let’s us stay where we are until her husband’s security staff gives us the green light to actually leave." There was a big commotion at the hanger that Gloria had pointed too and so Gloria had decided to call for a helicopter, not realizing that she was talking on the telephone when she had pointed.

She had arrived fifteen (15) minutes later; the commotion was still going on. Gloria had covered Grace with a white sheet and holding her hand they had both ran to the helicopter. A bullet had bounced off of Grace’s bullet proof vest as she was walking up the steps of the helicopter. Gloria had bent down and had picked up the slug with her handkerchief and gave it to one of her security guards. Both Gloria and Grace in looking out the windows of the helicopter had seen near the hanger a security ambulance and a man on a gurney being carried on it.

The helicopter had landed on the roof of the Foreign and Commonwealth Building which is six stories high and Gothic and free standing separate building and within walking distance to the Prime Minister’s home at ten (10) Downing Street which was across the road from Common Wealth Building and on the north side Downing Street.

Gloria had introduced Grace to the foreign minister and had left both alone and if they should need her just give a call? The Foreign Minister was extremely polite and had offered Grace a cup of coffee or tea and some crumpets. May I be so polite to ask you what you know about the problems of the Mid-East and Oil?It was enough to come over here first to discuss the overall issues with you and not to give away too much of our domestic oil reserves policy secrets, especially the Aleutian and the Japanese situation which I was directly involved with. I came over here to get some advice on the Mid-Eastern Opec oil problem to see if we are in agreement and yours. Our relationship with Israel is another altogether different problem that at this time I am not prepared to discuss it with you.

China and India are starting to industrialize in a big way and these two (2) now industrial counties are expanding and are purchasing at higher price western oil. Opec has stated that this is a supply and demand issue and they will raise the prices that they charge per barrel, if the demand keeps skyrocketing, as much as they can including $100+ per barrel. We have to explore for new oil and keep it ourselves in the West and not join Opec, by the way what ever happened to your estimated find in Colorado of two (2) Trillion barrels of untapped oil on your own property?

I have brought that up with the President and the Secretaries of Energy and Commerce before I had left to come here and they both inform me that the drilling takes time because the oil find is approximately 1,000 feet through hard rock and I had also questioned the Department of Interior about the delays and he says the same identical things. I really don’t see us in the next ten (10) years drawing any oil from the Colorado find but I will push them as much as I can. The private meeting had lasted about four (4) hours when they had broken for lunch in which Gloria and Grace’s State Department oil administrative staff also broke for lunch. There were no formal speeches; at lunch it was just an informal get together that had lasted for about ninety (90) minutes and then our host got an urgent call, he had excused himself and left but before he had left he had apologized to Grace for this short meeting and next time he will and his staff come to Washington for a meeting with her and his secretary will call sometime next week and set up an appointment with you and you administrative staff to discuss more fully all the issues that we are having. Some other foreign relations and difficult problems between us that include security issues and again I must go now the Prime Minister has a series problem.

"Grace was certainly more than annoyed because the Prime Minister had known of her visit and maybe it was it was a phony call by his secretary, his secretary just to get out of our meeting. Grace very abruptly had announced, let’s go back home where we are needed more. Gloria was quite upset over Grace’s statement and attempted to quite her mood down and had stated in defense of the Foreign Minister that when the Prime Minister call you run. "The Prime Minister had known we were here to discuss important issues because I had personally called his office and our ambassador and informed them. Gloria had called directly her pilot and stated that she was sorry to leave England because we have been friends for such a long time. Her administrative staff was quite disappointed because most of them had never been to London and wanted to see the sights and maybe a show or two. On the airplane going home, Grace had promised to give her administrative staff in the State Department two (2) weeks of travel time and she had stated repeatedly that she will not be insulted by anyone, I hope you guys understand.

At a hush, hush meeting held by Gloria Gallagher 11 who is the Chief of the American CIA and the spouse of the Chief of MI-6 to the President’s administrative staff and cabinet members she had stated the following; "they had intercepted a coded message and they had decoded it from Japan to Iran, it had stated kidnap the American high female political official and while you are at it enjoy her body and hold her for ransom."

Before we leave today; everyone especially the women is going to carry a LO/JACK recovery system insert in the back of their necks and Gracie you are the very first one." After her initial visit to Gloria she had gone back home to her office in the Whitehouse.

Chapter 7

Gerry had met her back in her office and she had told him exactly what had happened and had also told him that she was insulted because he was talking down to her as an inferior person. I am the Secretary of State of the greatest power in the world the United States and I am not be reckoned with. At the moment the US Ambassador to England John Smith was announced by her secretary.

John Smith had asked Grace why did she leave England the way she did? She had repeated what she had told Gerry and had repeated