Catcher McCall - Part Two: Respect and Betrayal

Excerpt:“You will win the election and become president. That fact is a given less a catastrophe or withdrawal. No further attempts on your life will happen before the election. Voltaire said, ‘the ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.’ You will be assassinated in public view on January 20th, the date of your inauguration.”I laughed. “That’s absurd! You are going to kill me in plain view?”“John F. Kennedy was killed on national television. The first day of trading on New York Stock Exchange after his death the market went up. Within three months everything was back to normal. Johnson reversed all of his crazy ideas, and the rest is history. There’s no such thing as public opinion, only public perception. So, what will it be, Mr. McCall?”“My policies will survive …”Wavy Black Hair waved his hand as if shooing an invisible fly and said, “Nothing will get out of committee.”“The public wants me to …”“Stop! Everything dies with you, except the memory. Kennedy is remember today as a great president; nothing during his tenure confirms that, but being assassinated in office.”