![]() ![]() His incumbency is temporary but long enough to bring us to the brink of negotiations with Vietnam to salvage a ravaged Cambodia. Following the provisions of the 12th and 20th Amendments, Devlin becomes acting President. The Democratic Senate, meanwhile, chooses Devlin as Vice President by a simple majority. ![]() In accordance with the 12th Amendment, the House of Representatives must now choose the President, each state delegation having one vote. ![]() The Republican contender, former Governor Dan Sterling, who has come to politics by way of Hollywood, wins the popular election by two million votes but his ticket fails to get the necessary majority in the Electoral College. Democrat Roy Bob Talbott is the incumbent President his running mate is Senator Larry Devlin of the famous Devlin clan, which has already produced a 20th-century President. The candidates wear thin fictional disguises. Catherine Breslin, the author of the novels ''Unholy Child'' and ''The Mistress Condition,'' has managed this unlikely feat in an ingeniously plotted story. ![]() TURN back the clock to 1980, indulge the fantasies of the loyalists who long for a return of those ''born American royal'' to the White House, and still come to terms with what actually happened. ![]()
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