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Season one. Episode two.
Presidential Firsts.
Dateline: 07.07.2076
This is 1st Amendment Broadcast News! Matt Amazon reporting!
The following news article originally released by: APNS 02.20.2023 Washington, DC. . .
Presidential Firsts.
1st Designated Speaker of the House to Assume Office of President. . .
1st Thirty-Five Year Old President. . .
1st Muslim President. . .
1st Female President. . .
In an ironic twist of fate, the day designated to honor our nation’s President turned into a ‘day of firsts”. As a part of the President’s Day celebration, former Speaker Halima Ahmed was sworn in as the 49th President of the United States; and in the process became the first Muslim, the first female, the first person under the age of forty, and the first Speaker of the House to assume the duties of the Presidency under Title 3, Chapter 1, Section 19 of the U.S. code – the law covering the Order of Secession for the Office of the President.
On a cold, drizzly February morning, the small inauguration party assembled on the Capitol steps listened on as Chief Justice Dan Foles administered the oath of office. One more first – the Koran in place of the traditional Bible. When sworn in, Ahmed chose to place her left hand on her grandfather’s Koran; one which he brought with him when he emigrated from Palestine in 1959. Her inauguration speech, though short in length, was long on controversy. Drastic military downsizing, enhanced entitlement programs, and a promise to restructure the tax code, in an effort to lighten the financial strain on the poor, were the key components of her address. Shedding very little light on her proposals, she still promised radical changes during her first 100 days in office.
Ahmed’s perplexing address culminated a hectic week of unbelievable circumstance, political upheaval, Constitutional analysis, and chaotic demonstrations across the country. The unbelievable chain of events started with the unexpected fatal heart attack of President Nathan Coleman while onboard Air Force One. The President’s plane was over the Pacific Ocean, nine hours out of San Diego, in route to the Global Environmental Research Conference being held in Auckland, New Zealand. The aircraft was diverted to the naval facilities at Pago Pago, American Samoa. After an hour of confused activity and shuttling, the death of the President was announced to the nation and world.
Vice President Warren Boles was rushed to the Travis Federal Building in Wichita Falls and immediately sworn in as President of the United States by Federal Judge Oran Greene. However within 48 hours, Cabinet members of former President Coleman and Congressional leaders were engulfed in a frenzied debate over Boles mental stability; and whether to enact the provisions of Article four of the 25th Amendment. Twelve hours after Boles was sworn in as President; he evaded his Secret Service security detail and was then arrested by Arlington, Virginia law enforcement for indecent exposure. The leaked arrest report stated police responded to a local fast food outlet after employees reported a nude man, standing at the drive-thru window attempting to place an order.
After the incident broke into the news cycle, former White House Chief of Staff Clifton Barnes admitted the White House had been briefed by a senior Bethesda Naval Facility medical official that Boles had been diagnosed to be suffering from Stage Five Dementia. The Administration had hoped they could ride out the remainder of Boles term as Vice President as he had demonstrated no adverse effects from the disease. Outside medical officials, when questioned on their opinion regarding the sudden shift in behavior by the President, speculated the abrupt and very intense physical, emotional, and psychological demand being thrust upon Boles forced him into a sudden, and severe, nervous breakdown with an extreme loss of mental awareness.
This concludes our replay of a Presidential Firsts. Our next report in the series: A Nation in Crisis .
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