《Mr President》作者： - Stephen Arr【EPUB】

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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. G EORGE WONG stood pale and silent by the video screen, listening to the election returns, a long-stem-med glass of champagne clutched forgotten in his trembling right hand. The announcer droned on: "-latest returns from Venus, with half of the election districts re-porting, give three billion four hundred and ninety-six million votes for Wong, against one bil-lion, four hundred million for Thompson, one billion one hun-dred million for Miccio, and nine hundred million for Kau. These results, added to the almost com-plete returns from Earth and the first fragmentary reports from Mars, clearly indicate a landslide vote for Wong as the next Presi- dent 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 VicePresidents is less clear. It is cer-tain 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 con- sole as though too tired to