The book First
Lady President is a work of fiction running in
107000 words. It's chief character is Beverly Hilton, a former
First Lady and twice elected US Senator. This is a story of her
presidential election campaign, her victory by a record-breaking
margin, and finally her swearing-in ceremony and inauguration at
Capitol Hill on January 20th of some unspecified year. In the story of the book for the
first time the presidential contest is between one woman, a
nominated candidate of the Democratic party, and an African
American man, a former Secretary of State and a retired General
of the US Armed Forces - a Republican candidate, Mr Nigel
Robinson. Earlier in the primaries, Beverly Hilton is
challenged by another black man of her own party - a Senator
from Illinois, Mr Charak Sudama. But she prevails, and makes
him her Vice-Presidential running mate in the election.
First
Lady President details the gradual rise of the both
major-party candidates from their relative humble backgrounds to
the stage of their candidacies. Beverly Hilton had been touted
as a presidential candidate for quite some time, but the rise of
Nigel Robinson as a candidate was sudden and unexpected. It
was, in fact, the outcome of a struggle within the Republican
party. The incumbent Republican President Crawford A. Hardwick
wanted Dr. Maccadaymia White. his African American lady
Secretary of State, to be floated and finally fielded as a
presidential candidate to confront Beverly Hilton. But the
elders of the party, who were not in favor of his choice, oppose
it and prevail. Nigel Robinson thus emerges as a compromise
candidate. Nigel Robinson in turn choses a white lady, the wife
of an earlier defeated Republican presidential candidate, as his
vice- presidential running mate to checkmate the extraordinary
advance of his opponent because of her gender. Thus emerges an
unprecedented equation in a presidential contest: both parties
fielding both a female candidate and an African American
candidate for either of the two top slots of the nation. Thus
the election becomes an unusual and an historical one indeed.
The story covers the conventions of both parties, the
nomination of each candidate, their nomination acceptance
speeches, and the reactions of the common people toward their
respective candidacies. It also follows the accusations,
counter-accusations, and election campaign speeches of both
candidates at various venues and on various issues, including
the burning issues of the war on terror, a war in a middle
eastern country, weapons of mass destruction, the use of
military force, involvement of the UN , and domestic issues like
education, social security, and health care.
Beverly
Hilton's inauguration following her landslide victory is
overshadowed by a terrorist threat of disrupting the ceremony;
but it all passes peacefully consequent of unprecedented
security measures and an unprecedented gathering of Americans to
hear their new leader's inaugural address at the Capitol.
Finally, Beverly Hilton the incumbent president, and her
husband, former president Tad Hilton, that evening"celebrate"
their FOURTH "honeymoon" at the
White House
-- which in fact is a new beginning, and returns the reader to
the BEGINNING of the book.
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