Red Dot: Contact. Will The Gravest Threat Come From Closer To Home Than We Expect? - Plot & Excerpts
said Vice President Duggard. She was sitting at her desk in the office at her official residence on the grounds of the United States Naval Observatory, with her hand on the phone. Secretary of State Whiteton stood beside her. “There’s a lot that can go wrong, very wrong,” he said with a sigh. “He could easily be outraged, and that could damage our working relationship at this critical time.” “Even if he’s not angry, it may just not work like we hope,” said Duggard. “And the heck of it is, even if it does, it might not help Al the way we hope.” They were silent for a few moments, the Vice President with her hand still on the phone and the Secretary of State standing beside her. “It’s an act of desperation,” Whiteton said. “But at this point, we have to do something—after what was obviously a disastrous meeting with Fitzgerald last Friday.” The President hadn’t recounted the bungled confrontation in detail, but his inner circle saw clearly from his retelling and from the words and actions of Fitzgerald that the President’s attempt to fire his opponent had been turned away by a thinly veiled threat.
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