The Journey to the White House

This a fictional story about becoming President of our country. It sort of parallels our history and time line.

Chapter Two is about the Will & the Campaign


“I am going home to take a shower and change, I will be back here at 9:30 a.m. to pick you up for the reading of the will.” Lynn said to me, as she gave me a quick kiss and flew out the door.

I was in the lobby of the hotel, just as Lynn pulled up to the front door, at 9:30 a.m.. I walked over to her car and got in. I leaned over, and gave her a kiss. For a woman she is a good driver, and we got to the law office in fifteen minutes. I ‘m ushered into a large plush conference room.

There were a number of people in there, including Mr. Johnson. At 10:00 a.m., he called the reading of the will to order. It is a lengthy will, but getting to the meat of the will, I inherited the bulk of the estate, estimated at about 200 million dollars. The bulk of my inheritance consisted of stocks, bonds, oil wells, real estate, and office buildings.

Needless to say I was stunned by all of this. I had really no idea on how to react or what to do. Mr. Johnson took me over to my new office building, and introduced me to my staff. They ran me through the whole network of business that I controlled. It was not long, and I was in way over my head. I figure the best thing was to step back and let them handle the business, till I could figure out what role I should play.

It did not take me very long to realize the making 50 thousand a year, was a whole lot easier than being worth 200 million. You say wow you have all that money, how can you not be happy spending it. Well at age 50 I am sort of set in my ways, I don’t really fit in with the very rich. They sort of look down their noses at me, because I was not born a blue blood. I don’t fit in with my old crowd, because of my wealth, and they all figure I should help them out. It took a couple of years to get everything all straightened out.

Within a few months after the reading of the will, Joyce and I sold everything, and move down to Miami, to the mansion that was part of the inheritance. This place is huge, more than 10,000 sft of living space. It has a pool, spa, sauna, an executive par three golf course, and many other features in it. I have a membership at Doral Golf Resort. The kids were either in college or out on their own. Of course we helped them all out, giving them enough money to support themselves.

The corporation has a 150 feet long yachet, which is available to me, when I have a need for it. They also have a couple of corporate jets. I was finally getting into the swing of things in the corporate world, helping to run my vast empire.

It has been more than three years since the reading of the will, and the Presidential election was a hot topic. The first black, to run for that office was make progress out on the campaign trail. The election was a month away, and things were not looking real swift for the other candidate.
Most of us in the corporate world were scared shitless. We were afraid that the black candidate, might get elected. He has absolutely no experience on how to run either a government or a business, and very little dealings with other countries. But if the numbers are correct, then he will most likely by our next President.

The new President was elected, and the black candidate won, with 53% of the popular vote, and 2-1 margin, in the elector votes received. His newly elected Vice-President, was the wife of a former black Secretary of State. His cabinet was made up of a bunch of conies, who he owed favors to. All in all it looked like a really fucking mess in Washington.

He was bowing and apologizing to third world countries for the way our country has treated them. He was putting in programs that caused our national debt to skyrocket. He found ways to get around congress, by appointing sovereign individuals to run different programs.

Corporate America has trillions of dollars available to spend, but put it all on hold, till they could figure out just what was going on with this new administration. Meanwhile it was business as usual, with a lot of jobs going over seas. For which the present administration was helpless to stop.

Foreign governments are more business friendly, and the labor force is cheap. The American labor force has priced themselves out of the world marketplace. Products can be made cheaper, even with tariffs on them, than can be produced here in the United States. The bottom line for corporate America is profit, anyway that they can make it.

The new administration was doing just a horrible job. They were making policies that made no senses what so ever. There was a growing discomfort within middle America, as they could see who was going to foot the cost of these policies.

After two years of watching this buffoon run our country. I formed a committee to investigate the possibility of running for the Office of President. The main decision was to decide if I should run as an Independent, or under the opposite party of the current President. I was a little disappointed on some of the issue that the party was supporting. The final decision was to run as an Independent. It would be a very difficult task, to beat the other party’s candidate, and an incumbent President.

On January 2, 2011, I announced that I was running for the office of President, as an Independent candidate. Oddly enough there was very little media splash, about my announcement. I assembled a team, and set up a budget. My net worth was more than 600 million, and I put 100 million of my money up as collateral to the bank for loans I took out. The first few months we got our network setup and running. The first year was letting America get to know who I was. I did a lot of speech making, attended a lot of fund rasing dinners, and I attended a lot of conventions. The intent was to get my name known.

My wife Joyce supported me 100% on this endeavor, and accompanied me on many of these trips. She also did some campaigning on her own, to some of the various national woman’s functions.

The campaign donations and my initial investment, help to keep the campaign going. I need super pac money to help with the advertising. By

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