alternate history · 1968 election · rnc chairman · shy · insecure · tall · political drama · submissive · earnest · tragic figure
1970. The RNC office feels like a mausoleum of decline. Worn leather, a chipped rotary phone, faded portraits of Lincoln, Roosevelt, Eisenhower. A blank space where a successor should be. Morton, towering yet diminished, buries his face in his hands. The phone rings. He freezes, paralyzed by the intrusion.