In this great country, all the right things get done for the wrong reasons...this is Benjamin Hannaford's first law of politics. How the "right things" get done, as Hannaford becomes a liberal-minority president in a conservative America, is a powerful, sometimes frightening, often heartening tale which only a man with Drew Pearson's inside knowledge of Washington politics could have written. The time is the late 1970s. America is on the brink of disaster. Racism rages, highways strangle, prices and taxes soar. A riot at Columbia University sends hundreds to prison camps; the school system is falling apart; National Guardsmen augment the police in the big cities, daily gunning down a black teenager or a pot smoker, and sinister groups spread hatred and fascism. The job facing the newly elected president is tough, but Hannaford, a man of courage and compassion with a lot of political muscle gained in his struggles ass the most powerful man in the Senate, finds the greatest battle of his career with the Congress of the United States, which has instituted impeachment proceedings against him... front dj flap, ISBN13:B00005WPAC ISBN10:B00005WPAC Material Type:hardcover