Chapter 10 Summary

Hopkinson receives devastating information from the polls. Nearly forty percent of those questioned believe that the country will be better off now that the three of Washington's most powerful politicians are dead. Several members of the president's staff meet with Speaker Basset to try and devise a media strategy that will increase the White House's approval ratings.

Garret is satisfied that the President's press conference has established the idea of a conspiracy in the court of public opinion. Garret even has Basset believing the idea. Roach and McMahon join the meeting, and Roach tells the group that based on Dr. Kennedy's theory that the killers are commandos, he wants to start reviewing the personnel files for retired members of the Special Forces. He is specifically trying to find out if anyone can be identified as the jogger that several witnesses saw before Downs...