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‘Your itinerary is confirmed, General. You’ll be leaving from Dallas on Tuesday, as planned.’
‘Thanks, Janey,’ Lieutenant General Donald ‘Crusher’ Calvert said to his civilian personal assistant. He had given up the fantasy that his staff might get used to calling him by his first name now that he was retired. nything in the papers today?’
‘The press clippings are in your email inbox, sir. The one from the Post is interesting.’
‘Interesting?’
She pulled a print-out from a sheaf of other papers in the crook of her left arm and said, ‘The headline is MR CRUSHER GOES TO WASHINGTON, question mark.’
‘Very funny. What else does it say?’
‘Retired general Donald “Crusher” Calvert is being promoted as a potential congressional nominee by senior unnamed Republican Party sources in the lead
