re: #24 Dread Pirate Whitebeard

I always saw it in stark contrast to Condoleezza Rice saying no one could have imagined they would fly planes into buildings before congress.

Tom Clancy certainly imagined it; the last chapter of Debt of Honor (1994) and the opening chapter of Executive Orders (1996) has a fully-fueled jumbo jet being deliberately crashed into the capitol on State of the Union night…

That’s how Jack Ryan becomes president, he gets to appoint 7 Supremes, an almost all-new Cabinet, there’s no Congress for awhile until the governors can appoint a bunch of replacement senators and schedule immediate congressional elections….