the founding headline montage: the founding consummated — Gentle as first Chair
GENTLE OUT OF BETHESDA NAVAL HOSP CONFINEMENT, TO ADDRESS U.S. CONGRESS ON ‘RECONFIGURATIVE OPTIONS’ FOR ‘TIGHT, TIDIER NATIONAL ERA’
Context
The montage lands the founding fact: the U.S. President becomes "the first Chair of the Organization of North American Nations," Mexico and a "heavily guarded" Canada reduced to co-Vice Chairs, and the era opens with the promise of "a whole bright spanking new millennium." "Reconfigurative Options" and "not impossibly radically altered new look" are the euphemism-machine at full throttle — the continent redrawn under one Chair, sold as a fresh coat of paint.