the founding headline montage: the founding consummated — Gentle as first Chair — "an agreement to make the U.S…"
an agreement to make the U.S. President the first Chair of the Organization of North American Nations, with Mexican Presidente and new heavily guarded Canadian P.M. to be co-Vice Chairs.
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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.