President Baumgartner
Names: President Baumgartnerthe PresidentGeneral BaumgartnerGeneral Lloyd A. Baumgartnerthe GeneralLloyd BaumgartnerLloyd
First appears in Book 1: Intervention, chapter 43 (21)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: Intervention
- Ch 49Baumgartner is a retired USAF brigadier general, former Moonwalker and CEO of McGuigan-Duncan Aerospace, ambitious and secretly resentful, who is offered the 1996 Republican presidential nomination.
- Ch 49Baumgartner privately believes he cannot be manipulated by O'Connor's cabal and distrusts metapsychics; he is not telepathic but his subvocal thoughts are perceptible to the telepaths.
- Ch 55Baumgartner, the Republican nominee, lost the 1996 election narrowly to Piccolomini after winning a majority of the popular vote, and is expected to run again in 2000.
- Ch 55Baumgartner is unaware that operants manipulated his campaign; a posthypnotic suggestion to make an anti-Soviet speech failed because he is friendly with Russian cosmonauts.
- Ch 55The group plans to give him a sinecure at the Irons-Conrad foundation and fake an eye ailment so they can deep-scan him unconscious.
- Ch 59Baumgartner, a law-and-order hawk, is expected to win the Millennial election with Kieran's help, though he believes he keeps his integrity.
- Ch 60U.S. President who abolished the Brain Trust and sponsored the Benson Act, intensifying the backlash against operants.
- Ch 61President Baumgartner, a former astronaut and corporation president, won the Millennial election on an antioperant stance and is expected to win a second term.
- Ch 62The President was sworn in for his second term with his hand on a Bible opened to Psalm 8, which he recited when he first set foot on the Moon.
- Ch 62After hearing Nell's news about Amanda, he discarded his prepared Inaugural Address and delivered a startling speech that left the audience shocked.
- Ch 65President Baumgartner's antioperant feelings were softened by religious leaders and his granddaughter Amanda; the XXII Amendment's repeal let him run for a third term.
- Ch 70Baumgartner, O'Connor's candidate, won the presidency in 2000 and revived part of the Strategic Defense Initiative as Zap-Star.
Connections
- leadsMcGuigan-Duncan AerospaceCEO
- family ofNell Baumgartnerwife
- family ofAmanda Dentongranddaughter
- ally ofDenisconsults for him
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 43Denis advises Washington
Denis briefed the President and testified to Congress and the Cabinet, then returned to Dartmouth to find his lab swamped by media attention and endowments.
- Book 1 · Ch 49Nomination offer to Baumgartner
At Kieran's home, Cassidy lays out the party's strategy and offers General Baumgartner the 1996 Republican presidential nomination, amid predictions of an oil crisis and anti-metapsychic stance.
- Book 1 · Ch 55Baumgartner concedes the 1996 election
Baumgartner concedes to Piccolomini in a televised speech while Kieran, Griffith and Viola watch and toast, content with a narrow defeat.
- Book 1 · Ch 55Kieran outlines plans for Baumgartner and Araña
Kieran plans to place Baumgartner at a foundation, secretly deep-scan him under a faked eye illness, launch Araña's antioperant crusade, and engineer a Soviet hard-liner takeover.
- Book 1 · Ch 62Second inauguration and Amanda's news
Nell arrives just in time and whispers that Amanda will be a metapsychic operant. Lloyd is sworn in, then scraps his prepared address and delivers a startling speech, leaving the Rotunda in shocked silence.
- Book 1 · Ch 65Attempted coercion of the President
On 27 October 2007, Tremblay mentally seized Baumgartner as he answered the Republican delegation, forcing him to decline a third term. Amanda burst in and denounced him, Fairweather opened Tremblay's mind, and the Secret Service arrested him.
- Book 1 · Ch 65Tremblay's trial and conviction
In July 2008 Tremblay was tried and convicted on Amanda's and the President's testimony, upheld by the Supreme Court, then expelled from the House and imprisoned.
- Book 1 · Ch 67Denis asks Rogi to join a metaconcert
Denis visits Rogi late at night after the President's call about a Chinese anomaly and asks for his help in a joint farsight excursion.
- Book 1 · Ch 76Victor takes over O'Connor's empire
An SEC official notices a huge asset transfer to a Canadian dummy company controlled by Victor Remillard; the President tells Denis, who agrees to hunt for Victor and Shannon.