Assignment: Earth #1 – Brighter Than a thousand Suns – 3 months after ‘Assignment: Earth’ which is set in April 1968; so July 1968

1972

C. FEBRUARY – 1972

Assignment: Earth #5 – ‘Too Many President’s’ Prologue pg. 1 – A day before President Nixon’s arrival in China. February 20, 1972.

FEBRUARY – 1972

Assignment: Earth #5 – ‘Too Many President’s’ pgs. 2–18 – Takes place during President Nixon’s visit to China – February 21–28, 1972. The Chinese have taken a Soviet citizen and after two years of plastic surgery and conditioning have created an exact duplicate of President Nixon. During the ensuing struggle to switch Nixon’s, one of them is killed and with Gary Seven’s portable Beta Five unit being destroyed Gary Seven is unable to tell if it’s the real President Nixon that was killed. Gary Seven plants a post-hypnotic suggestion in the President that sets Watergate and Nixon’s resignation in motion thus depriving the Chinese and Soviets of an agent in the White House.