Harvey McCullen
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Harvey McCullen was the 34th President of the United States. He was Noah Grace's running mate in the US Presidential Elections of 1940, 1944 and 1948, serving as the 33rd Vice President (succeeding John Garner), and ascended to the Presidency after Grace's death in 1951.
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[edit] Biography
During Harvey McCullen's position as Vice President, McCullen never fully agreed with some of Noah Grace's policies, yet he was reluctant to speak fully out against Grace. In possessing a clear conscience and personality, McCullen was seen by Secretary of War Henry Walker as his only friend and ally in Grace's cabinet, which they both disagreed with in its authoritarian policies.
When Grace revealed Project Omega (in which he talked of possible negotiations between America and the Chimera) to his cabinet members, McCullen was the first person to speak out against it. However, McCullen's argument was all for naught when many of his cabinet members highly approved of Project Omega.
After Grace was killed by Nathan Hale for his treason to mankind (he was going to offer the rest of the world to Daedalus in exchange for America's survival), McCullen was briefed of his ascendancy, and he subsequently made a press conference in Denver, Colorado dealing with his ascendancy and Grace's death. During the conference he was explicitly distressed over the recent events, and when several news reporters questioned him over Grace's death and his connection to rumors of Project Abraham and "Project Daedalus", McCullen sharply rebuked their questions and talked about how he didn't want to dishonor his predecessor by "paying heed to thoughtless rumor, hysteria and speculation".[1]
In the following two years after his ascendancy, McCullen became a more capable leader during the Chimeran invasion, and repealed many of Grace's policies.
In late May 1953, McCullen, and his entire cabinet, were killed a few hours after the Liberty Defense Perimeter fell to the Chimera when their VTOL was shot down by Chimeran fighters. After their deaths, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur took over as temporary leader of the United States until more formal elections could be held.[2]
[edit] Presidency
McCullen's major acts as President were repealing Grace's ban on refugee immigration to bolster falling troop numbers,[3] overseeing the final fortification of the Liberty Defense Perimeter, and approving "Operation Aloha", whose goal was to create a colony of 150,000 citizens (selected by a committee appointed by McCullen himself) to Hawaii, with the goal of "preserving the American culture, history and way of life should an unthinkable fate befall the continental U.S."[4]
[edit] Trivia
- The real-life running mate of Roosevelt's opponent was not McCullen, but rather Republican Senator Charles L. McNary
- In one of many radio broadcasts made by Henry Stillman throughout the course of Resistance 2, he accused McCullen of keeping information from the US public about the Chimeran War, unlike Noah Grace (at least, in Stillman's opinion). It can be heard in th level set in Chicago, Illinois, when you are trapped in the apartments by the Leviathan.
