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President Myers is the fictional president of the United States. He came to power by collaborating with Reverend Carl Corbin and the Pure Movement: Reverend Carl promised Myers enough votes to win the election, in exchange for getting his preferred policies put in place. In addition to Carl, Myers’s brother Bobby also advises him on policy. The president is implied to be a puppet for Carl and Bobby—he merely wants power and is willing to collaborate with whomever he must in order to get it. He’s killed at the breakfast meeting when Patrick spikes the water with Jean and Lorenzo’s deadly Wernicke’s aphasia-inducing serum.
President Myers Quotes in Vox
The Vox quotes below are all either spoken by President Myers or refer to President Myers. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 20 Quotes
Instead of standing next to Patrick, or even at the far end of the family line, bookending our kids, I’m fifth. After my husband, after Steven, after the eleven-year-old twins. And Sonia has made me smaller than everyone except for her. I manage a forced smile and take her into my arms, pressing her head against me so she can’t see the tears that are welling up, that I won’t be able to contain.
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And so here we are. Me, my daughter, and the wrist counters that keep us in line. I wonder what Jackie would have to say about it. Probably something like Good work, Jean. You gassed up the car and drove it straight into hell. Enjoy the burn.
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Chapter 21 Quotes
[...] I’m thinking I did a crackerjack job on the behavioral part, conditioning Sonia with bribes of cookies and marshmallows to keep her words unspoken. Someone should take away my mothering license.
I keep reminding myself it isn’t my fault. I didn’t vote for Myers.
I didn’t vote at all, actually.
And here’s Jackie’s voice again, telling me what an acquiescent shit I am.
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Chapter 77 Quotes
Patrick is number thirteen. The Judas Iscariot of the Oval Office. As I lie here in bed, numbed by the spin of the ceiling fan, these religious coincidences strike me as funny. Water, wine, thirteen men. Reverend Carl and his insanity.
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President Myers Character Timeline in Vox
The timeline below shows where the character President Myers appears in Vox. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 1
Jean wouldn’t believe anyone who told her that in a week’s time, she’d unseat the president, the Pure Movement, and Morgan LeBron. But she wouldn’t argue, as she, her six-year-old daughter...
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Chapter 3
Suddenly, Jean remembers Jackie Juarez. It’s a year and a half ago, the president has recently been inaugurated, and she’s watching TV with Patrick and Steven. Steven declares the...
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Chapter 9
Jean is watching TV. The president is giving a speech, but Jean is more interested in watching the president’s wife, Anna...
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Chapter 11
...men enter the kitchen, Jean catches bits of a breaking news story on TV: the president’s brother has been in a skiing accident. The men refer to Jean as Dr. McClellan,...
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Chapter 17
...Bobby Myers’s Wernicke’s aphasia. She turns the TV off and tells Patrick to call the president and say she won’t do it. He begs her to change her mind, and Jean...
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Chapter 20
...reason, Patrick is smiling. He offers Jean a letter from his briefcase—a letter from the president. Just then, Steven, Leo, and Sam get home, and Steven compliments Jean’s new counter. Julia...
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...about how Jean lived in a bubble. Jean begins to mentally draft her response to President Myers with the 63 words she has left today.
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Chapter 21
...to be excused from school, and for Lin to join the project. To her surprise, President Myers agrees. Patrick gets a call moments later; Thomas will arrive soon to take off Jean...
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Chapter 28
...Lorenzo to the security office. On the way, he announces that there is a deadline: President Myers needs his brother at the end of June to accompany him to the G20 summit....
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Chapter 35
...wasn’t supposed to happen.” Jean asks if Patrick can pull strings with Reverend Carl or President Myers , but he insists he’s powerless, even when Jean suggests they say that Steven assaulted...
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Chapter 44
...speaking so fondly of the 1950s, and of how nobody thought this would happen until President Myers was elected. Even Jean got involved in protests then. The protesters had hoped the Supreme...
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...retrospect, nobody in Jean’s circle realized how supportive most of the U.S. was of the president. Jean wonders if Lorenzo might have a plane ticket or a passport for her as...
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Chapter 61
...Jean and Lorenzo approach Mrs. Ray, they share a look. If the serum works, their president will essentially bring about the end of the world. Supply chains, stock markets, and transit...
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Chapter 77
...at the meeting. She imagines Patrick at the meeting, poisoning the water, champagne, and coffee. President Myers , Bobby Myers (magically cured of his aphasia, if he was ever ill), Reverend Carl,...
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