Talk:Minor Fictional Human Characters in the Colonization Trilogy

Mayor of Los Angeles
I'm wondering, is this an unnamed historical figure? The anecdote seems like it's playing off a real event. It puts me in mind of Bill Clinton's speech to the Democratic Party convention in 1988 (I think), but he would have been a teen when Second Contact takes place, even if he could be butterflied into a Californian. The habit of incompetent oration is surely not unique to Clinton, so I'm wondering if there was a similar notoriously overblown speech in the correct time period in OTL.JonathanMarkoff (talk) 08:15, June 18, 2016 (UTC)