Howling Wilderness

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Originally Posted by Cdnwolf

Lets talk about the elephant in the room. Did Munson kill the President and have advance knowledge of the attack?

President Tanner was killed, not by the strike on Washington,
but by an accident during takeoff of the NEACP aircraft. The
mystery of precisely what went wrong with one of the most
rigorously inspected, carefully maintained aircraft in the nation
has never been solved- the FAA never properly investigated the
accident. Because an inbound missile had been detected, Vice
President Pemberton elected to try to make it to the Special
Facility at Mount Weather. Upon being informed of the President's
death and told that no retaliatory action had been taken,
Vice President Pemberton was forced to delay her departure and
remain at a secure communications facility (the radios on the
evacuation helicopter have never been considered reliable for
this purpose). From the bomb shelter under the east wing of
the White House (built during President Truman's tenure, and
never intended to withstand a direct hit), Vice President Pemberton,
after identifying herself, issued a proclamation of the existence
of a state of war (only Congress has the power to declare
war, and that body was not in session), and ordered retaliatory
strikes on the USSR. She was killed a few minutes later when
the missile detonated.
For a time, the United States had no official "National Command
Authority." Speaker of the House Munson, next in line,
was skiing in northern California. He had slipped out of his vacation
home and not left word of his destination

I don't think so, not based off that anyways. If he had been involved I would have thought he would have been waiting by the proverbial phone. Although, that does not preclude other rogue elements within the government from doing shenanigans. Keep in mind the tragedy would never be fully investigated.