The General's President by John Dalmas torrent

At last the generals were going to get their kind of President. At least that's what they thought...

The stock market crash of 1994 made 1929 look like a minor market adjustment...the rioters of the '90s made the Wobblies look like the country-club Republicans...the Vice President of the U.S. resigns in a cloud of scandal--and when the military hints that they may let the lynch mobs through anyway, the President resigns as well.
But the President must first propose a new chief executive to succeed him--one approved by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Thus the generals get to pick a President. Imagine their surprise when the President they pick turns out to be his own man...