We have placed you at the head of our country. Of course, we have done this upon what appeared to us to be sufficient reasons, and yet we think it best for you to know that there are some things in regard to which we are not quite satisfied with.

We believe you to be a brave and skillful leader, which, of course, we like. We also believe you do not mix personal preferences with politics, in which you are right. You have confidence in yourself, which is a valuable, if not an indispensable quality.

You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does well rather than harm. But we think that during the ten year Y2K repairs time period you have taken counsel of your ambition and thwarted the normal repairs proceedings, procrastinating as much as you could, in which you did a great wrong to the country and to humankind.

We have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of you or your predecessor having partially solved the Y2K computer shut-down problem we had just before the turn of the century by secretly turning the computers’ internal clock back by 10 years. We understand that discarding these older computers was not an option, as they were and are an integral part of critical military defence mechanisms and/or industrial equipment, and that it was with the best of intentions that you meant to replace or overhaul them completely during the following decade.

We, the People will support you to the utmost of our ability, which is neither more nor less than we have done and will do for all our Presidents. We much fear that the spirit which you have aided to infuse into our country, of keeping secret the importance of such a potential crisis and withholding confidence from us will now turn upon you. We shall assist you, as far as we can, to put it down.

Neither you nor the greatest leaders alive could get any good out of us while such a spirit prevails. Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victory over the imminent danger of an accidental nuclear war.

We, the People.