[ WP ] After you are elected President , you discover a big red button hidden in your desk in the Oval Office . When you ask your predecessor about it , he said that it had been there for decades , but the secret of what it did died with Kennedy . After a few years , you finally give in and push the button .

I push the button, and suddenly there was a flash of light. I avert my eyes and when it's dimmed down, there is a translucent screen floating in mid air in front of me. It glows a faint blue, with the words `` Hailing'' blinking on and off. 
 Then a crash of static, and suddenly the face of an old woman appears on it. 
 `` Venus To Earth, is anybody there?'' 
 `` What'' I say, confused. 
 The old woman squints at me through the screen. 
 `` This is Venus colony. Did America survive the Nuclear war?'' 
 `` There was n't a nuclear war'' 
 `` It's been fifty years, what other reason would earth cut off contact?'' 
 I stare at the button 
 `` I guess we forgot..''
