Designated Survivor: Glasses
11 min readJan 1, 2024
The Professor and the President.
Thomas “Glasses” Kirkman (“Glasses” was his Secret Service code) was the United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) when the unthinkable happened: the US Capitol was attacked in an unspeakable act of evil (unthinkable, that is, until January 2021). Next thing he knew, he was placing his left hand on the Bible while raising his right hand as the thirteenth…
