With the country crumbling around them, slipping into starvation, riots, and open civil war due to their constant economic bungling, the president and his fellow powercrats were desperate to track down the one man they believed could save their failing regime and force that man to become their economic dictator.
Eventually they arrested him and dragged him before the TV cameras where they forced him to explain to the country what they had dubbed the "John Galt Plan." Galt's explanation, as he moved abruptly sideways to expose the gun poking against his ribs, was "get the hell out of my way!"
