Ted Landry

## Summary

Theodore "Ted" Landry was an American political strategist and bureaucrat who served as the White House Chief of Staff to President Alexander Walker. Landry was frantically loyal to Walker and was among his most trusted confidants in his inner circle. Serving on his staff since Walker's Senate days, Ted was a master political strategist and liason between Walker and his donors in the private sector. He served initially as Chief of Staff of the Vice-President's office when Walker was VP and together then engineered Stanton's downfall that ultimately put Walker into office. Upon assuming the Presidency, Alexander Walker would start preparing the invasion of Iran. Landry headed the White House and since Walker had appointed the weak Selina Meyer as his running mate, Landry took on many of the tasks that a Vice-President would normally do. While Meyer was confined to figurehead-like ceremonies, military commissions and funerals, Landry managed the energy and trade sectors, as well as occassionalyl butting into military. Before initiating the Iranian invasion, Walker knew he had to get Russia to agree, so he created a crisis between Chinese and Russian government owned companies in Siberia that threathened Russia's oil pipelines. Landry coordinate closely with the Pettibone and the NSA where he had friends and allies to keep Russia at bay long enough for the Russian President to crumble under international and mounting domestic pressure of replacement. Eventually, when the Russian President was willing to cooperate and bless the invasion, Walker covertly send Landry to Vladivostok to negotiate with the Russian and Chinese.

During the war in Iran, Walker made Landry the titular head of the "Office of Special Projects", viewing him as his most trustworthy man for the job. Alongside Secretary Revord and Walker's Secret Service Head Burbacher, Ted was the only man who could barch into the Oval Office at any time without a meeting or into Walker's private study. During the war Landry oversaw all intelligence operations on behalf of Walker and most importantly liasoned with private coorporations that received no bid contracts after Landry would strongarm the Secretary of Energy to provide coorporations such as "REVORD INDUSTRIES" and "VIOTECH INTERNATIONAL" with no-bid contracts.

Following Walker's assassinaton, Landry was left in shambles. Ted was deeply attached and fiercely loyal to the President and his death was also not optimal for his career. Viewing him as a threath, Reynolds had Meyer order the immidiate shutdown of the OSP and fire Ted as Chief of Staff. After being told by Wales and Revord of Reynolds' plan for global dominance, Ted joined the fight against the maniacal Director. He used his connections to sabotage some energy facilities that Reynolds was using to build and sell a dirty bomb to separatists. Later he travelled to Russia to try and uncover more about Reynolds' potential spy in the Kremlin but was assassinated by the Director. Although out of the picture, before travelling to Russia, Landry had met with Katy Edwins, a promiment journalist that had been secretely financed and assisted in her career by President Walker, who she was having an affair with. As his Chief of Staff, Landry would sheldomly meet with Edwins to make sure she was okay or give her a story. Usually they were pieces that damaged or defamed Walker's political opponents. Landry had gotten the idea to use her to take down Reynolds and had given her classified files that she used as a building block to begin her investigation. Although she was frighthened after hearing of Landry's passing, Edwins continued her investigation quietely. Following many events including Wales' arrest, Edwins finally found enough information on the Director and set up a meeting with Secretary of State Revord. Revord provided her with the rest and she authored and published the story that would ultimately bring down Reynolds. Thus indirectly, Landry had also been one of the reasons for the maniacal Director's downfal.