Harvey McCullen

Harvey McCullen
Biographical Information
Place of Death	Denver, Colorado
Nationality	American
Status	Deceased
Death	May 28, 1953
Affiliation	United States Government
Profession	President of the United States, formerly Vice-President
Physical Information
Species	Human
Gender	Male
Appearances
Game(s)	Resistance 2 (mentioend)
Book(s)	Resistance: The Gathering Storm

Harvey McCullen was the 34th President of the United States. He was Noah Grace's running mate in the U.S. Presidential Elections of 1940, 1944 and 1948, serving as the 33rd Vice President, and ascended to the Presidency after Grace's death in 1951.

Biography

The following is based on the Resistance: The Gathering Storm novel and has not been confirmed by canon sources.

During his time as Vice President, McCullen never completely agreed with some of Noah Grace's policies, yet he was reluctant to fully speak out against him. In stark contrast to Grace and most of the Cabinet, McCullen possessed a clear moral compass. His only ally was Secretary of War Henry Walker in which they shared their disagreement with their administration's authoritarian policies at the height of the Chimeran War.

On November 16, 1951, McCullen was present with the Cabinet when Grace revealed to them Project Omega - a proposed possible negotiation between America and the Chimera, in which Grace wanted the invaders to spare the United States at the expense of the world. McCullen was the first person to speak out against it. However, McCullen failed to convince Grace to abandon his plan as the President's inner circle highly approved of negotiating with the Chimera. Isolated, McCullen very grudgingly gave his consent to Project Omega. After Washington, D.C. was declared a potential site of a Chimeran attack, McCullen was relocated along with the Cabinet to Denver. McCullen would never see Grace's plan come to fruition as the President was killed by the Sentinel Nathan Hale.

End of information based on the Resistance: The Gathering Storm novel.

McCullen was soon made aware of Grace's demise. On December 25, 1951, McCullen publicly announced of Grace's death during a hastily called press conference at the Denver Federal Center, in which he claimed that Grace died from an undisclosed illness. Although the public expressed skepticism over the cause of Grace's sudden demise, McCullen refused to budge on the official narrative and sharply rebuked to allegations of a sinister cover-up. The next day, McCullen was sworn into office.

For the next two years, McCullen became a far more capable leader than his predecessor in which he repealed many of Grace's policies and tried to evacuate as many Americans as possible to the Liberty Defense Perimeter.

On May 15, 1953, the Chimeran fleet invaded the United States. On May 28, the fleet breached the LDP and attacked Denver. McCullen and his Cabinet attempted to evacuate by VTOL but were shot down by Chimeran fighters, killing everyone on board. McCullen was succeeded, in a temporary capacity, by General of the Army Douglas MacArthur as Acting Commander-In-Chief until more formal elections could be held.

Presidency

McCullen's major acts as President were reversing Grace's ban on immigration to bolster falling troop numbers in which this was lauded by many as an important and necessary step in countering Chimeran incursions on American borders; overseeing the final fortification of the Liberty Defense Perimeter and as well trying to include every American within the boundary of the Perimeter; and approving "Operation Aloha" for the purpose to create a colony of 150,000 citizens (selected by a committee appointed by McCullen himself) to Hawaii, with the goal of "preserving the American culture, history and way of life should an unthinkable fate befall the continental U.S."

Trivia

• The real-life running mate of Franklin Roosevelt's opponent was not McCullen, but rather Republican Senator Charles L. McNary.
• In one of many radio broadcasts made by Henry Stillman throughout the course of Resistance 2, he accused McCullen of keeping information from the US public about the Chimeran War, unlike Noah Grace (at least, in Stillman's opinion). It can be heard in Chicago, when the player is trapped in the apartments by the Leviathan.