Chuck O’Malley’s prediction in the early 1980s is not fiction. To read the original prediction, see The Book of Predictions by David Wallechinsky, Amy Wallace, and Irving Wallace (Morrow, 1980). See also the comments by Willard Mathias of the Office of National Estimates, which Chuck quotes to President Reagan. The comments are cited on page 374 of Robert Dallek’s An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy 1917-1963 (Little, Brown, 2003).