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President Robert L. Booth is a fictional character from the British comic strip Judge Dredd in 2000 AD. He was the last President of the United States and the man who initiated the Atomic Wars.

In 2060 Booth was elected vice president, serving under President Harvisson. During Harvisson's second term he succeeded to the presidency under the terms of the 25th Amendment, and was elected president in his own right in 2068 by rigging the vote-counting computers.^[1]

Belligerent and wanting further power, he whipped up public sentiment with the idea that the rest of the world was living off America, sent the army to seize foreign oil reserves, assassinated a dissenting advisor, and threatened to disband the Judges and return to trial by jury. He finally started the Atomic Wars in 2070 in response to international opposition, having convinced the population (and himself) that America's nuclear screens could keep out retaliatory strikes. The resulting devastation of America and the world led to the Judges taking control of the country. Booth fled the White House and took shelter in the Rocky Mountains with robot armies loyal to him; after the Battle of Armaggedon in 2071, he was captured and tried for war crimes. He was sentenced by Judge Solomon, who decreed that he should serve a 100 year term in suspended animation, locked up in the deepest vault in Fort Knox.

Booth was served by three robot medics - Snap, Crackle and Pop - who replaced his blood annually to keep him alive. When Fort Knox was hit by a bomb in later years, the robots (following their programming) began to attack and drain blood from nearby villagers. This led to Booth being inadvertently revived, whereupon Judge Dredd sentenced him to life working on a Kentucky farm in the Cursed Earth.

In prog 1530, it was revealed Snap, Crackle and Pop are involved in the ransom of Chief Judge Fargo's body.

In recent years, 2000AD editorials have explicitly compared the policies of Booth to those of George W. Bush^{[citation needed]}. This was further added to in Prog 2007 when it was revealed that Booth rigged the 2068 elections. President Bush has been accused of rigging the Florida ballot in 2000 and 2002 and Ohio in 2004 by his political opponents, although independent investigations by the press have found no evidence of tampering in any of those cases^{[citation needed]}.

Booth first appeared 2000 AD #67 and 68, in "The Cursed Earth". He later appeared in #1038-1040 and in the story "Origins" (beginning in #1505).

1. ^ 2000 AD prog 1518.

• Judge Dredd timeline
• Booth's picture by Mike McMahon

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