Just weeks after the coronation in Kokomo, Stephenson basked in the glow of political sycophants aboard his latest possession—a ninety-eight-foot yacht, the Reomar II. The Grand Dragon now had a floating palace on the Great Lakes to go with his chandeliered mansion in Irvington, his summer home in Ohio, and his private transport above the clouds. He was as far from the Oklahoma dugout of his youth, with its dirt floor, tarpaper walls, and leaky roof, as he could be. It was laughable, a mere two years earlier, when a drifter in a fine suit first appeared in Indiana and told people he was going
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