"Are there really people like that?" Ward seemed a little skeptical.
"Whether we believe it or not, there really was only one Captain America in history. He was a living legend. Do you know why S.H.I.E.L.D. has kept the news that he's alive under wraps? We wanted to make sure Rogers had no intention of running for president. Otherwise, the moment he showed the slightest interest, the current president would probably be impeached and removed from office, and Rogers would take his place," Coulson said with a sigh.
"Is it really that exaggerated? The people who actually run the United States aren't the president. It's the big corporations behind the scenes."
"Did you forget Howard Stark?" Coulson said with a smile.
Ward immediately fell silent. If Tony Stark supported Rogers for president because of their historical connection, he might really be able to bring down the current president. Especially since Stark seemed to be working well with Osborn. Put the two together, along with Rogers's standing—
"That would probably make him the youngest and oldest president in American history," Ward said with a sigh.
"Exactly. But come to think of it, if the Axis powers hadn't collapsed so quickly, Rogers probably wouldn't have defeated the Nazis so soon. Maybe China had someone like Rogers, too. Unfortunately, that's remained a mystery all these years," Coulson said.
"Collapsed so quickly? Are you talking about the Island Nation's surrender at the end of 1941?" Ward asked, puzzled.
"Yeah. Their Far East Plan had been progressing fairly smoothly, but for some reason, everything fell apart within just a few months. It's still a mystery," Coulson said, perplexed.
Ward didn't find anything surprising about it. Or perhaps no one in this world would have thought there was anything wrong. According to everything they'd been taught,