The American Dream

 is a Fallout 3 quest. It is also an Xbox 360 and PC achievement.

The player awakens chained up in a prison cell inside Raven Rock, the Enclave hideout located in the very northwest corner of the map. Colonel Autumn is demanding the access code, but he leaves when the president speaks through the intercomm and asks to speak with the PC. All inventory is stored in a locker inside the prison cell where the Vault Dweller wakes up.

Some Enclave soldiers will still shoot at the PC, although this might be avoided by a speech check with the first Enclave soldier encountered after leaving the prison cell. The target destination is Raven Rock level 2 where the player encounters the president in the form of an AI. A science check here can be used to convince the president that he is just a simple AI and he should shut the Enclave down - this causes the robots to turn on the Enclave soldiers, making the subsequent trek out to the wastelands much, much easier, as there are numerous sentry bots with miniguns and missile launchers waiting on Raven Rock level 1. The player needs to grab the modified FEV from the computer console and head back to the Citadel.