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  1. Another change of death date Pod

    I am extending the life of James Earl Carter Sr., the father of Jimmy Carter. OTL he died on July 22, 1953 at the age of 58 and the future President decided to leave the Navy and come home to run the family farm and peanut warehouse. ITTL I have the senior Carter live four score and ten years...

  2. Earlier Agnew indictment

    What would change? It depends on when it happens. Earlier in 1973 would change nothing. Gerald Ford would still be the ideal candidate. If it is fall 1972, it hurts Nixon but does not defeat him. He beats McGovern 55 percent to 43 percent. McGovern carries Massachusttes, Rhode Island, District...

  3. Anybody else read Jeff Greenfield's If Kennedy Lived?

    I enjoyed the book as I have enjoyed Greenfiled's other alternative histories. I thought we could discuss it and offer our own theories about a surviving John Kennedy. He starts with an interesting POD. It rains in Dallas on November 22, 1963, so the bubble top is put on the top of the limo. I...

  4. Senator Karl E Mundt's health.

    In 1969, South Dakota Senator Karl E Mundt suffered a massive stroke. He did not resign but never returned to the Senate for the remaining three years of his term. What if we give him some debilitating health problems ten years earlier. He is slowed down but still runs for reelection in 1960...

  5. Guerilla war in Cuba 1961 -?

    The POD here is that during the 1960 presidential campaign Richard Nixon does not campaign in all 50 states. Instead he spends extra time in Missouri, Illinois and New Jersey and wins their 56 electoral votes and the White House. I think Nixon would send air support at the Bay of Pigs. Does he...

  6. Stopped in time

    What if in 1950 Truman had ordered that US /UN forces to stop at the 38th parallel. We would have had a statement. The North Koreans would have suffered under US bombing and would have eventually agreed to a cease fire. When would the war have ended? Does anything else change?

  7. France Stays In

    On June 16, 1940, the French government decided to continue the war from exile in Algeria. The French military was ordered to evacuate the country. On September 9, 1940, the defeated French and their Commonwealth allies scored a victory when the forced Italy to surrender Libya. Hitler decided...

  8. Two PODS

    What if Robert Kennedy had agreed to challenge LBJ when he was first asked in 1967? He would like McCarthy OTL have embarrassed Johnson in New Hampshire. LBJ will still withdraw. The big difference is in the primaries OTL where McCarthy and Kennedy competed, RFK would win the combined Kennedy...

  9. Justice Robert Bork

    The least complicated way to get Bork on the Court is to have President Reagan nominate him to replace William Rehnquist, when Rehnquist was nominated to be Chief Justice in 1986. There eight conservative Republican Senators who were defeated or retired in the 1986 elections. OTL the Senate vote...

  10. implausible but still interesting

    After the invasion of Ethiopia, the US, UK and France place an oil embargo on Italy. The British also ban the Italian military from using the Suez Canal. The invasion is unsuccessful and Mussolini is overthrown. I assume the leaders of the coup are Fascists who would be sympathetic to Hitler, so...

  11. various possible endings

    There was a witness who came forward offering to testify against O J Simpson. Marcia Clark did not use him because nobody could back up what he said. He said he saw OJ at the airport the night of the murder throwing away a small suitcase in a trash can. By the time the police checked the trash...

  12. Romney runs

    On May 4, 2016, the day after Ted Cruz withdrew, Mitt Romney holds a conference call with donors who agree to fund his presidential campaign. Later that day, he announces he is running for President, as an alternative Republican Independent. Romney's small staff calls many temp agencies in Texas...

  13. Obama Clinton 08 and 12

    Sorry I don't remember the name of the book. I read that the real decision for Obama's running mate was between Hillary and Joe Biden. One was to be Vice President and the other Secretary of State. Bayh and Kaine were secondary. What if they had gone with Hillary? I am assuming that she and...

  14. If France does not surrender, what happens to Indo China?

    In 1940, 1941, it would be a tempting target for Japan. France can't really defend it. When are the Japanese ready to go to war with the UK and the Commonwealth?

  15. Hitler dead but Valkyrie unsuccessful

    The POD is that Van Stauffenberg lets an aid with ten fingers take care of the bombs. Two bombs go off and kill everyone in the room including Hitler. The coup fails because it is disorganized. The SS takes the lead in suppressing the plot. This leads to Himmler overthrowing Goering and taking...

  16. How helpful?

    John Kennedy's autopsy has been criticized for being incomplete and the doctor, whose qualifications have been unjustly questioned have been accused of making mistakes. This despite the fact that three expert panels have confirmed the autopsy's findings. Both one appointed by Attorney General...

  17. Neutral or Entente Ottoman Empire

    Today is the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the Sykes Picot agreement, So we should ask if Ottoman Empire joined the Entente or stayed neutral, could it survive.

  18. earlier knowledge

    It becomes public knowledge that Speaker Dennis Hastert is paying off his molestation victims in 2006. Does this help the Democrats in that year's election?

  19. A different Valkyrie

    I was rereading William Shirer's The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. He said that Von Stauffenberg was recruited because part of his duties was giving reports in meetings attended by Hitler. He further said that Goering and Himmler were at some of these meetings. The conspirators hoped he...

  20. A different Citizen's United

    The POD is Chief Justice Rehnquist dies ten years earlier in 1995. President Clinton appoints former Senate Majority Leader and Federal Judge George Mitchell to replace him.The Republican Senate confirms him. In the 2010 Citizen's United decision Chief Justice Mitchell, Justices Stevens...
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