====== Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 ====== A rather dystopian [[late 20th century|Cold War era timeline]] by [[offtopic:Drew]]. You can read its [[Rumsfeldia Fear and Loathing in the Decade of Tears|sequel]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/rumsfeldia-fear-and-loathing-in-the-decade-of-tears.261579/|here.]] The [[offtopic:Tv Tropes]] page for the TL can be seen [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FearLoathingAndGumboOnTheCampaignTrailSeventyTwo|here]]. ==== Chapters ==== [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3150846|Update 1: Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3153128|Update 2: The Segretti Affair]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3158157|Update 3: Flyers and Letters]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3160702|Update 4: The Hayride begins: Late summer, early autumn]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3165970|Update 5: Nixon in the crosshairs]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3166017|Update 6: Tuesday, November 7, 1972]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3170776|Update 7: Left makes right: The Congressional races of 1972]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3170813|Update 8: Shock and ... say what?]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3178413|Update 9: George Corley Wallace: Burnin' down the house]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3180455|Update 10: Untitled]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3184554|Update 11: Uncle Sam wants you George]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3184581|Update 12: Judges Judge, Electors Elect and the lawyers make off like bandits]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3184628|Update 13: Hayrides and Gumbo]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3187106|Update 14: Courts and Communists]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3193972|Update 15: Untitled]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3196757|Update 16: One man, one vote]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3198847|Update 17: To The House]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3198872|Update 18: Who here, seriously, wants to allow Spiro Agnew to become President?]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3199066| Update 19: Cold Days in January]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3200968|Update 20: Untitled]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3210317|Update 21: Springtime For Spiro]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3210394| Update 22: The Burning House]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3212783|Update 23: Pardon Me]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3215104|Update 24: Agnewnomics]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3229668|Update 25: A Transformative Presidency for a New American Century]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3244346|Update 26: Fear, Loathing and Crisis '73]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3256412|Update 27: Spiro Fishing at DEFCON 2]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3264036|Update 28: Spiro - You're Fired!]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3265618|Update 29: Cap Weinberger and James Gavin's list of ten choices for Vice President]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3269897|Update 30: Untitled]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3269923|Update 31: After the Fall: The unbowed right]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3274997|Update 32: Henry's Odyssey Oct 31 - Nov. 11, 1973]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3279197|Update 33: L'Affair Agnew]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3282649|Update 34: Cleaning-up after the last guy]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3297938|Update 35: One Step Forward; One Step into the Abyss]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3449828|Update 36: The Burning Sand]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3461169|Update 37: An ounce of prevention]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3467557|Update 38: Big Muddles]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3472425|Update 39: French National Assembly Elections October 1974]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3474984|Update 40: TV and the California Governor's race]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3478228|Update 41: Le Grand Gachis v. 2.0]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3481160|Update 42: Crime and Punishment in America - Autumn 1974]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3483465|Update 43: The new President of South Vietnam]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3488315|Update 44: America's Grand Gachis]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3490867|Update 45: Pennies and Peanuts]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3497962|Update 46: The Long Slide Down]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3500674|Update 47: November 5, 1974 - "The Tuesday Night Massacre"]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3503285|Update 48: It's not the votes but who is seen to be casting them that counts]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3505145|Update 49: The Rumblings of Fanatics]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3505975|Update 50: Peace on Earth? Not this Christmas]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3511025|Update 51: The Ninth Circuit - December 1974]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3532521|Update 52: The Cauldron Bubbles]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3535135|Update 53: No Lame Ducks on the menu]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3555111|Update 54: Oops - if it wasn't for those pesky laws...]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3555214|Update 55: The Bite of the Red Eminence]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3574770|Update 56: Family Jewels]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3628635|Update 57: Adana Kebab and Ouzo gives you indigestion ]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3690751|Update 58: Turkish Dyspepsia ]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3723505|Update 59: Fear, Loathing and Red Jelly Beans on the Campaign Trail ‘76]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3755928|Update 60: Spiro Rides Again]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3756024|Update 61: Of Hot Lips. New Hampshire and the First Nephew's Dream]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3759468|Update 62: Flavor of the campaign]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3762122|Update 63: Settin' the Woods on Fire again]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3787963|Update 64: So, you want to go there, do you?]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3804182|Update 65: Slip Sliding Away]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3814107|Update 66: Florida Recount]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3814181|Update 67: Republik Maluku Selatan (RMS)]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3814559|Update 68: Untitled]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3826493|Update 69: "You'll come a-Waltzing Whitlam, with me"]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3826915|Update 70: Spy Games]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3838338|Update 71: Hot Lead Anniversary]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3838414|Update 72: April Showers bring May Primaries]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3841704|Update 73: And then the Rubber Hits The Road]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3841728|Update 74: Untitled]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3947875|Update 75: Attacks]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-3947908|Update 76: The 1976 Democratic National Convention]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-4043333|Update 77: Fear, Loathing and Alka Seltzer on the Campaign Trail '76]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-4162300|Update 78: Wallace by a Palm Leaf]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-4231329|Update 79: Now, Tomorrow and Forever...]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-4312294|Update 80: The Broken Dragon: The Two Maos and the Agony of the Middle Kingdom]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-4399844|Update 81: No Punks, Pinkos, Religious Nuts or Tories Need Apply]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-4399853|Update 82: Barrack and Newt]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-4479510|Update 83: The Year of the Tiger: 23 January 1974 – 10 February 1975]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-4810739|Update 84: Eddie -- You're fired!]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-4842082|Update 85: Wallace's Summer of Tough Love]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-4862494|Update 86: Untitled]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-4866160|Update 87: Agnew On Point - Sprio vs. the Slithering Snopes]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-4870939|Update 88: Dysfunctional Marriages]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-4894154|Update 89: Untitled]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-4897284|Update 90: On the Airwaves]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-4910304|Update 91: Frost and Nixon 2.0]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-4954393|Update 92: Oily Politics and lit matches]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-4961656|Update 93: ABC News Close-up: America: A Nation on the Rails Once More (1978)]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-4991686|Update 94: Untitled]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-5003304|Update 95: Planes, Trains, Trucks and Wallace]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-5080720|Update 96: Untitled]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-5131510|Update 97: Persistent Populism Piles-up Plentifully Putrid I]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-5131607|Update 98: Persistent Populism Piles-up Plentifully Putrid II]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-5220031|Update 99: If you are so sick ... why am I so pale?]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-5220050|Update 100: Map of Laos with Flags]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-5220102|Update 101: Laos War 1978 - 1979 Part I]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-5220145|Update 102: Laos War 1978 - 1979 Part II]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-5245260|Update 103: Untitled]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-5323632|Update 104: Untitled]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-5355540|Update 105: Sand in your sheets]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-5355585|Update 106: Neither Founding Fathers nor Bolsheviks]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-5377526|Update 107: Breaking news...]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-5380963|Update 108: More Breaking News...]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-5406554|Update 109: Georgia Gubernatorial election 1978]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-5411916|Update 110: An Iowan for Iowans?]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-5524858|Update 111: ’79 - Hell of a Year I]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-5524896|Update 112: ’79 - Hell of a Year II]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-5552258|Update 114: Gulf of Tiran]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-5607277|Update 115: Throwing Stones at the Stone Age]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-5673152|Update 116: Japan's Political Earthquake]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-5709462|Update 117: One for Lop Nur]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-5752551|Update 118: The Years of the Skull]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-5770237|Update 119: A Few Notes]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-5823930|Update 120: Popes and Libertarians]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-5849671|Update 121: Untitled]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-5950497|Update 122: A World of Troubles]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-5950544|Update 123: The Democratic and Republican Presidential Primaries 1980]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-5950574|Update 124: The Democratic and Republican Presidential Primaries 1980 (Maps)]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-6005353|Update 125: Untitled]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-6012686|Update 126: Untitled]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-6115972|Update 127: Koufax Pitches in the Hardest Game Yet]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-6143443|Update 128: A Very Troublesome Woman]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-6143487|Update 129: A Wolf in the Woods]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-6143510|Update 130: The Hungry Wolves]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-6143593|Update 131: The New Democracy: The candidate with fewer votes wins]] [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-6143645|Update 132: Rumsfeldia Rising]] ----- ==== Awards ==== Info to be added soon. ---- ==== Navigation ==== **[[Late 20th century|Late 20th Century Timelines]]** **[[timelines:timelines_and_scenarios|Alternate History Timelines and Scenarios Main Directory]]**