Recent content by Drew

I recently came across the original version of this TL and was impressed....now it is even better. Well done Lett. A Eugene McCarthy Presidency is really going outside the box, and a very unusual twist for 1968. The best part of it is that you have managed to do this in a plausible manner...

This article, although a little long, gives some good insight into Connally's political style and personality.

Wolfram actually posted the article, which is very interesting. The Bush – Connally relationship is interestingly complicated because they helped each other out during this period, but neither liked the other at all; they weren’t allies. Connally backed Lloyd Bentsen in his 1970 primary...

"He saved GHWB's career by conditioning his acceptance of SecTreas on getting Bush at the U.N." - And now GHW Bush is chairman of the RNC just when Connally needs to tighten his grip on the GOP. Time to call in that marker.

I would argue that Connally realizes the political peril of pardoning Nixon: as with Ford in actual history it looks like a "corrupt bargain", the more so because Connally had a closer association with Nixon during the first term. If he even considers it, IMHO he would put it off until the...

Impressive work. Of course if Connally's back room dealing comes to light while he is still in office then there will be Hell to pay all around. Can't wait to see who he chooses as VP. He'll need to extend an olive branch across the divide in his own party before he can get on with healing...

Good Day Wolverinethad, First, my condolences about your wife having to spend time in he hospital. That is always an anxious time, the more so with the current COVID crisis. I hope she is recovering and that all is going for the better. This timeline is an impressive work. I recently found...

Hi. I've never been away, just on to other things which took up my time, so I could never really devout my attention to this. I've also been thinking of other TLs -> some even featuring the irrepressible would-be President John J. McKeithen (shout out to Statesman - A Prescription of Gumbo in...

April 10-17, 1989 Various skirmishes take place along Alabama’s borders with Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia, and Florida. The battles are between Alabama’s National Guard, and State Police on one side, and the National Guards of those states-working in tandem with the Holy Battalions- on the...

I suppose it depends on whom they believe the real founding fathers were: http://www.cbn.com/tv/1424250323001?mobile=false "The founding document of the United States of America acknowledges the Lordship of Jesus Christ because we are a Christian nation." - Pat Robertson "Are we a Christian...

Sunday, April 2, 1989 A bomb detonates next to the Washington Monument causing some structural damage and spreading debris across the National Mall. Security immediately closes-off the area, ending public access to the Mall and the monuments. The body of activist Samuel Leroy Jackson, who had...

Actually an unexplored area in this TL would be if Rumsfeld's government did this, and a foreign police service captured the abducting agents on its soil. I also think Rumsfeld might have used foreign mercenaries to do this - possibly South Africans - to retain a degree of deniability.

Back to human fingers and rat parts in the food. See: Upton Sinclair's The Jungle

He's been playing Felix Leiter in James Bond films. In the last installment he broke with the pro-Rumsfeld villain and the character would now be an exile in the UK. Actor GW Bush is working in Europe and an exile, though now that California is independent he could return to Hollywood. His...

My take would be that Grassely did defect because the CVs would have strong influence in Kansas, and Grassley has a strong conservative record. Similar idea for McConnell. I think Hatch would oppose the February laws. While he might have some sympathy for their policy ideals, the CVs and the...