John Lennon is alive. Because Nixon had him deported. The hippie better be grateful.
More importantly, I decided to let one of Nixon's more interesting ideas and run with it. Forming a new Gaullist style party out of the conservative New Dealist white working class-the Daley/Rizzo Democrats in...
It was a cold, blustery day as Al Gore stood to take the Oath of Office on January 21st, 2001. For the first time, the Reform Party would have their shot at the Presidency, breaking the stranglehold that the National Party had on US politics since the 80s. And might have had longer, had...
Brezhnev had a heart attack in 1974* and a stroke in 1976 and from then point onwards got increasingly ineffective afterwards. This played out in his rule, with Andropov and the KGB being strongly relieved when he finally died and they could focus on ruling the nation...
Soviet Union has to survive and want the GDR to stay around. No way around that one.
And mind you, Brezhnev actually preferred Brandt to Honecker, which really scared the East Germans.
Does this mean that GHWB could win in 1992?
Personally, I have my doubts-I find Atwater's influence somewhat overrated in 1988 and I think would be in 1992 as well. But I'm willing to entertain other theories. Atwater after all was the only one in the GOP (other than the elderly Richard Nixon...
If you are familiar with Led Zeppelin, you'll know that singer Robert Plant and his family were vacationing in Rhodes, Greece in 1975 when they got involved in a horrible accident. From then on, it never really was the same for them, although the big trauma was when his son Karac died in 1977...
The big difference is not so much how the crisis is handled. That actually really wouldn't be too different, as Nixon ordered Operation Nickel Grass, not Kissinger. That was the most important thing for the war itself, and that arguably was the last time that Nixon acted as a real President, if...
No. Nixon at that point is electorally unstoppable barring nuclear war or him being caught in a Satanic ritual. The man won 49 states and had an approval rating in the high 60s. Even the North Vietnamese knew it-they would have never compromised on Thieu and the ARVN otherwise. There was a...
I'm not sure how feasible this is, Sadat and Assad needed time to plan and arm. But, if everything is the same...
1) No, it wouldn't have changed. If anything, there are even more incentives to do this. The election and the Munich Olympics (the Israelis were needless to say, out for blood after...