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loneranger - Glory Lies In Youth
Glory Lies In Youth
1940-1944: Franklin D. Roosevelt / Henry Wallace
1944-1952: Lyndon B. Johnson
1952-1960: Ronald Reagan
1960-1968: Robert F. Kennedy
1968-1976: George HW Bush
1976-1980: John McCain
1980-1988: Ann Richards
1988-2016: BUTTERFLIES
Pretty much everyone you can imagine gets a much earlier start, with Lyndon specifically getting a much earlier senatorship and becoming FDR's man in Texas to balance against VP Garner. FDR doesn't run in 1944 but as OTL Wallace is super controversial. LBJ rises as a dark horse candidate and his youthful vigor combined with his devotion to New Deal policies makes him a wonderful candidate for the nation.
He's followed up by Ronald Reagan who stayed in Illinois and his poverty despite the New Deal turned him into a Republican. He plays well against the elderly Dem candidate in '52 (Stevenson?) and also defeats JFK in some of the first televised debates in '56 although some say this was based more on looks than content.
With JFK a failure at the presidential level RFK picks up the torch and wins in '60, keeping some of Reagan's anti-union measures and anti-Soviet foreign policy but also making gigantic strides in Civil Rights.
HW is a young billionaire who was originally a dark horse candidate, known for his famous speech during the '64 Republican convention. He led the nation in the post Cold War consensus following the Soviet Union's collapse in '69 under Andropov, significantly with a "New Marshall Plan" extending to newly freed Eastern Europe to bring them in line with the Western Consensus.
McCain, a veteran both in the military and legislature, was a young firebrand who seemed like the perfect candidate to continue Bush's policies. Unfortunately McCain quickly became embroiled in Middle East conflicts at a time when the economy was already doing poorly and the public was not very receptive to the idea of troops on the ground, and they were very dubious about the supposed threat of militant Islamists.
McCain ended up doing poorly against Ann Richards, who handled him very well in the debates and her forceful yet folksy demeanor led many to compare her to Lyndon Johnson who was well remembered by the America people.
After that she was replaced by someone born after the POD and any other names that would be added would be functionally meaningless.
1940-1944: Franklin D. Roosevelt / Henry Wallace
1944-1952: Lyndon B. Johnson
1952-1960: Ronald Reagan
1960-1968: Robert F. Kennedy
1968-1976: George HW Bush
1976-1980: John McCain
1980-1988: Ann Richards
1988-2016: BUTTERFLIES
Pretty much everyone you can imagine gets a much earlier start, with Lyndon specifically getting a much earlier senatorship and becoming FDR's man in Texas to balance against VP Garner. FDR doesn't run in 1944 but as OTL Wallace is super controversial. LBJ rises as a dark horse candidate and his youthful vigor combined with his devotion to New Deal policies makes him a wonderful candidate for the nation.
He's followed up by Ronald Reagan who stayed in Illinois and his poverty despite the New Deal turned him into a Republican. He plays well against the elderly Dem candidate in '52 (Stevenson?) and also defeats JFK in some of the first televised debates in '56 although some say this was based more on looks than content.
With JFK a failure at the presidential level RFK picks up the torch and wins in '60, keeping some of Reagan's anti-union measures and anti-Soviet foreign policy but also making gigantic strides in Civil Rights.
HW is a young billionaire who was originally a dark horse candidate, known for his famous speech during the '64 Republican convention. He led the nation in the post Cold War consensus following the Soviet Union's collapse in '69 under Andropov, significantly with a "New Marshall Plan" extending to newly freed Eastern Europe to bring them in line with the Western Consensus.
McCain, a veteran both in the military and legislature, was a young firebrand who seemed like the perfect candidate to continue Bush's policies. Unfortunately McCain quickly became embroiled in Middle East conflicts at a time when the economy was already doing poorly and the public was not very receptive to the idea of troops on the ground, and they were very dubious about the supposed threat of militant Islamists.
McCain ended up doing poorly against Ann Richards, who handled him very well in the debates and her forceful yet folksy demeanor led many to compare her to Lyndon Johnson who was well remembered by the America people.
After that she was replaced by someone born after the POD and any other names that would be added would be functionally meaningless.
- loneranger
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