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Here's a Presidents list for an ASB thing I plan to do at some point about Atlantean ancestor spirit channeling becoming widespread during the 1910s. The story will be set in the 70s / 80s so this isn't a spoiler.

"In today’s global village, we know the Atlanteans have always been with us. Yesterday’s ringing nostrums about the 'Great Awakening' of the early 20th century are widely recognized as elitist, Eurocentric historiography. The early researchers of the Atlantean Rite and Scientific Spiritism – Donnelly, Blavatsky, Gurdjieff, Murray, Jung – simply codified an understanding of our relationship with the Atlantean ancestor spirits that has existed, taking different forms, in every human civilization. Nevertheless, it is important to recall that spirit channeling was treated as a novelty for decades. We may mock Socialist Europe’s policy of 'official disbelief,' but the highest levels of the United States government denied the mounting evidence for far longer than was credible. Despite corroborated reports of the Russian Empire’s military use of channeling on the Eastern Front during the Great War, it was not until President Robinson’s 1930 invitation of Edgar Cayce to the White House that the United States publicly acknowledged the achievements of Scientific Spiritism."

Broad tent parties. Dems are skeptical of spirit channeling, the Republicans less so (especially after Wallace puts Nicholas Roerich in the Cabinet). Republican New Deal. Domineering left-populist Richard Nixon. Ken Arnold in office. Good stuff. Can't wait to write it.

1917-1918: Charles Evans Hughes / Charles W. Fairbanks (Republican)
def. 1916: Woodrow Wilson / Thomas R. Marshall (Democratic), Thomas Van Lear / George R. Kirkpatrick (Socialist)
1918-1921: Charles Evans Hughes (Republican) / vacant
1921-1929: A. Mitchell Palmer / Charles N. Haskell (Democratic)
def. 1920: Charles Evans Hughes / Myron T. Herrick (Republican)
def. 1924: John J. Pershing / John W. Weeks (Republican)
1929-1933: Joseph T. Robinson / Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democratic)
def. 1928: Carl Milliken / Arthur Capper (Republican), William Edgar Borah / Robert M. La Follette, Jr. (Progressive)
1933-1937: Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. / James Eli Watson (Republican)
def. 1932: Joseph T. Robinson / Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democratic), Daniel Hoan / James H. Maurer (Socialist)
1937-1941: Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. / Henry A. Wallace (Republican)
def. 1936: Franklin D. Roosevelt / Walter F. George (Democratic)
1941-1949: Henry A. Wallace / Arthur H. Vandenberg (Republican)
def. 1940: Al Smith / Harry F. Byrd (Democratic)
def. 1945: Paul V. McNutt / John H. Bankhead II (Democratic), Darlington Hoopes / Karly Larsen (Socialist)
1949-1952: Wright Patman / Brien McMahon (Democratic)
def. 1948: William J. Donovan / Hugh A. Butler (Republican)
1952-1953: Wright Patman (Democratic) / vacant
1953-1961: Lucius D. Clay / Earl Warren (Republican)
def. 1952: Estes Kefauver / John O. Pastore (“Regular” Democratic), none (“Rebel” Democratic)
def. 1956: Will Rogers, Jr. / G. Mennen Williams (“Regular” Democratic), none (“Rebel” Democratic)
1961-1965: Clifford P. Case / Archibald Roosevelt, Jr. (Republican)
def. 1960: Orval E. Faubus / James Roosevelt (Democratic)
1965-1973: Dick Nixon / Ralph Yarborough (Democratic)
def. 1964: Clifford P. Case / Archibald Roosevelt, Jr. (Republican)
def. 1968: Hugh Scott / Jim Rhodes (Republican)
1973-1977: Kenneth Arnold / Harold Hughes (Republican)
def. 1972: Dick Nixon / Moon Landrieu (Democratic)
1977-1981: Dick Nixon / John Dingell (Democratic)
def. 1976: Kenneth Arnold / Patrick Leahy (Republican)
1981-0000: Bob Packwood / David Rockefeller (Republican)
def. 1980: John Dingell / Ernest Hollings (Democratic), Julie Nixon / Frank Fitzsimmons (Popular Democratic)