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How would a lack of the Iranian Revolution increase Jimmy Carter's re election prospect? This event triggered the Hostage Crisis, which initially rallied the country behind Carter but hurt him as the crisis dragged on, and it also contributed to the economic woes of 1979 and 1980. Would a lack...

Your challenge (and a tough one at that), should you accept it is to make Gerald Ford Speaker of the House of Representatives sometime after 1964.

How would the course of history have panned out if John F. Kennedy had been elected President in 1960? As we know, Kennedy narrowly lost that election to Richard Nixon, and continued to serve in the Senate until 1971, when he retired from the Senate. From there, he served as Defense Secretary in...

I watched "Howard" on Disney + last night and it got me thinking . What if Howard Ashamn hadn't gotten HIV and lived? How much different would Disney be, the Disney Renaissance in particular if he lived? Would any of the songs that he wrote for Aladdin that didn't make it into the film make it...

I've decided to start to a thread that is similar to the Alternate Presidents thread, only this is will be a thread of lists that have Alternate House and Senate Majorities. Feel Free to Contribute. Here's an example: Congressional Majorities after a Carter win in 1980: 97th Congress...

What if Richard Nixon, Vice President of the United States from 1953-61 and two time Republican Presidential nominee (1960, 1968) had defeated Hubert Humphrey in the 1968 Presidential election? Would Nixon have pulled out of Vietnam in 1971 like Humphrey did? Would the economy have fared better...

Your Challenge, should you accept it is to elect Al Gore President of the United States in 1988. How does his Presidency go? What are his chances of getting a second term? How does Gore winning in 88 shape the balance of power in Congress through the 90s and (if you choose to answer) beyond?

So lets say Nixon beats Kennedy in 1960? What kind of the Party does the Republican Party shape out to be after a Nixon Presidency from 1961-65 or 69? What kind of Democratic Party would emerge as a result?

Say Gerald Ford wins in 1976, how much influence do Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney have in the 1977-81 Ford Term? They seemed to have a great deal of influence over Ford, especially in the last two years of Ford's OTL only term and they also had a great deal of influence in the next...

According to George W. Bush's memoir "Decision Points," in 2000, Bush, after having him head his Vice Presidential selection team, asked his father's former Secretary of Defense and Former White House Chief of Staff for Gerald Ford, Dick Cheney to be his running mate. Cheney declined, citing his...

What if Richard Nixon chose then House Minority Leader Gerald Ford to replace disgraced VP Spiro Agnew instead of choosing New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller? How would Ford do as President after Nixon would inevitably resign from office? Who would he pick to be his VP? As we know, Rockefeller...

The Cause Endures: The Presidency of Edward M. Kennedy

If Thomas Dewey got elected President in 1948, does he win in 1952? Is Korea still an issue? Does Dewey handle it better than Truman? Who do the Democrats nominate? Stevenson as in OTL or perhaps Kefauver?

The 1976 between Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter was a close one, Carter went on to win, only to preside over a difficult term and lose in a landslide to Ronald Reagan, and is remembered as a below average to poor President. So what would Ford's legacy be if he won in 1976 and presided over the...

Birch E. Bayh Jr., who defeated Former California Governor Ronald Reagan in the 1976 Presidential election and served as the 38th President of the United States from 1977-1981, died earlier today. The President who signed sweeping Healthcare reform in late 1977 and signed Electoral Reform in...

So as we all know, Former Vice President George Bush, who served as Vice President from 1981-1989 has passed away this past Friday. Bush narrowly lost the 1988 Presidential election to then Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, but what if he managed to defeat Dukakis? How would Bush have...

As we know, Michael Dukakis narrowly defeated then Vice President George Bush in the 1988 Presidential election. Internationally, President Dukakis is remembered for overseeing the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the end of the Cold War two years later, working with the International...

So after over two years of trying to continue my original timeline and struggling to do so for various reasons, I've decided to turn "The Towers Still Stand" into a collaborative TL for the sake of keeping a good piece of Alternate History alive. Anyone who is interested in contributing, please...

So, as we all know, both George W. Bush and Jeb Bush ran for Governor in Texas and Florida respectively in 1994 and both narrowly lost. Jeb Bush would run for Governor of Florida again in four years and win, would get re elected in 2002, and then he and running mate Bill Frist would go on to...

So President Carter had a tough first term in office, only barely beating former California Governor and Actor Ronald Reagan due to Carter securing the release of the Hostages after the "October Surprise" came out where it was revealed the Reagan campaign was colluding with the Iranians to hold...