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His campaign was based there, he had an army of young volunteers out of the Cambridge schools to canvass the Boston area, and he had a solid base in the Berkshires. Meanwhile Schlesinger was bad at getting voters out, and a lot of people who would have otherwise turned out for him showed up for...

(Pictured: Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. in 1973, hosting the PBS miniseries The Politics of Hope. The show was a major factor in propelling him to fame, and led in large part to his becoming President four years later.) Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (Democratic) January 20, 1977 - January 20, 1981...

(Pictured: President Laird on Face The Nation in 1976, talking about the Hindustani Crisis. Laird took an open stance with the press to contrast as much as possible with Agnew's hostility and secrecy, a tactic which helped restore some trust in government but did not win him the election.)...

The inexperienced but charismatic and folksy Florida Governor Reubin Askew.

Agnew didn't. Israel, however, did, in order to deter invasion by Egypt. This will have ramifications.

(Pictured: "Spiro T. Agnew Overpowering the Statue of Liberty", a poster by Bob Dara made in response to a 1969 speech by then-Vice President Agnew accusing the news media of liberal bias and censorship. Copies of the poster became a common sight both in America and abroad after 1971, in large...

Nixon didn't have any major health issues that I know of at this time OTL. About three years later, though (on the same day he received the pardon from Ford), he did have a similar attack that was to all accounts fairly serious (doctors said it was "life-threatening" and he went into shock...

...So. So. Which one is it? What do you mean? Is it a TLIAW, like the title says, or a TLIAD, like the title card says? Well, the timeline will, indeed, take a week to post. But I think TLIAD is a more general format, one not limited to the single day. A more suspicious voice might accuse...

After President Agnew refused to intervene in the Yom Kippur War, prompting Israel to use tactical nuclear weapons, a number of American allies became concerned about whether they were really under America's nuclear umbrella. West Germany has never tested a nuclear device and has never admitted...

From a Watsonian perspective, no, but the Internet is significantly more advanced TTL, and the box actually comes from a similar effort known as the Encyclopedia Galactica. From a Doylist perspective, no, but if they had Wikipedia in 1992 TTL this is what it would look like.

c. 1992 in my upcoming TLIAW.

This is an excellent line, not least because we tend to forget how much weird shenanigans can play a role in history.

Unknown Unknowns [Part 2 of an ongoing series] 1981-1989: Donald Rumsfeld/Daniel J. Evans (Republican) [6] '80 def. A. Noam Chomsky/Barbara Ehrenreich (New), Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr./James B. Hunt (Democratic) '84 def. Joe Biden/Philip Burton (Democratic), A. Noam Chomsky/Ramsey Clark (New)...

This is an OTL quote. The book was ghostwritten by someone else, but published under his name. Goldwater was a complex figure. (I didn't explicitly mark it as OTL because, unlike the Will quote, it was also something he "said" ITTL.)

"His emotional equipoise was undisturbed by the loss of 44 states as a presidential nominee. Perhaps he sensed that he had won the future. We -- 27,178,188 of us -- who voted for him in 1964 believe he won, it just took 16 years to count the votes." -George Will, 1998 (OTL) "Has been implies...

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/not-your-father-s-campaign-trail-what-might-have-happened-n989201

It certainly doesn't help that her career was cut short by her MS.

Sort of outside the scope of this, but the Indologist and comparative mythologist J. Robert Oppenheimer had a background in theoretical physics before leaving the field over some strange incident with Linus Pauling's wife. He was an interesting character - one wonders what he'd have ended up...

Speaking of Texans, there’s a pretty interesting fellow I’ve been looking into - Lyndon Johnson, a Representative through the ‘30s and ‘40s from Central Texas who left politics after losing a Senate race in ‘48 by a pretty narrow margin (this was his second Senate campaign, after losing in the...

The Greatest Honor History Can Bestow... [Part 1 of an ongoing series] 1969-1971: Richard M. Nixon ✞/Spiro T. Agnew (Republican) [1] '68 def. Hubert H. Humphrey/Edmund S. Muskie (Democratic), George C. Wallace/Curtis LeMay (American Independent) 1971-1971: Spiro T. Agnew/Vacant (Republican)...