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NEGRO VICE PRESIDENT? REAGAN PICKS MASSACHUSETTS SENATOR FOR RUNNING MATE

It's too early for anyone to talk about Canada since that was just a teaser. But I wouldn't be surprised if a Dirty War begins in Alberta and BC. That's because Klein is more of a Canadian nationalist than his left-wing counterparts.

It's true. Jefferson is a good personification of the hypocrisy of American liberty because it almost always came second to white supremacy until Lyndon Johnson. "But, as it is, we have the wolf by the ear, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and...

"LeMay was not a racist. There is absolutely nothing among his extensive papers, or any anecdotes over his very long career with slurs about any group or religion. Even in his criticism of liberals, he never pointed to any minority group. Many of the top World War II generals, including General...

OTL quotes on the assassination of Martin Luther King George Wallace: A "senseless, regrettable act." Ronald Reagan: "A great tragedy that began when we began compromising with law and order and people started choosing which laws they'd break."

REAGAN'S THE ONE; CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR NOMINATED ON THIRD BALLOT

Number of delegates needed to win the 1968 Republican nomination on the first ballot: 667 Number of delegates Nixon got in 1968 IOTL on the first ballot: 692 Number of delegates Goldwater got in 1964: 895 "All the top Goldwater plotters from 1964 were in the Nixon camp, even William F. Buckley...

REAGAN WOUNDED IN CHEST BY GUNMAN; OUTLOOK 'GOOD' AFTER 2-HOUR SURGERY With apologies to OTL.

Q&A with President LeMay This has not been in a week. *Affirmative grunt* Why? Busy. When is the next update? Now. Really? *Affirmative grunt* Oh, ok. Will we find out the POD? *Negative grunt* Why??? Some people don't even know what the hell is going on, you bastard! It's a small...

I've actually never thought about it before. Just because he's a unique combination of both dullness and idiocy. It would be an interesting take on the '60s going to hell... Never underestimate Lodge's idiocy. When I first read of the protectorate plan I almost fell out of my chair.

The security at the Brookings Institute was effective enough that if this happened, Nixon would easily lose in a landslide to McGovern, or any other Democrat. The security officer pulled the plug for a reason. At the time of his assassination, George Wallace was the 1972 frontrunner. After...

Since the current international system makes interstate warfare much less prevalent, the United States is the least bad hegemon.

Annexation is right out. A protectorate is not, though whoever approved it would have to be an idiot (see No Longer Jack) like Lodge. Lodge was Nixon's running mate in 1960. Elect Nixon and kill him off. Done. Not the United States. The United States is the primary defender of the liberal...

The Lion of Babylon Roars. It's definitely an unabashed wank, with too much 20-20 hindsight (for example, the US-Iraq Gulf War doesn't necessarily have to happen and the assumption that it always will relies on an awful lot of presentism. Bush can't be POTUS, though.), but a good read.

Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class and especially The New Politics of Inequality are the best popular history books I have come across that show just how inadequate Carter was at dealing with Congress. Humphrey would not be. Ridiculous. Humphrey was nearly the...

Paraguay will get larger. How incredibly interesting. A small TL on the matter would be most intriguing.

This type of thinking isn't as ASB as some are saying. US Ambassador to Vietnam Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. proposed that South Vietnam be dissolved and become an American protectorate. Statehood is right out, though.

At first, Nixon was worried about that. No one—even Wallace—took Wallace's chances of winning the nomination very seriously. But he did better than anyone expected. Much better. He nearly won Wisconsin, the poster child for McGovern's brilliant campaign, even though he had virtually no ground...

Conservative means different things to different people. My scenario doesn't have the Democrats move to the economic right until the 2000s. Which is why Nixon feared a Wallace nomination more than anything else, right? For a purported Nixon scholar, you seem allergic to Nixonland, which is a...

Coups, coups all around! A quibble: apparently McCarthy wasn't actually opposed to civil rights, though I'm not sure what the source on that is besides it appearing in Wolfpaw's old TL.