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As one of his last official acts, US President Ford granted a full and unconditional pardon to Iva Toguri, who was long regarded to be Tokyo Rose. Could she have been pardoned sooner? (would such a pardon have been conditional?)....and which President would have been likely to pardon her?

In other words, the anti-Communist forces do in Vietnam what (in OTL) we later did in Afghanistan: bleed the Soviets dry and nearly bankrupt them in the process. Could we have done that in Vietnam? or would we need a different General in the field, or a different President in office...

Just so. While he was hired to play a character based on an actual person (who himself had been trying to get out of uniform), maybe the networks draw the line at letting Corporal Klinger in the show. what would be the results?

What if the US loses the Cold War in a Britain-esque way...we simply can't afford to keep at the top? (literally, in terms of finances; like the UK after WW2, no longer at the top of the world) This idea came to me when I wondered "would 9/11 have been directed against the Soviets if they...

In the book Man in the Iron Castle, there is a book The Grasshopper Lies Heavy. Are we told of any characters or names in 'The Grasshopper'?

What if modern Israel had been founded/established by the Stern Gang and men they recruited to assist? Whether Nazi Germany lost the War, or won the War and collapsed under their own weight isn't the point of this thread. (assuming it wasn't strangled by their Arab neighbor-states and an...

I learned my lesson in https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=125119 , so... I was asked to write an AU of Numb3rs, and was given free reign (and might write a Nero Wolfe mystery in this AU while I'm at it). (though after that last thread, i nearly emailed them and...

In Europe, the Allies defeat the Nazis , partition Germany, liberate France, etc. But in the Pacific, neither the United States nor the Empire of Japan can inflict such a devastating blow that it sends the other side to the negotiating tables to ask for terms. (let's assume that the nuclear...

In the year 40 BC, the Parthians invaded from the north and took Jerusalem, while Herod (then a Governor, nor a King) took his family and fled south. What if Herod had chosen to stay and fight the Parthians, to keep them out of the Holy City of Jerusalem? if he's successful in keeping the...