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I read in biography of Ted Kennedy that following his brother Bobby's murder, that Ted Kennedy said he would answer a real draft. So it is unlikely but in the realm of possibility that Gene McCarthy would drop out and release his delegates to Ted Kennedy. I think party leaders would jump on the...

If Kennedy had given Johnson the office next to the oval one and made him an integral part of the White House staff, like the Vice Presidents from Mondale on. Would his advice allowed for more success in getting Kennedy's program passed by Congress?

In 1938, Congress votes to fully fund the military of the Commonwealth of the Philippines. The testimony of High Commissioner Paul V. McNutt was very effective. On December 5, 1941, US intelligence issued a warning about an upcoming Japanese attack. The warning was shared with the British. When...

In my Better Running Mates TL I suggested that Barack Obama run with Hillary Clinton in 2008. If he had taken my advice, who would have become Secretary of State in 2009? Bill Richardson would probably have been his first choice. He would have had to refuse like he did with his OTL offer to...

I read that in 2008, 16 % of McCain voters had supported Hillary in the primaries. I think a Obama Rodham Clinton ticket would have won many of those defectors. Surely winning Missouri, maybe Georgia, South Carolina, Montana and the Dakotas. In Making of the President 1972, it said that since he...

What if FDR listened to medical advice that he would live only four months into a fourth term and did not run in 1944? I don't see how this stops Dewey from winning the Republican nomination. The big question is who do the Democrats pick, Wallace and Byrne would run but I don't see a Democratic...

What if Puerto Rico had not voted for statehood in 1993? Then President Gore would not have had enough electoral votes to win the 2000 election, What kind of President would George W Bush have been. He, like John Quincy Adams and Rutherford B Hayes would have had an angry opposition claiming...

What if Gary Hart had not insulted New Jersey. As a Gary Hart supporter, yes I am that old, I knew it was over when he did that. The other P.O.D. I would add that Liz Holtzman wins the New York Senate race in 1980. She would be his running mate not Geraldine Ferraro. Holtzman would not bring an...

In Jim Rasenberger's Brilliant Disaster, a book on the Bay of Pigs, Kennedy asks the advice of former Secretary of State Dean Acheson. Acheson wisely questions how such a small force could handle the large number of Cuban troops. According to Rasenberger the only other opponents of the...

I am reading Jim Rasenberger's Brillant Disaster, a book on the Bay of Pigs. It had a brief discussion on the U 2 incident. rRasenberger said something I never heard before, he said that Eisenhower considered resigning. While everything else in the book seems plausible, I have my doubts on that...

In 1985, instead of Gorbachev, a loyal disciple of Leonid Brezhnev takes over in the Soviet Union. How long can the USSR last? In an unrelated 1985 POD, I meet my wife earlier and we go to the Live Aid Concert on our first date.

What if Coolidge ran and won in 1928? How worse would the depression have been without the Reconstruction Finance Corporation? Does Coolidge die in office? I don't see how this stops Roosevelt from getting the 1932 nomination. We would get the same lineup of President from 1933 on.

The first POD is to extend the life of Adlai Stevenson Lyndon Johnson does not want Justice Arthur Goldberg to UN Ambassador and he stays on the court. The second POD is that when Justice Clark retires LBJ is talked into naming Thurgood Marshall not his buddy Abe Fortas. When Fuhrman vs Georgia...

Before being transported to the County Jail, Oswald asked for a sweater. The five minute delay in getting the sweater allowed Jack Ruby to arrive in time to kill Oswald. If nobody else kills Oswald, what happens? The case against Oswald was very solid. An eyewitness saw him shooting from the six...

I remember reading that a reporter from the New York Times found out about and was talked out of reporting it. What if a foreign journalist, who won't fall for a patriotic duty speech, reports the plans for the invasion. I assume the invasion would be called off. How does this change things?

All Things Considered had on an author who said Dick Cheney offered not to run in 2004. What if Bush accepted the offer? Who would be the replacement and would anything change?

Terry Gross had the guy who wrote Day of the Jackal on today. It made me wonder what would have happened if the Jackal or somebody else had killed him.

I read in Time Magazine this week an article that said the assasination of Yitzhak Rabin was the event that doomed the Israeli Palestinian peace process. Do you agree? What happens if he is not murdered? Like all assasinations the P.O.D. is better security,

I have done this before. It is necessary to end the war earlier. I think I have improved on my early end to the war. So I will get started on the military history that is necessary before I can return to my first love politics. 1. 1939, First P.O.D. High Commissioner McNutt persuades...