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MacArthur sides with the Bonus Marchers and takes over the Government as a Military Dictatorship in 1932. Maybe if Al Smith was elected in 1928 and handled the situation badly, plus anti-Catholic bigotry this could have happened.

Garner lacked charisma and ambition, plus at 5'1" he would have been our shortest President.

Bush wasn't well know enough to be considered. Nixon wanted John Connolly, but didn't have the support of the Republicans in Congress, and Ford was acceptable to both sides. Nelson Rockefeller, Alexander Haig, or Donald Rumsfeld might have been more likely.

I never said conspiracy. That's a left wing tool to discredit those who use the truth against them. So is the word Fascist. Tired old tactics.

Only those with an inherit anti-American viewpoint, or those too weak minded to understand the enemies of this country lie about it, believe the attacks were justified. And exactly what "anti-muslim" bigotry are you talking about? Give us an example.

Woodrow Wilson doesn't have a stroke (or rather does, but instead of debilitating him it makes him even more power mad), and decides in the face of the "Chaos" and "Horror" of The Great War American Democracy must be transformed to survived modern times. He runs for a Third Term, and when it...

No Clinton. The Clinton administration made Osama Bin Ladin the number one terrorist in the world by launching attacks on him in 1998 as a distraction during impeachment. But those attacks were never designed to kill him, as he was warned well in advance, albeit indirectly. Clinton never took...

Any attack on the U.S. justifies our response. The U.S. has gone out of it's way to be "understanding" in not blaming Islam for the unprovoked terrorist attacks on this country. Anything else is simpleminded anti-American propaganda.

Carter might have wanted to be, but was too cowardly to try.

Johnson didn't run for re-election in 1968 because he followed McNamara's "Plan" for Vietnam which basically was fight the war with half measures, allow the enemy to kill U.S. soldiers, but don't rally the public because you still want to spend massively at home on Government Projects and...

The problem with a larger Soviet Navy is that all that metal has to come from somewhere. Nothing is for free, no even in Communist Russia. For the Soviet Navy to be expanded it would be at the cost of Russian Tank Forces. Making the navy a priority could very well have led to the T-38 Tank...

Lyndon Johnson. He has the God Complex, and the desire to control everything from the economy to his wife's name (Ladybird, born Claudia Taylor). The only thing that kept him from seizing power was the loss of public support by his handling of the Vietnam War.

Suppose Maj. Anderson's U-2 developed mechanical difficulties before it overflew the Soviet missiles sites under construction in Cuba on 14 Oct 1962? That was the last opportunity there was before weather would prevent their detection. What would it mean for the world if the Soviet Union...

Reykjavik was successful from the point of view of the United States, and the West. The possibility of ending missile defense for the promise of mutual disarmament was the only hope the Soviet Union had to survive. Had it been agreed to the Soviet Union might have lasted a few more...

To understand this timeline better, you have to think of Rockefeller as Clinton.

In OTL the U.S. Army abandoned the Pentomic Division structure in the mid-1960s. I don't see that changing in this alternate timeline. We also have to remember that in this timeline the U.S. retained it's superiority in nuclear weapons (no stopping to let the Soviets catch up in the hopes...

It's true that 1960s anti-tank guided missile were varily primitive, but we have to remember the effect they have on an enemy coming up against them for the first time. In the Sinai in 1973the Israelis expected to roll over the Egyptians with their armor as they did in 1967. Then they ran into...

The Great Society is the cause for the poor remaining poor. Before it's programs were implemented, the poverty level was getting lower and lower each year. Furthermore, illegitimacy rates were also coming down. The Great Society Programs were anti-family in order to take the place of...

Without Lyndon Johnson becoming President the United States avoids both the Great Society, and the Vietnam War. Without the Great Society the economy isn't overburdened with taxes and regulations, and American Society isn't torn apart by Government mandated in Social Engineering and...

You have to wonder is McNamara, during Cuba, came up with the blockade idea because it had the best chance to letting the Soviets get away with it while looking like something was being done. The blockade was based on the assumption that the warheads weren't already in Cuba. McNamara...