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  1. Vidal

    TLIAW: Camelot Lost

    I think Mondale is pretty widely considered the first "modern Vice President" and there's always going to be debates about degrees of influence, etc, but I think even though Nixon may have had more things to do on behalf of the administration than others, Eisenhower himself did not view him as...
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    TLIAW: Camelot Lost

    Let's goo!!!! <3 you both and can't wait to see the rest of the board enjoy this TL
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    Last One for the Gipper: Ronald Reagan and His Quest for a Third Term
    Threadmarks: 3. Atwater's Gamble (April and May 1987)

    Atwater’s Gamble Julie Williamson knew that something wrong had happened because Ann Elias, the wife of Bob Packwood’s campaign manager, had called her to check-in. Surely, if Packwood were innocent, there would have been no need to follow up. But Julie knew better. She knew what she’d gone...
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    Jimmy Two: America in Carter's Second Term

    To be fair, Carter was not their friend, either. For them, in 1980, there was no good choice.
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    Jimmy Two: America in Carter's Second Term

    This!
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    Jimmy Two: America in Carter's Second Term

    I would echo this -- I expect it to mostly follow OTL
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    Jimmy Two: America in Carter's Second Term
    Threadmarks: 14. On Strike

    ON STRIKE “The president simply doesn’t give a damn about labor.” -Landon Butler July 11, 1981 The White House — Washington, DC The meeting had covered most of the essential issues. Energy and the environment. Healthcare reform. Updates on Congressional relations. It would end with a...
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    Last One for the Gipper: Ronald Reagan and His Quest for a Third Term
    Threadmarks: 03/31/87 - 04/30/87

    MARCH 31, 1987 REAGAN ANNOUNCES HISTORIC THIRD TERM BID President Ronald Reagan announces his campaign for a third term at a press conference in the East Room. Washington, DC -- When the White House Press Corps gathered in the East Room for a presidential news conference, few expected that...
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    Last One for the Gipper: Ronald Reagan and His Quest for a Third Term

    Thomas Mallon's book Finale includes it in its characterization of Nancy. I am not sure I believe it but I have grown to love its naïveté -- a complication on the way to portraying her as a deft political puppet master when in reality she was merely the protective and controlling wife of a man...
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    Last One for the Gipper: Ronald Reagan and His Quest for a Third Term
    Threadmarks: 1. Don't Cross Mommy (February and March 1987)

    Don’t Cross Mommy It had been days since White House Chief of Staff Don Regan was fired through the strangest game of telephone ever orchestrated within the Beltway. He’d heard the news from another official in the White House, who had heard that Regan was fired from a news report, which had...
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    AHC: Make Jimmy Carter a "Democratic Reagan"-esque figure

    ...there). But if you are looking for that kind of transformational leader who has a mythos built around them after they leave office... I'm not sure.* It seems to me the best way to get a "Democratic Reagan" is for Reagan to stay a Democrat... *It's also worth noting that the "Reagan mythos"...
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    Last One for the Gipper: Ronald Reagan and His Quest for a Third Term
    Threadmarks: Author's Note

    Author's Note I just need to make a quick note that the format of this timeline is going to be a bit bizarre. Most of the story is going to be told in the scrapbook style with which many of us are familiar: A grab bag of news articles, polling results, interviews from the timeline, etc. But...
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    Last One for the Gipper: Ronald Reagan and His Quest for a Third Term

    I think that’s *probably* true, and I hope to write a Clinton one, too. That said, I think Reagan feeling compelled is plausible to redeem himself after Iran Contra and show he’s still on top. And she hasn’t stopped him before…
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    Last One for the Gipper: Ronald Reagan and His Quest for a Third Term

    Stop it!
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    Last One for the Gipper: Ronald Reagan and His Quest for a Third Term
    Threadmarks: Prologue: April 2, 1999 (Charlie Rose)

    Charlie Rose An Interview with Ed Rollins Friday, April 2, 1999 Charlie Rose: Ed Rollins is one of the top Republican campaign consultants in the country, having managed the Reagan/Bush campaign in 1984 which produced one of the greatest landslide victories in American presidential history. He...
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    Last One for the Gipper: Ronald Reagan and His Quest for a Third Term

    Last One for the Gipper Ronald Reagan and His Quest for a Third Term An Alternate History Timeline by Vidal This timeline is loosely inspired by the first American political timeline I read on this site: 1988: Defending the Reagan Revolution and a New Democratic Hope. The POD is much the same...
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    Jack Kemp pre-1988 takes high road in response to gay rumor, advocates for LGBTQ+ equal employment rights?

    One of the main reasons Kemp was passed over for Reagan's running mate in 1980 was the rumors
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    Jimmy Two: America in Carter's Second Term

    I would also add that from the perspective of the conservative movement ITTL, and they have somewhat of an apparatus to push the narrative through National Review, etc., the reason -- the only reason -- the Reagan ticket lost is because of questions about Kemp's sexuality while the Republican...
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    Ford doesn't Pardon Nixon, what comes afterwards?

    I imagine they're overshadowed by an unnecessary conflict in Panama.
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    Potential female candidates for US President in the 1980s

    Ford picking her in 76 is a more plausible route and if he wins, which you can finesse pretty easily, she’s a top tier candidate in the 80 primaries
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