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  1. Protect & Survive Miami: End of Watch

    February 21, 1984 -- launch day. Yeah, it's wild.

  2. Protect & Survive Miami: End of Watch
    Threadmarks: Missed the deadline

    I'm sure you noticed I didn't make NYE. A work crunch got in the way, because I had duty this past week and several of my colleagues were on vacation (two still are!) and in a small group of software folks, well, that puts a lot on those of us who are here. Anyway, the work continues, the...

  3. Protect & Survive Miami: End of Watch
    Threadmarks: It's The Final Countdown....

    Merry Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanzaa, or whatever you celebrate. I bring tidings of joy. The last installment, the final countdown, has been underway for days now. I'm taking my time with this one because I want to get it right. I will not be progressing through reconstruction, but I may do an...

  4. Texas Two-Step: Nixon nominates Connally as VP in 1973
    Threadmarks: March 10, 1975

    George Herbert Walker Bush, a mouthful of a name that represented both of the wealthy dynasties he was born to and the aspirational dreams of prior generations of New England society to be like the British aristocracy, double middle name and all, arrived back in Washington nearly a year after...

  5. Texas Two-Step: Nixon nominates Connally as VP in 1973
    Threadmarks: Coming attractions

    Poppy Bush plays nice with Big John, British Cabinet drama, and Ed Williams prepares for the trial of the century....All this and more in the very near future

  6. Protect & Survive Miami: End of Watch
    Threadmarks: Chapter 71

    May 1, 1984 Fort Myers, Florida The last two weeks had been spent marshalling equipment and training the Guardsmen in executing a combined arms assault. They'd spent much of the past year practicing how to hold positions against Soviet armor, using hit-and-run tactics to fire antitank...

  7. Protect & Survive Miami: End of Watch

    It was the logical outgrowth of Nixon's opening. Both countries had interest in monitoring the tests. China provided the proximity, we provided the equipment. Started in 1980, ended with Tiananmen.

  8. Protect & Survive Miami: End of Watch

    It was absurd, wasn't it?

  9. Protect & Survive Miami: End of Watch

    I pay for a Times subscription more for the archive than anything... AT A SAC BASE, LIVING CENTERS ON STATE OF ALERT By Howard Blum Feb. 21, 1984 If the world as we know it ends next week, Tech. Sgt. David Demmon figures ''there's a pretty good chance I'll have a front-row seat.'' He is not...

  10. Protect & Survive Miami: End of Watch
    Threadmarks: Writing the endgame...

    I came back to this story the other day, realizing that I owed it to everyone to ensure a proper ending to the story, not least of all myself. The good news is that fresh eyes have helped immensely, and the writing is flowing. I expect it'll be 2-3 long chapters to wrap things up. I could let...

  11. Texas Two-Step: Nixon nominates Connally as VP in 1973

    I literally posted that before leaving on vacation, so I'm only getting to read this now. First, @Thoresby, thank you for the information on the electricity board, I didn't find anything that mentioned it while researching. I think even Dominic Sandbrook's history of this period referred to it...

  12. Texas Two-Step: Nixon nominates Connally as VP in 1973
    Threadmarks: Notes from the wasteland

    So, the last chapter has a lot to digest. I went back and forth making a lot of changes, trying to explain as many concepts as I could along the way. There's still more to be factored into this whole thing, but some of my writing got obliterated, and I for the life of me can't remember what I'd...

  13. Texas Two-Step: Nixon nominates Connally as VP in 1973
    Threadmarks: March 7, 1975

    March 7, 1975 “Ron, you can’t do that! You can’t! We’ve worked too hard to get here!” William French Smith was the chairman of the University of California Board of Regents. He was also Ronald Reagan’s personal attorney and close friend. As such, he could first-name the Vice President, as he...

  14. Texas Two-Step: Nixon nominates Connally as VP in 1973

    The next chapter is coming. Lots of econ stuff, so it's taking longer than the last few to write.

  15. McGoverning

    Well played in finding the creepiest photo of Bob Byrd possible for that.

  16. Texas Two-Step: Nixon nominates Connally as VP in 1973
    Threadmarks: Historical goodness

    Sometimes, the gods of OTL smile upon you, and gift you a true-life caper involving three of your main characters. Gift article, so it's free to all of you. A Four-Decade Secret: One Man’s Untold Story of Sabotaging Carter’s Re-election...

  17. Photos from Kentucky Fried Politics

    My mother was born in Paducah. She was an infant when he made that visit.

  18. Texas Two-Step: Nixon nominates Connally as VP in 1973

    @dcharleos It seems there are multiple versions of the story.... https://moscowcopper.com/pages/our-story https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_mule#History

  19. Texas Two-Step: Nixon nominates Connally as VP in 1973

    By the way, if you haven't read up on Alice Roosevelt Longworth, there's a fabulous anecdote in Ben Bradlee's memor A Good Life, where he talks about Longworth being interviewed by Sally Quinn. The memory of that anecdote (I forgot the role of the Times in it but remembered the rest of it...

  20. Texas Two-Step: Nixon nominates Connally as VP in 1973

    Exactly. It also has the appearance of doing a lot while not doing much of anything in terms of America and gun violence. Hence a quiet NRA.
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