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    By the Force of Words

    First, I want to really thank @Yes and @Mumby helping me to develop and refine the framework for this. I hope to make this interesting and compelling. Thank you all!
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    The 1988 Israeli Presidential Election

    (More context will be brought up in the next updates, this is just the opening. I hope you all enjoy it!) Jerusalem Post Pre-Election Polling (Second Round): Aryeh Nehemkin: 50.69% Rafael Eitan: 49.31% Haaretz Pre-Election Polling (Second Round): Aryeh Nehemkin: 52.05% Rafael Eitan...
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    No Room for the Longer Ride

    This is a collaborative, so if you want add ideas that you have! Interview with Timothy Crouse; Bernard Shaw, Cable News Network, 1990 SHAW: Mr Crouse, what exactly happened in 1972, when you were covering the primary campaigns, those of the Republican candidates? CROUSE: In New...
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    TLIAW: There's Just the Middle

    Hey, trying to make this into a timeline, hope you guys enjoy! President Lyndon Johnson was worried about his reelection prospects. Though he managed to pass the Civil Rights Act only a month before, in doing so he has alienated many Southerners, and his policy in Vietnam was not yet...
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    Vignette-Reverberation

    "U.S. Won't Intervene in Egypt," Says Lodge. 8 October, 1956 Secretary Lodge has told press representatives at the State Department that the United States has no intention to intervene in Egypt, which has seen political and social instability. "The United States wishes for an end to the...
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    TLIAW: Leader's Decision

    Inspired by Oppo's "Running in the Digital Age" "I have decided to end my campaign for President... I encourage all my delegates to vote for Senator Robert Taft." -Harold Stassen, at the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia (1948) 1948 was a favorable year to the Republican Party...
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    The Kibbutznik Move

    Inspired by the Selma Massacre, feel free to add to the story. "Our first story--David Ben Gurion, the Premier of the State of Israel, has stepped down from office. Succeeding him is Yitzhak Ben Aharon, the Minister of Transportation. Mr Aharon is expected to make a statement..." -NBC News...
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    Run First
    Threadmarks: Chapter One

    "It was doubtful many people would have heard of Mr [Yuri] Orlov beforehand. However, being the founder of an Amnesty [Int.] group in Moscow, his death (while 'unsolved' at the time) forced the attention of his colleagues in Paris, who in turn forced the attention of Washington..." -Gabriel...
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    Onwards, In Any Case

    This is a collaborative, you may contribute. Enjoy ------------------------------------------------------- September 13th, 1959 The reporters all gathered in one of the press rooms of the Capitol. None of them were told who, exactly, was going to give a statement, but if a notice came from...
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    Do Not Pray for Easy Lives

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    WI: Escalated U.N. Intervention in Congo, 1960's

    The United Nations intervened during the Congo war, against the Katangan secessionist army. However, it was rather marginalized by historians. Could the U.N. intervention turned into something like in Vietnam
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    WI: Hart in `84

    Could Gary Hart have secured the Democratic nomination in 1984?
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    WI: Yeltsin Does Not Repudiate Gorbachev

    What if Boris Yeltsin did not repudiate Mikhail Gorbachev? Would he fall with him, or would the latter manage to stay afloat?
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    TLIAPOD: The Prairie Fields

    Address by Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America (June 24th, 1947). My fellow Americans, Twenty five years ago, the people of Jackson Country honored me by electing me to their Judgeship. Twelve years later, the people of the State of Missouri honored me by electing me...
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    WI: Romney in `68

    How could George Romney have secured the Republican nomination in 1968, and could he have won in the general election?
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    The Good Are Unwilling to Rule

    On the First of July 1933, former four-star General Charles Summerall met with two members of the American Legion, a veterans' organization: Gerald MacGuire of Connecticut, and Bill Doyle of Massachusetts. The purpose: to ask the former Army officer to run for National Commander of their...
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    DBWI: Henry Wallace Not Re-Nominated in 1944

    What if Vice President Henry Wallace was not renominated by the Democratic Convention in Chicago in 1944? The D.N.C. tried to make Harry Truman, Senator from Missouri, Roosevelt' running mate that year, seeing the President's ill health and wary of Wallace's pro-Soviet stance.
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    I Will Not Quit, I Will Not Hide

    January of 1968 was not looking well for President Johnson. As the Vietnam War stalled abroad and racial riots intensified at home, his approval ratings sunk. Meanwhile, he found himself challenged in the Democratic primaries by Senator Eugene McCarthy. So would the battle begin in the New...
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    DBWI: Vice President Nixon

    What if Dwight Eisenhower chose Richard Nixon, then Senator from California, aas his running mate in 1952?
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    WI: Eisenhower Renounces McCarthy in 1952

    What if during the 1952 presidential election, Eisenhower decided not to delete a section of a speech which included a defense of George Marshall, and a rebuke of Joseph McCarthy? How would that affect the course of the election?
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