1968

Curtis LeMay is one of my favorite generals in history due to his boldness and revolutionary aviation strategy. If Douglas MacArthur was the American Caesar then LeMay was the American Sciprio. But what would happen if LeMay became president? For one he’d probably be the most badass looking...

Riders On The Storm - A Romney Timeline For the sake of prefacing, I will state the following. Firstly, this is not a timeline where I will interject my own beliefs. I will not be attempting to whitewash Romney as some wholesome liberal who will usher in a better world, nor will I use it to...

Suppose that the higher ups in the USSR decide against invading Czechoslovakia for whatever reason, and so Alexander Dubcek stays in power and continues to carry on with his reformist agenda. How would a more democratic Czechoslovakia affect political developments in the East Bloc, and how would...

The year is 1968. Alexander Dubcek has been chosen as First Secretary of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, and rumors have circulated that the more conservative parts of the Communist Party have asked the Soviet Union to intervene; Dubcek's radical changes appear to be heresy against the...

One cannot deny that the year 1968 election was a horrible year for the United States, with Vietnam at its height, the assassinations of Robert Francis Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., the multitude of Race riots across the country combined with anti-war protests, the disaster that was the...

Might be a far stretch, but how could America fall to revolution in 1968? Specifically one spearheaded by the New Left and other activist forces, as well as civil rights activists, militant groups like the Black Panthers, etc? What would a New Left America look like? I realize the scenario is...

I’ve seen many such threads that Reagan would be rejected by voters; that he was a rabid Goldwater fanatic that couldn’t appeal to moderates. If that was the case, then how did he manage to win the 1966 California gubernatorial election, defeating Pat Brown in a landslide? People forget the...

I am curious about my own personal AH ideas and one dilema that came to me is which "anti-war" candidate would be more preferable. So, I wanted to ask on here which sounds like a more interesting anti-war candidate Eugene McCarty: The U.S. Senator with a massive following among the college...

Robert F. Kennedy's career trajectory, in a world where he was never assassinated, has long been the subject of speculation and debate by diehard Kennedy supporters and alternate history fans alike. Much has been written about the plausibility of Kennedy becoming POTUS, be it after a miraculous...

The first POD is that George H. W. Bush narrowly wins the 1964 Texas Senatorial Election, meaning he is larger figure on the national stage and a small contender for the nomination in 1968. The second POD is that Reagan wins the Republican nomination in 1968 after Nixon fails to win the first...

"RFK announces presidential candidacy" - Headline of the Washington Post, 11th December 1967 "Kennedy is plausible. He's not a Johnson or Humphrey, he's not tied to that [Johnson's] administration, the American people will rally around him, he is the one of the few men in this campaign to lead...

I've largely seen a consensus that the Vietnam War was unwinnable after around 1964-65, but I was just wondering if anyone thought it was in any way winnable after 1968, whether it be a split North/South ala Korea or a fully reunited Vietnam by the South, I'm just curious if any of these were...

June 5, 1968: Senator Robert F. Kennedy is on his way to address a crowd of supporters for the second time that night when his bodyguard William Barry tells him that his plans have changed and that he will instead be holding a press conference. Kennedy, however, is determined to speak to his...

In 1965, most people expected Charles de Gaulle, president of France, to be reelected outright, without the need of a second round. This was the apex of the Trente Glorieuses ("Thirty Glorious Years") and most people were pretty happy with their lot in life, with the upheavals of 1968 yet to...

IOTL, Richard Nixon committed a crime by influencing world events to tip the 1968 election in his favor. Using personal connections, he convinced leaders in South Vietnam to reject President Johnson's peace proposals, guaranteeing to them that under him they would get better conditions...

If (disregarding butterflies and all that) the USS Pueblo incident occurred in a world where the US wasn't busy with Vietnam, would America have taken a harder line with North Korea (either in terms of measured reprisals, rescue efforts, or even a general escalation)?

“Protest rallies . . . ought to be multiplied by the hundreds across America . . . The people want the facts, and they want a justification, which they have not been getting, because all they have been getting is propaganda.” -Wayne Morse “Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war...

What would have happened, if the Spanish Civil War ended with a republican victory that became a socialist state alligned with the USSR through the Cold War, when the 1968 May 'Revolution' in France became a socialist insurrection? Would the Spanish infiltrate the country to support the...

Robert walked through the crowded hallway shaking hands and talking to his bodyguard Bill. Bill didn't want him to go this way but Robert didn't care, it was a short cut what could happen? A teenager walked up to him. He raised his brown skinned hand for a handshake, Robert grabbed it and gave...

I’ve wondered about this for a while. Would there be any way that Nixon would lose in 1968, but come back to win the 1972 election? Surely there must be some way.