1970s

In June 1971, nearly a year to the day before the Watergate break-in, Nixon ordered CREEP (Committee for the Re-Election of the President) to break into the Brookings Institute. The Institute was a liberal think tank said to house files that Nixon could use to blackmail the Democrats. The White...

In 1972, the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination was Maine Senator Edmund Muskie. He was a popular choice, so popular that he beat Nixon in early opinion polls. Yet Nixon sabotaged his primary candidacy with the desired result of George McGovern becoming the party's nominee...

Let’s say that Robert Kennedy defeats Richard Nixon in 1968, and he is able to create a “Peace with Honor” by the end of 1969, with all American troops out of Vietnam by 1970. What would be the economic impact of this? Would the evaporation of war spending lead to a better economy in the 1970s...

Britain's long and stored history with Europe is certainly a troubled one. Indeed, ever since Robert Schuman and Jean Monnet fathered the concept of a political union between European nations, based on a desire to keep peace in the continent, British scholars and commoners alike have been at...

As the title says, how would America’s economy fare in the 1970’s following an earlier exit from the Vietnam War somewhere in between 1969 and 1970? Say that either Kennedy or Humphrey defeats Nixon in 1968. Would stagflation be just as bad or would it be lessened without the burdens of the war...

By 1978 the UK's economy was improving and it had been four years since the last general election, so Prime Minister James Callaghan's decision not to call an election was as a surprise to many at the time. He thought that the economy would improve further in 1979 and therefore waiting would...

So in 1979 Jim Shooter pitched a weird Movie about Dazzler. The whole plot was too weird to describe here. Read it here http://comicsalliance.com/dazzler-movie-jim-shooter/ So what if this movie was made?

One of the most infamous decisions in cinema history was George Lazenby's rejection of a one million dollar deal to play James Bond in six more movies after "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" (1969). His agent told him that Bond was a fad who would be irrelevant in the 1970's. Lazenby foolishly...

Crossposting this from SLP as there's a greater number of folks interested in American politics over here. I just finished reading Oregon governor Tom McCall's TOM McCALL: MAVERICK, a bombastically titled memoir in which he touches on his Watergate-era plans for a "Third Force" in American...

The POD is Bobby Kennedy doesn't make that fatal detour through the Ambassador Hotel Kitchen, instead taking the planned route to the ballroom, and he goes on to sweep the Democratic primaries. However, Vice-President Hubert Humphrey wins the nomination off the strength of his establishment...

After he took office in 1974, Gerald Ford needed to appoint a new Vice-President under the terms of the 25th Amendment. While George Bush was the popular choice among Republicans, Ford picked the more well-known Nelson Rockefeller in order to boost his popularity and demonstrate his independence...

At the 1968 Republican Convention, Nelson Rockefeller and Ronald Reagan tried to build an alliance that would've stopped Nixon and created either a Rockefeller/Reagan or Reagan/Rockefeller ticket. However, neither man's campaign could agree to supporting the other in the top spot. Ultimately...

What if Senator Robert Kennedy stuck with his initial decision not to run in 1968? Would Sirhan Sirhan still try to assassinate him? If not, would he be a contender for the Presidency in 1972 or 1976? What do you think an RFK Presidency would look like in the mid to late 1970s? And how would...

Assuming that the Watergate scandal never happens, how would US foreign policy develop from there? How would Nixon's second term go in regards to this issue? What are the overall ramifications over the Cold War?

Richard Nixon was accepted into Harvard as a teenager, but his family was too poor to afford the tuition so he had to attend Whittier instead. This triggered a life-long resentment towards Ivy League elites and East Cost liberals that helped fuel Nixon's divisive rhetoric and criminal acts of...

What if the events of 1982's First Blood (Based on the book by David Morrell) did in fact take place, in the late 70s or early 80s, a former Green Beret and CMOH winner was harassed by local police in a small Oregon town and snapped, leading local and state police alongside the National Guard on...

I’m referring to @B_Munro’s Defunct Futures for a project I plan to do later down the line, though I’d like to use other potential ideas and concepts that people from the 1970s envisioned in the future. So what is there?

There is a veritable avalanche of alternate history timelines surrounding the Election of 1968. It is, perhaps, the most written about, analysed, and discussed election in alternate history history. Normally, these stories involve a last-minute Hail Mary pulled off by that year's Democratic...

As we all know, the government of Democratic Kampuchea, led by Pol Pot, caused a genocide, killing millions of Cambodians, most of them being ethnoreligious minorities. What if these scenarios happened instead? 1. The Soviet Union drops a nuke in Phnom Penh, with the reason being DK being an...

For sh*ts and giggles, your challenge is to position Alabama Governor and noted segregationist George Wallace, and one of the Kennedy boys (Whether John, Robert, or Ted) together on a Presidential ticket. Either one can be at the top, I leave that decision to you, as well as the chosen election...