A Different Way Forward (Collaborative Timeline)

January 7, 1967: Richard Nixon meets with family and friends to discuss the possibility of running for President. Ultimately he decides against doing so.

February 7, 1967: Tanzanian President Julius Nyere formally adopts the Arusha Declaration for Tanzania, despite misgivings from Oscar Kambona.

February 11, 1967: A Gall-up poll suggests that in a direct match up Richard Nixon leads George Romney 52% to 40% in opinion polls for Republican Primary voters.

February 15, 1967: In an interview with the Saturday Evening Post, Nixon flatly denies that he is running for President.

March 9, 1967: Tanzanian President Julius Nyere falls down a flight of stairs less than a month after adopting the Arusha Declaration. While he survives, the injuries have made him unable to talk or move his legs so he is succeeded as President by Rashid Kawawa.

July 11, 1967: As the ujamaa villages in Tanzania largely begin to fail and cause trouble for local farmers, Oscar Kambona declares that there should be a new election against Rashid Kawawa, who was not "chosen by the people of Tanzania". While the more charismatic Julius Nyere might've been able to play off the failure of the ujamaa, President Kawawa is little more than a pawn who accidentally ended up playing king.

August 31, 1967: George Romney states, "When I came back from Viet Nam [in November 1965], I'd just had the greatest brainwashing that anybody can get."

September 25, 1967: Charles Percy begins organizing his campaign in the states of New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Nebraska, and Oregon.

November 18, 1967: George Romney announces his campaign for POTUS.

December 11, 1967: Charles Percy formally announces that he will be running for President of the United States.

January 5, 1968: Antonin Novotny is replaced by Ota Sik as First Secretary of Czechoslovakia.

February 1, 1968: Ronald Reagan announces his candidacy for President of the United States

February 11, 1968: Sun Weishi dies after months of torture and imprisonment at the hands of Maoist Red Guards. She is the adopted daughter of Zhou Enlai.

February 15, 1968: Oscar Kambona officially ascends to the Presidency of Tanzania, with a desire to roll back certain elements of the Arusha Declaration and enhance relationships with the West and the United States.

March 12, 1968: Ronald Reagan beats Charles Percy and George Romney in the New Hampshire primary.

March 13, 1968: Lin Biao has a tense disagreement with Jiang Qing and is later asked by Chairman Mao to self-criticize.

March 17, 1968: George Romney formally announces his withdrawal from the race for POTUS as he falls to third place in the polls. Nelson Rockefeller endorses Charles Percy for POTUS.

March 22, 1968: Antonin Novotny resigns as President of Czechoslovakia and is replaced by Alexander Dubchek.

April 11, 1968:
Chen Boda, an acolyte of Lin Biao, begins meeting with Zhou Enlai in secret about "Project 571".

June 4, 1968:
Ronald Reagan wins the California primary, this being the only other primary besides New Hampshire that he's won with all of the others going to Charles Percy.

June 11, 1968:
The Ugandan People's Congress formalize various agreements known as the Common Man's Charter, apart of a move to push Uganda into the Soviet sphere of influence.

August 6, 1968: On the third ballot, Charles Percy wins the Republican nomination for President, narrowly defeated Ronald Reagan who entered the convention with a plurality of the votes.

November 1, 1968: Leonid Brezhnev is formally replaced by Alexei Kosygin for the position of First Secretary, while Nikolai Podgorny replaces Kosygin as Premier.

November 4, 1968: Chairman Mao dies of asphyxiation after apparently choking on a pretzel while at a conference with Zhou Enlai.

November 5, 1968: The Charles Percy / George Romney ticket beats the Hubert Humphrey / Edmund Muskie ticket, making Charles Percy the 37th President of the United States.

November 9, 1968: Lin Biao formally ascends to the position of Chairman in China. The position of President is reconstituted and awarded to Zhou Enlai. Both make speeches declaring the loss of Mao a tragedy and proclaiming a national holiday for the lost leader.

November 16, 1968: The Gang of Four are for the most part removed from all positions of influence in the Chinese government.

December 6, 1969: Daniel arap Moi of the Kenya Africa Democratic Union is elected President of Kenya, while Vice President Tom Mboya of Kenya People's Union is elected to the newly created position of Prime Minister as apart of a combined effort to oust the increasingly erratic President Jomo Kenyatta.

December 15, 1969: Presidents Daniel Moi and Oscar Kambona (of Kenya and Tanzania) meet with British Prime Minister Harold Wilson to discuss concerns over growing Soviet influence in Uganda. Wilson suggests Idi Amin as a potential pro-Western successor to Obote, but an aid suggests Muwenda Mutebi II, a young Ugandan prince in exile who had been attending a British university.

January 20, 1969: Charles Percy is formally inaugurated as the 37th President of the United States.

Tagging the usual suspects of collaborative TLs: @dw93 , @Pokemon Master , @TRH , @MERRICA , @Landmass Wave , @lukedalton.

I thought this would be an interesting timeline.
 
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January 26th, 1969: Former Vice President Richard Nixon is confirmed by the US Senate to be the Next Secretary of State.
 
January 28th, 1969: In Francoist Spain, martial law is declared in Madrid as hundreds of students at the Complutense University of Madrid begin protesting and rioting against the Spanish government's authoritarian and repressive actions towards its dissenters. The protests quickly turn into massacres, as dozens of students are killed by the military and police.

January 30th, 1969: The "January Massacre" (Masacre de Enero) triggers a series of violent riots & protests across Spain, especially in hotbed areas such as Catalonia and the Basque regions, where labor strikes are called in honor of the dead students. This prompts Francisco Franco to declare a state of emergency throughout Spain, with many referring to the heightened tensions in the Iberian Peninsula as a "just cause for a second Spanish Civil War."
 
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Percy's a freshman Senator, less than two years into his first term of office. Running for President at that time would be incredibly presumptuous.
(Just kidding). Although he did actually consider running. IOTL he didn't because of the Nixon juggernaut. The Liberal Rs tried multiple candidates (Romney, Rockefeller) to take down Nixon, and then Reagan nearly came in and took the convention. Here Reagan's in from the beginning, and after Romney's falter the moderate and liberal wings unite behind Reagan out of fear of another Goldwater.
 
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(Just kidding). Although he did actually consider running. IOTL he didn't because of the Nixon juggernaut. The Liberal Rs tried multiple candidates (Romney, Rockefeller) to take down Nixon, and then Reagan nearly came in and took the convention. Here Reagan's in from the beginning, and after Romney's falter the moderate and liberal wings unite behind Reagan out of fear of another Goldwater.

Wouldn't they unite behind Percy in this TL to prevent Goldwater 2.0 (who would be Reagan)
 

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February 13 1969:

Eugène Ney Terre'Blanche witnesses a brutal beating of an young Anti-apartheid activist by an policeman and attempts to intervene. He is thrown in jail for a week along with the Activist who dies from their wounds. While in Prison, he grows disgusted by the Apartheid regime yet refuses to swear off his Afrikaner Nationalism.
 
August 22, 1968: Ringo Starr leaves the studio amid tensions between the other three Beatles. Paul McCartney attempts to take over the drum set in his stead and things spiral out of control, resulting in the whole band walking out.

August 29, 1968: George Martin gathers the Beatles and attempts to talk them into working together again. However things have become too rancid between them and what was supposed to be a "Come to Jesus" moment among the band members results in an airing of grievances that puts the final nail in the band's coffin.

January 11, 1969: McCartney's rushed Get Back album is released, making him the first Beatle to release a solo album after the break up of the Beatles during the previous summer.

February 11, 1969: While recording his own solo album with help from Eric Clapton, George Harrison drops in on the Blind Faith recording sessions.

April 15, 1969: John Lennon and Yoko Ono release their first album together Yer Blues, parts of which are better received than McCartney's Get Back.

April 19, 1969: George Harrison releases While My Guitar Gently Weeps.

August 11, 1969: Blind Faith is released, with George Harrison starring on multiple tracks.

August 12, 1970: Following a rather bad experience touring with Blind Faith, Eric Clapton approaches George Harrison about forming a new project between the two of them. They eventually recruit Ringo Starr and Klaus Voormann for this project.
 
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