AHC: President Barbara Jordan

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Just to make it a bit more difficult :), I'll specify that the POD must be after the 1952 presidential elections. Have at it!
 
Just to make it a bit more difficult :), I'll specify that the POD must be after the 1952 presidential elections. Have at it!

Though she was intelligent and an articulate speaker, the prospect of Barbara Jordan ever becoming President is as dim as the sun is out in the Oort Clouds near the edge of our solar system. A Barbara Jordan presidency is, sad to say, extremely implausible, given her race, gender, political views, sexual orientation and her health during the last 20 years of her life



A "Make Barbara Jordan the 40th POTUS" thread from last November: https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=218617
 
Though she was intelligent and an articulate speaker, the prospect of Barbara Jordan ever becoming President is as dim as the sun is out in the Oort Clouds near the edge of our solar system. A Barbara Jordan presidency is, sad to say, extremely implausible, given her race, gender, political views, sexual orientation and her health during the last 20 years of her life

A "Make Barbara Jordan the 40th POTUS" thread from last November: https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=218617
Hmmmm, do you know the exact state of her MS? Carter would need to die shortly into his first term.
 
Hmmmm, do you know the exact state of her MS? Carter would need to die shortly into his first term.

I only know that her MS was diagnosed while she was in Congress and that her condition during 1977/78 was such that she retired from Congress when her term ended in Jan. '79. She didn't resume a public life until 1981/82.
 
She was certainly quite articulate.

Now not exactly a fan of dissenting views, but presumably the system would prevent her from carrying out her full goals as POTUS
 
I only know that her MS was diagnosed while she was in Congress and that her condition during 1977/78 was such that she retired from Congress when her term ended in Jan. '79. She didn't resume a public life until 1981/82.
I knew that too, except when she resumed public life. Perhaps she could be a Supreme Court Justice, like Clinton wanted, if Carter was reelected.
 
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