Alternate "Special Relationships"

Hello all,
Not sure whether this has been done before, but here goes...
Your challenge is to come up with a list of plausible alternate working partnerships (either extremely successful or the exact opposit) between potential British PM's and US Presidents.
When you list them, explain why you think they would either work so well together or why they couldn't do so.
You can have one OTL leader (either British or US) in place, but the other leader must be someone who wasn't PM or president, but could have been.
Also, they must have plausibly had a chance of being in office at the same time as each other (along with a realistic chance at residing either at no 10 Downing Street or the Whitehouse respectively).
 
well, the easy ones would be Al Gore or John Kerry with Blair since Blair worked well with Bush and either Gore or Kerry would be closer ideologically with Blair anyway.


Michael Foot with Ronald Reagan would be pretty funny, but it wouldn't have been a "special relationship," more likely a difficult one.
 
well, the easy ones would be Al Gore or John Kerry with Blair since Blair worked well with Bush and either Gore or Kerry would be closer ideologically with Blair anyway.


Michael Foot with Ronald Reagan would be pretty funny, but it wouldn't have been a "special relationship," more likely a difficult one.

That's kind of what I'm looking for-especially harmonious british/American working partnerships and especially dificult ones. Like you I'd count the potential Michael Foot/Ronald Reagan one as dificult.
I can imagine Bill Clinton and David Owen getting on well, something tells me a Ted Kenedy/Margaret Thatcher one would be "interesting!" in the chinese sense, due to idiological disagreements and polecy differences on Northern Ireland.
 
LBJ and Gaitskell would have been interesting. The Book "Alternate Prime Ministers" or something goes into a third way Gaitskell government where he sends troops to Vietnam.

Other possibilities include Brown-Clinton, Kinnock-Clinton (both odd couples), Healey-Reagan, and maybe six years from now, Milliband-Rubio.
 
I've got a rough TL with the big political PoD in 1968 -- so that in the 1980's you've got President John Glenn in the US, PM Roy Jenkins in the UK, President Jacques Chirac in France, Chancellor Franz Josef Strauss in Germany, PM John Turner in Canada, and three consecutive SGs in the USSR. (Lots of space exploration.)

In another rough TL (also 1968 PoD), I've got George HW Bush and Edward Heath in power around the same time -- moderate conservatism triumphs! (in this period)

Britain under Thatcher, but without Reagan in the US (but instead say Gary Hart) would be interesting.
 
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