Alternate Wikipedia Infoboxes VI (Do Not Post Current Politics or Political Figures Here)

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My initial train of thought was that Reagan was known to be more liberal on civil rights, so I thought, what if he was born in Mississippi during Jim Crow and opted to become a Senator instead? There's some sort of political realignment in the 60's with the smashing victory of old guard John Bricker in 1964, which solidifies Republican control of the White House until 1976 when conservative democrat George Wallace is elected for two terms. JFK takes a little bit longer, not abandoning the Democratic Party until entering the 1980 conservative sweep in the midterms coinciding with Wallace's re-election.

Why is Walt here? Well he becomes heavily involved in business rather than television or making anything for the war effort under President Nimitz, founding a line of grocery stores that becomes Walmart (Walt's Mart).

Kennedy and Disney are both Senate Majority Leaders for separate periods of Democratic and Republican control throughout the 1900s.
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If you have read my last presidential list on Thread II, Tianjin suffered a massacre by SCP-096 in 2012. This is its memorial. Might do one of MC&D later.

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Thanks @Marc Pasquin for the photoshop. Assume that all information are accurate as of August 17, 2020.
 
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What if the US had less stable institutions over it's history, like much of the rest of the American continent

Disclaimer: For the sake of the TL, many of the president's had it's personality changed as well as their dates of death, so if you're thinking "NO WAY GEORGE WASHINGTON WOULD STAGE A COUP", yep in this TL he would
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Basically Washington is elected and reelected as OTL but doesn't want to leave power (insert any reason you want for that) and then he cancels the 1796 elections and governs untill his death, when he is succeeded by John Adams, who can't hold onto the very deep partisan division and loses more and mor power day by day, untill Thomas Jefferson intervenes with a moralizing discourse against the "Adams corrupt elite" and stages a coup.
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After the coup, Jefferson is nominated head of the provisory government (that would last to his death) and cancels the Constitution, promising a new convention, but this happens only in Burr's tenure, when the new constitutional asembly is called and new elections are made for the first time in 35 years. For almost all of the following half century the Democratic Party would dominate in a semi-dictatorship. States relations and the slavery debate gets worse and worse, the same can be said about the intraparty dinamics, which implodes in the 1862 elections, giving space for the National Union Party to rise, and the Civil War too. Lincoln's dealing of the conflict, his "over-conciliatory" policy with the slaveholders and a best CSA (or worse Union) made the party break and ultimately cost his life to a northern peace Democrat who shoot him. Hamlin worse handling of the war made the CSA advance and empowered the Democratic Party, which sought peace at any price. This angered the Radical National Unionists (OTL Radical Republicans), that, with John Fremont leading, deposed Hamlin and made sure to destroy the confederates. (The contitution changed the term lenght to 5 years)
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After the war, Frémont asembled a new constitutional convention and was reelected twice. For the next decades the National Union would dominate politics, after the end of the Democratic party and before the rise of a more competitive opposition, this also allowed a hard reconstruction to be achieved. William J Bryan would be the first to break the NU rule, but after his failure in government the party would see a new glimpse of it's golden age with Ted Roosevelt, only to be succeeded by Woodrow Wilson, another failure of the Freedom party, very criticized for the involvement in WWI and the overt segregational policies, giving rise to the socialist Eugene Debs. In the midst of large strikes and protests, Debs would lead a government of popular pression, taking the US out of the war, but Freedomite elites, associated with Wilson would depose him in 1920, to install a bloody anticommunist dictatorship. (The new constitution abolished the electoral college)
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During Palmer's 15 years in the executive, the constitution would be nullified once again (until a new convention in 1929), allowing for a brutal repression of popular movements known as the first Red Scare, when thousands of Americans would be killed, tortured and sent to exile. This atrocities would continue under his successor, the segregationist Strom Thurmond. When WWII starts, the United State remain neutral, but somewhat collaborating with the Reich (in the sense of deportating some jewish/polish/communist/etc german refugees in America, not like full economic and military partnership). This gave rise to a large movement of people unsatisfied with the dictatorsip, led by the Socialist party (oficially banned) in a coalition with the new Progressive party, which organized the political elites. The coup ecloded in May Day, in large protests against Thurmond, who would end up being killed at the end of the day. The new Socialist-Progressive administration would be shortlived because of distrust on both sides, resulting in a new coup that deposed Norman Thomas, put the country in a emergency state and marked it's full entrance in the allied side of the WWI.
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An emergency election would be called and Roosevelt would be the chosen one; he would lead the American war effort before dying in 1945, catapultating Wallace back to the presidency. This would be an extremely progressive time in the US politics, but also an extremely tense one. Military forces and reactionary politics from the Palmer Era were each day more revolted against a false "communist threat", especially after the Cuban and Haitian revolutions. The election of Pat Brown, perceived as "too leftist" because of his platform (nationalizations, syndicalism, wide reforms) would spark the McCarthy coup in 68. P.S. Nixon still resigns due to corruption, just not Watergate. Agnew is a lame duck for all of his term, trying to avoid impeachment and prison.
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McCarthy would start 22 years of a bloody and repressive military dictatorship in America, with fake elections, a minuscule opposition party and some civil presidents. Reagan resigns due to massive protests and unrest after some form of the Iran-Contra affair. Edward Meyer assumes and postpones the end of his term to 1990, announcing the opening of the regime. The constitution imposed by the military has a 4 year term in opposition to the 5 year tradition, said to be a "mark of corruption".
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The New Republic would already start in great troubles after Bill Clinton's impeachment. Joe Biden would try to hold the Liberal party together and would ultimately achieve that with a new economic plan that took the nation out of the recession. Bernie Sanders would be the first president of a leftist party since Pat Brown (the Liberal Party is centrist) and would be followed by the first Madam President. During Biden's presidency, the term lenght would be once again reduced to 4 years
 
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I’m Just Wild About Lyndon
1944 DNC

PART 2: The More Things Change...

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The Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Kokura remain some of the most controversial decisions of Johnson’s tenure as President. Supporters of the decision claim that the bombings saved lived and prevented a bloody invasion of the home islands. Critics say thousands of civilians died pointlessly, as the Japanese stood on the verge of surrender, especially with Stalin entering the war.

Kokura, which nearly escaped bombing until the clouds cleared, is generally less well remembered than Hiroshima, which had the unfortunate distinction of being the first city attacked by an atomic bomb. However Kokura faces just as much destruction from the far more powerful Plutonium Bomb that was dropped on the city. The memorial constructed there is less famous than the Peace Park in Hiroshima, but no less solemn.

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Johnson would suffer from unpopularity once the victory euphoria wore out. A post-war recession hit the country, and soon Johnson was deeply involved in fights over price controls and rationing. He also had to deal with internal disputes over the future of the Democratic Party. On his right was the Conservative Coalition in Congress, while on his left his inherited Commerce Secretary George Wallace was pushing for cooperation with the Soviet Union. All of this, combined with general voter fatigue would cost the Democrats dearly in November of 1946. The House was lost, although aspiring Congressman Richard Nixon was defeated, while the Senate was a close run thing. The Democrats would hold only a one seat majority, especially uncomfortable without a VP to break ties in their favor. A few days after Election Day, Henry Wallace resigned his post after Johnson refused to let him give a conciliatory speech towards the USSR[1]

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The Conservative Coalition was in a strong position. Between the GOP and Democrats they had the votes and with the wartime strike freeze over, labor unrest was at the front of everyone’s mind. Thus, Congress would pass the so called “Taft-Hartley” Act, which would have banned closed shops, allowed state level “right to work laws,” and otherwise restricted Union activity. Missouri Senator Harry Truman called it “a step forward for reducing Union troublemaking.”

And with a Southerner in the White House, it was sure to pass. Johnson had made a career fighting for the little man, but Unions had never been a constituency of his. He was friendly with many of the Southerners pushing the bill. Surely, surely he would sign it.

But Lyndon Johnson was looking towards 1948. And he felt that without Labor Union support, he would be dead in the water. He needed their organizing capacity, and his handling of several strikes had strained his relations with the AFL and CIO. A veto would be a perfect peace offering. And so, to the shock of the nation, the young President announced to the Nation he would be using his constitutional authority to block the Taft-Hartley Bill from passing. Shock and anger arose from the right, who screamed betrayal.

There were enough votes in the House to override the Veto, but between the thin numbers of Johnson’s intense lobbying (his pride could not allow his veto could be overridden) the bill failed in the Senate. Union members saw and they approved. The flip side was, of course, was that every industrial conflict would now be laid at the President’s feet...

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The prospect of aid for Europe was a popular one, and Johnson, an internationalist agreed. However, naming the program after himself was seen as something of an ego trip. Yes, it fit with the famous “Johnson Doctrine” which called for blocking Soviet expansion wherever it emerged. However by tying the project so closely to himself[2] the at times coarse President probably lost more votes than he gained. Nonetheless the bill passed, and Johnson reaffirmed his strong anti-communist credentials.

It was after all an election year....

1: As opposed to giving the Speech etting sacked before midterms as IOTL.
2: As opposed to say, allowing a far more respected Cabinet Official get naming rights.
 
America's Favourite Governor
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The POD is that Andy Griffith takes up the Democratic Party's offer to run against Jesse Helms. I didn't really have much of a story for it, but I liked the idea of the infobox.​
 
How many electoral votes does Delaware have ITTL, if you don't mind me asking?

IDK dude. Probably at least one or two more than in real life. I don't know how many people live in either Gotham City or Metropolis, but there's probably hundreds of thousands, maybe a million or two.

BTW, I only know very basic DC lore for future reference.

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Well, while I'm here, I might as well add this

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Apparently, Gotham City was founded in 1635 (listed as New Norway on the infobox) by the Norwegians and then the British took it over later on (listed as Gotham Bay Colony).
 
The Polish-Lithuanian Crisis and its main leaders
(sadly my computed continues being incapable of loading files over a certain size and so I can't upload the conflict box in it's original size and resolution)
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The Polish-Lithuanian Crisis (also majorly known as the Polish-Lithuanian Civil War, the Great Trouble, the War of National Liberty, and the Great Patriotic War for Freedom depending on the person and allegiance) is the ongoing military conflict that has marked the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth for the past 3 decades fought between the commonwealth, currently led by King Sigismund V and High Chancellor Radonil Żebrowski, along with domestic and foreign allies, and various domestic separatist or revolutionary forces opposed to the government in Warsaw and each other in varying combinations.
Caused by a great array of problems within the Commonwealth that had been festering for decades if not centuries, major ones being the position of the Polish components of the Commonwealth’s position as de facto controlling the entire nation and various attempts at ethnic assimilation if not outright cleansing made during the 20th century, the crisis started in 1989 with the beginning of the 3rd Ukrainian Uprising, kickstarted by a bombing attack on Kiev following the execution of several politicians who were believed to harbor nationalist leanings.
The war, which only has worsened over its course (outside of the stalemate between 2006 and 2015), is being fought by several factions: the Royal Government and its national (the Free Ruthenian Army) and international allies; the Grand Duchy of Ruthenia, which is currently recognized by over 50 states; the Popular Liberation Front, which started from various minor army uprisings among Royal and Ruthenian ranks; the various Ukrainian Militias, of whom the major ones are the “Ukrainian Kingdom” and the “Obukhiv Horde”; and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (which after a short period of de facto secession between 1998 and 2001 has officially declared independence following a controversial referendum in January, 2020); with a number of countries in Eastern Europe and beyond being either directly involved or providing support to one or another faction.
Marked by widespread devastation across the country (with the Commonwealth’s population having being in a downward line for the past 22 years), international organizations and neutral powers have criticized virtually all sides involved for war crimes and massacres, with civilian deaths comprehending over four fifths of the war’s total causalities. The conflict has caused a major refugee crisis. Over the course of the war, a number of peace initiatives have been launched, including the July 2015 Manaus peace talks, whose failure directly resulted in the All Hallows’ Eve Bombings and the reignition of fighting.
Widely classified as a part of one of the various conflicts that occurred on Eastern Europe in the late 20th century (or, in this case, were started during it), the Crisis is also classified by some as a part of the Silent War between the Birmingham Agreement and the Moscow Compact, being considered a mutated kind of proxy war. Others consider it a unique mess on itself, as allegiance to a power block or the other have not stopped countries from supporting sides that are technically enemies of their allies
Although there are many leaders within the conflict of factions major and minor, there are those who command (de facto or de jure) the six major forces within the conflict, them being...
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The current head of the Commonwealth, Sigismund V inherited the throne from his father in 1998 (Wladyslaw VI having been since 1992 sole ruler of the commonwealth following the death of his wife, third-cousin and co-monarch) already nearly a decade after the start of the crisis, his own slightly contested ascension causing the first, short-lived, secession of Lithuania, and has for the past 22 ruled over it mostly as a symbol for the Royal Government, being known for his small involvement on government, which is mostly centered on his sons and ministers. Married twice, Sigismund’s main achievement for the war effort were his and his children’s marriages, which were used mostly as a manner of attracting supporters (even if Aragon withdrew its own support following the death of the Princess of Kiev under suspicious circumstances), and he nowadays rarely appears in public, suffering from a severe case of Alzheimer that has been kept under wraps for the past 6 years

The second and current ruler of Independent Ruthenia (recognized by 51 countries, majorly Russia), Grand Duke Victor is probably one of the more capable leaders in the war, if also one of the most brutal, having inherited the Ruthenian throne from his father (whom established the state after years as a major ruthenian politician, even though he was from one of the most prestigious Polish noble families of the Commonwealth) after he used a false-flag attack to murder his older brother and nephews, together with incapacitating his father who was bedridden for his last few years (reason why his title is contested by his niece, whose husband has been supporting the Royal Government monetarily mostly out of spite). Directly supported by Russia, his wife being an aunt to the young emperor, Victor’s rule has been a successful, if bloody, one, as he has managed to conquer over half of the territory of Ruthenia still under Royal or PLF control over the course of two long campaigns

The most recent and probably most unexpected of the leaders among the crisis, Prince Mykolas Astikai is the current First Minister of Lithuania, who, after years serving firstly as a member of the Lithuanian Papegiai, then as a cabinet minister and finally as the executive ruler of Lithuania for nearly a decade under royal administration, suddenly made a drastic change in allegiances since 2018 (although earlier signs of his true opinions were present since the start of his political career, as he was known for defending a more federalized stance in government before being accused of corruption in 1982, retracting his “unloyal” opinions shortly before the charges were dropped a year later) and became increasingly independent from Warsaw, until finally using the 15 January Referendum to declare Lithuania’s secession from the Commonwealth. Lithuania’s de facto absolute ruler (as the chosen new Grand Duke, Prince Eric Hedwig of the Baltic, is a figurehead), Mykolas’ main backer has been a mix between the United Baltics (who have consistently backed almost all separatist groups in the Commonwealth since 1995 due to the two nation’s historical hatred of each other)
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The contentious current Grand Marshall of the Popular Liberation Front (following the death of his predecessor in a drone strike in 2018), Zytomir Lysenko is currently considered one of the most complicated figures in the war, just like the faction he has commanded, as although having since its beginning declared its “unwavering desire for the liberty of the people under the royal tyranny”, the PLF has become increasingly infamous for their increasing internal tyranny, as the position of Grand Marshall now completely overshadows that of the Civilian Administrators, and for their “take no prisoners” in the war, which together with their lack of international support and waning popular support have placed the faction on a terrible position as it looses soldiers to desertion and territory to other factions, controlling only a third of the lands it held at its apex in 2004. Born on a middle-class family from Brest, Zytomir served firstly on the military of the Commonwealth as a part of the Third Ruthenian Army, then switched sides to the Grand Duchy of Ruthenia, during which he fought in the Siege of Vilnius, and became a soldier of the PLF in 2002, rising through its ranks until he controlled one of the four cardinal armies

One of the various Ukrainian leaders within the conflict, Zynovij Stasyuk is the current head of the Ukrainian Kingdom, having assumed the position following his brother’s execution after being captured by Commonwealth forces in 2004, and, all-around, a complicated figure on the conflict. Ruling over a patchwork of territories in the south of the Commonwealth (as his faction lost its northern territories over time, including his own home city of Pripyat, built in the 1960s and entirely depopulated in 1992 after the uprising and nuclear disaster), nowadays his “kingdom” has become basically a client state of Russia (event though one of the national monarchies also claims overlordship over Ukraine), with most of Zynovij’s family (including his heir) currently living in Azov while his state’s army is funded by the Russian State Treasury

The last leader of the major factions is Leonid Kolomiyets, founder and khan of the Obukhiv Horde (who has not, in fact, controlled the city of Obukhiv for the past 12 years), the major Cossack militia that was named that way due to the growing (if misguided in some parts) belief among Cossacks that their hosts became nothing more than government organs for the Commonwealth’s oppression, together with some possible historical nostalgia of the great horselords of the steppes of Eurasia. A trained officer of the military even before becoming one of the first leaders in the crisis when its simply an Ukrainian Uprising, having lead men during the Odesan War of Independence, Kolomiyets’ horde (of which he still denies being a monarch of, even if he most certainly is) is, for all matters, a remarkably successful faction, supported by the Caliphate due to its large number of Muslim members (of the 20.000 soldiers in its army, around a third are of some Islamic denomination) and not showing any signs of being close to ruin, ruling over a quite large patch of territory on the southeastern borders of the commonwealth

(and, as an honorable mention)

In the past, another major player in the war was the Lviv Autonomous Government, headed by Prime Minister Stanislav Ponomarenko, which for a time controlled most of Galicia before bad luck in the early 2000s caused the faction’s collapse and destruction after Ponomarenko’s death in 2003 on a bombing attack, with most of its various splinter groups having nowadays having either died, absorbed into other factions or fallen into irrelevancy​
 
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The 1944 United States presidential election was the 40th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 7, 1944. The election took place during World War II. Republican Thomas E. Dewey defeated Democrat Henry A. Wallace.

President Roosevelt had become the first president to win a third term with his victory in the 1940 presidential election, and there was little doubt that he would seek a fourth term. However, considering considering the poor state of his health, Roosevelt decided to not seek the Democratic nomination and endorsed Vice President Henry A. Wallace. Nevertheless, many delegates and party leaders opposed Wallace f strongly. Opposition to Wallace came especially from Catholic leaders in big cities and labor unions. Wallace, who had been Roosevelt's vice president since January 1941, was regarded by most conservatives as being too left-wing and personally eccentric to be next in line for the presidency. He had performed so poorly as economic coordinator that Roosevelt had to remove him from that post. Numerous party leaders privately sent word to Roosevelt that they would fight Wallace's nomination as vice president and proposed instead Senator Harry S. Truman, a moderate from Missouri.
The Democratic convention nominated Wallace on the second ballot and selected Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn as the vice presidential nominee.

As 1944 began, the frontrunners for the Republican nomination appeared to be Wendell Willkie, the party's 1940 nominee, Senator Robert A. Taft from Ohio, the leader of the party's conservatives, New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, the leader of the party's moderate eastern establishment, General Douglas MacArthur, then serving as an Allied commander in the Pacific theater of the war, and former Minnesota Governor Harold Stassen, then serving as a U.S. naval officer in the Pacific. Taft surprised many by declining to run for president as he wanted to remain in the Senate; instead, he voiced his support for a fellow Ohio conservative, Governor John W. Bricker.

With Taft out of the race some Republican conservatives favored General MacArthur. However, MacArthur's chances were limited by the fact that he was leading Allied forces against Japan, and thus could not campaign for the nomination. His supporters entered his name in the Wisconsin primary nonetheless. The Wisconsin primary proved to be the key contest, as Dewey won by a surprisingly wide margin. He took fourteen delegates to four for Harold Stassen, while MacArthur won the three remaining delegates. Willkie was shut out in the Wisconsin primary; he did not win a single delegate. His unexpectedly poor showing in Wisconsin forced him to withdraw as a candidate for the nomination. However, at the time of his sudden death in early October 1944, Willkie had endorsed neither Dewey nor Roosevelt. At the 1944 Republican National Convention in Chicago, Dewey easily overcame Bricker and was nominated for president on the first ballot. Dewey, a moderate to liberal Republican, chose the conservative Bricker as his running mate. Dewey originally preferred fellow liberal California Governor Earl Warren, but agreed on Bricker to preserve party unity (Warren would go on to run with Dewey in the 1948 election). Bricker was nominated for vice president by acclamation.

The Republicans campaigned against the New Dea, seeking a smaller government and less-regulated economy as the end of the war seemed in sight. Wallace was attacked by the Republicans, who opposed his liberal politics and considered him unqualified to serve as president.

A high point of the campaign occurred when Dewey, gave a speech carried on national radio in which he claimed that the Roosevelt administration was corrupt and wasteful with tax money. He particularly claimed that Roosevelt had sent a US Navy warship to pick up his Scottish Terrier Fala in Alaska, noting that "the American people are furious". Dewey also gave a blistering partisan speech in Oklahoma City a few days later on national radio, in which he accused Wallace of being "indispensable" to American Communists.

The election resulted in a Republican victory, and Dewey won 52% of the popular vote. He carried most Northern states. Republicans also won control of the House of Representatives.
 
Where i can start... How Nazca is under a duke, and how is an ally of PLC i guess lol
Nazca's duchy status is resulted from the fact that the Spanish Empire had a much earlier (stemming from a very different and much longer Thirty Years' War) and much different end (Philips II and III had a much better time producing heirs and butterflies resulted that many of those cadets were living in the New World as Viceroys and the like), Prince Antonio's title stems from the fact that he is a member of the Peruvian Hapsburgs, being a third cousin of the current Queen.

Peru is and ally of the PLC due to the marriage of Sigismund V's second son to the current queen of Peru, Angelica Maria (ascended to the throne in 2012, although, interestingly, the reason why Antonio has been sent is because Angelica wants to get rid of him as her father changed the Peruvian succession laws (Peru's succession had been a salic one until then) and he is her closest male-line relative, him and his brother having been for years a thorn on her side. Peru is very Game-of-Thrones in its politics and so she hopes he dies there (his brother was already dealt with, having been married to a sister of the Sapa Inca of Tawantinsuyu and because of that being barred from the succession due to "tainting his bloodline")

Anything else you want to know?
 
Not - for now... so many TLs from one wikibox. Keep posting them!
Sure'll do, at the moment I'm still deciding between doing infoboxes on the Fifth Floridian Civil War (which I'll admit is very similar to the PLC civil war so I think I may make it later on), on the Empire of Lousiane (which I'm still setting the finer details on) or on the major rulers of Europe.

Although I admit that all of them already have most of the boxes done, I'm just pondering which one I want to do the writeup first (and also which of my TLs to do next, since I have at the moment two TLs which I update on their own threads and this one)
 
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I’m Just Wild About Lyndon
1944 DNC
The More Things Change...

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Lyndon Johnson had deeply angered many Conservative Democrats with his veto of the Taft-Hartley Bill, and there was serious talk of a walkout. Howver by pledging to crush any Civil Rights plank that might emerge at the Convention, and a heavily reliance on his friends throughout the South, Johnson was able to avert any planned Southern Party, at least for this election. However this opened up trouble on his left. His ex-Commerce Secretary Henry Wallace had raised the specter of the Progressive Party for a third time, and Johnson’s cronies shutting down a young Hubert Humphrey at the Democratic Convention earned him no credit, to say nothing Johnson’s loss of the northern black vote, who had at least been willing to entertain voting Roosevelt.

Many were surprised by Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas joining Johnson’s ticket, considering the dire straits the President seemed to be in. However the pair had known each other since Johnson was just a legislative aide, and took the VP slot under considerable pressure from Johnson. Douglas was widely hailed as a good VP pick, but the President was widely expected to lose badly to the Dewey/Warren Ticket.

However Johnson immediately took to the offensive, attacking Dewey and the Republican Congress relentlessly. His attempts to replicate his breakneck campaigning from Texas drove him well past the point of exhaustion, but still he fought. He began to shift leftwards once it became apparent that it was the North where he needed to pick up votes. He even backtracked some of his efforts to quash Civil Rights debates. The South fumed, but it was too late to organize any rebellion. Johnson visited every town he could find, never stopping. Union support proved crucial, as did the leaking of some of Henry Wallace’s more...esoteric correspondence.

Dewey meanwhile, campaigned complacently, trying to avoid coming down hard on any issue. Johnson did this as well, but he could at least seem charming while doing so, Dewey just seemed stiff. Meanwhile the Republicans in Congress were proving themselves to the right of the supposed GOP platform, which Johnson ruthlessly exploited. Dewey saw success campaigning in the Northeast, and the Great Lakes. But Johnson’s intense campaign, and his background’s appeal to poor farmers, dampened the Republicans in the west, at least outside of traditional strongholds.

By Election Day, everyone agreed the race had tightened. But most polls agreed Dewey still maintained a lead, and would likely serve as the next President. But they were wrong. The election would prove the closest since 1916, but Johnson would secure a solid lead in the popular ore. Had Dewey been able to flip the fairly close Illinois race he still would have won, but the Land of Lincoln did not follow the Party of Lincoln.

Johnson had been the youngest man to become President, and now he was the youngest man elected President. With him, the Democrats retook the House, and expanded their Senate majority.
 
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