This is truly excellent. A common PoD played out with proper butterflies to create a truly different world with some very clever choices (Kathleen Gilligan and Holtzman are smart hipster choices; Sean Penn as the ATL Trump is just absurdly perfect).
The frontispieces are good too; the one for Wallace is genuinely a bit creepy once I looked at it for a bit.
Thanks for the praise. I've been planning to continue this since the Summer of 2015, I even had the Thompson and Specter cards made. Truth be told, I only did it about now because I stumbled across the partially completed Holtzman update in my files.
Chris Matthews (who becomes VP instead) was originally meant to fill Gilligan's place. His card was partially complete. Then I read over the Gilligan update, and I remembered that Sebelius was his daughter. Thus, she became the choice to replace Penn.
I had a lot of fun writing up Penn's presidency, though I feel that I got a bit carried away with the 2004-2016 analogues.
Can we get a list of TTL's Presidents and other world leaders?
That's a shout - British PMs and Soviet leaders are what I'm wondering about.
I was already working on one. What luck!
1961-1965: Richard Nixon / Henry Cabot Lodge (Republican)
1960: John F. Kennedy / Lyndon B. Johnson (Democratic)
1965-1969: George Smathers / Edmund Muskie (Democratic)
1964: Richard Nixon / Henry Cabot Lodge (Republican)
1969-1977: George Romney / Millicent Fenwick (Republican)
1968: George Smathers / Edmund Muskie (Democratic), John Smitz / Maxwell Rafferty (Independent)
1972: Edmund Muskie / Albert Brewer (Democratic), Jesse Helms / Thomas J. Anderson (Independent)
1977-1979: George Wallace / John Gilligan (Democratic)
1976: Millicent Fenwick / Ron Paul (Republican)
1979-1979: John Gilligan / Vacant (Democratic)
1979-1981: John Gilligan / John Jay Hooker (Democratic)
1981-1989: Charles Evers / Mark Hatfield (Republican)
1980: John Gilligan / John Jay Hooker (Democratic)
1984: John Connally / Lee Hamilton (Democratic)
1989-1991: Trent Lott / Nick Begich (Democratic)
1988: Pete McCloskey / John Warner (Republican)
1991-1993: Trent Lott / Vacant (Democratic)
1991-1993: Trent Lott / Walter D. Huddleston (Democratic)
1993-1997: Elizabeth Holtzman / Jim Folsom Jr. (Democratic)
1992: John Gavin / Clayton Williams (Republican)
1997-2005: Arlen Specter / Donald H. Rumsfeld (Republican)
1996: Elizabeth Holtzman / Jim Folsom Jr. (Democratic)
2000: Chuck Robb / Ed Rendell (Democratic)
2005-2013: Sean Penn / Tim Roemer (Democratic)
2004: Elizabeth Hanford-Alexander / James Webb (Republican)
2008: James Webb / Dennis Tito (Republican)
2013-: Kathleen Gilligan / Chris Matthews (Democratic)
2012: George S. Romney Jr. / Marcus Bachmann (Republican)
United Kingdom
1957-1965: Harold Macmillan (Conservative majority)
1965-1965: John Profumo (Conservative majority)
1965-1973: Harold Wilson (Labour majority)
1973-1975: Roy Jenkins (Labour majority)
1975-1980: Anthony "Tony" Barber (Conservative majority)
1980-1985: David Marquand (Labour majority)
1985-1993: Edward Heath (Conservative majority)
1993-1998: Jack Cunningham (Labour-Liberal coalition)
1998-2001: John Gummer (Conservative minority)
2001-2006: Chris Mullin (Labour majority)
2006-2010: Oliver Heald (Conservative majority)
2010-20XX: Alan Johnson (Labour majority)
France
1958-1962: Charles de Gaulle (UNR)*
1962-1965: Gaston Monnverville (PR)
1965-1969: Michel Debré (UNR)
1969-1979: François Mitterrand (PS)
1979-1984: Jacques Chaban-Delmas (PUD)**
1984-1994: Marie-France Garaud (UNR)
1994-2001: Bernard Kouchner (PS)
2001-2015: Gérard Longuet (UNR)
2015-20XX: Frédéric Mitterrand (PS)
*Assasinated in Paris.
**Parti unioniste démocratique (or Democratic Unionist Party in english), formed as a vehical for Chaban-Delmas after a split in the UNR.
Soviet Union/Russia
1964-1971: Leonid Brezhnev
1971-1986: Mikhail Suslov
1986-1991: Pyotr Masherov
1991-1997: Dmitri Yazov
1997-2001: Yegor Ligachyov
2001-2008: Yegor Gaidar
2008-2009: Yegor Gaidar (Communist Party)*
2009-2011: Sergey Shoygu (Rally for the Republic)
2011-20XX: Kirsan Ilyumzhinov (Alternative for Russia)**
*Resigned in favour of Shoygu, who was confirmed as President by the Duma.
**Elected on a fervently anti-establishment platform. Has been investigated for corruption, and the Duma is considering a free vote on his removal from office.
Canada
1957-1962: John Diefenbaker (Progressive Conservative)
1962-1964: Lester Pearson (Liberal)
1964-1967: John Diefenbaker (Progressive Conservative)
1967-1971: Davie Fulton (Progressive Conservative)
1971-1977: René Lévesque (Liberal)
1977-1977: Brian Mulroney (Progressive Conservative)
1977-1979: Paul Martin Sr. (Liberal)
1979-1988: Erik Nielsen (Progressive Conservative)
1988-1992: Laurence Decore (Liberal)
1992-1994: Nancy Macbeth (Liberal)
1994-2001: Yves Ryan (Progressive Conservative)
2001-2003: Nancy Macbeth (Liberal)
2003-2004: Paul Martin Jr. (Liberal)
2004-2009: Gordon Campbell (Progressive Conservative)
2009-2011: Allan Rock (Liberal)
2011-20XX: Thomas 'Tommy' Mulcair (Progressive Conservative)*
*Convergence, thy name is Mulcair.
Rhodesia/Zimbawe
1964-1974: Ian Smith (Rhodesian Front)
1974-1985: Josiah Tongogara (ZANU)
1985-1989: Ndabaningi Sithole (ZANU)
1989-1996: Joshua Nkomo (ZAPU-Justice coalition)
1996-2000: Eddison Zvbogo (ZAPU)
2000-2009: Sally Hayfron (ZANU)*
2009-20XX: Morgan Tsvangirai (ZAPU-Agrarian coalition)
**Widely regarded as Zimbawe's 'Iron Lady'.
South Africa
1966-1978: B.J. Vorster (National)
1978-1986: Andries Petrus Treurnicht (National)
1986-1994: Clive Derby-Lewis (National)*
1994-1996: Pik Botha (National)
1996-1997: Lucas Mangope (ANC)
1997-20XX: Winnie Mandela (ANC)
*Extreme hardliner. Assassinated in 1994 after the start of the civil war.
'West Germany'
1969-1977: Willy Brandt (SPD)*
1977-1980: Helmut Kohl (CDU/CSU)**
1980-1982: Helmut Schmidt (SPD)
1982-1992: Lothar Späth (CDU/CSU)
1992-1999: Johannes Rau (SPD)
1999-2007: Edmund Stoiber (CDU/CSU)
2007-2008: Franz Müntefering (SPD)
*Elected under the FPTP system, adopted by the previous government.
*Killed when his train derails in the countryside.
'East Germany'
1960-1971: Walter Ulbricht
1971-1980: Heinz Hoffmann
1980-1990: Albert Norden
1990-2002: Hans Modrow
2002-2008: Vera Lengsfeld
Germany
2008-2008: Hans-Dietrich Genscher (Independent)
2008-2010: Franz Müntefering (SPD)
2010-2011: Horst Seehofer (CDU/CSU-VisionForGermany coalition)
2011-2013: Bodo Ramelow (SPD)
2013-20XX: Steffen Heitmann (CDU/CSU)
Apologies
@Daltonia for nicking your own list.