DBWI-President Eisenhower Not Killed in Mid-Air Collision

In December 1953, President Dwight Eisenhower died when his airplane collided with a commercial airliner over New York. The disaster happened because air traffic control confused the call sign of Eisenhower's flight-Air Force 8610-with that of the airliner-Eastern Airlines Flight 8610, allowing both planes to enter the same airspace.

Suppose the disaster doesn't happen. What are the consequences of Eisenhower living longer?
 
Would Ike have handled Little Rock and Suez differently. You recall how Nixon opposed Anglo French efforts.

You will also remember that advised by je Hoover that the Negro movement was a Communist front he allowed that appalling lynching and massacre when integration was attempted.

That was surely a key factor in Humphrey's nomination and election in 1960
 
I think we might have been spared the spectacle of the White House and Congress at each other's throats for the remainder of the 1950s*. Eisenhower would probably have managed re-election in 1956 quite comfortably - recall that Nixon only squeaked home by blatantly playing up his commie-bashing credentials during the Hungarian Uprising.

*Though it would have been even worse if Lyndon Johnson hadn't had that fatal heart attack in 1955. There's some suggestion that Johnson had some serious dirt on Nixon...
 
You recall how Nixon opposed Anglo French efforts.

As a British citizen, I think that the Suez Crisis, would have been a lot worse under U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Although Nixon had opposed the idea of Anglo French forces, in supporting Israel, he did loan out military equipement to ensure the USSR would not spread communism into Northern Africa.

Prime Minister, Anthony Eden strengthened Britain's role as a superpower, being Prime Minister from 1955 to 1963, handing over power to his secretary of War, Harold Macmillan, who would continue the legacy of the Conservative party for another 5 years.

The Conservative Party would be the dominant party for the next 50 years, seeing it being kept closer to the Centre by its Liberal allies.

The labour party, is forced to stay near the Centre with more socialist MPs such as Harold Wilson and Michael Foot losing their bids for leadership.

In 1980 Roy Jenkins won his bid to become leader of the labour Party and a year later, beat Margaret Thatcher. With himself and three fellow moderates; David Owen, Bill Rodgers and Shirley Williams, denounced the Trotskyist factions whose views and behaviour they considered to be at odds with the Parliamentary Labour Party and Labour voters.

The Trotskyist factions went on to form the British Socialist Party.

List of British Prime Ministers
1951-55: Winston Churchill (Conservative Majority)
1955-63: Anthony Eden (Conservative Majority)
1963-68: Harold Macmillan (Conservative Majority)
1968-72: Edward Heath (Con-Liberal Coalition)
1972-77: Michael Stewart (Labour Majority)
1977-79: Reginald Maudling (Conservative Majority) [Died in Office]
1979-83: Margaret Thatcher (Con-Liberal Coalition)
1981-85: Roy Jenkins (Labour Majority)
1987-92: Michael Heseltine (Conservative Majority)
1992-97: Paddy Ashdown (Labour Majority)
1997-2005: Michael Howard (Conservative Majority)
2005-10: Charles Kennedy (Labour-British Socialist Party Coalition)
2010-15: Kenneth Clarke (Conservative Majority)
 
Ike's leadership might have enabled the Korean War armistice to stick, rather than Nixon being pressured into the resumption? On the one hand, that'd have meant that China would have stayed communist; on the other, it'd have saved several million lives. Of course, something may well have sparked a renewed war anyway - armistices never last that long without tipping one way or the other.

Domestically, Ike would probably have won the 1956 election as well but may have been more of a ceremonial president than Nixon. He certainly wouldn't have tried the limited Civil Rights reforms Nixon initiated in his second term. Then again, he wouldn't have failed and perhaps the South would have reformed before the 1980s had no-one else been intimidated from trying by that experience.

Had Ike served two full terms, there's a good chance Nixon would have been elected in his own right come 1960, rather than the Democrats regaining control under Johnson, and of course Goldwater wouldn't have been nominated at all.
 
Yes, yes. You can't visit Britain without tripping over a bloody statue of Eden these days (and I see Nigella Lawson is being tipped as Clarke's successor). But this is alternate history - what do you think happens with Eisenhower instead of Nixon?
 
Had Ike served two full terms, there's a good chance Nixon would have been elected in his own right come 1960, rather than the Democrats regaining control under Johnson, and of course Goldwater wouldn't have been nominated at all.

You mean Humphrey. Johnson was dead by then (and I'm not sure he'd have even wanted to leave his beloved Senate).
 
Would Ike have handled Little Rock and Suez differently. You recall how Nixon opposed Anglo French efforts.

You will also remember that advised by je Hoover that the Negro movement was a Communist front he allowed that appalling lynching and massacre when integration was attempted.

That was surely a key factor in Humphrey's nomination and election in 1960

I wonder how Massachusetts Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy would have done if he and that girlfriend of Sam Giancana's hadn't run their car off that bridge...:confused: Humphrey's refusal to support the CIA's plans to destroy the Castro Regime helped lead after all to Krushchev's total humiliation during the Missile Crisis, what with no provocation by us to justify a Soviet missile base in Cuba it left Humphrey's hands free to launch a total blockade of Cuba and force the island to be left untouched but demilitarized. (1)

1) As a typical sign of Soviet bureaucracy, the missile plan went forward despite Humphrey's signing an executive order to destroy all of America's IRBM missiles in Europe three months before the first Soviet equipment shipped out to Cuba. Thereby removing a central fallback position for the Soviets should they ever have been caught in their actions, as both the Soviet Foreign Ministry and GRU (military intelligence) warned could happen.

By the time the Soviet missile bases in Cuba were becoming operational the American Jupiter rocket bases in Turkey had been stripped bare. Between Humphrey's wise diplomacy in dealing with Cuba and Castro's having been exposed as a complete Soviet Tool as much as the DDR's Ernst Honecker (2), he wound up not amounting to much in the Cold War. Too bad for Humphrey that his actions didn't stop him from losing the US House and getting creamed in the Senate only days later on Election Day.

2) Unfair, perhaps. In point of fact while Castro made a good lapdog for the Soviets (3), he wasn't on the scale of East Germany's "Yessir, no sir, three bags full sir!".

3) OOC: Remember, this is from the POV of someone who lives in a world that didn't come quite so close to WWIII over Cuba and Castro didn't have the justifications of Anti-American animosity due to the Bay of Pigs, saboteurs encroaching on his country, and his facing 637 (or so:eek:) separate CIA assassination attempts.
List of British Prime Ministers
1951-55: Winston Churchill (Conservative Majority)
1955-63: Anthony Eden (Conservative Majority)
1963-68: Harold Macmillan (Conservative Majority)
1968-72: Edward Heath (Con-Liberal Coalition)
1972-77: Michael Stewart (Labour Majority)
1977-79: Reginald Maudling (Conservative Majority) [Died in Office]
1979-83: Margaret Thatcher (Con-Liberal Coalition)
1981-85: Roy Jenkins (Labour Majority)
1987-92: Michael Heseltine (Conservative Majority)
1992-97: Paddy Ashdown (Labour Majority)
1997-2005: Michael Howard (Conservative Majority)
2005-10: Charles Kennedy (Labour-British Socialist Party Coalition)
2010-15: Kenneth Clarke (Conservative Majority)
2015-present: Jim Hacker (Conservative Majority)

OOC: No Falklands? Methinks the USA ITTL would be even worse in supporting juntas, hence worse troubles in Argentina, and the Argentines not facing arms embargoes and getting better equipment.
 
What about America's health care system? After all, Nixon was responsible for our modern federalized health care service.
 
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