DBWI: President McGovern loses in 1972?

OOC(but note quotation marks):

"Well, for starters, we wouldn't have sold Hawaii to the goddam North Vietnamese and we wouldn't have LSD in our drinking water!!!"
 
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Tough to say how Nixon could win in 1972. After losing in both 1960 and 1968, Nixon got the GOP nomination because no one else wanted it (neither did Nixon). Since 1932 the only President the Republicans could elect was Eisenhower, with Nixon coming closer than anyone else, and everyone assumed that we would be in a period of one party Democratic governance at the federal level for the forseable future.

If the Republicans had had a chance of winning in 1972, they would have nominated someone other than Nixon. With a more viable Republican Party, in fact most likely Nixon would have won in either 1960 or 1968.

I mean if Lyndon Johnson had been able to serve out his term and not had his heart attack in 1972, then McGovern wouldn't have had the incumbency advantage, but then someone other than Nixon would have been the GOP nominee. Or is the POD Nixon winning in 1968? That one has been done lots of times on this board.

So the POD is either Nixon winning in 1968 or the Democrats are in a weaker position in 1972 and some alternative Republican manages to win that year. Obviously things change depending on who exactly gets elected instead in 1972.
 
Keep in mind that LBJ's success in winning the Vietnam War was due to his Secretary of Defense Curtis LeMay. North Vietnam (or what was left of it) surrendered in January 1968. If US troops were still fighting in Vietnam in 1968, most likely that Johnson is not re-elected. Either way, Humphrey still chooses not to run as Vice President. He tired of the job and wanted to return to the US Senate. Privately, he disagreed with LeMay's strategy to defeat the North Vietnamese.
 
We probably won’t have a film made of vanderburg, 1972’s Cold War novel about a Russian takeover of the west.
 
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