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As you all know, Hubert Humphrey defeated Richard M. Nixon in the controversial election of 1968, beating Nixon by a 44.2-41.9 popular vote margin, due to the so-called Halloween Peace. He would visit China, though his visit was widely criticized by Republicans and was not well received by the pubkic. As the war in Vietnam worsened, Humphrey would be defeated in 1972 by Ronald Reagan in an unprecedented landslide after the debates. While Vietnam remains divided today, many blamed Humphrey instead of Reagan for the failure to win the war.

Reagan would pursuit a monetarist policy, and forced Iran to transform into a constitutional democracy after the Crisis of 1978. While giving strong support to democratically elected Presidemt Jorge Alessandri of Chile, Reagan was widely blamed for sponsoring the junta responsible for the Dirty War in Argentina, as well as his silence in Park Chung-hee's bloody crackdown of the pro-democracy protests in 1980.

What if Nixon was President instead of Humphrey? Would he possibly win re-election? Would he still have gone to China, as stated in his memoirs? How would he deal with Vietnam? If not, who would have succeeded Nixon? Perhaps we would get a RFK presidency from 1973-81 instead of 1981-89? How would Kennedy deal with Iran, the military junta in Argentina and South Korea?
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