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Yes, I admit, this was inspired by For All Time, David Bar Elias's For All Eternity, and For All Butterflies. The PoD is that Winston Churchill dies in December of 1941, and Clement Attlee takes his place. It's somewhat dystopic, but not as much as For All Time.

Now for the Where Are They Nows:

William Jefferson Blythe III was elected president (as a Democrat, of course) in 2000, after first serving as governor and senator from Arkansas. He led the invasion of the Islamic Republic of Iran following the terrorist attack on New York City that left the city in ruins. Unlike OTL's George W. Bush, he is not as hated by the people as he prepares to leave office.

George W. Bush is the longtime owner of the Houston Astros. In that capacity, he has led them to the World Series five times, winning in 1994, and 2005 and losing in 2001. However, he is also hated by many fans, mainly for trading Jeff Bagwell and Roger Clemens the two best players on the Houston team.

He and his father, former Texas governor and senator George H.W. Bush, are supporting his brother, current Louisiana governor James "Jimmy" Bush in the latter's run for president. Bush is a hero to many for his handling of Hurricane Katrina's 2005 landfall in Louisiana (1). Bush is running against Blythe's vice-president William Richardson.

John Sidney McCain III was killed, along with his family and several staffers, in a plane crash in 1986 while campaigning for the governorship of Arizona. He had served in the Siamese War, bombing suspected Baath Party sites.

Albert Gore, Jr. never entered politics, and now teaches political science at the University of Vanderbilt, while supporting local environmental movements.

H. Ross Perot made billions in the oil business and with Electronic Data Systems, and then went on to buy the Dallas Cowboys in 1983 from Clint Murchison, Jr. Under his leadership, the Cowboys went on to win five straight Super Bowls and won again in 2008, upsetting the favored Baltimore Colts.

Alexander Lebed is the president of Russia, leading an alliance not made up of Communists or extremists. Russia is still recovering from the 1983 nuclear war between it and China.

Saddam Hussein was killed after a failed coup in 1958.

Lin Biao took over following the death of Mao Tse-Tung in 1973. He then invaded the People's Republic of Vietnam in 1983 following a border dispute, which led to a nuclear war between it and the Soviet Union. China was left in ruins and the Soviet Union was severely damaged. Even now, that part of the world is still recovering from the damage caused by the war.

There will be more people coming tomorrow.

(1) OOC: This TL's Katrina makes landfall just west of New Orleans as a Category 5 after flattening Jamaica and turning north after going through the Yucatan Channel.

(2) OOC: Eisenhower is still elected in this TL, and has a fatal heart attack in 1957.
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