Hubert H. Humphrey, elected President in 1968

Those riots would really raise hell for the American left, I think, at least in regards to labor issues. That's going to be a pretty intractable wedge between organized labor and intellectual liberals, and I'm not sure exactly what the fallout is going to be.

It seems like there's a solid base there for a populist movement, supporting both protectionism and labor support over bosses while also militant nationalism and possibly some whiffs of racial supremacy and religious fundamentalism.

Then on the other side of the aisle, the urban left is going to be considerably disaffected, and without natural allies and possibly fall out of the political spotlight. The coalition had splintered enough as it is without a massive beatdown by organized labor.

And this in the light where a Peace Democrat just cost the War Democrat a presidential election!

The big questions going forward are these:

a.) What's going on with blacks in this timeline? Tower voted against the Civil Rights Act, so I'm not sure he's could be a bigger enemy than Nixon was.

and

b.) Where does the anti-war movement go? It seems like nobody can do anything to hold them together, and while the war is getting more popular under Tower than it's been in some time, it's been going on for a heck of a long time at this point, and the end seems no closer. A lot of people are dying out there.
 
HHH and U.S. manned space program

Space Task Group proposed in march 1969 to HHH
the "Integrated Manned Space Flight Program"
a gigantc program for next 20 years
include several Space station in low orbit Geo Orbit, Lunar orbit.
a Moon Base and manned Mars flight in 1980's
(more like kubrik 2001 become real)

Cost $ 52 billion in 1968 dollar spend over next 20 years.
(the Apollo cost were $ 24 billion in 1968, vietnam cost around $ 100 billion in 1968 dollars)
no way the congress and Senate gona approve this project!

in OTL Nixon almost killt the U.S. manned space flights !
one option he had wat to shot down all Manned space flights and close most of NASA center!
He needed 3 years to get a decision, wat became the Space Shuttle.

NASA Administrator Thomas Paine quit because Nixon budget cuts in Space Programs

will same happen under HHH ?
takes he a Manned Mars program like Boeing "Integrated Manned Interplanetary Spacecraft."
or will Apollo program Continues as Apollo Applications Program.

Take away Mars (or postpone it in XXI century),and leaves shuttle (first version all reusable and smaller ) ,spacetugs for high orbits and Moon,Space station in low orbit, Geo Orbit, Lunar orbit.
All this in a 30 years timeline.
Moon Base only in late 90s.
So now the plan is much less expansive and realistic.
We have:
1969-1973-Apollo 9 -Apollo 20.
1974-Skylab-A and AAP/Skylab- I,II,III
1975-1976 Skylab-B and AAP/Skylab-IV,V (with Soyuz that docking to Skylab),VI.
End of Apollo program.
1977-First flight of STS (full reusable and smaller that in OTL).
1979-Skylab-C space station for six men of crew.
1981-First flight of Space tug in high orbit.
1985-12 men space station in LEO (Skylab + many others modules sent with Shuttle)
1987-Space tug in lunar orbit.
1989-The man return on the moon.
1994-GEO station
1996-Lunar orbit station
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1999-semipermanent moonbase.
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2001-President Gore announces a man on Mars by 2015.
 
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This timeline is good and plausible up to 1972 and it just goes way off the rails. The author obviously doesn't understand the correlation between economic prosperity and presidential elections. There is every reason to believe that ecomonic growth in 1972 will be at least very similiar to what it was in OTL. President Humphrey isn't going to radically alter business cycles, therefore the 1972 presidential election will favor the incumbent regardless of which party is in power. The author apparently doesn't know George McGovern and what he's about. It is plausible that he will challenge President Humphrey for the nomination on an anti-war platform and he may go all the way to the Convention but once Humphrey got renominated he will drop the challenge and most certainly will not form a third party challenge. McGovern is a decent and honorable man of class, he is not selfish and foolish enough to put his own personal ambitions above that of the party. No way! not in any timelime. It is highly implausible that John Tower would be the Republican presidential candidate. He had several opportunities to run president in 68,76, 80, and 88; but never once did he try, and just because Humphrey won instead of Nixon is not likely to change that. In this case the Republican presidential will most likely be Nelson Rockefeller with either Senator Howard Baker of Tennessee or Senator Mark Hatfield of Oregon. I wouldn't rule out John Tower being Rockefeller's VP choice. Finally, I will grant that it is plausible that Art Bremmer assassinates Ronald Reagan.
 
This timeline is good and plausible up to 1972 and it just goes way off the rails. The author obviously doesn't understand the correlation between economic prosperity and presidential elections. There is every reason to believe that ecomonic growth in 1972 will be at least very similiar to what it was in OTL. President Humphrey isn't going to radically alter business cycles, therefore the 1972 presidential election will favor the incumbent regardless of which party is in power. The author apparently doesn't know George McGovern and what he's about. It is plausible that he will challenge President Humphrey for the nomination on an anti-war platform and he may go all the way to the Convention but once Humphrey got renominated he will drop the challenge and most certainly will not form a third party challenge. McGovern is a decent and honorable man of class, he is not selfish and foolish enough to put his own personal ambitions above that of the party. No way! not in any timelime. It is highly implausible that John Tower would be the Republican presidential candidate. He had several opportunities to run president in 68,76, 80, and 88; but never once did he try, and just because Humphrey won instead of Nixon is not likely to change that. In this case the Republican presidential will most likely be Nelson Rockefeller with either Senator Howard Baker of Tennessee or Senator Mark Hatfield of Oregon. I wouldn't rule out John Tower being Rockefeller's VP choice. Finally, I will grant that it is plausible that Art Bremmer assassinates Ronald Reagan.
 
This timeline is good and plausible up to 1972 and it just goes way off the rails. The author obviously doesn't understand the correlation between economic prosperity and presidential elections. There is every reason to believe that ecomonic growth in 1972 will be at least very similiar to what it was in OTL. President Humphrey isn't going to radically alter business cycles, therefore the 1972 presidential election will favor the incumbent regardless of which party is in power. The author apparently doesn't know George McGovern and what he's about. It is plausible that he will challenge President Humphrey for the nomination on an anti-war platform and he may go all the way to the Convention but once Humphrey got renominated he will drop the challenge and most certainly will not form a third party challenge. McGovern is a decent and honorable man of class, he is not selfish and foolish enough to put his own personal ambitions above that of the party. No way! not in any timelime. It is highly implausible that John Tower would be the Republican presidential candidate. He had several opportunities to run president in 68,76, 80, and 88; but never once did he try, and just because Humphrey won instead of Nixon is not likely to change that. In this case the Republican presidential will most likely be Nelson Rockefeller with either Senator Howard Baker of Tennessee or Senator Mark Hatfield of Oregon. I wouldn't rule out John Tower being Rockefeller's VP choice. Finally, I will grant that it is plausible that Art Bremmer assassinates Ronald Reagan.

.............No.
 
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