List of Alternate Presidents and PMs II

[Inherit The Wind]

Trump as Andrew Jackson.

Yep!

Featuring Al Gore running for President in his 80s, because god damn Henry Clay is hard to find an analogue for.

 

[AidanM]

1961-1963: John F. Kennedy/Lyndon B. Johnson
def. 1960: Richard Nixon/Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
1963-1965: John F. Kennedy/Vacant*
1965-1969: John F. Kennedy/Hubert Humphrey
def. 1964: Barry Goldwater/William E. Miller
1969-1973: Hubert Humphrey/Edmund Muskie
def. 1968: Richard Nixon/Spiro Agnew
1973-1981: Ronald Reagan/Bob Dole
def. 1972: Hubert Humphrey/Edmund Muskie
def. 1976: George McGovern/Sargent Shriver
1981-1989: Jimmy Carter/Walter Mondale
def. 1980: Feorge H. W. Bush/Gerald Ford
def. 1984: Donald Rumsfeld/Phil Crane
1989-1993: Walter Mondale/Geraldine Ferraro
def. 1988: Dan Quayle/Bob Dole
1993-2001: Phil Crane/Jack Kemp
def. 1992: Walter Mondale/Geraldine Ferraro
def. 1996: Al Gore/Bill Bradley
2001-2009: Joe Biden/Bill Clinton
def. 2000: John McCain/Elizabeth Dole
def. 2004: Dick Cheney/Condoleezza Rice
2009-2017: Bill Clinton/John Kerry
def. 2008: Newt Gingrich/Mitt Romney
def. 2012: Donald Trump/Sarah Palin
2017-2021: John Kasich/Bobby Jindal
def. 2016: John Kerry/Jon Corzine
2021-2029: Russ Feingold/Tim Kaine
def. 2020: John Kasich/Bobby Jindal
def. 2024: Ted Cruz/Kelly Ayotte

*Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was assassinated in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. In 1964, Hubert Humphrey replaced him on the Democratic ticket.

 

[nezza]

1) Callaghan hated the Liberals and was adamant they'd never serve in a Government with him, because he hated the idea that his Government was so weak it'd need support from someone else.
2) Bennery? Like, has he done a gang of four and this is a separate thing from Labour, or is this just his ideological split as OTL?
3) Why did Callaghan win in 70/71?
4) So what, Crosland just doesn't have a heart attack?

1.Admittedly Callaghan wasn't a fan of coalitions but his personal ambitions may have overruled his political acumen

2. Benn quitting was emblematic of his dislike of the way in which the party was going. He thought that the party needed to be "pure Labour" instead of the soft European social democratic model.

3. Callaghan winning in 1971 was due in no small part to both his role as the Unions' golden boy and his anti Europeanism. Callaghan's strategy in the coalition was to nullify the Liberal's European focus and get the country in order.

4. Even though Crosland was more social democratic then Callaghan, his record as Foreign Secretary from 1974/77 was seen by the "old guard" as proof he should be Callaghan's successor

NB. The '78 election was due to the Liberals taking a dual hammering over the Thorpe scandal and the view from Liberal heartlands that they were losing their identity.

 

[Accurateworldwar]

A Celebrity List of Presidents:
37. Elvis Presley/George Romney (1969-1973)
-defeated Hubert Humphrey/Edmund Muskie, George Wallace/Curtis LeMay in 1968 [1]

38. Frank Sinatra/Birch Bayh (1973-1981)
-defeated Elvis Presley/George Romney in 1972[2]
-defeated Nelson Rockefeller/George H.W. Bush in 1976[3]

39. Ronald Reagan/Bob Dole (1981-1985)
-defeated Ted Kennedy/Hugh Carey in 1980[4]

40. Roseanne Barr/Tom Foley (1985-1993)
-defeated Ronald Reagan/Bob Dole in 1984[5]
-defeated Bob Dole/Donald Rumsfeld in 1988[6]

41. Donald Trump/Richard Lugar (1993-1997)
-defeated Tom Foley/Bill Clinton in 1992[7]

42. Morgan Freeman/Skip Humphrey (1997-2005)
-defeated Donald Trump/Richard Lugar in 1996[8]
-defeated Pat Buchanan/Connie Mack III in 2000[9]

43. Clint Eastwood/J.C. Watts (2005-2013)
-defeated Skip Humphrey/John Glenn in 2004[10]
-defeated Kay Hagan/Mary Landrieu in 2008[11]

44. Stephen Colbert/Bill Ritter (2013-present)
-defeated J.C. Watts/William H. Bush in 2012[12]

45. William H. Bush/Mike DeWine (taking office in 2017)
-defeated Stephen Colbert/Bill Ritter in 2016[13]

[1] When Elvis Presley kicked off his candidacy for President of the United States, many doubted his chances of success. His reputation made his candidacy seem unserious, a joke. Presley worked to clean up his image for the American people throughout 1967, and he successfully showed to the American people a serious, competent candidate for the Presidency. His next obstacle was the other candidates. He was up against former Vice President Richard Nixon as his main opponent. However, he worked to paint Nixon as a weak opponent, stressing how his loss in 1960 would lead the Republican Party to disaster in the general election. His charisma worked to his advantage as well. The energy and attractiveness he showed in his music videos, he brought to his campaign. And so it was that Elvis Presley's popularity grew. Presley managed to secure the nomination after a bitter contest against former Vice President Nixon, who, in a speech before the RNC, declared his support for Presley. Now Presley had to find a Vice President to run with. After searching through various Republican candidates, including Nixon, he settled with Governor George Romney as his running mate. The Presley/Romney ticket went up against Democrat Hubert Humphrey, the Vice President under Johnson. Humphrey worked to portray Presley as a shallow, vain celebrity, while Presley painted Humphrey as unsympathetic towards the American people, attacking him for the administration's policy towards Vietnam. On the general election, Elvis Presley managed a slight win over Vice President Humphrey, thus kicking off the beginning of the Celebrity Era.

[2] The beginning of the Presley administration ran pretty smoothly at first. As promised during his campaign, President Presley made a state visit to South Vietnam, where he declared that he wanted "a just peace for all Vietnamese". He tried unsuccessfully to secure a visit to the North Vietnamese capital of Hanoi, but he worked towards an eventual peace in Vietnam. The President also denounced China and the Soviet Union, stating famously, "They pursue Communism through war, war, war! They despise America and American values, and I will work within my power to undermine the scourge of communism!". However, his comments worked to undermine his chances at bringing peace to Vietnam, as the North Vietnamese refused to negotiate with Presley. As the 1972 election neared, the President's biggest campaign promise, withdrawing from Vietnam, was unfulfilled. The Democrats decided that they would need a candidate that could match President Presley in charisma while holding the core values of the Democratic Party. Singer Frank Sinatra was recruited by various Congressmen and Senators to run for the Presidency, and the 1972 Democratic Primary was swept by the singer. Sinatra selected Indiana Senator Birch Bayh as his running mate, and Sinatra fiercely attacked President Presley on his failed efforts for peace in Vietnam. Presley was on the defense, however, after he made a gaffe in which he seemingly agreed with the statement from Sinatra that "the President...has indulged himself in the worst tenets of McCarthyism". Frank Sinatra won in the general election in a landslide against President Presley.

[3]President Sinatra's administration started out shaky. In Vietnam, Sinatra had to deal with a Vietnam War that was not responsive to peace efforts made by the President, due to the stance of the earlier Presley administration. Sinatra decided to go before the United Nations to plead his case for peace, and his Vice President, Birch Bayh, famously made a visit to Beijing in order to work for a peace in Vietnam. Soon, the North Vietnamese government became receptive to possible peace talks, and Sinatra secured a ceasefire in the country. President Sinatra and the leaders of North and South Vietnam negotiated a peace treaty in the Swiss city of Zurich, eventually developing the Zurich treaty, bringing a status quo ante bellum and an end to the Vietnam war in late 1974. The President's popularity rating shot up as a result. The GOP in 1976 had New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller as the main frontrunner for the nomination, and Governor Rockefeller easily secured the nomination. He selected Senator George H.W. Bush of Texas as his running mate, and the Rockefeller/Bush ticket went into the general election trailing incumbent President Sinatra. Unfortunately for the GOP, Rockefeller was unable to catch up to Sinatra, and the incumbent President beat out the New Yorker in a decisive victory.

[4] As President Sinatra started his second term, he wanted to reduce the influence of dictatorships throughout the world, claiming that "When we support regimes that murder their people and dissolve their rights in the name of anti-Communism, we are no better than the Communists!" As such, President Sinatra turned against various dictatorial regimes it had previously supported. Sinatra then worked for an overthrow of the Chilean dictatorship under Pinochet. On October 31st, 1978, on what became known as "The Halloween Overthrow", an operation launched by the CIA was launched to overthrow Pinochet. However, the operation failed miserably. The operatives, who were Chilean anti-Pinochet citizens, were brutally murdered by the angry Pinochet regime. The incident led to Sinatra's unpopularity in the United States. During the 1980 election, Vice President Birch Bayh made a run for office, however, he was hampered by the unpopularity of the Sinatra administration. Senator Ted Kennedy ran against the Vice President, decrying the failures of the administration. Senator Kennedy won against Bayh, and went up against California Governor and former actor Ronald Reagan. Kennedy chose New York Governor Hugh Carey as his running mate, while Reagan selected Senator Bob Dole of Kansas as his running mate. Reagan's charisma during the debates allowed him to run over Kennedy at the debates, and improved Reagan's standing with the people. The Reagan/Dole ticket won in an astounding landslide against the Kennedy/Carey ticket.

[5] As President Reagan began his term, he worked to fulfill his anti-communist agenda, starting with a détente with the Pinochet regime, which remained chilly with the United States after the actions of the Sinatra administration. On March 30th, 1981, two months after Reagan took office, civil war broke out in Iran, with government forces lead by the Shah and a religious faction led by the Ayatollah Khomeini. President Reagan feared that Khomeini, if he took power, would cut off relations with the States and grow closer to the Soviet Union. Reagan took military action, sending troops to Iran to support the government. Several bombing attacks were carried out against the Khomeini faction, and these actions continued. However, the religious faction of Iran grew even more powerful as the government grew weaker. In 1983, Reagan decided that the government would not be sustainable, so he drew plans for the invasion of Iran. Infamously, he made a state visit to Iraq, meeting with Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, offering the oil fields of southwestern Iran in exchange for assistance in an invasion. The invasion was launched on June 6th, 1983, 39 years after D-Day. Iraqi forces moved into southwestern Iran as American troops heavily bombed Iranian cities belonging to both government and rebel forces. The invasion rapidly proved to be heavily unpopular, and as Reagan moved into re-election, he faced a heavy primary challenge from the 1976 Vice Presidential nominee, George H.W. Bush. Reagan squeaked through victory, and Bush famously denounced Reagan, telling voters at the 1984 convention to "vote your conscience...vote for a candidate you trust". The Democrats saw in their nominee a comedian turned Democratic Senator in Minnesota Roseanne Barr, who had been a vocal critic of Reagan since his original campaign. She selected House Majority Whip Tom Foley as her running mate, and she hammered Reagan hard on the Iran War. Reagan defended it, claiming that he is keeping Iran from becoming a Soviet puppet, to which Barr famously replied, "Well, Mr. President, better we have a puppet than thousands of dead Americans who can't come home to their families.". Senator Barr was victorious, winning over 300 electoral votes against incumbent President Reagan. As a result, Roseanne Barr became the first female President of the United States.

[6] Being the first female President of the United States wasn't easy for President Barr. She started her administration with many doubting that she would be able to solve the problems dumped on her by the previous administration. Recession. The Iran War. President Barr got to work with the Democratic Congress, p, assing economic laws with the assistance of Vice President Foley. The first years of her administration were difficult domestically. However, foreign policy is where Barr struggled the most. President Barr wanted to end the war in Iran, but she knew she needed to keep American prestige intact, in order to avoid appearing weak by the Soviets. She started by cutting off assistance to Iraq, and withdrawing American troops from Iranian territory promised to the Iraqis by President Reagan. In 1986, the Soviet Union under Nikolai Ryzhkov sent troops to assist the Iranian government. The invasion, already slowing down, stalled. The United States held southern Iran, and Iraq barely held southwestern Iran. Finally, in late 1987, President Barr sent Secretary of State Frank Church to Tehran to negotiate a ceasefire with the Iranians, which was granted on October 5th, 1987. Helsinki, Finland hosted talks between Iran, Iraq, the United States, and the Soviet Union. Negotiations were difficult, as Iraq refused to cede territory it was granted. President Barr decided to intervene directly, flying to Helsinki herself for negotiations. In turn, Mohammed Shah Pahlavi, Saddam Hussein, and Nikolai Ryzhkov flew to Helsinki as well. Meanwhile, in the United States, former Vice President Bob Dole announced his run for President, stating that "the President will not be able to negotiate peace". He trouced his opponents for the nomination, and when Dole became the presumptive nominee, he selected former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld as his running mate. He remained high in the polls, and it looked as if Dole would be able to win. However, on September 12th, 1988, peace in Iran was achieved with the Helsinki Agreement. It resulted in a status quo ante bellum, and the United States would assist Iran in its still-ongoing civil war in lieu of reparations payments. The agreement was slammed for its provision on keeping troops in Iran, and President Barr herself privately commented that she may have lost her chance as re-election. However, it was the Vice Presidential nominee, Donald Rumsfeld, that many say gave the election to Barr. He commented during the VP debate with Foley that "Withdrawing from Iran is a mistake, and we should have stayed in rather than deal with this agreement that throws America to the Soviets will.". By a very narrow margin, President Barr managed to squeak through a re-election victory.

[7] Despite the fact that President Barr won re-election, the voters were not going to let Barr off the hook. She now faced an angry Republican Congress, with severe opponents in Speaker of the House Trent Lott and Senate Majority Leader Clint Eastwood. President Barr, therefore, found her second term in office to be rather unproductive, as many actions she took domestically were blocked by Congress, including, notably, her work towards a universal healthcare system. She elecited controversy in 1990 when she issued an executive order that allowed gay people to serve in the military, stating that "our fighting men should be chosen by fitness to serve, not their personal life". The GOP Congress also stalled on working towards eliminating the opposition during the Iranian civil war, basically leaving the Iranian government to themselves, even though it would prove later on that the Iranians were more than capable of handling themselves. President Barr worked towards her vision of worldwide peace, appearing at the Berlin Wall in 1991 and urging the Soviet government to "open up this wall and let Germany free!". For the 1992 elections, the Republicans saw a dark horse candidate in New York City Mayor Donald Trump, who implored the GOP to "never surrender...never compromise". He managed to crush his competition somewhat easily, and in the RNC Convention in Seattle, he selected Senator Richard Lugar as his running mate. The Democrats faced a bitter primary between Governor Bill Clinton of Arkansas and Vice President Foley. In the end, Foley pulled through, and in a move to unite the party, he selected Governor Clinton as his running mate. Trump attacked Foley on the administration's record, and despite eliciting controversy for referring to President Barr as a "fat pig", Trump managed to win in a landslide victory against Foley, showing the American people's dissatisfaction of President Barr's administration.

[8] Donald Trump took office replacing a very unpopular administration in the eyes of the public. In his inauguration address, he proclaimed that he would "reverse the damage of the Barr administration", and would "work on behalf of all Americans". However, his administration proved to be even more unpopular than the last. President Trump was suddenly faced with the continuing destabilization of the Soviet Union. On February 5th, 1993, just weeks after Trump took office, an attempted coup was made in the streets of Moscow by the military and some factions of the KGB. President Ryzhkov was killed during the coup, and soon, the Soviet Union plummeted into a full-scale civil war. President Trump made the decision to support anti-communist factions in the USSR, which proved to be very unpopular, as the United States was still sending forces to Iran as part of the agreement from the Iranian-American War, as it was now being called. When President Trump attempted to send American troops to support Central Asian breakaway states, President Ryzhkov threatened nuclear retaliation, leading to a two month long standoff between Trump and Ryzhkov, during which the economy further destabilized and many feared nuclear war. The Long Standoff, as it was called, finally came to an end when President Trump agreed to stay neutral during the Soviet civil war. His standoff was widely seen as reckless, and many accused Trump of warmongering. When the 1996 elections came around, President Trump's approval ratings were extremely low. The Democrats ran many candidates during the 1996 election, including '92 VP nominee and former Governor Bill Clinton, Senator Jerry Brown, Senator Skip Humphrey, and actor and Democratic activist Morgan Freeman. Freeman's position in the primaries looked poor, with wins in various states by Humphrey and Brown. However, Freeman managed to pull a surprise win during Super Tuesday, carrying four out of seven states in the primaries, giving Freeman more momentum. The primaries turned into a battle for the nomination between Senator Humphrey and Morgan Freeman, and it ended with Freeman narrowly getting the required delegates necessary to secure the nomination. Humphrey conceded, and he was selected as Freeman's running mate. In the general election, President Trump's performance in the debates deteriorated as Freeman's charisma outperformed Trump. Freeman was becoming as popular as Trump was unpopular, and he managed to win in a landslide against the incumbent President. Morgan Freeman then became the first African American President of the United States.

[9] Morgan Freeman found himself facing a country entirely distrustful of the Presidency, with the disastrous administrations of Donald Trump, Roseanne Barr, and Ronald Reagan having preceded the incoming Freeman administration. Therefore, it was President Freeman's mission to gain the trust of the American people. In his first State of the Union address, he pledged that he would "work on behalf of the American people, and emulate the actions of Roosevelt, of Lincoln, of Kennedy". His popularity stagnated as he struggled to stay neutral during the Soviet civil war, still ongoing by 1997. With the threat of the use of nuclear weapons within the Soviet Union, President Freeman, in a speech before the United Nations, called for peace between the various factions within the Soviet Union, stating that "your civil war turns more and more disastrous by the day". Finally, in February of 1998, the Soviet Civil War hit its peak when the rebels managed to capture Soviet nuclear missiles. The Soviet government threatened to use nukes still under Soviet control to bomb rebel forces, and the rebels threatened to use them on Moscow. The standoff lasted for three months, and finally, President Freeman offered to mediate between the Soviet and rebel forces. With both sides reluctant to use nuclear weapons on each other, they agreed, and representatives of the rebel and Soviet governments met in Geneva, Switzerland. However, during the meeting, rebel forces moved onto Moscow, starting the Battle of Moscow that would soon end the war. The Soviet leader, finding himself with the Soviet seat of government gone, and many Soviet states in Central Asia and the Baltics declaring their secession,and the inevitable loss of control of the Soviet nuclear arsenal, announced the formation of a government-in-exile in Kaliningrad, soon after the rebels declared victory. The rebels formed the United Federation of States, including the former Soviet republics of Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Kazakhstan. The UFS was recognized as the successor state to the Soviet Union by the United Nations on January 1st, 2000. President Freeman was growing more popular as a result of the crisis, and re-election was inevitable. Therefore, many prominent GOP figures such as Clint Eastwood or John McCain decided to wait until 2004 to run. Former White House Chief of Staff under President Trump, Pat Buchanan was among the only GOP figures running for President in 2000, and he easily secured the nomination. Buchanan selected Florida Governor Connie Mack III as his Vice President, and the GOP ticket of 2000 was easily crushed by President Freeman in a landslide victory.

[10] President Freeman secured a safe mandate for himself as he went on to serve his second term in office. With the Democrats holding the House and Senate and faithful allies in House Speaker Oscar Goodman and Senate Majority Leader Eric Schneiderman, the President worked to pass major legislation that he believed would be beneficial to the country. He set out to create a universal healthcare system for the country, and with Speaker Goodman and Senator Schneiderman's help, he was able to pass the American Healthcare Act, which was meant to be the first step towards universal healthcare. He worked with the GOP minority in Congress to draft the bill, and successfully received an endorsement of the bill from Senate Minority Leader Eastwood. He hailed his success as "a very important moment in American history". The Freeman administration went into 2004 confident in the Democrats retaining the White House, and Vice President Humphrey decided to make the run. He campaigned on continuing the legacy of the Freeman administration, and he successfully secured the Democratic nomination. Senate Majority Leader Eastwood, realizing that he would likely be beaten if he ran for re-election in the Senate, decided that he would run for President, and his popularity as a moderate Republican Senator allowed him to gain the nomination. Vice President Humphrey selected Governor John Glenn of Ohio as his running mate, while Eastwood also went for a Governor as his running mate, J.C. Watts of Oklahoma. The Vice President remained high in the polls going into the debates. However, Humphrey stumbled in the debates. Eastwood worked to portray himself as an agent of change, while Humphrey made several gaffes during the debates, including his infamous statement that "we built healthcare better with this bill than the doctors ever could". Eastwood hammered Humphrey, telling people that the Vice President was not ready to serve as President. On Election Day, Vice President Humphrey won the popular vote, however, Senator Eastwood narrowly won the electoral vote, becoming the next President of the United States.

[11] President Eastwood took office facing a Democratic majority Congress that had been unprepared for him, with many having believed that they would be facing a Humphrey presidency. Therefore, the administration needed to work with the Democrats to be able to pass its agenda. Eastwood worked to advocate for peaceful, stronger relations with the new UFS, and he made a visit to Moscow in order to "create a stronger bond between the United States and this beautiful, new democratic country". UFS President Alexei Navalny also made a state visit to Washington, and spoke before a joint session of Congress, and famously proclaimed "a New Chapter" in UFS-American relations. President Eastwood led the New Chapter with grace, and worked to foster global unity, relying on the assistance of former Presidents such as his predecessor, Morgan Freeman, who was appointed as Ambassador to the United Nations. The administration also put a focus on the domestic scene, launching a large-scale infrastructure project to rebuild American bridges, roads, and other run-down portions of American infrastructure. Eastwood's administration started into the election season becoming very popular in the eyes of the people, his bipartisan stances and his infrastructure project being his most popular assets of the administration. The Democrats nominated the former Senator from North Carolina, Kay Hagan, as their Presidential nominee, and she selected a fellow Senator from Louisiana, Mary Landrieu, as her running mate, creating the first all-female presidential ticket in history. However, the Hagan/Landrieu ticket was no match for the popular Eastwood/Watts ticket, which won the election in a near landslide.

[12] President Eastwood was re-elected, and he managed to lead the White House to a Republican majority in the Senate and made gains in the Democratic House. His final term started tragically when a plane flew into the Donald J. Trump Presidential Tower in Manhattan, New York, in a terrorist attack on February 5th, 2009. President Eastwood condemned the attacks and visited the site of the attack that destroyed part of the tower. The Trump Tower Commission was launched, and President Eastwood spoke with former President Trump, who was away in London at the time of the attacks. Slowly, the culprit of the attacks became more and more clear. The attackers were former Communists that had emigrated to the United States during the Soviet Civil War many years before, and had been planning the attack for years. UFS President Sergei Glazyev, who had succeeded the term limited Alexei Navalny the year before, visited the United States to give his condolences to the attack. As a result of the attacks, violence against Russian immigrants became prominent throughout the country, prompting President Eastwood to address the violence from an Oval Office address, condemning the attackers and "their hate towards innocent Russian-Americans". President Eastwood's response to the violence was seen as weak, however, and he soon started dropping in popularity. In the 2012 elections, the Democrats were shaken when political comedy talk-show host Stephen Colbert announced that he would enter the race during a meeting with former President Trump. Colbert soon started gaining popularity, and he managed to win the primaries over Governor Bill Ritter of Colorado, who he selected as his running mate. The Republicans nominated Vice President J.C. Watts, who selected Florida Representative William H. Bush as his Vice President. Vice President Watts slammed Colbert on the campaign trail, claiming that he is an "unserious" candidate. Colbert criticized Watts for the Eastwood administration's response to violence against Russian immigrants. During the presidential debates, Colbert was able to win the debates over Watts, while Bush managed to easily win the Vice Presidential debate against Bill Ritter. When the votes were tallied on Election Day, Stephen Colbert was narrowly elected as the President of the United States.

[13] When President Stephen Colbert took office at a time when the GOP had made many gains in Congress in the previous election, mirroring the situation his predecessor faced taking office. The Colbert administration attempted to solve the ongoing problem of violence against Russian immigrants. President Colbert signed into law a bill creating the Trump Memorial, which would be at the site of the Donald J. Trump Presidential Library and Tower, which had had to be torn down after the plane's damage to the tower. The new Donald J. Trump Presidential Library was also to be funded by the government for rebuilding in Queens, New York. President Colbert's popularity stagnated throughout his term, and in the 2014 midterms, Republicans kept their majority in Congress despite minor Democratic gains. When 2015 came around, however, the economy went into recession. President Colbert was blamed for the recession, and his popularity dropped significantly. During the 2016 election, Senator and former Vice Presidential candidate William H. Bush announced his candidacy for President, stating that ¨President Colbert has let us down, but under a Bush administration, we will rise from this recession that our President has gotten us into¨. Senator Bush managed to win the primaries, and he selected former Secretary of State Mike DeWine as his running mate. Bush's popularity grew as President Colbert's sunk, and when the election came, the Bush/DeWine ticket won in a landslide against the President. Now, President-elect Bush has started building his Cabinet, and it is yet to be seen what path President Bush will take this country.

 

[Asami]

Franklin D. Roosevelt was President of the United States for a whopping 28 years. Elected on a platform of restoring the economy in 1932, he was re-elected in 1936 for a second term. However, the invasion of the Aliens at Roswell, New Mexico in January 1939 and the horrendous disarray of the United States and Mexico in the wake of the invasion, allowed for FDR to extend his term of office indefinitely. Elections were held, but the Republican Party gave only passive resistance; as such, FDR got his third term without a fight, and later, his fourth.

His fifth term came under question after the aliens had been rebuffed. Stalwartly proclaiming that he wouldn't capitulate yet, he managed to rally his followers and win a fifth record-breaking term in 1948. Using alien tech captured from the invasion, FDR prolonged his lifespan by using molecular reconstruction to help him regain bodily functions. In 1950, he began to walk once more, and used his new health stride to call for a full on war of extinction against those whom had harmed humanity. In 1952, he broke with the Democrats, whom were calling to remove him from office, and formed his own Liberal Party with several left-leaning Republicans. He would go on to win two more terms in 1952 and 1956, before retiring, allowing for the 1960 election to go on without his intervention. The war would end seven years later, with FDR remembered as 'America's Greatest President'.

Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. is fondly remembered as well.

WIP thus far:

President of the United States of America (1933 - 2076)

1933 - 1939: Franklin D. Roosevelt / John Nance Garner (Democratic) [1]
def. 1932: Pres. Herbert Hoover / Vice Pres. Charles Curtis (Rep.)
def. 1936: Gov. Alf Landon of Kansas / Mr. Frank Knox (Rep.)

1939 - 1944: Franklin D. Roosevelt / Charles L. McNary (Coalition For American Freedom) [2]
Elected unopposed in 1940

1944 - 1945: Franklin D. Roosevelt / Vacant (Democratic) [3]
1945 - 1953: Franklin D. Roosevelt / Harry S. Truman (Democratic)
def. 1944: Gen. of Armies Douglas MacArthur / Gov. Earl Warren of California (Republican)
def. 1948: Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio / Minority Leader Joseph William Martin, Jr. (Republican), Gov. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina / Frmr. Gov Ellis Arnall of Georgia (Southern Democratic), Justice William O. Douglas / Frmr. Vice Pres. Henry Wallace (Anti-Roosevelt Democrats)

1953 - 1961: Franklin D. Roosevelt / Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (Liberal) [4]
def. 1952: Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee / Sen. Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky (Democratic), Frmr. Gov. Harold Stassen of Minnesota / Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York (Republican)
def. 1956: Gov. Adlai Stevenson of Illinois / Rep. Richard Nixon for California (Democratic-Republican), Gov. George Bell Timmerman, Jr. of South Carolina / Gov. Thomas Bahnson Stanley of Virginia (Southern Democratic)

1961 - 1965: Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. / Royce Joyner (Liberal) [5]
def. 1960: Sen. Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson / Gov. Stanley Parish of Idaho (Democratic-Republican)

1965 - 1967: Margaret Chase Smith / Luis H. Álvarez (Democratic-Republican) [6]
def. 1964: Vice Pres. Royce Joyner / Gov. Lester B. Pearson of Ontario (Liberal)

1967 - 1973: Luis H. Álvarez / Robert D. Fulton (Unionist) [7]
def. 1968: Sen. George Wilson for Newfoundland / Gov. Fernando Belaúnde Terry of Lima Federal District (Liberal); Gov. Fidel Castro of Cuba / Rep. Che Guevara for Santa Fe (Socialist Workers); Gov. Juan Domingo Perón of Buenos Aires / Sen. Artur da Costa e Silva of Rio Grande do Sul (Militant America Faction)

1973 - 1979: Ronald W. Reagan / Richard M. Nixon (Liberal-Unionist Coupon) [8]
def. 1972: Gov. Pierre Trudeau of Quebec / General Hubert H. Humphrey (Progressive Liberals); Sen. Jacqueline Bouvier of New York / Gov. John Turner of Newfoundland (Chasite Unionists); Governor-General el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz of Fredonia / Mr. John Henrik Clarke (Pan-African Organization); Mr. John David Krieger / Mr. Salvador Allende (Socialist Workers)
def. 1976: Sen. Jacqueline Bouvier / Governor Pierre Trudeau (Progressive-Unionist Coupon)

1979 - 1985: Jacqueline Bouvier / Clark Hudson (Unionist) [9]
def. Apr. 1979: Pres. Ronald W. Reagan / Gov. Charles Hamilton of Ohio (Liberal); Mrs. Elizabeth Robertson / Sen. Frank Reddington of Florida (Progressive Liberal); Salvador Allende / Wilbur T. Johnson (Socialist Workers)
def. 1980: Gov. Charles Hamilton of Ohio / Pres. Tyler Smith of ABC (Liberal); Rep. Brian Mulroney of Quebec (Conservative Unionist); Chrm. Albert Gore of the AEF / Adm. Wesley Pierce, USN (Environmental Advocation); Mr. Thomas Carrick / Ms. Patricia Friedman (Social Credit)

1985 - 1993: Brian Mulroney / Amanda Mitsuyama (Conservative Unionist-Liberal Coupon) [10]

[1] President Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected in the height of America's worst economic depression in 1933. His first term was spent investing significant effort in revitalizing the economy, and moving America away from the isolationism that was causing damage to her international standing in the face of the growing spectres of fascism. His second term was spent in much the same way, before the alien invasions began. the Invasion Fleet landed on Earth and invaded through portals and drop-ships, ranging everywhere from Roswell, New Mexico, to Berlin, to Beijing, the Seoul, so on and so forth. Social order in the United States collapsed, and President Roosevelt mobilized for a national emergency. In 1939, after Vice President John N. Garner was killed while in Texas, FDR piloted the 'Coalition for American Freedom', inviting Senate Republican leader Charles L. McNary to take office as Vice President, effective immediately. Overstepping Congress, FDR passed an Executive Order enabling him to do so. As a result, the 1940 election went on but was largely 'rubber-stamp' as FDR was re-elected unopposed.

[2] FDR's 3rd term as President was spent fighting the invasion, as the aliens advanced deep into American territory. In 1940, numerous caches of alien weaponry were captured, and the United States began to co-opt their technology for themselves. Franklin Roosevelt benefitted from some of the civilian technology gained from the alien crashes, namely, the nano-molecular constructors. FDR's health hit new heights, and he began to walk again, which rallied public morale. The President began to push for rapid armament, and signed the Concordat in July 1940, aligning the United States with that of Hitler's Third Reich, Imperial Japan, Fascist Italy, Great Britain, France and the Soviet Union. The first American 'hovership' rolled off the line in 1942, named the H-42 'Cactus Jack'.

[3] After the death of Vice President McNary in 1944, FDR returned to a single party, the Democratic Party, and nominated Harry S. Truman to the office of Vice President instead-- the Missouri politician was naive in many ways, but was a contributive effort to FDR's White House. During this term, the United States unlocked the secrets of the atomic bomb, and used it numerous times against alien invaders in the Mexican plateaus and in Africa. In 1947, America's first orbital spaceship, the USS John Nance Garner, was rolled off the line, showing how quickly technological innovation was moving against the alien threat. In 1948, President Roosevelt declared a 'global crusade against the alien menace', and was joined with Adolf Hitler, whom angrily stated that 'the time was now to wipe the sub-species off the face of the Earth'. The 1948 election saw a divided Democratic field, with the Southerners and anti-Roosevelt candidates fighting for their own votes. FDR succeeded in winning, but used this to pivot into a new political party to unite the liberals of the Republicans and Democrats.

[4] FDR's 5th and 6th terms were spent focusing entirely on the war against the alien species. During the 1950s, America and her allies set the alien invaders back by several exponential ways; leading up to the establishment of the Galactic Senate, and the launch of several 'faster than light' ships, including the USS Valour, KMS Horst Wessel, HMS Balfour, and the Niigata. During this period, the United States and her allies pushed the aliens back on all fronts, taking hundreds of planets across the galaxy, with Mars serving as the 'toughest nut to crack'. As well, during this period, several million peoples of varying ethnicity were deported from nations across the globe to far-off planetary conquests--Mexicans, Indigenous peoples, Sorbs, Bosniaks, Slovenes, Slovaks, Ukrainians, et al.--the United States definitely participated in this, giving several white supremacists passage to a new planet of their own (Confederate States) or creating black republics in the stars. FDR did not run again in 1960, deciding that with the war going so well, he could afford to retire.

[5] Henry Cabot Lodge was a one-term President by choice, rather than by popular acclaim. He did not desire to run for President on his own volition except in 1960, where he went up against Lyndon B. Johnson and Stanley Parish, both conservative Dem-Reps whom were opposed to keeping the Concordat together. They were defeated, but the Democratic-Republicans would be back in 1964, they were certain. During this period, the Race was exterminated after the homeworld was razed to ash by the SS-Galaktischen Sturmtruppen (SS-GS) which killed millions of Race citizens in a reprisal for the slaughter of entire cities of German citizens by their invading armies. The remaining fleets of the Race, and colonies, were soon wiped out by the Luftwaffe's dozen plus 'Stardestroyer' ships.

During this period, the United States Constitution was ratified to block Presidents from serving more than two consecutive terms.

[6] Margaret Chase Smith was a well-liked woman. She was sharp as a tack, and took no nonsense. During her administration, the United States admitted millions upon millions of square miles of territory to the United States, after it became painfully obvious that none of the nations of the American hemisphere would be able to survive in the new, space-faring age. By the time of her assassination by Brazilian nationalists in 1967, the United States had expanded her Terran territory from the arctic poles of Canada, to the tip of Patagonia--and with it, the political scene was becoming incredibly chaotic. Luis H. Alvarez, a Mexican political leader, succeeded her after she was shot and killed by a Brazilian nationalist in 1967.

[7] Under President Alvarez, the Democratic-Republican Party changed it's name to 'Unionist' to invoke a more unified and less 'oxymoronic' name, as well as to extend inclusiveness to the many many conservatives south of the equator. 1968 was a chaotic election, with Alvarez challenged not only by the Wilson/Terry ticket for the Liberals, but also socialist revolutionaries Che Guevara and Fidel Castro; and militant anti-democratic figures such as Governor Peron and Senator Silva. Alvarez managed to emerge victorious, after presiding over the 'victory' of the war against the xenos. The war boom began to end, as Alvarez took his second term of office--it became obvious that he wouldn't win another.

During his presidency, the SCOTUS handed down the controversial Johnson v. Kwa'lun ruling which stated that the 13th Amendment did not apply to non-citizen extraterrestrial non-humanoids. This was controversial as it meant the legalization of alien slavery, which caused riots by African-Americans and others for weeks after the ruling. No amendment was ever proposed to 'amend' the 13th Amendment to fix this error.

[8] The Presidency of Ronald Reagan was an interesting one. After coming to power in the 1972 election, the United States moved to enact a more 'globalist' trend of elections, doing away with the electoral college by 1977; his presidency was focused on reform and modernization. As such, he attracted a number of splintering parties from both him and his Vice President's agenda. In 1976, he faced not only progressive opposition to Nixon, but also Chasite ideological schism from within the Unionists. His Presidency came to an end in 1979 after the Casseopeia Affair, the death of Vice President Nixon, and the subsequent 'vote of no confidence'.

[9] ...

[10] ...

 

[shiftygiant]

2. Benn quitting was emblematic of his dislike of the way in which the party was going. He thought that the party needed to be "pure Labour" instead of the soft European social democratic model.

4. Even though Crosland was more social democratic then Callaghan, his record as Foreign Secretary from 1974/77 was seen by the "old guard" as proof he should be Callaghan's successor

NB. The '78 election was due to the Liberals taking a dual hammering over the Thorpe scandal and the view from Liberal heartlands that they were losing their identity.

Neither of these really answer my questions.

 

[Beata Beatrix]

Frmr. Gov Ellis Arnall

I doubt Arnall would really be aligned with that party, but great list!

 

[Asami]

I doubt Arnall would really be aligned with that party, but great list!

It should be noted that the 'Southern Democratic' faction isn't the same as Strom Thurmond's 1948 States Rights or George Wallace's 1964 American Independent party. There's a distinction that is made by the fact that they're just pursuing 'general Southern interests', with Arnall hitching along as a bone to people whom are wary/in opposition to Jim Crow. His personal disgust was put on hold long enough to side with the 'general factionalism'.

He eventually joined the Liberal Party post-1952 anyway, after the S. Dems went batshit crazy.

 

[Gonzo]

1.Admittedly Callaghan wasn't a fan of coalitions but his personal ambitions may have overruled his political acumen

3. Callaghan winning in 1971 was due in no small part to both his role as the Unions' golden boy and his anti Europeanism. Callaghan's strategy in the coalition was to nullify the Liberal's European focus and get the country in order.

1. Callaghan was someone who would put principle before his own gain, I don't see him opting for one even with ambitions.

3. Was he anti-Europe. He was pro-EEC membership after all.

 

[KingCrawa]

1.Admittedly Callaghan wasn't a fan of coalitions but his personal ambitions may have overruled his political acumen

2. Benn quitting was emblematic of his dislike of the way in which the party was going. He thought that the party needed to be "pure Labour" instead of the soft European social democratic model.

3. Callaghan winning in 1971 was due in no small part to both his role as the Unions' golden boy and his anti Europeanism. Callaghan's strategy in the coalition was to nullify the Liberal's European focus and get the country in order.

4. Even though Crosland was more social democratic then Callaghan, his record as Foreign Secretary from 1974/77 was seen by the "old guard" as proof he should be Callaghan's successor

NB. The '78 election was due to the Liberals taking a dual hammering over the Thorpe scandal and the view from Liberal heartlands that they were losing their identity.

This doesn't explain how you've got rid of Croslands cerebral haemorrhage?

 

[Asami]

1965 - 1967: Margaret Chase Smith / Luis H. Álvarez (Democratic-Republican) [6]
def. 1964: Vice Pres. Royce Joyner / Gov. Lester B. Pearson of Ontario (Liberal)
1967 - 1973: Luis H. Álvarez / Robert D. Fulton (Unionist) [7]
def. 1968: Sen. George Wilson for Newfoundland / Gov. Fernando Belaúnde Terry of Lima Federal District (Liberal); Gov. Fidel Castro of Cuba / Rep. Che Guevara for Santa Fe (Socialist Workers); Gov. Juan Domingo Perón of Buenos Aires / Sen. Artur da Costa e Silva of Rio Grande do Sul (Militant America Faction)

They went full batshit insane. Never go full batshit insane.

 

[nezza]

This doesn't explain how you've got rid of Croslands cerebral haemorrhage?

Just butterflied it away

 

[shiftygiant]

Just butterflied it away

Even with a PoD of 1970, unless you somehow gave him a major lifestyle change he's going to have had either a haemorrhage or stroke by '78.

 

[Japhy]

Even with a PoD of 1970, unless you somehow gave him a major lifestyle change he's going to have had either a haemorrhage or stroke by '78.

Considering some of the other common changes that happen on the site someone living longer isn't that outlandish.

 

[shiftygiant]

Considering some of the other common changes that happen on the site someone living longer isn't that outlandish.

But why would Wilson stepping down lead to a lifestyle change that would lead to him living over a year and a half longer? Even if yes, we acknowledge that the butterflies resulting would lead him to live a longer or shorter period of time, without the specific details into what effect the PoD had on Crosland to let him live not only a few months longer but years jumps out like red on white.

 

[shiftygiant]

The Universal Prime Minister
So I did an ASB!TLAPOT a while back. It's dead, unfortunatly (though I may return to it if I find myself inspired), so I thought I'd make some lists for where I intended it to go.

Prime Ministers
2010-2013: David Cameron (Conservative)
def. 2010 (Liberal Democrats Coalition): Gordon Brown (Labour), Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrats)
2013-2019: George Osborne (Conservative)
def. 2015: (Liberal Democrats Coalition): Ed Balls (Labour), Nicola Sturgeon (SNP), Nick Clegg ('pro-coalition' Liberal Democrats)/John Leech ('anti-Coalition' Liberal Democrats), Nigel Farage (UKIP)
2019-2020: Gordon Macfarlane (Labour)
def. 2019 (Minority with Liberal Democrats and SNP supply & confidence): George Osborne (Conservative), John Leech (Liberal Democrats), Nicola Sturgeon (SNP), Norman Lamb (Liberal Democrats), Paul Nuttal (UKIP), Douglas Carswell (Liberation)
2020-2022: George Osborne (Conservative)
def. 2020: Gordon Macfarlane (Labour), Norman Lamb (Liberal Democrats), John Leech (Liberal Democrats), Paul Nuttal (UKIP), Nicola Sturgeon (SNP)
2022-2025: Sajid Javid (Conservative)
2025-20??: Gordon Macfarlane (Labour)
def. 2025 (Liberal Democrats supply and confidence): Sajid Javid (Conservative), John Leech (Liberal Democrats)
def. 2027 (Grand Coalition with Conservative): Stephen Crabbs (Conservative), Lord Balls of Pontefract (Anti-Coalition Labour), John Leech (Liberal Democrats)

Basically Macfarlane won Leadership in 2010, but is knifed in 2014 over Syria. Cameron himself is knifed in 2013 over poor local elections. Stuff sort of spins out from there and yes Gordon Macfarlane is him, you don't need to write it.

 

[Nofix]

Norman Lamb (Liberal Democrats), John Leech (Liberal Democrats)

At least give the two different names!

 

[shiftygiant]

At least give the two different names!

"Who did you vote for?"

"Liberal Democrats."

"I

I don't know how to feel."

 

[Asami]

WIP thus far:

President of the United States of America (1933 - 2076)

I updated it again. Looking a bit better now.

 

[lord caedus]

Chewing on the idea that Ross Perot was in many way a predecessor of Donald Trump got me thinking about this small analogue list of the previous 24 years of presidential politics itself getting shifted back 24 years.

Presidents of the United States
1969-1977: John J. McKeithen /Al Gore, Sr. (Democratic) [1]
1977-1985: Robert Taft, Jr. / Robert McNamara (Republican) [2]
1985-1993: Mickey Leland / Claiborne Pell (Democratic) [3]
1993-1997: Ross Perot / Tommy Thompson (Republican) [4]

[1]- As a young southern governor whose unlikely, but successful, presidential bid was joined by a member of the Gore family.
[2]- As the relative of a former president and the controversial former Secretary of Defense who became his vice president
[3]- As a charismatic black member of Congress who is joined by an older legislative colleague with foreign policy credentials.
[4]- As the eccentric, populist billionaire who runs with a relatively conventional Midwestern governor.