This Congress's randomly selected President and Vice President are members of the same delegation: Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) [4] and Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) [68].
List of Alternate Presidents and PMs II
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This Congress's randomly selected President and Vice President are members of the same delegation: Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) [4] and Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) [68].
1990-1992: John Major (Conservative majority)
1992-1993: John Major (Conservative minority with UUP confidence and supply)
1992: Neil Kinnock (Labour), David Owen (SDP), Alan Beith (Liberal Democrat), James Molyneaux (UUP), Alex Salmond (SNP)
1993-1994: John Smith (Labour majority)
1993: John Major (Conservative), David Owen (SDP), Alex Salmond (SNP), James Molyneaux (UUP), Alan Beith (Liberal Democrat)
1994-2007: Tony Blair (Labour majority)
1997: Michael Howard (Conservative), Rosie Barnes (SDP), Alex Salmond (SNP)
2002: John Redwood (Conservative), Rosie Barnes (SDP), Bill Newton Dunn (Centre), John Swinney (SNP)
2007-2011: Iain Duncan Smith (Conservative-SDP coalition)
2007: Tony Blair (Labour), Norman Lamb (SDP), John Swinney (SNP), Nick Clegg (Centre)
2011-2015: Iain Duncan Smith (Conservative majority)
2011: Harriet Harman (Labour), Nick Clegg (Centre), Norman Lamb (SDP), Alex Salmond (SNP), Tommy Sheridan (Independent Workers')
2015-2016: David Davis (Conservative majority)
2016-2017: Roland Rudd (Labour minority with Centre and SNP confidence and supply)
2016: David Davis (Conservative), Anna Soubry (Centre), Fergus Ewing (SNP), Mick Cash (Independent Workers'), Alan Howarth (SDP)
2017-: Esther McVey (Conservative majority)
2017: Roland Rudd (Labour), Anna Soubry (Centre), Mick Cash (Independent Workers'), Nicola Sturgeon (SNP)
1992-1993: John Major (Conservative minority with UUP confidence and supply)
1992: Neil Kinnock (Labour), David Owen (SDP), Alan Beith (Liberal Democrat), James Molyneaux (UUP), Alex Salmond (SNP)
1993-1994: John Smith (Labour majority)
1993: John Major (Conservative), David Owen (SDP), Alex Salmond (SNP), James Molyneaux (UUP), Alan Beith (Liberal Democrat)
1994-2007: Tony Blair (Labour majority)
1997: Michael Howard (Conservative), Rosie Barnes (SDP), Alex Salmond (SNP)
2002: John Redwood (Conservative), Rosie Barnes (SDP), Bill Newton Dunn (Centre), John Swinney (SNP)
2007-2011: Iain Duncan Smith (Conservative-SDP coalition)
2007: Tony Blair (Labour), Norman Lamb (SDP), John Swinney (SNP), Nick Clegg (Centre)
2011-2015: Iain Duncan Smith (Conservative majority)
2011: Harriet Harman (Labour), Nick Clegg (Centre), Norman Lamb (SDP), Alex Salmond (SNP), Tommy Sheridan (Independent Workers')
2015-2016: David Davis (Conservative majority)
2016-2017: Roland Rudd (Labour minority with Centre and SNP confidence and supply)
2016: David Davis (Conservative), Anna Soubry (Centre), Fergus Ewing (SNP), Mick Cash (Independent Workers'), Alan Howarth (SDP)
2017-: Esther McVey (Conservative majority)
2017: Roland Rudd (Labour), Anna Soubry (Centre), Mick Cash (Independent Workers'), Nicola Sturgeon (SNP)
The premise here is that the Independent Working Class Association (or some alternate variant thereof) takes off under a far longer Blair leadership of the Labour Party. So, Ashdown fails to take the SLD leadership in '88 and Beith just can't keep up with the continuity SDP led by David Owen, leading to the former party's collapse and the beginning of many Lib Dems migrating to either Labour or the SDP (or, in some cases, the continuity Liberal Party). 1992 sees Labour bolstered enough by Lib Dem voters who seek to kick the Tories out once and for all to push Major to an uneasy minority (aided by the UUP). The government soon falls before the summer of 1993, paving the way for John Smith to come to power with a sizeable majority. Smith unveils plans for devolution referendums, increased spending on public services, and a veritable pick'n'mix of social democratic policies... but he is soon exhausted by the work of government and suffers a fatal heart attack in early 1994. Tony Blair picks up the banner of social democracy and radical constitutional reform, pledging a total reevaluation of the Labour Party's priorities (changing Clause IV, announcing PFI schemes, granting the Bank of England its independence, etc.) that parks Labour right on David Owen's relatively small doorstep. The Conservatives search hard for a purpose during the Blair era, changing leaders with increasing brutality and losing out massively when a group of former Liberals and pro-European Conservatives launch their 'Centre Party' just before Christmas 1999. Blair and McCain make formidable allies during the build-up to the invasion of Iraq in 2002, which is the same year that Labour actually increases its seats due to a mixture of war enthusiasm and the vote-splitting Centre Party (and in spite of Foreign Secretary Ashdown's resignation). Socioeconomic liberalism, global intervention, and a sense of middle-class triumphalism all pervade the political mainstream in a way that masks the truth of the matter: the working classes are dropping off of the electoral register in droves and Labour is building its electoral coalitions on apathy more than anything else, which gets up the noses of many working at the hard-pressed levels of local government and trade union organisation in cities across the country. An 'Independent Working Class Association' grows on local councils across the industrial towns of the North and many of Britain's neglected inner cities, but Blair pays little attention to defections in Barnsley or Oxford or Tower Hamlets. He puts off holding an election in 2006, holding out hope for an even better result in early 2007 (given the increasingly positive correlation between economic growth and Labour poll showings), but a small panic in the office of a credit rating agency in the United States sets off a chain reaction that leads to the near-collapse of Western capitalism and tanks Labour's poll ratings.
The 'quiet man' of British conservatism, Iain Duncan Smith, looks like a safe pair of hands after the showy cosmopolitan liberalism of Blair and promises an efficient plan to reduce the deficit and get Britain back to economic growth. Cuts, cuts, and more cuts take their toll on working-class communities up and down the country, facilitated by a pliable SDP, and the Labour Party turns in on itself as a civil war between the last vestiges of the anti-Blair soft left and the pro-Blair 'modernisers' consumes the party's energies to the point that they suffer repeated by-election losses to the re-branded 'Independent Workers' Party' from 2008 to 2011. By 2010, entire Labour groups on councils up and down the country have been displaced by the IWP (who campaign under the slogan of 'working-class rule for working-class areas') and Harriet Harman's initiatives to promote working-class talent in the party range from the half-heartedly executed to the smugly patronising. The 2011 election sees the Conservatives win a majority and the SDP crash and burn, with the Centre taking the lion's share of their seats and votes. Labour gets a small knock, re-enters civil war mode, and briefly allows Emily Thornberry to take the party into the 2012 local elections... before promptly knifing her when the IWP sweep across South Wales, Hull, and parts of Essex. The future looks increasingly bleak for Labour, but Roland Rudd - a former PR executive who had belonged to the SDP in the Eighties and who'd served as a Labour MP since 2002 - promises renewal for the party as IDS comes under increasing pressure to resign from those within his party who fear another Blair-esque leadership that promises to never end. 2015 sees David Davis take over and junk the relatively soft approach of Iain Duncan Smith, leading the Conservatives into a brash neo-Thatcherite strategy that tears up the few social provisions IDS' leadership had left in place. Privatisation of the London Underground is one of Davis' few headline policies that passes before the next election is called. As the economic situation stagnates under Davis, the Labour gets a shot at redemption and leaps ahead to become the largest party in the Commons in 2016. The only catch is that Rudd is bound by the Centre and the SNP, who are seen as obstructionists to Labour's plans for renewing European-style social democracy in Britain. The jury-rigged government lasts all of 11 months before the country goes back to the polls and puts the Tories back into power. Labour crashes below 200 seats for the first time since the 1930s, conceding many of its more suburban and rural seats to the Centre Party whilst its working-class heartlands throw themselves into the radical left-wing embrace of the Independent Workers' Party.
How the country will forge ahead with its opposition split three ways and the government promising more harsh cuts to welfare and lower taxes across the board is anybody's guess...
The 'quiet man' of British conservatism, Iain Duncan Smith, looks like a safe pair of hands after the showy cosmopolitan liberalism of Blair and promises an efficient plan to reduce the deficit and get Britain back to economic growth. Cuts, cuts, and more cuts take their toll on working-class communities up and down the country, facilitated by a pliable SDP, and the Labour Party turns in on itself as a civil war between the last vestiges of the anti-Blair soft left and the pro-Blair 'modernisers' consumes the party's energies to the point that they suffer repeated by-election losses to the re-branded 'Independent Workers' Party' from 2008 to 2011. By 2010, entire Labour groups on councils up and down the country have been displaced by the IWP (who campaign under the slogan of 'working-class rule for working-class areas') and Harriet Harman's initiatives to promote working-class talent in the party range from the half-heartedly executed to the smugly patronising. The 2011 election sees the Conservatives win a majority and the SDP crash and burn, with the Centre taking the lion's share of their seats and votes. Labour gets a small knock, re-enters civil war mode, and briefly allows Emily Thornberry to take the party into the 2012 local elections... before promptly knifing her when the IWP sweep across South Wales, Hull, and parts of Essex. The future looks increasingly bleak for Labour, but Roland Rudd - a former PR executive who had belonged to the SDP in the Eighties and who'd served as a Labour MP since 2002 - promises renewal for the party as IDS comes under increasing pressure to resign from those within his party who fear another Blair-esque leadership that promises to never end. 2015 sees David Davis take over and junk the relatively soft approach of Iain Duncan Smith, leading the Conservatives into a brash neo-Thatcherite strategy that tears up the few social provisions IDS' leadership had left in place. Privatisation of the London Underground is one of Davis' few headline policies that passes before the next election is called. As the economic situation stagnates under Davis, the Labour gets a shot at redemption and leaps ahead to become the largest party in the Commons in 2016. The only catch is that Rudd is bound by the Centre and the SNP, who are seen as obstructionists to Labour's plans for renewing European-style social democracy in Britain. The jury-rigged government lasts all of 11 months before the country goes back to the polls and puts the Tories back into power. Labour crashes below 200 seats for the first time since the 1930s, conceding many of its more suburban and rural seats to the Centre Party whilst its working-class heartlands throw themselves into the radical left-wing embrace of the Independent Workers' Party.
How the country will forge ahead with its opposition split three ways and the government promising more harsh cuts to welfare and lower taxes across the board is anybody's guess...
Presidents of the United States:
1993-1996: Bill Clinton / Al Gore (Democratic) [1]
-92: George H. W. Bush/Dan Quayle (Republican), Ross Perot/James Stockdale (Independent)
1996-1997: Al Gore / vacant (Democratic) [2]
1997-1999: Colin Powell / John McCain (Republican) [3]
-96: Bill Clinton/Al Gore (Democratic), Ross Perot/Pat Choate (Reform), Pat Buchanan/Jim Traficant (Independent)
1999-2000: Colin Powell / John McCain (Independent)
2000-2001: Colin Powell / John McCain (Reform)
2001-2005: Newt Gingrich / John Ashcroft (Republican) [4]
-00: Al Gore/John Edwards (Democratic), Colin Powell/John McCain (Reform), Ross Perot/John Silber (Real Reform)
2005-2009: Colin Powell / Elizabeth Warren (Democratic) [5]
-04: Newt Gingrich/John Ashcroft (Republican), Donald Trump/Jesse Ventura (Reform)
2009-2017: Elizabeth Warren / Tim Wirth (Democratic) [6]
-08: Jeb Bush/Tom Ridge (Republican), Mike Gravel/Jesse Johnson (Libertarian/Green)
-12: Sam Brownback/Peter T. King [replacing Bob McDonnell] (Republican)
[1] Despite the wave of popularity that brought him into office, things quickly went poorly for Bill Clinton. An aborted attempt at healthcare reform, personal scandals dating back to his time as Governor of Arkansas, and the Republicans flipping Congress in 1994 caused his poll numbers to dip pretty quickly, and the revelation late in the 1996 campaign that he had had an affair on his wife didn't help matters; combined with the fact that his opponent was one of the most popular people in the country, it's no surprise he was defeated in 1996. Unfortunately that wasn't the worst thing to happen to Clinton that year...
[2] ...as, when attending the APEC Forum in Manila in November shortly after his defeat, a bomb was detonated under a bridge as Clinton's motorcade was driving over it; Clinton did not survive, leaving Vice President Al Gore to serve out the two months remaining of Clinton's term.
[3] The death of his wife in a 1993 car accident left Colin Powell a near-broken man, and a void in his life. This sudden absence left Powell thinking about his future, and though his late wife would've undoubtedly been unhappy with this course of action Powell ultimately decided to turn his attention to elected office. After all, Republicans were begging him to run (polls showed he was the most popular challenger to Clinton), and they were so enamored by the idea they were even willing to give his relatively liberal (for a Republican at least) views a pass... at least, on the campaign trail. In office, it was a different story, as Republican congressional leadership under firebrand conservative Newt Gingrich tried to pull a resistant Powell in a much more conservative direction. While the general public liked Powell's bipartisan approach and his approval rating was still fairly high, this was a bit too much for congressional Republicans; after all, the country just voted out a Democrat, so why should Powell be going out of his way to govern with their support? Ultimately, this became too much for Powell to take, and after the 1998 midterms, in which many Republican candidates found themselves attacking Powell almost as often as the Democrats, his presidency tried to orchestrate Gingrich's removal from congressional leadership, but to no avail. Out of patience with congressional Republicans and his attempt to reestablish control over the Republican Party having failed, Powell and Vice President John McCain would publicly announce they were leaving the Republican Party to sit as independents. Ultimately, Republican attempts to pull Powell to the right had backfired; no longer needing to worry about alienating congressional Republicans, the Powell administration would shift further to the center after he left the party. With his poll numbers still high, Powell felt confident in his re-election, but lacking the organizational capacity and ballot access of a political party he would opt against running as an independent and instead launch a somewhat successful takeover of Ross Perot's new Reform Party. With an irritated Perot opting to launch a third presidential campaign in protest of Powell's takeover, and with both Gingrich and former President Gore emerging as his main challengers, 2000 shaped up to be the first four-man race in generations...
[4] ...but, ultimately, the election came down to one thing: conservatives were united, but liberals and moderates were not. With Gingrich receiving the bulk of the conservative vote and the non-Gingrich vote being split between the other three candidates, Gingrich was able to eke out a solid win despite polling under 40 percent of the vote, a harbinger of the low support that would doom his administration to a single term in office. An invasion of Iraq and a personal infidelity scandal culminating in his widely publicized divorce from first lady Marianne Gingrich and subsequent remarriage to Callista Bisek dominated his time in office, and while a proposal to colonize the moon briefly caught the public eye and left imaginations running wild the country's attention kept turning back to the increasing number of American lives lost in the Middle East.
[5] And so, aghast at Gingrich's handling and rationale for the war, former President Powell would emerge as a prominent surrogate and donor for the Democrats in the 2002 midterm elections, and with his popularity still sky high (particularly as voters now felt a sense of buyers' remorse with Gingrich in power), Democrats were willing to give Powell a chance in 2004. With the War in Iraq getting bloodier by the day and Gingrich surrounded by scandal, Powell returned to office in somewhat of a landslide, delivering the finishing blow in his long dispute with Gingrich. Back in office as only the second President to serve two non-consecutive terms, Powell would spend his second term governing much as he had in his first, striking a centrist tone and striving for bipartisanship. With this in mind, Powell would find himself leaning on Democratic Speaker of the House Martin Frost, a moderate himself, to try and wrangle up significant cross-party support for almost every item on his agenda, much to the consternation of liberal Democrats. The average voter didn't care all that much though - Powell was still pretty popular and he'd gotten the country out of Iraq (...well, as out as possible), and while the economy showed possible signs of concern things were still generally pretty good. Leaving office with high approval ratings, Powell's popularity seemed set to bode well for his Vice President's 2008 chances.
[6] That Vice President was Elizabeth Warren. Herself a veteran of the first Powell administration, serving as part of his White House staff, she had been one of the many to leave the Republican Party in solidarity with Powell. Finding herself without a job following the Powell administration's defeat, she would quickly change her affiliation to Democratic and find herself lured back to her old home state of Oklahoma, beckoned by the calls of conservative Democrats in the state hoping to find an outsider candidate to enter the 2002 gubernatorial race against unpopular incumbent Steve Largent. Winning the governor's race fairly narrowly, in large part thanks to the conservative vote being split between Largent and independent candidate Gary Richardson, Warren would emerge as one of the party's more moderate governors, reflecting the political realities of her state, and with this in mind, combined with her past as a Republican, Democrats were initially wary when Powell nominated her as his running mate. Sure, they could tolerate Powell's past - he was super popular after all, and was Gingrich's most credible critic - but they at least expected him to balance the ticket with a liberal, and it was with the greatest reluctance that convention voters accepted this pick. Running for the nomination herself in 2008, Warren would face this same skepticism, with her more prominent challengers, among them Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone, former West Virginia Governor Charlotte Pritt, North Carolina Senator John Edwards, and insurgent New Mexico Congressman Roberto Mondragon all questioning her Democratic bonafides. Nevertheless, with Powell's support, Warren would narrowly win the nomination, choosing as her running mate the well respected Ambassador to the United Nations Tim Wirth, himself a former Senator known for his pioneering focus on issues like global warming.
With the Warren/Wirth ticket winning narrowly over former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, Warren found herself in office. Once in office, she surprised many of her supporters and critics by shifting somewhat dramatically to the left: as the economy found itself entering a major crisis, the Warren administration would break up major banks and take bankers to court for fraud and other illicit practices; Warren would oversee an overhaul to the nation's health care system with the help of HHS Secretary Tom Daschle; and Warren would push for an ambitious plan to combat global warming, elevating EPA Chief Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to become the country's first Secretary of Environmental Protection, though on this last front Warren would find herself facing a cold reception from congress. Though Warren would later emphasize that she had long held these fairly liberal views and that her centrist (nay, even conservative!) reputation had been overblown, this shift was nevertheless jarring to some of her previous supporters and prompted North Carolina Congressman Heath Shuler to launch an unsuccessful primary challenge in 2012. Nevertheless, having passed this hurdle, Warren would find herself re-elected in 2012 fairly easily, benefiting from a controversially right-wing GOP nominee and a scandal concerning his initial running mate. Spending her second term governing much as she had in her first and enacting an ambitious plan to refinance student loans and alleviate student debt, the nation's eyes now turn toward's 2016, where the Democrats will try and seek a fourth term in office. With Democratic candidates including Kennedy, former Attorney General Sven Erik Holmes, former Treasury Secretary Tom Steyer, Senators John McCain (formerly Vice President, now back in the Senate as an independent caucusing with the Democrats), Denise Majette, Charlotte Pritt, and Sherrod Brown, and Governors Tom Perriello and Jay Inslee, among others, and Republican candidates including Senators Lori Otter and Lynne Cheney, Governors Chris Dudley, Artur Davis, and Jeff Flake, former Governors Pete Coors and Mitt Romney, and Commissioner of Baseball George W. Bush, it's anyone's guess as to whether Warren's achievements will last to see another day or will be shunted aside by her successor.
1993-1996: Bill Clinton / Al Gore (Democratic) [1]
-92: George H. W. Bush/Dan Quayle (Republican), Ross Perot/James Stockdale (Independent)
1996-1997: Al Gore / vacant (Democratic) [2]
1997-1999: Colin Powell / John McCain (Republican) [3]
-96: Bill Clinton/Al Gore (Democratic), Ross Perot/Pat Choate (Reform), Pat Buchanan/Jim Traficant (Independent)
1999-2000: Colin Powell / John McCain (Independent)
2000-2001: Colin Powell / John McCain (Reform)
2001-2005: Newt Gingrich / John Ashcroft (Republican) [4]
-00: Al Gore/John Edwards (Democratic), Colin Powell/John McCain (Reform), Ross Perot/John Silber (Real Reform)
2005-2009: Colin Powell / Elizabeth Warren (Democratic) [5]
-04: Newt Gingrich/John Ashcroft (Republican), Donald Trump/Jesse Ventura (Reform)
2009-2017: Elizabeth Warren / Tim Wirth (Democratic) [6]
-08: Jeb Bush/Tom Ridge (Republican), Mike Gravel/Jesse Johnson (Libertarian/Green)
-12: Sam Brownback/Peter T. King [replacing Bob McDonnell] (Republican)
[1] Despite the wave of popularity that brought him into office, things quickly went poorly for Bill Clinton. An aborted attempt at healthcare reform, personal scandals dating back to his time as Governor of Arkansas, and the Republicans flipping Congress in 1994 caused his poll numbers to dip pretty quickly, and the revelation late in the 1996 campaign that he had had an affair on his wife didn't help matters; combined with the fact that his opponent was one of the most popular people in the country, it's no surprise he was defeated in 1996. Unfortunately that wasn't the worst thing to happen to Clinton that year...
[2] ...as, when attending the APEC Forum in Manila in November shortly after his defeat, a bomb was detonated under a bridge as Clinton's motorcade was driving over it; Clinton did not survive, leaving Vice President Al Gore to serve out the two months remaining of Clinton's term.
[3] The death of his wife in a 1993 car accident left Colin Powell a near-broken man, and a void in his life. This sudden absence left Powell thinking about his future, and though his late wife would've undoubtedly been unhappy with this course of action Powell ultimately decided to turn his attention to elected office. After all, Republicans were begging him to run (polls showed he was the most popular challenger to Clinton), and they were so enamored by the idea they were even willing to give his relatively liberal (for a Republican at least) views a pass... at least, on the campaign trail. In office, it was a different story, as Republican congressional leadership under firebrand conservative Newt Gingrich tried to pull a resistant Powell in a much more conservative direction. While the general public liked Powell's bipartisan approach and his approval rating was still fairly high, this was a bit too much for congressional Republicans; after all, the country just voted out a Democrat, so why should Powell be going out of his way to govern with their support? Ultimately, this became too much for Powell to take, and after the 1998 midterms, in which many Republican candidates found themselves attacking Powell almost as often as the Democrats, his presidency tried to orchestrate Gingrich's removal from congressional leadership, but to no avail. Out of patience with congressional Republicans and his attempt to reestablish control over the Republican Party having failed, Powell and Vice President John McCain would publicly announce they were leaving the Republican Party to sit as independents. Ultimately, Republican attempts to pull Powell to the right had backfired; no longer needing to worry about alienating congressional Republicans, the Powell administration would shift further to the center after he left the party. With his poll numbers still high, Powell felt confident in his re-election, but lacking the organizational capacity and ballot access of a political party he would opt against running as an independent and instead launch a somewhat successful takeover of Ross Perot's new Reform Party. With an irritated Perot opting to launch a third presidential campaign in protest of Powell's takeover, and with both Gingrich and former President Gore emerging as his main challengers, 2000 shaped up to be the first four-man race in generations...
[4] ...but, ultimately, the election came down to one thing: conservatives were united, but liberals and moderates were not. With Gingrich receiving the bulk of the conservative vote and the non-Gingrich vote being split between the other three candidates, Gingrich was able to eke out a solid win despite polling under 40 percent of the vote, a harbinger of the low support that would doom his administration to a single term in office. An invasion of Iraq and a personal infidelity scandal culminating in his widely publicized divorce from first lady Marianne Gingrich and subsequent remarriage to Callista Bisek dominated his time in office, and while a proposal to colonize the moon briefly caught the public eye and left imaginations running wild the country's attention kept turning back to the increasing number of American lives lost in the Middle East.
[5] And so, aghast at Gingrich's handling and rationale for the war, former President Powell would emerge as a prominent surrogate and donor for the Democrats in the 2002 midterm elections, and with his popularity still sky high (particularly as voters now felt a sense of buyers' remorse with Gingrich in power), Democrats were willing to give Powell a chance in 2004. With the War in Iraq getting bloodier by the day and Gingrich surrounded by scandal, Powell returned to office in somewhat of a landslide, delivering the finishing blow in his long dispute with Gingrich. Back in office as only the second President to serve two non-consecutive terms, Powell would spend his second term governing much as he had in his first, striking a centrist tone and striving for bipartisanship. With this in mind, Powell would find himself leaning on Democratic Speaker of the House Martin Frost, a moderate himself, to try and wrangle up significant cross-party support for almost every item on his agenda, much to the consternation of liberal Democrats. The average voter didn't care all that much though - Powell was still pretty popular and he'd gotten the country out of Iraq (...well, as out as possible), and while the economy showed possible signs of concern things were still generally pretty good. Leaving office with high approval ratings, Powell's popularity seemed set to bode well for his Vice President's 2008 chances.
[6] That Vice President was Elizabeth Warren. Herself a veteran of the first Powell administration, serving as part of his White House staff, she had been one of the many to leave the Republican Party in solidarity with Powell. Finding herself without a job following the Powell administration's defeat, she would quickly change her affiliation to Democratic and find herself lured back to her old home state of Oklahoma, beckoned by the calls of conservative Democrats in the state hoping to find an outsider candidate to enter the 2002 gubernatorial race against unpopular incumbent Steve Largent. Winning the governor's race fairly narrowly, in large part thanks to the conservative vote being split between Largent and independent candidate Gary Richardson, Warren would emerge as one of the party's more moderate governors, reflecting the political realities of her state, and with this in mind, combined with her past as a Republican, Democrats were initially wary when Powell nominated her as his running mate. Sure, they could tolerate Powell's past - he was super popular after all, and was Gingrich's most credible critic - but they at least expected him to balance the ticket with a liberal, and it was with the greatest reluctance that convention voters accepted this pick. Running for the nomination herself in 2008, Warren would face this same skepticism, with her more prominent challengers, among them Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone, former West Virginia Governor Charlotte Pritt, North Carolina Senator John Edwards, and insurgent New Mexico Congressman Roberto Mondragon all questioning her Democratic bonafides. Nevertheless, with Powell's support, Warren would narrowly win the nomination, choosing as her running mate the well respected Ambassador to the United Nations Tim Wirth, himself a former Senator known for his pioneering focus on issues like global warming.
With the Warren/Wirth ticket winning narrowly over former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, Warren found herself in office. Once in office, she surprised many of her supporters and critics by shifting somewhat dramatically to the left: as the economy found itself entering a major crisis, the Warren administration would break up major banks and take bankers to court for fraud and other illicit practices; Warren would oversee an overhaul to the nation's health care system with the help of HHS Secretary Tom Daschle; and Warren would push for an ambitious plan to combat global warming, elevating EPA Chief Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to become the country's first Secretary of Environmental Protection, though on this last front Warren would find herself facing a cold reception from congress. Though Warren would later emphasize that she had long held these fairly liberal views and that her centrist (nay, even conservative!) reputation had been overblown, this shift was nevertheless jarring to some of her previous supporters and prompted North Carolina Congressman Heath Shuler to launch an unsuccessful primary challenge in 2012. Nevertheless, having passed this hurdle, Warren would find herself re-elected in 2012 fairly easily, benefiting from a controversially right-wing GOP nominee and a scandal concerning his initial running mate. Spending her second term governing much as she had in her first and enacting an ambitious plan to refinance student loans and alleviate student debt, the nation's eyes now turn toward's 2016, where the Democrats will try and seek a fourth term in office. With Democratic candidates including Kennedy, former Attorney General Sven Erik Holmes, former Treasury Secretary Tom Steyer, Senators John McCain (formerly Vice President, now back in the Senate as an independent caucusing with the Democrats), Denise Majette, Charlotte Pritt, and Sherrod Brown, and Governors Tom Perriello and Jay Inslee, among others, and Republican candidates including Senators Lori Otter and Lynne Cheney, Governors Chris Dudley, Artur Davis, and Jeff Flake, former Governors Pete Coors and Mitt Romney, and Commissioner of Baseball George W. Bush, it's anyone's guess as to whether Warren's achievements will last to see another day or will be shunted aside by her successor.
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Pulling a Nixon:
35. John F Kennedy (D)
1961-63
36. Lyndon B Johnson (D)
1963-69
37. Richard Nixon (R)
1969-77
38. Hubert Humphrey (D)
1977-85
39. Ronald Reagan (R)
1985-93
40. Ted Kennedy (D)
1993-01
41. Bob Dole (R)
2001-09
42. Bill Clinton (D)
2009-17
43. John McCain (R)*
2017-18
44. Nikki Hayley
2018-present
*=Died in office
35. John F Kennedy (D)
1961-63
36. Lyndon B Johnson (D)
1963-69
37. Richard Nixon (R)
1969-77
38. Hubert Humphrey (D)
1977-85
39. Ronald Reagan (R)
1985-93
40. Ted Kennedy (D)
1993-01
41. Bob Dole (R)
2001-09
42. Bill Clinton (D)
2009-17
43. John McCain (R)*
2017-18
44. Nikki Hayley
2018-present
*=Died in office
I like how Clinton is the only baby boomer president while OTL is full of them.
Based off an old presidential wiki list I did a while back, updated to the 22nd century.
1. Theodore Foster/John Langdon (Federalist)
(January 12th,1790-March 4th,1799)
2. John Langdon/Robert Morris (Democratic-Republican)
(March 4th,1799-March 4th,1807)
3. Robert Morris/James Ross (Federalist)† [1]
(March 4th,1807-May 8th,1807)
4. James Ross/John Jay (Federalist)
(May 25th,1807-March 4th,1811)
5. Henry Clay/Nathan Sanford (Democratic-Republican)
(March 4th,1811-March 4th,1819)
6. Nathan Sanford/John C. Calhoun (Democratic-Republican)
(March 4th,1819-March 4th,1827)
7.Richard M. Johnson/Andrew Jackson (until 1829) John Armstrong Jr (from 1831) (Jacksonian)
(March 4th,1827-March 4th,1835)
8. Ezekiel Chambers/James K. Polk (Anti-Jacksonian)
(March 4th,1835-March 4th,1842)
9. John Henderson/James F. Trotter (Whig)
(March 4th,1842-March 4th,1851)
10. James W. Bradbury/Stephen Douglas (Democratic)
(March 4th,1851-March 5th,1855)
11. John B. Thompson/Nathaniel P. Banks (Know-Nothing)
(March 4th,1855-March 4th,1863)
12. William Salsbury Sr./George Bancroft (Democratic)
(March 4th,1863-March 4th,1867)
13. James R. Doolittle/John P. Hale (Republican)
(March 4th,1867-March 4th,1871)
14. Daniel D. Pratt/Oliver P. Morton (Republican)†
(March 4th,1871-June 17th,1877)
15. Oliver P. Morton/Thomas Young (until July 4th,1877) then Benjamin Harrison (from July 4th,1877)†
(June 17th,1877-November 1st,1877)
16. Benjamin Harrison/Charles Francis Adams Sr. (Republican)
(November 4th,1877-March 4th,1879)
17. John Brown Gordon/Simon Bolivar Buckner (Democratic)
(March 4th,1879-March 4th,1883)
18.Henry G. Davis/Charles Francis Adams Jr. (Democratic)
(March 4th,1883-March 4th,1887)
19.James Z. George/Charles L. Bartlett (Democratic)
(March 4th,1887-March 4th,1893)
20. David Turpie/Thomas A.E. Wedock (Democratic)
(March 4th,1893-March 4th,1897)
21. James K. Jones/Hosea Townsend (Democratic)
(March 4th,1897-March 4th,1905)
22. John Sharp Williams/Charles W. Bryan (Democratic)
(March 4th,1905-March 4th,1913)
23.John W. Weeks/Thomas W. Bradley (Republican)
(March 4th,1913-March 4th,1917)
24.Benjamin F. Shiverly/John W. Kern (Democratic)†
(March 4th,1917-March 14th,1917)
25. John W. Kern/Courtney W. Hamblin (Democratic)
(March 14th,1917-March 4th,1921)
26.Thomas J. Walsh/Henry Ford (Democratic)
(March 4th,1921-March 4th,1929)
27. Guy D. Goff/Thomas C. Hart(Republican)†
(March 4th,1929-January 7th,1933)
28. Henry D. Hatfield/Vacant (Republican)
(January 7th,1933-March 4th,1933)
29. Henry H. Blood/J. Bracken Lee (Democratic)†
(March 4th,1933- June 15th,1942)
30. J. Bracken Lee/Harry F. Byrd (Democratic)
(June 15th,1942-January 20th,1951)
31.Barry Goldwater/Prescott Bush (Republican)
(January 20th,1951-January 20th,1959)
32. Lyndon B. Johnson/Robert McNamara (Democratic)
(January 20th,1959-January 20th,1967)
33.George Aiken/John Davis Lodge (Republican)
(January 20th,1967-January 20th,1975)
34. William L. Scott/George W. Romney (Republican)
(January 20th,1975-January 20th,1982)
35. John Spencer/Howard Baker (Republican)
(January 20th,1983-January 20th,1987)
36. Richard Lugar/John Volpe (Republican)
(January 20th,1987-January 20th,1993)
37. Dale Bumpers/Bob Kerry(Democratic)
(January 20th,1993-January 20th,1997)
38. Dianne Finestein/Patty Murray (Democratic)
(January 20th,1997-January 20th,2001)
39. Orrin Hatch/Mitt Romney (Republican)
(January 20th,2001-January 20th,2009)
40. Sam Brownback/John Huntsman Jr. (Republican)
(January 20th,2009-January 20th,2017)
41. Ben Cardin/Kamala Harris (Democratic)
(January 20th,2017-January 20th,2021)
42. Phill Batt/Oliver North (Nationalist-Conservative)
(January 20th,2021-January 20th,2029)
43.Oliver North/Michale Haggee (Nationalist-Conservative)†
(January 20th,2029- August 14th,2038)
44. Michale Haggee/vacant (Nationalist-Conservative)†
(August 14th,2038-December 2nd,2039)
45. Joseph Dunford/vacant (Nationalist-Conservative)
(December 2nd,2039- January 20th,2049)
46.Robert Woodman/Rachel Quincy Stuart (Rally for Liberty and Justice)
(January 20th,2049-January 3rd,2059)
47. Susan Nancy Wiggum/Rachel Hoover DeBanges (Rally for Liberty and Justice)
(January 3rd,2059-January 3rd,2069)
48. Elijah Frost/ Robert McNamara Dole Jr (For All Popular Front)
(January 3rd,2069-January 3rd,2079)
49. Courtney Flores Gracia/Emmanuel Lopez Carter (For All Popular Front)†
(January 3rd,2079-January 1st,2080)
50. Emmanuel Lopez Carter/Vacant (For All Popular Front)†
(January 1st,2080-August 15th,2084)
51. Raul Fortiga Gaston/Pablo Romanov (For All Popular Front)
(August 15th,2084-January 3rd,2086)
52.Dwight B. Eisenstein /Lou Fredrikson Fischer (Conservative Rally for the Army)
(January 3rd,2086-January 3rd,2101)
53. Lou Fredrikson Fischer/Yang Reinhardt (Conservative Rally for the Army)
(January 3rd,2101-present)
Political Parties of the 2050s
Rally for Liberty and Justice
Founded initially as an underground resistance group to the Haggee and Dunford Presidencies, the political party has been characterized as the bloodied remnants of the aging democratic senators and house members that avoided the bloody purges and crackdowns of the North Presidency. Fully committed to a more liberal nonviolent methods of altering change compared to their violent cousins discussed below, the RLJ's initial membership pools of a few million have steadily shrunk, along with their abilities to actively campaign in districts which were once piggy banks and playgrounds for their donors, such as Empire Bay. As a consequence of this, the once dominant party has been forced into a minor third party opposition role throughout the Fischer presidencies. Though the Woodman Executive was seen as a more authoritarian compromise candidate in order to win the 2048 new election, his term was proven under pressure to snap back from supposed stress and become one of the most controversial administrations since the Batt Presidency.
For All Popular Front
The more radical left wing cousins of the RLJ, the FAPF has seen shocking success as the militant blend of left wing socialism and nationalism within the united states. Their controversial stance on several genocides has left them with some scorn, but at the end of the day, someone has to defeat CRA at some point... now if they would stop assassinating their leaders they might stand a chance at winning the white palace again! Despite their supposed squashing, their control over four presidencies has marked some notable change and chances for potential reforms within the american continent.
Conservative Rally for the Army
Their hands fairly deep into the cookie jar of lobbying, the CRA's more right wing approach has aligned it's voting block with the armed forces and their frequent picking of them to lead presidential tickets has been seen as moderately successful since the party's founding in the mid 2050s. Most of the former Nationalist-Conservative members fell in line with the CRA platform of radical nationalism and supremacy of the american system. They are the most jingoistic political party since the war plagued presidency of Oliver North. Their understandings of stability in sacrificing certain rights has rung heavily in the ears of it's large voting base of automated lights and microwaves, with the passing of the Machine Voting Rights Bill of 2057 under Robert Woodman to appease the Artificial Intelligence voting block, which has remained staunchly loyal with turnouts of 100% for all the machines officially registered as voting AI.
[1] Vacant from May 8th-25th
† Died in Office
* Resigned
Italics Fake Name
1. Theodore Foster/John Langdon (Federalist)
(January 12th,1790-March 4th,1799)
2. John Langdon/Robert Morris (Democratic-Republican)
(March 4th,1799-March 4th,1807)
3. Robert Morris/James Ross (Federalist)† [1]
(March 4th,1807-May 8th,1807)
4. James Ross/John Jay (Federalist)
(May 25th,1807-March 4th,1811)
5. Henry Clay/Nathan Sanford (Democratic-Republican)
(March 4th,1811-March 4th,1819)
6. Nathan Sanford/John C. Calhoun (Democratic-Republican)
(March 4th,1819-March 4th,1827)
7.Richard M. Johnson/Andrew Jackson (until 1829) John Armstrong Jr (from 1831) (Jacksonian)
(March 4th,1827-March 4th,1835)
8. Ezekiel Chambers/James K. Polk (Anti-Jacksonian)
(March 4th,1835-March 4th,1842)
9. John Henderson/James F. Trotter (Whig)
(March 4th,1842-March 4th,1851)
10. James W. Bradbury/Stephen Douglas (Democratic)
(March 4th,1851-March 5th,1855)
11. John B. Thompson/Nathaniel P. Banks (Know-Nothing)
(March 4th,1855-March 4th,1863)
12. William Salsbury Sr./George Bancroft (Democratic)
(March 4th,1863-March 4th,1867)
13. James R. Doolittle/John P. Hale (Republican)
(March 4th,1867-March 4th,1871)
14. Daniel D. Pratt/Oliver P. Morton (Republican)†
(March 4th,1871-June 17th,1877)
15. Oliver P. Morton/Thomas Young (until July 4th,1877) then Benjamin Harrison (from July 4th,1877)†
(June 17th,1877-November 1st,1877)
16. Benjamin Harrison/Charles Francis Adams Sr. (Republican)
(November 4th,1877-March 4th,1879)
17. John Brown Gordon/Simon Bolivar Buckner (Democratic)
(March 4th,1879-March 4th,1883)
18.Henry G. Davis/Charles Francis Adams Jr. (Democratic)
(March 4th,1883-March 4th,1887)
19.James Z. George/Charles L. Bartlett (Democratic)
(March 4th,1887-March 4th,1893)
20. David Turpie/Thomas A.E. Wedock (Democratic)
(March 4th,1893-March 4th,1897)
21. James K. Jones/Hosea Townsend (Democratic)
(March 4th,1897-March 4th,1905)
22. John Sharp Williams/Charles W. Bryan (Democratic)
(March 4th,1905-March 4th,1913)
23.John W. Weeks/Thomas W. Bradley (Republican)
(March 4th,1913-March 4th,1917)
24.Benjamin F. Shiverly/John W. Kern (Democratic)†
(March 4th,1917-March 14th,1917)
25. John W. Kern/Courtney W. Hamblin (Democratic)
(March 14th,1917-March 4th,1921)
26.Thomas J. Walsh/Henry Ford (Democratic)
(March 4th,1921-March 4th,1929)
27. Guy D. Goff/Thomas C. Hart(Republican)†
(March 4th,1929-January 7th,1933)
28. Henry D. Hatfield/Vacant (Republican)
(January 7th,1933-March 4th,1933)
29. Henry H. Blood/J. Bracken Lee (Democratic)†
(March 4th,1933- June 15th,1942)
30. J. Bracken Lee/Harry F. Byrd (Democratic)
(June 15th,1942-January 20th,1951)
31.Barry Goldwater/Prescott Bush (Republican)
(January 20th,1951-January 20th,1959)
32. Lyndon B. Johnson/Robert McNamara (Democratic)
(January 20th,1959-January 20th,1967)
33.George Aiken/John Davis Lodge (Republican)
(January 20th,1967-January 20th,1975)
34. William L. Scott/George W. Romney (Republican)
(January 20th,1975-January 20th,1982)
35. John Spencer/Howard Baker (Republican)
(January 20th,1983-January 20th,1987)
36. Richard Lugar/John Volpe (Republican)
(January 20th,1987-January 20th,1993)
37. Dale Bumpers/Bob Kerry(Democratic)
(January 20th,1993-January 20th,1997)
38. Dianne Finestein/Patty Murray (Democratic)
(January 20th,1997-January 20th,2001)
39. Orrin Hatch/Mitt Romney (Republican)
(January 20th,2001-January 20th,2009)
40. Sam Brownback/John Huntsman Jr. (Republican)
(January 20th,2009-January 20th,2017)
41. Ben Cardin/Kamala Harris (Democratic)
(January 20th,2017-January 20th,2021)
42. Phill Batt/Oliver North (Nationalist-Conservative)
(January 20th,2021-January 20th,2029)
43.Oliver North/Michale Haggee (Nationalist-Conservative)†
(January 20th,2029- August 14th,2038)
44. Michale Haggee/vacant (Nationalist-Conservative)†
(August 14th,2038-December 2nd,2039)
45. Joseph Dunford/vacant (Nationalist-Conservative)
(December 2nd,2039- January 20th,2049)
46.Robert Woodman/Rachel Quincy Stuart (Rally for Liberty and Justice)
(January 20th,2049-January 3rd,2059)
47. Susan Nancy Wiggum/Rachel Hoover DeBanges (Rally for Liberty and Justice)
(January 3rd,2059-January 3rd,2069)
48. Elijah Frost/ Robert McNamara Dole Jr (For All Popular Front)
(January 3rd,2069-January 3rd,2079)
49. Courtney Flores Gracia/Emmanuel Lopez Carter (For All Popular Front)†
(January 3rd,2079-January 1st,2080)
50. Emmanuel Lopez Carter/Vacant (For All Popular Front)†
(January 1st,2080-August 15th,2084)
51. Raul Fortiga Gaston/Pablo Romanov (For All Popular Front)
(August 15th,2084-January 3rd,2086)
52.Dwight B. Eisenstein /Lou Fredrikson Fischer (Conservative Rally for the Army)
(January 3rd,2086-January 3rd,2101)
53. Lou Fredrikson Fischer/Yang Reinhardt (Conservative Rally for the Army)
(January 3rd,2101-present)
Political Parties of the 2050s
Rally for Liberty and Justice
Founded initially as an underground resistance group to the Haggee and Dunford Presidencies, the political party has been characterized as the bloodied remnants of the aging democratic senators and house members that avoided the bloody purges and crackdowns of the North Presidency. Fully committed to a more liberal nonviolent methods of altering change compared to their violent cousins discussed below, the RLJ's initial membership pools of a few million have steadily shrunk, along with their abilities to actively campaign in districts which were once piggy banks and playgrounds for their donors, such as Empire Bay. As a consequence of this, the once dominant party has been forced into a minor third party opposition role throughout the Fischer presidencies. Though the Woodman Executive was seen as a more authoritarian compromise candidate in order to win the 2048 new election, his term was proven under pressure to snap back from supposed stress and become one of the most controversial administrations since the Batt Presidency.
For All Popular Front
The more radical left wing cousins of the RLJ, the FAPF has seen shocking success as the militant blend of left wing socialism and nationalism within the united states. Their controversial stance on several genocides has left them with some scorn, but at the end of the day, someone has to defeat CRA at some point... now if they would stop assassinating their leaders they might stand a chance at winning the white palace again! Despite their supposed squashing, their control over four presidencies has marked some notable change and chances for potential reforms within the american continent.
Conservative Rally for the Army
Their hands fairly deep into the cookie jar of lobbying, the CRA's more right wing approach has aligned it's voting block with the armed forces and their frequent picking of them to lead presidential tickets has been seen as moderately successful since the party's founding in the mid 2050s. Most of the former Nationalist-Conservative members fell in line with the CRA platform of radical nationalism and supremacy of the american system. They are the most jingoistic political party since the war plagued presidency of Oliver North. Their understandings of stability in sacrificing certain rights has rung heavily in the ears of it's large voting base of automated lights and microwaves, with the passing of the Machine Voting Rights Bill of 2057 under Robert Woodman to appease the Artificial Intelligence voting block, which has remained staunchly loyal with turnouts of 100% for all the machines officially registered as voting AI.
[1] Vacant from May 8th-25th
† Died in Office
* Resigned
Italics Fake Name
Okay, here goes:
Eisenhower chooses to dump Nixon from the ticket in 1956, giving his spot to Robert Anderson. Eisenhower dies of a heart attack soon afterward, and Anderson is undone both by the stress of conflict overseas, in Suez and along the China-USSR border, and his own scandals at home. This rockets Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn to the top job for a little over a year, and Rayburn in turn passes the baton to his protegé, Texas Senator Lyndon B. Johnson. Absent Kennedy's charisma or finesse in foreign policy, the Cuban Missile Crisis lasts significantly longer, and that coupled with his VP's scandals mean that even passing an expansive Civil Rights Act isn't enough to prevent a victory by former HEW Secretary and 11th-hour compromise candidate Oveta Culp Hobby. Hobby has the bad fortune to face sexism, conflict overseas in Indonesia and Southern Africa, and race riots all at the same time, pulling former President Johnson ahead (though still a quarter-million behind in the popular vote) in a nailbiter rematch.
Johnson's second term is largely successful: universal healthcare, civil rights legislation, and troops coming home tend to do that. His protegé, Commerce Secretary John B. Connally, has his own ideas. He throws himself into new projects - a permanent base on the Moon, tearing up decades of antitrust policy, the University of the United States - while very publicly abandoning ideas like desegregation on the neighborhood level. This leads to conflict between him and the Democratic Party, so he leaves the party, and leaves it to the next link in the chain: former drilling-company CEO and Governor of Texas Bill Clements. Clements was unlike Connally in many ways. Personality was one of them: Connally was the showman rancher, a spellbinding orator honed in the UT Curtain Club. Bill Clements, on the other hand, was the solid manager you called in to keep things running and put out fires. But they were also different in ideology. Connally combined a fierce nationalism and the simultaneous beliefs that the business of America was business, especially big business, and that government was a tool that could be used for good into an ideology that few actually shared. Clements, on the other hand, was a relatively standard conservative ideologically with a deeply independent streak personally, and his selection of House Minority Whip Dick Cheney reflected that. Clements' first term is still generally remembered positively, but his second term was chaotic: his Vice President died of a sudden heart attack, leading him to appoint Secretary of Defense John Tower to the top job despite personal enmity, then he was implicated in some dodgy financial dealings related to SMU, where he had served on the Board of Regents before his election as Governor, then he resigned, then Vice President Tower resigned over his alcohol issues and his own dodgy deals, propelling Speaker Jack Brooks, longtime advocate for civil rights and labor rights, to the Presidency for a short time.
Senator Lloyd Bentsen was never expected to be President. He was old, an elder-statesman VP candidate to photogenic liberal Governor Bruce Springsteen. Then the Governor's plane crashed in the Pacific on the way to a campaign stop in Sitka, and suddenly Bentsen was in the hot seat, stuck with the sympathy vote. Bentsen's presidency was a difficult one: the left of his own party, including Vice President Wellstone, criticized his support of free trade and opposition to stronger banking regulations. Meanwhile, the Republicans went after him for a lot of other things: ethics issues and affairs in Chief of Staff Bill Clinton's office, the outreach to a democratizing People's Republic of China as student protests and the coming Hong Kong handover drove Zhongnanhai toward reforms, the administration's willingness (despite Bentsen's personal ambivalence) to reach out to LGBT- and abortion-rights activists, and a whole host of other issues, large and small. They themselves, however, had to deal with a bruising primary and a third-party campaign against eventual nominee Phil Gramm: Ross Perot, tech-company CEO, activist for POWs allegedly still held in Monomotapa and against the Inter-American Free Trade Agreement and the Treaty of San Antonio, and eventual victor in the electoral college thanks to a few faithless electors.
There was a problem, though. Ross Perot didn't know how to govern. His initiatives stalled in Congress, and his turning of attention to foreign policy only led to American servicemen dying in Haiti to topple a democratically-elected socialist government - a conflict, his eventual successor Governor Jim Hightower charged, that America never should have been involved in. Hightower's mild isolationism proved popular, but his focus on farm issues led to a blind spot on other areas of the economy. His intervention in the dot-com bubble and real-estate crisis was too little, too late, and saw the economy slip into recession and his presidency slip away from him, going to country-club Republican Kay Bailey Hutchison. Hutchison's response, though, was no better, and any gains she might have gotten from reversion to the mean were lost in the scandals around Texas Republicans' ties to Ken Lay, CEO of FirstPoint Energy, and her unpopular tax cut.
Ann Richards was many things. A proven progressive, a canny political operator, and a sharp wit were just a few of them. Unfortunately, she was also a former heavy drinker and smoker, both of which are risk factors for the esophageal cancer that eventually took her life. And with her Vice President imploding in scandal, the Presidency fell to the man who had blocked her chosen successor (Senator Nancy Pelosi) for months: Speaker of the House Tom DeLay, former pesticide salesman and longtime Republican operative. The triumvirate of DeLay, new Speaker Mike Pence, and Senate Majority Leader Don Nickles pushed through tax cuts, a federal ban on abortion (which was tied up in the courts until 2009, where a split court decided in Sebelius vs. Abbott that questions of abortion could only be resolved on the state level), and a major opening-up of federal land to mining interests. But it was the last one that led to his downfall, and his impeachment by new Speaker Harry Reid and removal by new Senate Majority Leader Harvey Gantt swept his new Vice President, John Bush, into power.
Grandson of a Senator, son of an oil businessman and two-term Congressman, John had left Texas for Alaska to make his fortune the same way his father had left Connecticut for Texas. Once there, he had gone into real estate before becoming involved in the Republican Moderate Party of Alaska, propelled by an unusual Rooseveltian air of being not just a master of the wilderness, but a cultured patrician one, a family quarrel with President Clements, and late-breaking scandal first to Alaska's sole House seat and then to the Senate, where he cultivated a moderate air. Bush was a natural choice for the Vice Presidency, and his upright outsider air helped him forge a new Republican brand untainted by DeLay's scandals. Despite a conservative third-party run led by pilot Bob Conley, Bush romped home to re-election, and used his second term to pass immigration reform, establish the Department of Environmental Protection, and set up a nationwide school-voucher system.
Vice President Mitt Romney was expected to win the 2012 election handily. But compared to Governor Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, in retrospect, he had no chance. He couldn't compete with her seemingly effortless charisma and charm born of decades in the public eye, and next to her he just seemed out of touch. But President Selena (as all but the stuffiest of documents refer to her) was more than just a pretty face - her presidency is likely to be remembered as quite a success, from fighting income inequality and the gender wage gap to brokering a peace deal in the Great Middle Eastern War.
The 2020 election is now upon us. The Presidency is up in the air, and it is impossible to tell who will win. Will it be Rick Perry, a Democrat seemingly of the wrong era who made his name fighting Big Pharma and Big Tobacco, in the same breath as deregulating the oil industry and slow-walking marriage equality? Or will it be Liz Warren, the former Secretary of Commerce whose support of "ethical capitalism" and pro-choice views might allow her to appeal to moderates? Or, perhaps, will it be dark-horse Robby O'Rourke, the Silicon Valley CEO and former punk-rocker whose support of bank deregulation and criminal-justice reform have made him the darling of editorial pages the nation over? We'll all have to wait and see...
This is a great write-up, and makes it super plausible. The fact that all Presidents after Eisenhower just happen to be Texans just seems like a side note.
Teddy Roosevelt dies during San Juan Hill Battle:
25 William McKinley 1897-1901 Republican Ohio (Assassinated)
26 Charles Fairbanks 1901-1909 R Indiana
27 William Jeggins Bryan 1909-1917 Democratic Nebraska
28 Thomas Riley Marshall 1917-1924 D Indiana (Died in Office)
29 Edward Irving Edwards 1924-1931 D New Jersey (Commited Suicide)
30 Charles Wayland Bryan 1931-1933 D Nebraska
31 Charles Evans Hughes Sr 1933-1937 R New York
32 Alfred Emmanuel Smith 1937-1939 D New York (Assassinated)
33 William Brockman Bankhead 1939-1940 D Alabama (Died in Office)
Acting President Cordell Hull 1940-1941 D Tennessee
34 Fiorello Henry LaGuardia 1941-1947 Progressive New York (Died in Office)
35 Robert Marion La Follette Jr 1947-1949 P Wisconsin
36 Dwight David Eisenhower 1949-1957 Liberal Union New York
37 Estes Kefauver 1957-1963 P Tennessee (Died in Office)
38 Hubert Horatio Humphrey 1963-1969 P Minnesota
39 Nelson Aldrich Rockfeller 1969-1977 LU New York
40 Charles Percy 1977-1981 LU Illinois
41 Morris King Udall 1981-1985 P Arizona (Retired due Health Reasons)
42 Hugh Carey 1985-1989 P New York
43 Lee Iacocca 1989-1997 LU Michigan
44 John Sidney McCain 1997-2005 LU Arizona
45 Howard Dean 2005-2009 P Vermont
46 Arnold Schwarzenegger 2009-2017 LU California
47 Elizabeth Warren 2017-... P Massachusetts
25 William McKinley 1897-1901 Republican Ohio (Assassinated)
26 Charles Fairbanks 1901-1909 R Indiana
27 William Jeggins Bryan 1909-1917 Democratic Nebraska
28 Thomas Riley Marshall 1917-1924 D Indiana (Died in Office)
29 Edward Irving Edwards 1924-1931 D New Jersey (Commited Suicide)
30 Charles Wayland Bryan 1931-1933 D Nebraska
31 Charles Evans Hughes Sr 1933-1937 R New York
32 Alfred Emmanuel Smith 1937-1939 D New York (Assassinated)
33 William Brockman Bankhead 1939-1940 D Alabama (Died in Office)
Acting President Cordell Hull 1940-1941 D Tennessee
34 Fiorello Henry LaGuardia 1941-1947 Progressive New York (Died in Office)
35 Robert Marion La Follette Jr 1947-1949 P Wisconsin
36 Dwight David Eisenhower 1949-1957 Liberal Union New York
37 Estes Kefauver 1957-1963 P Tennessee (Died in Office)
38 Hubert Horatio Humphrey 1963-1969 P Minnesota
39 Nelson Aldrich Rockfeller 1969-1977 LU New York
40 Charles Percy 1977-1981 LU Illinois
41 Morris King Udall 1981-1985 P Arizona (Retired due Health Reasons)
42 Hugh Carey 1985-1989 P New York
43 Lee Iacocca 1989-1997 LU Michigan
44 John Sidney McCain 1997-2005 LU Arizona
45 Howard Dean 2005-2009 P Vermont
46 Arnold Schwarzenegger 2009-2017 LU California
47 Elizabeth Warren 2017-... P Massachusetts
Hey, I really liked this. Colin Powell holding the presidency with four different political affiliations is a funny idea, but the way you've written it transcends being a mere joke and instead comes across as an entirely plausible series of events. I also like what you did with Elizabeth Warren: not only is tying her actual, real-life political drift to Colin Powell very clever, but keeping her as a moderate figure (at least for a time) is one of those ideas that makes perfect sense and yet is weirdly underused. And of course, props for using some underused or unusual figures— Tim Wirth, especially, is an inspired choice.
Murder They Wrote III
Skipping to Truman, because FDR's assassination has been done. Not doing 1947 because that would probably lead to a nuclear Korea and Douglas MacArthur dictatorship
33(second term): Harry S Truman**/Alben W Barkley(January 20 1949-November 1 1950)
34(first term): Alben W Barkley(November 1 1950-January 20 1953)
-Election of 1952: Robert A Taft/Earl Warren(Republican) vs Adlai Stevenson II/John Sparkman(Democrat)
35(first term): Robert A Taft*/Earl Warren(January 20-July 31 1953)
36(first term): Earl Warren(July 31 1953-January 20 1957)
-Election of 1956: Earl Warren/Harold Stassen(Republican) vs Adlai Stevenson II/John F Kennedy(Democrat)
36(second term): Earl Warren/Harold Stassen(1957-1961)
-Election of 1960: Harold Stassen/Henry Cabot Lodge Jr(Republican) vs Hubert Humphrey/Lyndon B Johnson(Democrat)
37(first term): Hubert Humphrey/Lyndon B Johnson(1961-1965)
-Election of 1964: Hubert Humphrey/Lyndon B Johnson(Democrat) vs Nelson Rockefeller/Hiram Fong(Republican)
37(second term): Hubert Humphrey/Lyndon B Johnson(1965-1969)
-Election of 1968: Lyndon B Johnson/George McGovern(Democrat) vs Margaret Chase Smith/George Romney(Republican)
38(first term): Margaret Chase Smith/George Romney(1969-1973)
-Election of 1972: Margaret Chase Smith/George Romney(Republican) vs Robert Kennedy/Edmund Muskie(Democrat)
38(second term): Margaret Chase Smith/George Romney(1973-1977)
* Died, ** Killed, *** Resigned/removed
Skipping to Truman, because FDR's assassination has been done. Not doing 1947 because that would probably lead to a nuclear Korea and Douglas MacArthur dictatorship
33(second term): Harry S Truman**/Alben W Barkley(January 20 1949-November 1 1950)
34(first term): Alben W Barkley(November 1 1950-January 20 1953)
-Election of 1952: Robert A Taft/Earl Warren(Republican) vs Adlai Stevenson II/John Sparkman(Democrat)
35(first term): Robert A Taft*/Earl Warren(January 20-July 31 1953)
36(first term): Earl Warren(July 31 1953-January 20 1957)
-Election of 1956: Earl Warren/Harold Stassen(Republican) vs Adlai Stevenson II/John F Kennedy(Democrat)
36(second term): Earl Warren/Harold Stassen(1957-1961)
-Election of 1960: Harold Stassen/Henry Cabot Lodge Jr(Republican) vs Hubert Humphrey/Lyndon B Johnson(Democrat)
37(first term): Hubert Humphrey/Lyndon B Johnson(1961-1965)
-Election of 1964: Hubert Humphrey/Lyndon B Johnson(Democrat) vs Nelson Rockefeller/Hiram Fong(Republican)
37(second term): Hubert Humphrey/Lyndon B Johnson(1965-1969)
-Election of 1968: Lyndon B Johnson/George McGovern(Democrat) vs Margaret Chase Smith/George Romney(Republican)
38(first term): Margaret Chase Smith/George Romney(1969-1973)
-Election of 1972: Margaret Chase Smith/George Romney(Republican) vs Robert Kennedy/Edmund Muskie(Democrat)
38(second term): Margaret Chase Smith/George Romney(1973-1977)
* Died, ** Killed, *** Resigned/removed
- 32: Franklin D Roosevelt*(1933-1945)/John Nance Garner(1933-1941), Henry A Wallace(1941-1945), Harry S Truman(1945)
- 33: Harry S Truman**(1945-1950)/Alben W Barkley(1949-1950)
- 34: Alben W Barkley(1950-1953)
- 35: Robert A Taft*/Earl Warren(1953)
- 36: Earl Warren(1953-1961)/Harold Stassen(1957-1961)
- 37: Hubert Humphrey/Lyndon B Johnson(1961-1969)
- 38: Margaret Chase Smith/George Romney(1969-1977)
Thanks! Wirth came about because I was researching what a possible Kerry cabinet would’ve looked like and I was intrigued to see his name was rumored for nearly every gig: State, U.N., Defence, Interior, Energy, you name it; seems like he’s one of those people who would’ve become major figures IOTL with the most minor of butterflies.
@SandroPertini98 Is Schwarzenegger born in the U.S. in your timeline, or was the Constitution changed?
That's always the fascinating thing about AH, learning about these people who have laudable resumes but never got their big break.
The Terminator is born in Austria as OTL, but the Hatch Amendment (officially Equal Opportunity to Govern Amendment) is approved in 2006 with a large bipartisan consensus, so permitting Arnold to run in 2008. For this reason it's known also as Schwarzenegger Amendament.
2009 - 2017: Barack Obama / Joe Biden
2008: John McCain / Sarah Palin
2012: Donald Trump / Mitch Daniels
2017 - 2025: Marco Rubio / Paul Ryan
2016: Hillary Clinton / Julian Castro
2020: Kamala Harris / Bob Casey, Steve King / Peter Navarro (America First), Marsha Coleman-Adebayo / Gayle McLoughlin (Green)
In March 2011, businessman Donald Trump said that he was 'seriously considering' running for President in 2012 and began questioning President Obama's U.S. citizenship ('Growing up, no-one knew him'). In April 2011, President Obama released his birth certificate, but Trump still wasn't satisfied, asking for publication of his college and passport applications. After months of speculation, Trump entered the Republican race in August 2011, immediately shooting to the top of the polls and displacing the other conservatives in the race: Gingrich, Santorum, Bachmann, Cain, and Perry. He took Romney head on, attacking him as a 'stiff' and a 'phoney' who had 'failed' in 2008. Trump won all of the early states in January and February apart from Arizona and Maine for Romney, and despite a lackluster 'Stop Trump' movement led by Romney and Huntsman, rallied conservatives and was easily nominated, picking establishment Governor Mitch Daniels as his running mate.
While Trump had successfully channelled Tea Party anger in the primaries, the general election was a different story. Obama hit Trump out of the gate with a series of negative ads on his business affairs, including multiple bankruptcies, and his racist comments and support from known racists such as David Duke. Trump responded by attacking Obama's record on the 'terrible economy' and renewing his claims that Obama was 'hiding something from the American people'. Polls showed that while many voters respected Trump's experience as a businessman, Trump was alienating in moderates in droves, particularly after a leaked recording of Trump claiming to sexually assault women. Obama won re-election over Trump with 54% to 44% in the popular vote, including a victory in North Carolina.
The GOP establishment quickly moved to discredit Trump, with many key figures such as Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush calling for the party to adopt a more inclusive and optimistic tone, particularly on immigration, although there was considerable backlash among many Republican voters who continued to support Trump's policies. Trump himself claimed that the election was 'rigged' encouraging popular protest, and continued as a vocal critic of the Obama administration.
In 2016, Marco Rubio defeated many candidates, including Ted Cruz, Jeb Bush, Chris Christie, and Jeff Sessions (running on a populist platform) to become the Republican nominee. The general election initially seemed close, but Clinton's lackluster campaigning and the 'October surprise' of an FBI review into Hillary's e-mails pushed Rubio clearly over the edge, winning 51% to 45% of the popular vote and taking many previously Democratic states: Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Nevada, New Hampshire, and Minnesota. The strong performance of the American economy, combined with Rubio's tax reforms, led to his narrow re-election over Kamala Harris in 2020. The election also saw strong third party performances from the re-vitalised and anti-immigration Reform Party and the Green Party.
2008: John McCain / Sarah Palin
2012: Donald Trump / Mitch Daniels
2017 - 2025: Marco Rubio / Paul Ryan
2016: Hillary Clinton / Julian Castro
2020: Kamala Harris / Bob Casey, Steve King / Peter Navarro (America First), Marsha Coleman-Adebayo / Gayle McLoughlin (Green)
In March 2011, businessman Donald Trump said that he was 'seriously considering' running for President in 2012 and began questioning President Obama's U.S. citizenship ('Growing up, no-one knew him'). In April 2011, President Obama released his birth certificate, but Trump still wasn't satisfied, asking for publication of his college and passport applications. After months of speculation, Trump entered the Republican race in August 2011, immediately shooting to the top of the polls and displacing the other conservatives in the race: Gingrich, Santorum, Bachmann, Cain, and Perry. He took Romney head on, attacking him as a 'stiff' and a 'phoney' who had 'failed' in 2008. Trump won all of the early states in January and February apart from Arizona and Maine for Romney, and despite a lackluster 'Stop Trump' movement led by Romney and Huntsman, rallied conservatives and was easily nominated, picking establishment Governor Mitch Daniels as his running mate.
While Trump had successfully channelled Tea Party anger in the primaries, the general election was a different story. Obama hit Trump out of the gate with a series of negative ads on his business affairs, including multiple bankruptcies, and his racist comments and support from known racists such as David Duke. Trump responded by attacking Obama's record on the 'terrible economy' and renewing his claims that Obama was 'hiding something from the American people'. Polls showed that while many voters respected Trump's experience as a businessman, Trump was alienating in moderates in droves, particularly after a leaked recording of Trump claiming to sexually assault women. Obama won re-election over Trump with 54% to 44% in the popular vote, including a victory in North Carolina.
The GOP establishment quickly moved to discredit Trump, with many key figures such as Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush calling for the party to adopt a more inclusive and optimistic tone, particularly on immigration, although there was considerable backlash among many Republican voters who continued to support Trump's policies. Trump himself claimed that the election was 'rigged' encouraging popular protest, and continued as a vocal critic of the Obama administration.
In 2016, Marco Rubio defeated many candidates, including Ted Cruz, Jeb Bush, Chris Christie, and Jeff Sessions (running on a populist platform) to become the Republican nominee. The general election initially seemed close, but Clinton's lackluster campaigning and the 'October surprise' of an FBI review into Hillary's e-mails pushed Rubio clearly over the edge, winning 51% to 45% of the popular vote and taking many previously Democratic states: Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Nevada, New Hampshire, and Minnesota. The strong performance of the American economy, combined with Rubio's tax reforms, led to his narrow re-election over Kamala Harris in 2020. The election also saw strong third party performances from the re-vitalised and anti-immigration Reform Party and the Green Party.
Paul Large
Banned
Altirnitive Presidents
1960-1964 Richard Nixon
1964-1968 Richard Nixon (amendment allows for a third term)
1968-1972 Richard Nixon
1972-1976 Nelson Rockefeller
1976-1980 Jimmy Carter
1980-1984 Jimmy Carter
1984-1988 Jimmy Carter (rule changes back to 2 terms)
1988-1992 George H W Bush
1992-1996 George H W Bush
1996-2000 Bill Clinton
2000-2004 Bob Dole
2004-2008 Bill Clinton
2008-2012 Al Gore
2012-2016 John McCain
2016-2020 John McCain (dies in office in 2017 making Sarah Palin president)
1960-1964 Richard Nixon
1964-1968 Richard Nixon (amendment allows for a third term)
1968-1972 Richard Nixon
1972-1976 Nelson Rockefeller
1976-1980 Jimmy Carter
1980-1984 Jimmy Carter
1984-1988 Jimmy Carter (rule changes back to 2 terms)
1988-1992 George H W Bush
1992-1996 George H W Bush
1996-2000 Bill Clinton
2000-2004 Bob Dole
2004-2008 Bill Clinton
2008-2012 Al Gore
2012-2016 John McCain
2016-2020 John McCain (dies in office in 2017 making Sarah Palin president)
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Like this just wish Perot had been in it. I like having Nixon in the 60's.
BlackentheBorg
Banned
Acid, Amnesty, and Abortion on the Campaign Trail '72
1969-1971: Richard Nixon/Spiro Agnew
('68) defeated Hubert Humphrey/Edward Muskie, George Wallace/Curtis LeMay (AIP)
1971-1973: Spiro Agnew/[vacant]
1973-1981: George McGovern/Howard Cannon
('72) defeated Spiro Agnew/Robert Finch
('76) defeated John Connally/Clarke Reed, John B. Anderson/Morris Udall (Union Party)
1981-1989: Edward Brooke/Pete Wilson
('80) defeated Howard Cannon/Mike Gravel
('84) defeated Terry Sanford/Floyd Haskell
1989-1993: Fred Harris/Nick Galifianakis
('88) defeated Pete Wilson/Orrin Hatch
Nixon was supposed to be 'the one', beating Humphrey comfortably and promising a new morning for America, but then the Paris Peace Accord scandal broke wide open. The President had effectively committed treason and sent thousands more young men to die in Vietnam in a dastardly plot to assure his own position of power. Understandably, voters weren't pleased. McGovern, who was against the war from the beginning, was the logical next choice to replace the disgraced Nixon, or in actuality his Vice President, who was himself under fire for tax fraud. He also easily won over Connally, or "the traitor" as he was more well known. Subsequent elections include the first African-American president and the rise of the 'populist' Democrats. What wacky hijinks, right?
1969-1971: Richard Nixon/Spiro Agnew
('68) defeated Hubert Humphrey/Edward Muskie, George Wallace/Curtis LeMay (AIP)
1971-1973: Spiro Agnew/[vacant]
1973-1981: George McGovern/Howard Cannon
('72) defeated Spiro Agnew/Robert Finch
('76) defeated John Connally/Clarke Reed, John B. Anderson/Morris Udall (Union Party)
1981-1989: Edward Brooke/Pete Wilson
('80) defeated Howard Cannon/Mike Gravel
('84) defeated Terry Sanford/Floyd Haskell
1989-1993: Fred Harris/Nick Galifianakis
('88) defeated Pete Wilson/Orrin Hatch
Nixon was supposed to be 'the one', beating Humphrey comfortably and promising a new morning for America, but then the Paris Peace Accord scandal broke wide open. The President had effectively committed treason and sent thousands more young men to die in Vietnam in a dastardly plot to assure his own position of power. Understandably, voters weren't pleased. McGovern, who was against the war from the beginning, was the logical next choice to replace the disgraced Nixon, or in actuality his Vice President, who was himself under fire for tax fraud. He also easily won over Connally, or "the traitor" as he was more well known. Subsequent elections include the first African-American president and the rise of the 'populist' Democrats. What wacky hijinks, right?
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Ford More Years
38(first term): Gerald Ford(August 9 1974-January 20 1981)/Nelson Rockefeller(December 19 1974-January 20 1977)
-Election of 1976: Gerald Ford/Bob Dole(Republican) vs Jimmy Carter/Walter Mondale(Democrat)
38(second term): Gerald Ford/Bob Dole(1977-1981)
-Election of 1980: George HW Bush/Alexander Haig(Republican) vs Ted Kennedy/Walter Mondale(Democrat)
39(first term): Ted Kennedy/Walter Mondale(1981-1985)
-Election of 1984: Ted Kennedy/Walter Mondale(Democrat) vs George HW Bush/Larry Pressler(Republican)
40(first term): George HW Bush/Larry Pressler(1985-1989)
-Election of 1988: George HW Bush/Larry Pressler(Republican) vs Gary Hart/Bill Clinton(Democrat)
40(second term): George HW Bush/Larry Pressler(1989-1993)
-Election of 1992: Jesse Jackson/Al Gore(Democrat) vs Larry Pressler/Dan Quayle(Republican) vs Donald Trump/Pat Robertson(Independent)
41(first term): Jesse Jackson/Al Gore(1993-1997)
-Election of 1996: Jesse Jackson/Al Gore(Democrat) vs John McCain/Richard Lugar(Republican)
41(second term): Jesse Jackson/Al Gore(1997-2001)
Abridged list
Murder Was Written
AU ideas with OTL assassinations, ATL presidents. Summary of such
38(first term): Gerald Ford(August 9 1974-January 20 1981)/Nelson Rockefeller(December 19 1974-January 20 1977)
-Election of 1976: Gerald Ford/Bob Dole(Republican) vs Jimmy Carter/Walter Mondale(Democrat)
38(second term): Gerald Ford/Bob Dole(1977-1981)
-Election of 1980: George HW Bush/Alexander Haig(Republican) vs Ted Kennedy/Walter Mondale(Democrat)
39(first term): Ted Kennedy/Walter Mondale(1981-1985)
-Election of 1984: Ted Kennedy/Walter Mondale(Democrat) vs George HW Bush/Larry Pressler(Republican)
40(first term): George HW Bush/Larry Pressler(1985-1989)
-Election of 1988: George HW Bush/Larry Pressler(Republican) vs Gary Hart/Bill Clinton(Democrat)
40(second term): George HW Bush/Larry Pressler(1989-1993)
-Election of 1992: Jesse Jackson/Al Gore(Democrat) vs Larry Pressler/Dan Quayle(Republican) vs Donald Trump/Pat Robertson(Independent)
41(first term): Jesse Jackson/Al Gore(1993-1997)
-Election of 1996: Jesse Jackson/Al Gore(Democrat) vs John McCain/Richard Lugar(Republican)
41(second term): Jesse Jackson/Al Gore(1997-2001)
Abridged list
- 37: Richard Nixon***(1969-1974)/Spiro Agnew***(1969-1973)/Gerald Ford(1973-1974)
- 38: Gerald Ford(1974-1981)/Nelson Rockefeller(1974-1977), Bob Dole(1977-1981)
- 39: Ted Kennedy/Walter Mondale(1981-1985)
- 40: George HW Bush/Larry Pressler(1985-1993)
- 41: Jesse Jackson/Al Gore(1993-2001)
Murder Was Written
AU ideas with OTL assassinations, ATL presidents. Summary of such
- Abraham Lincoln: Keeps Hannibal Hamlin as his VP/Andrew Johnson is assassinated
- James A Garfield: Levi P Morton becomes his VP
- William McKinley: Garret Hobart survives/someone else is picked to replace Hobart
- John F Kennedy: The conspiracy theorists are right and LBJ did plan Kennedy's murder. He is also caught
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