List of Alternate Presidents and PMs II
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This is the first and only context where this 'Skip any sort of actual explanation and just slap on Q U O T A T I O N S' list actually works.
Due to decreasing ratings, NBCSN producers tried a number of radical changes which effectively resulted in the end of political sketches. That led to the show being canceled in 2002, and when it was uncanceled in '06, it returned with its full complement of political comedy.
Mumby - 'For a long time to come.'
'For a long time to come.'
1979-1983: Margaret Thatcher (Conservative)
1979 (Majority) def. Jim Callaghan (Labour), David Steel (Liberal)
1983-1984: Edward du Cann (Conservative majority)
1984-1995: David Steel (Liberal)
1984 (Alliance with Social Democratic Party) def. Michael Foot (Labour), Edward du Cann (Conservative)
1986 (Majority) def. Peter Shore (Labour), Ian Gilmour (Conservative), David Owen ('Continuity' Social Democrat)
1990 (Majority) def. Margaret Beckett (Labour), Ian Gilmour (Conservative and Democratic)
1995-2000: John Prescott (Labour)
1995 (Majority) def. Alan Beith (Liberal), Gillian Shephard (Conservative)
Basically, the events of @iainbhx 's TLIAW occur. Steel leads the country into round two with Galtieri's Argentina, alongside America after the dictator starts applying muscle to his neighbours and destabilising matters for Washington. Steel formalises the absorption of much of the SDP, though Owen leads a significant chunk out in protest. The Liberals win a majority at the khaki election of 1986, actually an overall loss from the height of the Alliance but a massive gain for the Liberals. Owen eventually leads his Continuity SDP into alliance and eventually entirely into the Tories which become more One Nation after the decimation of 1984, and by the 1990s have become a stodgy party focussed on rural affairs and farmers' concerns. Steel keeps a majority narrowly in 1990 due to Tory gains in the country and Labour gains in the cities. The failure of attempted economic integration in Europe and the rise of a eurosceptic wing within the Liberal Party causes ructions and an eventual loss in 1995 to Prescott's Labour.
1979-1983: Margaret Thatcher (Conservative)
1979 (Majority) def. Jim Callaghan (Labour), David Steel (Liberal)
1983-1984: Edward du Cann (Conservative majority)
1984-1995: David Steel (Liberal)
1984 (Alliance with Social Democratic Party) def. Michael Foot (Labour), Edward du Cann (Conservative)
1986 (Majority) def. Peter Shore (Labour), Ian Gilmour (Conservative), David Owen ('Continuity' Social Democrat)
1990 (Majority) def. Margaret Beckett (Labour), Ian Gilmour (Conservative and Democratic)
1995-2000: John Prescott (Labour)
1995 (Majority) def. Alan Beith (Liberal), Gillian Shephard (Conservative)
Basically, the events of @iainbhx 's TLIAW occur. Steel leads the country into round two with Galtieri's Argentina, alongside America after the dictator starts applying muscle to his neighbours and destabilising matters for Washington. Steel formalises the absorption of much of the SDP, though Owen leads a significant chunk out in protest. The Liberals win a majority at the khaki election of 1986, actually an overall loss from the height of the Alliance but a massive gain for the Liberals. Owen eventually leads his Continuity SDP into alliance and eventually entirely into the Tories which become more One Nation after the decimation of 1984, and by the 1990s have become a stodgy party focussed on rural affairs and farmers' concerns. Steel keeps a majority narrowly in 1990 due to Tory gains in the country and Labour gains in the cities. The failure of attempted economic integration in Europe and the rise of a eurosceptic wing within the Liberal Party causes ructions and an eventual loss in 1995 to Prescott's Labour.
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"Nothing is worn under the kilt. Everything was in perfect working order for three General Elections. Can *you* manage three at one go?"
- Spitting Image, sometime in the later Nineties...
Excellent Bob - one thing I will say is Maggies meant to be booted out in 82/3 with Du Cann taking over.
BlackentheBorg - I have never watched an episode of SNL
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Don't mind me, just shamelessly jumping on a possible new trend here;
I have never watched an episode of SNL
1977 - 1981: Chevy Chase (as Ronald Reagan)
"Richie, that's culturally insensitive -- the term is 'Haitian witchcraft economics'."
1981 - 1985: Kevin Nealon (as Hugh Carey)
"All my life, people have been underestimating me. I could totally take any you in a fight. I'm like a spitting cobra."
1985 - 1989: Rich Hall (as George H.W. Bush)
"..okay, I'm gonna be square with you, folks -- do you realise how hard it is to get through this job sober?!"
1989 - 1993: Tim Meadows (as Jesse Jackson)
"Your children need your presence more than your presents. You kids and your damn Atari's!"
*Phil Hartman as VP Gary Hart glances at Meadows, worried*
1993 - 1997: Will Ferrell (as Ross Perot)
"I don't have any experience in running up a $4 trillion debt. I don't have any experience in gridlock government. In fact, I don't have any experience."
1997 - 2001: Jimmy Fallon (as Bill Bradley)
"Getting the economy back on track is gonna be a slam dunk."
2001 - 2005: Darrell Hammond (as John McCain)
"[dances to Chubby Checker's 'Let's Twist Again']"
2005 - 2013: Larry David (as Bernie Sanders)
"Don't mess with me -- I'm from Brooklyn!"
2013 - 2017: Jason Sudeikis (as Mitt Romney)
"Of course I'm in touch with the youth of today! I just caught up on Reno 911 last night!"
2017 - : Katherine Ryan (as Zephyr Rain Teachout)
"...you know, it's times like these when I wish I was back on the commune..."
I have never watched an episode of SNL
1977 - 1981: Chevy Chase (as Ronald Reagan)
"Richie, that's culturally insensitive -- the term is 'Haitian witchcraft economics'."
1981 - 1985: Kevin Nealon (as Hugh Carey)
"All my life, people have been underestimating me. I could totally take any you in a fight. I'm like a spitting cobra."
1985 - 1989: Rich Hall (as George H.W. Bush)
"..okay, I'm gonna be square with you, folks -- do you realise how hard it is to get through this job sober?!"
1989 - 1993: Tim Meadows (as Jesse Jackson)
"Your children need your presence more than your presents. You kids and your damn Atari's!"
*Phil Hartman as VP Gary Hart glances at Meadows, worried*
1993 - 1997: Will Ferrell (as Ross Perot)
"I don't have any experience in running up a $4 trillion debt. I don't have any experience in gridlock government. In fact, I don't have any experience."
1997 - 2001: Jimmy Fallon (as Bill Bradley)
"Getting the economy back on track is gonna be a slam dunk."
2001 - 2005: Darrell Hammond (as John McCain)
"[dances to Chubby Checker's 'Let's Twist Again']"
2005 - 2013: Larry David (as Bernie Sanders)
"Don't mess with me -- I'm from Brooklyn!"
2013 - 2017: Jason Sudeikis (as Mitt Romney)
"Of course I'm in touch with the youth of today! I just caught up on Reno 911 last night!"
2017 - : Katherine Ryan (as Zephyr Rain Teachout)
"...you know, it's times like these when I wish I was back on the commune..."
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Asami - Saturday Night Live parodies of Presidents from Qilai, Qilai (thru 2029)
Asami
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Saturday Night Live parodies of Presidents from Qilai, Qilai; 2029
1977 - 1985: Lorne Michaels (as Terry Sanford)
"I broke up AT&T, what makes you think I won't break your face?"
1985 - 1993: Dan Aykroid (as Alexander Haig)
"I'm not just the god-damn President of the United States; I'll drive a tank through your damn living-room wall, bud."
1993 - 1999: Barry Obama (as John Conyers) with Larry David (as Bernard Sanders)
"...aaaaaaaaand China just invaded Rwanda. F*ck this shit, I'm out, Bernie. Bye. [crawls under desk]"
1999 - 2003: Hiatus due to Kargil War and Black April
2003 - 2005: John Morgan (as Herbert Bush)
"I'm gonna use my nukes on Arabia. I'm really not, but I might. But uh, we have a saying back in Texas; what doesn't kill us, uh, kills our enemies."
2005 - 2013: Frank Caliendo (as Donald Trump) with Amy Poehler (as Hillary R. Williams)
"I'm going to use all the powers I can to end this war, I'm gonna use all my powers to fight Europe, and I'm gonna make a good deal with China. Trust me on that." (Trump)
"Who the f*ck do you think you are, Gandalf the White? Come on, people! Vote for me, I've been trying for nearly 15 years, please just give me a chance [fake cry] [pours a shot of whiskey]" (Williams)
2013 - 2017: Alec Baldwin (as James Hill)
"[laughing nervously] Everything's fine, guys. Everything's fine. I promise. Nothing wrong here. [is trying to cover up a screen showing NASDAQ in free-fall]"
2017 - 2020: Seth Meyers (as Lee Randall Hawking)
"Mister President, why won't we take in any more Indo-Pakistani refugees?"
"Those damn Hindus are keeping me up at night with their glowing. I can 'em all from the White House!"
[cuts to Aziz Ansari completely covered in UV paint]
"It isn't my fault my house is still irradiated, asshole."
2020 - 2025: Kenan Thompson (as Lavern Hartell)
[Aide is flipping through index cards]
"What about inciting racial tensions?"
"Nah."
"What about invading Mexico?"
"Naaaah."
"What about governing?"
[snaps fingers] "I like that idea."
2025 - present: Mariko Ono (as Asami Tachibana)
"I am the law, motherfuckers!" [dusts off shoulders]
1977 - 1985: Lorne Michaels (as Terry Sanford)
"I broke up AT&T, what makes you think I won't break your face?"
1985 - 1993: Dan Aykroid (as Alexander Haig)
"I'm not just the god-damn President of the United States; I'll drive a tank through your damn living-room wall, bud."
1993 - 1999: Barry Obama (as John Conyers) with Larry David (as Bernard Sanders)
"...aaaaaaaaand China just invaded Rwanda. F*ck this shit, I'm out, Bernie. Bye. [crawls under desk]"
1999 - 2003: Hiatus due to Kargil War and Black April
2003 - 2005: John Morgan (as Herbert Bush)
"I'm gonna use my nukes on Arabia. I'm really not, but I might. But uh, we have a saying back in Texas; what doesn't kill us, uh, kills our enemies."
2005 - 2013: Frank Caliendo (as Donald Trump) with Amy Poehler (as Hillary R. Williams)
"I'm going to use all the powers I can to end this war, I'm gonna use all my powers to fight Europe, and I'm gonna make a good deal with China. Trust me on that." (Trump)
"Who the f*ck do you think you are, Gandalf the White? Come on, people! Vote for me, I've been trying for nearly 15 years, please just give me a chance [fake cry] [pours a shot of whiskey]" (Williams)
2013 - 2017: Alec Baldwin (as James Hill)
"[laughing nervously] Everything's fine, guys. Everything's fine. I promise. Nothing wrong here. [is trying to cover up a screen showing NASDAQ in free-fall]"
2017 - 2020: Seth Meyers (as Lee Randall Hawking)
"Mister President, why won't we take in any more Indo-Pakistani refugees?"
"Those damn Hindus are keeping me up at night with their glowing. I can 'em all from the White House!"
[cuts to Aziz Ansari completely covered in UV paint]
"It isn't my fault my house is still irradiated, asshole."
2020 - 2025: Kenan Thompson (as Lavern Hartell)
[Aide is flipping through index cards]
"What about inciting racial tensions?"
"Nah."
"What about invading Mexico?"
"Naaaah."
"What about governing?"
[snaps fingers] "I like that idea."
2025 - present: Mariko Ono (as Asami Tachibana)
"I am the law, motherfuckers!" [dusts off shoulders]
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Lilac - What the U.S. got up to in Made Glorious.
Shit, I forgot to ever post what exactly the U.S. got up to in Made Glorious.
Enjoy,
1963-1965: Lyndon B. Johnson☨ / Hubert H. Humphrey (Democratic)[1]
1964: Barry Goldwater / William E. Miller (Republican)
1965-1965: Hubert H. Humphrey / VACANCY (Democratic)[2]
1965-1969: Hubert H. Humphrey / W. Stuart Symington (Democratic)[3]
1969-1973: Louise Day Hicks / R. Vance Hartke (Democratic)[4]
1968: George W. Romney / James B. Pearson (Republican), George Wallace / Thomas G. Dunn (AIP), Lee Metcalf / Lucien N. Nedzi ('Peace' Democratic)
1973-1981: Richard M. Nixon / William E. “Bill” Brock III (Republican)[5]
1972: Louise Day Hicks / R. Vance Hartke (Democratic)
1976: Adlai E. Stevenson III / D. Wayne Owens (Democratic)
1981-: Lloyd Bentsen / Michael S. Dukakis (Democratic)
1980: Malcolm Wallop, 12th Earl of Portsmouth[6] / Lawrence J. Hogan (Republican)
[1] In the aftermath of Hurricane Betsy in late 1965, LBJ visits New Orleans and the surrounding areas to express his condolences to Governor McKeithen. But LBJ gets more than a photo-op - schoolteacher Kathy Capomacchia shoots the President twice as he's glad-handing in Chalmette, LA. The second nicks an artery, and LBJ bleeds out on a ballroom floor less than two years after taking office. Subsequent investigation goes on to reveal that the innocent-looking Capomacchia was an avid white supremacist, enraged over Prime Minister Home's proposal for power-sharing in Rhodesia - and perfectly willing to kill. And the nation mourns LBJ as a liberal lion, the man who triumphed over Barry Goldwater, brought about the War on Poverty, and finally fought for Civil Rights as only a southerner with immense political capital to spend could do. As of the present day, it's hard to find a Presidential historian that doesn't rank Lyndon Baines Johnson as the #1 president of all time.
[2] Hubert Humphrey is memorizing the first speech he will give to the nation as President, in the stunned few hours after the doctors told him it was over. And then he remembers. 'All I have, I would have given gladly not to be standing here today.' And then he throws up. It's an inauspicious start to an unlucky presidency. He can't possibly live up to what LBJ did - soothe the racial tensions that are now boiling over, continue the War on Poverty with a majority based on southern Dems that like the chipper Minnesotan a lot less than the imposing Texan. Even pulling all forces out of Vietnam in late 1966 is taken for what it is - a lack of national will.
[3] But Humphrey runs for nomination in 1968 - less because he has any achievements to go one and more because he is simply expected to. And the token challenger - almost laughable, really, is Mayor of Boston, anti-busing champion Louise Day Hicks. Only Mayor for two years - Hicks is inexperienced, incendiary, much more hawkish than Humphrey - and assumed to be a lightweight. Her run is if anything just a stunt to defend against the anti-war wing of the party, when Sam Yorty refused. But come New Hampshire and - Hicks has the free media from Boston, she's Catholic, Bill Loeb swings the Manchester Union heavily in her favor - and unlikely Humphrey she's at least going to actually do something. She gets 46% of the vote - and Humphrey gets utterly humiliated. But he dithers getting out of the race - other, stronger candidates can't quite switch in in time - and Hicks is perfectly willing to work with the bosses in the party. She beats Humphrey and McGovern easily on the first ballot, and selects liberal Vance Hartke in the interests of balance, buoying a campaign that had never expected to get this far. And against her? The immaculate, moderate Governor of Michigan George Romney, a man who is proud to take up the anti-war torch that the President so decisively dropped.
Romney drops it too - the wealthy car exec born in Mexico, who isn't even a 'real' Christian (or so they say) coasts from event to event with bizarre comments about how the military-industrial complex is trying to 'brain-wash' the United States, how he's got binders full of Afro-American candidates, and how 47% of the Deep South is just going to vote for a segregationist anyway. If anything, Romney comes across as the placid tribune of Humphreyism, and Hicks as the woman fighting, resolute to stop the onslaught of crime, the tidal wave of disrespect for Americans around the world. And she wins by less than a % - going farther and faster than had ever been dreamt possible for a female candidate.
[4] The Hicks administration is a strange mix of policies - far more socially liberal than she might seem, Hicks is pleased to finally celebrate the passing of the Equal Rights Amendment, while her populist economic agenda ends up mostly dead on arrival - and Will Wilson and Wade McCree certainly represented opposite poles when it came to Supreme Court appointments. But in the end, Hicks' presidency would of course be defined by one thing alone. The Iraq War.
President Hicks was itching to show American strength, to portray a nation that had learned it's lesson from disgracefully pulling out of Vietnam, and come 1969 she already had the perfect target. Ahmed al-Bakr, leading the dangerously socialist new Ba'athist regime in Iraq - a threat to American power and influence across the Middle East that seemed absolutely intolerable. So she began arming the Kurds - and mid-1969 outright invaded, determined to end the 'communistic' threat. Hicks went alone - Douglas Jay unceremoniousgly told her to sod off and saw his poll numbers promptly spike. And after al-Bakr had been deposed - what was their to do? The U.S. tried to prop up a fragile new state with a progressive fresh-faced former Ba'athist as ruler, but the widespread resentment against the American puppet regime, and Mr. Hussein's own inexperience at governing, meant that Iraq collapsed into civil war in late 1971. Her major foreign policy initiative was toast.
[5] As Richard Nixon was oh so fond of saying - he'd never voted to invade Iraq - in fact, he'd been a figure on the political sidelines for the past 12 years, hoping for a Romney stumble in 1968 that never quite happened. But come 1972 and Nixon was tanned, rested, and ready - he had the foreign policy experience, gravitas, and calm demeanor to be the return to normalcy after the 'hysterical' Hicks years. And after the secretive, botched invasion of Iraq - and widespread crackdowns on 'Law and Order' that infuriated natural Democratic constituencies - Nixon's campaign ran on the obvious message.
'I've been out of politics for over a decade - this country needs healing - and I will never lie to you.'
And if Nixon's squeaky-clean image was a little forced now - and it had been forced when he'd done the same routine with Checkers 20 years ago - he stuck to it. The Senate was actively looking into foreign policy now, J. Edgar Hoover was out of the picture - and it seemed best to ride the new wave of transparency. Nixon withdrew U.S. forces from Iraq, founded the EPA, narrowly passed Nixoncare with the help of Senator Kennedy from New York - and was re-elected in a landslide over the mild Illinois Senator in 1976. If Nixon was pleased that his margin was slightly larger than when Ike had beaten his opponent's dad 20 years ago - he kept it to himself.
[6] How exactly this happened would be a long, inconvenient story - suffice it to say that the IRA wanted to humiliate Nixon's chosen successor and got really invested in the fun nitty gritty of coercing people to disclaim peerages. It worked in the sense that every single press conference had Wallop awkwardly trying to explain why his name was 'Earl' now, and in the debates was decisively thumped by Bentsen who exclaimed that, no, he'd met British people and Wallop was not British.
Enjoy,
1963-1965: Lyndon B. Johnson☨ / Hubert H. Humphrey (Democratic)[1]
1964: Barry Goldwater / William E. Miller (Republican)
1965-1965: Hubert H. Humphrey / VACANCY (Democratic)[2]
1965-1969: Hubert H. Humphrey / W. Stuart Symington (Democratic)[3]
1969-1973: Louise Day Hicks / R. Vance Hartke (Democratic)[4]
1968: George W. Romney / James B. Pearson (Republican), George Wallace / Thomas G. Dunn (AIP), Lee Metcalf / Lucien N. Nedzi ('Peace' Democratic)
1973-1981: Richard M. Nixon / William E. “Bill” Brock III (Republican)[5]
1972: Louise Day Hicks / R. Vance Hartke (Democratic)
1976: Adlai E. Stevenson III / D. Wayne Owens (Democratic)
1981-: Lloyd Bentsen / Michael S. Dukakis (Democratic)
1980: Malcolm Wallop, 12th Earl of Portsmouth[6] / Lawrence J. Hogan (Republican)
[1] In the aftermath of Hurricane Betsy in late 1965, LBJ visits New Orleans and the surrounding areas to express his condolences to Governor McKeithen. But LBJ gets more than a photo-op - schoolteacher Kathy Capomacchia shoots the President twice as he's glad-handing in Chalmette, LA. The second nicks an artery, and LBJ bleeds out on a ballroom floor less than two years after taking office. Subsequent investigation goes on to reveal that the innocent-looking Capomacchia was an avid white supremacist, enraged over Prime Minister Home's proposal for power-sharing in Rhodesia - and perfectly willing to kill. And the nation mourns LBJ as a liberal lion, the man who triumphed over Barry Goldwater, brought about the War on Poverty, and finally fought for Civil Rights as only a southerner with immense political capital to spend could do. As of the present day, it's hard to find a Presidential historian that doesn't rank Lyndon Baines Johnson as the #1 president of all time.
[2] Hubert Humphrey is memorizing the first speech he will give to the nation as President, in the stunned few hours after the doctors told him it was over. And then he remembers. 'All I have, I would have given gladly not to be standing here today.' And then he throws up. It's an inauspicious start to an unlucky presidency. He can't possibly live up to what LBJ did - soothe the racial tensions that are now boiling over, continue the War on Poverty with a majority based on southern Dems that like the chipper Minnesotan a lot less than the imposing Texan. Even pulling all forces out of Vietnam in late 1966 is taken for what it is - a lack of national will.
[3] But Humphrey runs for nomination in 1968 - less because he has any achievements to go one and more because he is simply expected to. And the token challenger - almost laughable, really, is Mayor of Boston, anti-busing champion Louise Day Hicks. Only Mayor for two years - Hicks is inexperienced, incendiary, much more hawkish than Humphrey - and assumed to be a lightweight. Her run is if anything just a stunt to defend against the anti-war wing of the party, when Sam Yorty refused. But come New Hampshire and - Hicks has the free media from Boston, she's Catholic, Bill Loeb swings the Manchester Union heavily in her favor - and unlikely Humphrey she's at least going to actually do something. She gets 46% of the vote - and Humphrey gets utterly humiliated. But he dithers getting out of the race - other, stronger candidates can't quite switch in in time - and Hicks is perfectly willing to work with the bosses in the party. She beats Humphrey and McGovern easily on the first ballot, and selects liberal Vance Hartke in the interests of balance, buoying a campaign that had never expected to get this far. And against her? The immaculate, moderate Governor of Michigan George Romney, a man who is proud to take up the anti-war torch that the President so decisively dropped.
Romney drops it too - the wealthy car exec born in Mexico, who isn't even a 'real' Christian (or so they say) coasts from event to event with bizarre comments about how the military-industrial complex is trying to 'brain-wash' the United States, how he's got binders full of Afro-American candidates, and how 47% of the Deep South is just going to vote for a segregationist anyway. If anything, Romney comes across as the placid tribune of Humphreyism, and Hicks as the woman fighting, resolute to stop the onslaught of crime, the tidal wave of disrespect for Americans around the world. And she wins by less than a % - going farther and faster than had ever been dreamt possible for a female candidate.
[4] The Hicks administration is a strange mix of policies - far more socially liberal than she might seem, Hicks is pleased to finally celebrate the passing of the Equal Rights Amendment, while her populist economic agenda ends up mostly dead on arrival - and Will Wilson and Wade McCree certainly represented opposite poles when it came to Supreme Court appointments. But in the end, Hicks' presidency would of course be defined by one thing alone. The Iraq War.
President Hicks was itching to show American strength, to portray a nation that had learned it's lesson from disgracefully pulling out of Vietnam, and come 1969 she already had the perfect target. Ahmed al-Bakr, leading the dangerously socialist new Ba'athist regime in Iraq - a threat to American power and influence across the Middle East that seemed absolutely intolerable. So she began arming the Kurds - and mid-1969 outright invaded, determined to end the 'communistic' threat. Hicks went alone - Douglas Jay unceremoniousgly told her to sod off and saw his poll numbers promptly spike. And after al-Bakr had been deposed - what was their to do? The U.S. tried to prop up a fragile new state with a progressive fresh-faced former Ba'athist as ruler, but the widespread resentment against the American puppet regime, and Mr. Hussein's own inexperience at governing, meant that Iraq collapsed into civil war in late 1971. Her major foreign policy initiative was toast.
[5] As Richard Nixon was oh so fond of saying - he'd never voted to invade Iraq - in fact, he'd been a figure on the political sidelines for the past 12 years, hoping for a Romney stumble in 1968 that never quite happened. But come 1972 and Nixon was tanned, rested, and ready - he had the foreign policy experience, gravitas, and calm demeanor to be the return to normalcy after the 'hysterical' Hicks years. And after the secretive, botched invasion of Iraq - and widespread crackdowns on 'Law and Order' that infuriated natural Democratic constituencies - Nixon's campaign ran on the obvious message.
'I've been out of politics for over a decade - this country needs healing - and I will never lie to you.'
And if Nixon's squeaky-clean image was a little forced now - and it had been forced when he'd done the same routine with Checkers 20 years ago - he stuck to it. The Senate was actively looking into foreign policy now, J. Edgar Hoover was out of the picture - and it seemed best to ride the new wave of transparency. Nixon withdrew U.S. forces from Iraq, founded the EPA, narrowly passed Nixoncare with the help of Senator Kennedy from New York - and was re-elected in a landslide over the mild Illinois Senator in 1976. If Nixon was pleased that his margin was slightly larger than when Ike had beaten his opponent's dad 20 years ago - he kept it to himself.
[6] How exactly this happened would be a long, inconvenient story - suffice it to say that the IRA wanted to humiliate Nixon's chosen successor and got really invested in the fun nitty gritty of coercing people to disclaim peerages. It worked in the sense that every single press conference had Wallop awkwardly trying to explain why his name was 'Earl' now, and in the debates was decisively thumped by Bentsen who exclaimed that, no, he'd met British people and Wallop was not British.
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