Of all the Presidents of the 20th century, which is the most butterfly proof? That is to say, even if the US was colonized by Danish duck merchants, this person seems to, in timeline after timeline, still find a way to the White House?
I think the most butterfly proof President is Clinton. Clinton is ALWAYS PRESIDENT. I don't care if WW3 was in 1962 and it took 30 years for the US to rebuild, and there was Marshall law and Pat Buchanan was president in the 80s. Come 1992 or 1996, or 1988, Bill gets the White House..
Of all the Presidents of the 20th century, which is the most butterfly proof? That is to say, even if the US was colonized by Danish duck merchants, this person seems to, in timeline after timeline, still find a way to the White House?
What? No, Clinton was a dark horse in OTL. That doesn't bode well, unless OTL was an outlier.
I think that by the sheer reason of his awesomeness, Theodore Roosevelt is truely the once and future President in every TL, or at very least, is still born the same man, no matter if the POD dates back to the Big Bang. I tend to have his son Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. President in my TLs: the universe would just explode if Quentin would.
Nixon, in terms of trickiness, should really be the butterfly-proff President, and surprisingly, FDR is the most butterflied away President: funny, from the man who was in the White House for so much time.
Ehhhh, even after the failure of the government in Vietnam, Watergate, and Carter, Reagan only won 50% of the vote. Bush in 2004. Ford's close loss to Carter makes Reagan easier to butterfly away. He's like TR: Presidential, but probably an outlier in getting actual power.If we're talking actual objective plausibility rather than just what people put in out of laziness, I say Reagan--people were predicting he would be president from 1968 onwards, I don't think anyone else on the list was consistently considered a prospective candidate for 12 years prior to them actually becoming president.