Potential Republican Presidents (1960s-2000s)

Let's say that a few PODs take out OTL's Republican Presidents after Eisenhower...

Richard Nixon loses his first bid for Congress in 1946. He seeks office again in 1948 and is defeated once again in the face of the Truman re-election landslide for Congressional Democrats, and decides to stay out of politics, keeping to himself in a law practice.

Gerald Ford pursues a career in professional football rather than professional politics.

Ronald Reagan is given the nomination by the Los Angeles Democratic Party that he so coveted in 1952 and is elected to the United States House of Representatives. He serves a number of terms in the House before eventually being elected Governor, and later Senator, from California. Although an unreconstructed New Dealer for much of his political life, Reagan is nonetheless a strong Cold War hawk, leading to the rise of 'Reagan Democrats' within his party years later.

George H.W. Bush is killed in the Pacific War, preventing his and his son George W. Bush's respective political careers.


With these PODs in mind, some potential questions arise...

1. Who is Ike's running mate in 1952?
2. Who gets the Republican nomination in 1960?
3. Who are some possible alternate Republican Presidents in the Cold War era?
 
1. Bill Knowland
2. Bill Knowland or Rocky, but likely Knowland even though he's a diehard Jiang fanboy and Ike's contempt of him.
3. Bob Finch, Nixon's OTL protege, could run for governor in '62 and become the nominee in '68. Barry Goldwater, Scoop Jackson, Lloyd Bentsen, basically the OTL '70s+ crowd for the Democrats and some of the Republicans.
 

Technocrat

Banned
If the Republicans go Rockefeller or remain a party with conservative, liberal, and moderate wings in the 60's who are some liberal Republican possibilities?

And on that line of thought, cutting out the usual post-60's realignment reactionary DLC types, some old school conservative Democrats - which would mean Dixiecrats. If Strom Thurmond fades away and George Wallace never takes up the opportunity, who are some potential 60s' and 70's and later Dixiecrats as well?
 
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