Richard Nixon The Used Car Salesman: The Game

In case you're wondering, this is what I'm referring to: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RichardNixonTheUsedCarSalesman

For those not in the know, Richard Nixon The Used Care Salesman is a trope in alternate history where a famous figure in OTL is obscure, has a different occupation or otherwise different life in ATL. Like "The Iron Dream" where its a sci-fi story by Adolf Hitler in a universe he emigrated to the U.S in 1919 and writes science fiction. Often what they do is a reference to things they actually did or thought of doing IOTL.

The only rule for this is for the POD to have taken place at some point after the used care salesman has been conceived, as they probably wouldn't exist if it was before. Other than that, have some fun. Here's my example

Woodrow Wilson in OTL was the 29th President. However in "President Hamlin", where Lincoln was assassinated in 1864 and Hamlin managed to get re-elected then oversaw a different Reconstruction, Wilson was a pioneer of the alternate history genre. This is a reference to how, IOTL, Wilson was a historian. His first book was "One Nation Under The Crown" in 1883, which imagined a world where the American Revolution failed and America remains under the British Empire. Though pioneering the genre and a good read, it has gotten some criticism for the writer's prejudice, some plausibility issues and focusing too much on Wilson's state. Wilson's masterpiece, released on what would have been Lincoln's 100th birthday, is "Seeing the Union Through". A DBWI in that it tells what would happen if Lincoln survived in 1864, serving his second term in full and how that influences politics 40 years afterwards
 
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Welcome to the board.

I'll admit that I'm confused. Is the POD in 1864? Or is it just that Nixon never goes into politics? Because if it's the latter, it needs to be in the post-1900 forum. If it's the former, is it even possible to posit that OTL's Richard Nixon would even exist?
 
Welcome to the board.

I'll admit that I'm confused. Is the POD in 1864? Or is it just that Nixon never goes into politics? Because if it's the latter, it needs to be in the post-1900 forum. If it's the former, is it even possible to posit that OTL's Richard Nixon would even exist?

It's not about Nixon in particular, its about ATL occupations of OTL people.
 
What Zajir said. It can be any historical figure. The POD I described was just my example, feel free to use your own timelines and ATL occupations of OTL people, just make sure that person was conceived before the POD
 
My timeline (https://www.alternatehistory.com/fo...fallen-a-timeline-without-charlemagne.416427/) has a few of these. William of Gellone becomes majordomo of one of the Frankish successor states rather than a duke. Charlemagne and Carloman are minor nobles in the Lombard empire and are only known in history for the actions of their father, grandfather, and some other relatives who haven't shown up in the TL yet. Widukind never gets imprisoned in a monastery. Antipope Phillip gets to be an actual Pope. Tarasios is a fiery, revolutionary iconodule preacher who stirs the people of Sicily against the Patriarch of Constantinople.
 
Woodrow Wilson in OTL was the 29th Universe.

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There's a literal "Richard Nixon the Used Car Salesman" TL kicking around where Nixon actually becomes an automotive executive.
 

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Another good Richard Nixon idea would be where his time playing poker in WWII ends up with him getting into the gambling industry and is head of "King Richard's Casino" (also a nod to how he and his brothers were named after old English kings)
I'd personally love to play Richard Nixon in poker
 
Bob LaFollette, the governor an senator from Wisconsin, initially considered a career in acting before going into law and politics - apparently after a professor of his told him that that five foot six he was far too short to make a career in acting (an assertion I also take umbrage to; considering LaFollette and I are the same height :p). In any case, his height aside, there's a good chance that he would have been able to make a go of it had he decided to go in that direction. He'd be too old to ever be a leading man once Hollywood gets going, but that doesn't mean there still wouldn't be a slew of good parts for him at this later stage in his career. And there is something interesting in seeing the LaFollette clan as a squeakier-clean answer to the Barrymore family.
 
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