Spiro Agnew as President ?

i look into diverse POD for Manned Mars Mission in 1980s or 1990s

L.B. Johnson life not long enough
Nixon has killt the US Space program on long term
H.H. Humphrey would to focus on social problem, not on US Space program
Robert Kennedy also, if he had survived to be president

only Spiro Agnew support a future Manned Mars Mission.
so how to get vice president to President before 1972 ?

i don't have not Infos about Assassination attempts, accident or sickness on Richard Nixon in 1968-1971.
you can help me ? thx
 
Look to Fear, Loathing and Gumbo. If you want Mars, it would be a good bet not to tie it to Agnew.

Agreed. As bad as Mr. Nixon was, Agnew would have been worse by all accounts.

I am tempted to refer back to a certain front cover of Private Eye with Nixon on the front just after his election. The speech bubble was short and all the more effective for it:

"Nobody is going to shoot me with Spiro T. Agnew next in line..."
 
I don't think Agnew has any redeeming qualities whatsoever. In fact, he was part of the reason that Nixon deflated from that huge lead over Humphrey in 68.
 
OMG Agnew, the worst of the worse. Send him to Mars and leave him there. I wish we had a better space program. It more than pays for itself. But politicians are very short sighted. Even JFK did it more has part of the Cold war. Maybe write on the Russians landing on the Moon July 4th 1969. Than see if Nixon and successors live up to the challenge, 2nd to the Moon but first to Mars.
 
On April 14, 1972, Arthur Bremer, the man who shot George Wallace, was in Ottawa Canada planning to kill Richard Nixon. He decided against it, as he did not think he could get a good shot. You could have Bremer get closer to Nixon. A few years ago on Othertimelines. ( formerly Different Worlds) someone wrote a TL about a bribery scandal when it is revealed that Nixon had agreed to pardon Jimmy Hoffa in exchange for the Teamsters support. With either of these PODs Agnew still has to resign in October 1973 because of the tax evasion charges. After he leaves office, the smoking gun tape shows that Agnew tried to cover up the Watergate break in. This makes the Agnew pardon more of an embarrassment for President Rockefeller.
 
Thx for info
Spiro Agnew is out of race

so combination of LBJ second term, until he dies. Then H.H. Humphrey from vice to president
sound better ?
 

Archibald

Banned
Yeah, Agnew is a death trap for us space cadets.
First reaction
"Cool, a vice President that back the NASA administrator for going to Mars..."
Then, one learns about Agnew real personality, and ran away from the original idea...

Morale: the sole VP in history in love with NASA and Mars at the right moment (1969 !) was... a dangerous crook, and a psychotic. :(

Oh, well...
 
How about this scenario ?

Spiro Agnew blunder so much during election campaign, that Nixon drop him for Robert Finch as VP nominee
Psychotic Agnew runs to press and tell about:
Nixon manipulation of US Vietnam peace-talks to discredit LBJ administration
and Nixon regular visit to a psychoanalyst in New York in begin 1968
Note: those two are real facts !

LBJ decide to run for President "in order to beat Tricky Dick", but give HHH de facto the presidency, do to bad health.
in the same time declare the Republican Nelson Rockefeller presidential nominee with Ronald Reagan as Vice.
this splits the Republican in "left" and "Right" fraction how gonna dispute each during 1970s

November 1968 election
L.B. Johnson 45%
Nelson Rockefeller 22%
Nixon 19%
George Wallace 13%
Eugene McCarthy 0%

Johnson declare on July 16, 1969:
"The Manned Lunar landing is the First step in Exploration of Space, we take the next step: the planet Mars"
 
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