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Well, here it is! The Official Pre-TL thread for my upcoming timeline, The Butterfly Lies Heavy. You know anything is going to be epic when it has a discussion thread before it comes out.

Now, about the actual timeline: My original idea for the POD was the much-observed assassination of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933. However, although I'm still going to keep that POD, I'm going to go back a little more to take an even smaller POD (because I like tiny PODs).

IOTL, Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Governor of New York then running for President in 1932, had to negotiate with the conservative Democratic Speaker of the House, John Nance Garner, to win the 1932 Democratic presidential nomination. The negotiation? Garner endorses Roosevelt, and in turn would be Roosevelt's nominee for Vice President.

This worked out. Roosevelt won the nomination, and shortly afterwards, the Roosevelt-Garner ticket was named.

HOWEVER: IT MAY NOT HAVE BEEN.

Garner wasn't big on the negotiations. He was in to win, so to speak; he wasn't in to win the vice presidential nomination, but the actual presidency. In fact, it took a lot of convincing from William Randolph Hearst, a Garner supporter, to get Garner to negotiate. And who got Hearst to negotiate with Garner?

None other than the famed businessman, Roosevelt supporter, and patriarch of the largest and most famed political family in America's history: Joseph Patrick "Joe" Kennedy, Sr.

Kennedy had to convince Hearst to withdraw Garner late at night. Furthermore, the two were political enemies, symbolic of the divide between the Roosevelt and Garner factions of the Democratic Party.

What if the conversation turned sour, William Randolph Hearst stayed unconvinced, and John Nance Garner remained in the ring for the Democratic nomination?

The butterflies would start small, but eventually, they would change the entire world as we know it.

WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT OUT OF THIS TL?

* A Senator who is a member of the Communist Party!
* A political appearance by Charles Lindbergh!
* John Lennon incorporated into the Kennedy family!
* Mormon Manitoba!
* PIRATES!
* Canadian Prime Minister John Kerry!
* A resurrection of Ancient Egyptian and Greek Mythologies!
* An Alternate History Society!
* AND SO, SO MUCH MORE!


Coming June 1:cool:, if I can wait that long.:p

So: Your thoughts? Ideas? Advice? I will try to make this TL epic in epic proportions.;)
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