So we know Coolidge,Hoover,Truman,Dewey,Eisenhower,Nixon,Carter and Reagan all existed ittl at one time or another although not always as President or VP. Barack Obama and Colin Powell did not exist But what about JFK,LBJ, RFK,Gerald Ford.George HW Bush,Bill Clinton,George W Bush,Hillary Clinton , Donald Trump and Joe Biden ?
Also what about J .Edgar Hoover and Jesse Jackson.
The analogue to Gerald Ford in TTL was Rudolph Ford, and he was born on a slightly different date. Rudolph Ford served in the US Navy during the SGW. After the war, he successfully applied for a masters program at the University of Chicago in economics. Ford went on to eventually earn a doctorate in economics. He enjoyed an academic career at several universities in the Midwest as an economics professor, before gaining a tenured position at the University of Michigan. He retired from teaching in 1992.
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Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, George HW Bush, George W Bush, Jesse Jackson, and Donald Trump don’t exist in TTL.
Here is what I have already written up for the analogues in TTL to the Kennedy family, the Bush family, Trump family, Lyndon Johnson, and J Edgar Hoover:
John Edgar Hoover’s family did not stay in Washington, DC, given the proximity of the CSA. An analogue to Hoover was born, at a slightly different date, in Philadelphia. Hoover’s ATL counterpart was drafted during the FGW, served in the US Amy Quartermaster Corps, and then, after the war, went to work as a clerk for a shipping company. Hoover’s analogue never served in a law enforcement capacity.
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In spite of the ambitions of Joseph Kennedy Sr., none of his descendants had significant success in local Massachusetts politics, although several members of the Kennedy family did make into the state legislature during the late Twentieth Century. Politics in Massachusetts, well into the 1980s, was dominated by the powerful Socialist Party machine based in Boston; the Kennedys, a family of Democratic Party loyalists, did not prosper politically in this climate, or later in the 1980s, when a revitalized Republican Party successfully challenged the Boston Machine.
In 2021, the Kennedy family is still mostly centered in Massachusetts, and can be found working in several prominent local companies; several members of the family also found a place in academia, with one member of the family currently on the faculty of Harvard. However, no members of the current generation of Kennedys have an interest in a political career.
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Lyndon Johnson’s participation in Texas politics was cut short by the Featherston dictatorship. Although not ultimately arrested by the regime, he found himself on a blacklist preventing him from gaining any meaningful employment with either the state government or major local companies. He was still in Texas when the state declared independence. After the war, he ran a successful import-export business.
Johnson was genuinely horrified when he learned of the Destruction, and of the atrocities committed on Texas soil. Alongside his day job, Johnson spent what time he could investigating just what had happened in his state during the Featherston years. Johnson did not enjoy a lot of support from the Texas authorities in this endeavor, given that his documentation directly contradicted the self-serving narrative that emerged in the state that claimed Texas was primarily a victim of Featherston. Johnson, aside from documenting Freedom Party atrocities in Texas, also documented evidence of extensive local collaboration with the Featherston regime.
Johnson also served as a local contact for Cassius Madison’s Remembrance Center, although this would not be publicized until well after Johnson’s death. Before he died, Johnson entrusted all of his private research on the Destruction and local collaboration in Texas with the Freedom Party to the Remembrance Center. Johnson’s research later became the basis for
Lone Star State, a three volume history of the Destruction and Freedom Party rule in Texas published (jointly) by the Remembrance Center and Yale University in 1979. This caused a diplomatic incident between the US and Texas, as the Republic of Texas attempted to stop the publication of this history. Evidence provided by Johnson’s research would also later result in several local Freedom Party war criminals from Texas being handed over to US authorities.
In 2021, Johnson has a memorial plaque of his own on the Remembrance Center’s Walk of Friendship, located in the extensive Memorial Garden surrounding the center itself.
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In 2021, the analogue to the Bush family is primarily concentrated in the Northeast, with most members of the family living either in Connecticut or New York. It’s a wealthy family, but with no members currently interested in a political career.
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As of TTL’s 2021, the analogue to our world’s Trump family mostly lives in the New York City area. It’s not a family that’s particularly wealthy; among other butterflies, Fred Trump never wound up building up a successful real estate business. The Trump family in TTL leads, for the most part, a normal middle class existence in 2021. As previously mentioned, Donald Trump does not exist in TTL.