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Writing a story as part of a challenge....and while nobody requested a backstory, I'd like to keep it as consistent as possible.
What if the following three things happened:
the US gets out of Vietnam (in this ATL, at most we sent Colin Powell and the other initial advisors, but got them out rather than increasing manpower)
no space program
Civil Rights suffer massive blows (no Martin Luther King Jr, no Malcolm X, no Rosa Parks, etc)
in such an ATL, in the 1960s/1970s, what might an ambitious US President latch onto? (the only thing I can think of, is making a Fortress America, since the Cold War is still on; that and building and repairing all the roads and damns in the nation)