Which president do you save?

Well, who?

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Mr.J

Just as some explanation:

- If you save Harrison, I leave it up to your judgment whether he gets reelected in 1844.

- If you save Lincoln, he steps down in 1868, keeping to the two-term tradition.

- If you save Garfield, I again leave it up to your judgment whether he gets reelected in 1884.

- Same rules with McKinley getting re-elected in 1904 and Harding in 1924.

- Roosevelt will step down in 1948 - 16 years is enough for him.

- Kennedy's reelection is again, up to your judgment.

- "Saving" Nixon is convincing him to win the 1972 election without using "dirty tricks", or at least such obvious dirty tricks.

Obviously, I don't think that Roosevelt or Harrison's death was an assassination (Harding's could have been his jealous wife...), in those cases you're using ASB powers to cure their illness (but FDR will still need his wheelchair)
 

John Fredrick Parker

Donor
Would be either Lincoln or Garfield -- the former has the potential to do more good, but the latter is more certain (even as it comes with much damage already done).

EDIT ADD: You know what? Abe's doing fine without me, so I'll go with James.
 
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PandaRosa

You forgot one

What, no Zachery Taylor? There was a flap back around 1991 that he had been murdered, partly over his opposition the slavery. It's tentative, but not impossible.
 

Lalli

James Garfield
Abraham Lincoln
William Henry Harrison (It would be just intresting see, how America would develope.)
John F. Kennedy
Richard Nixon
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Warren G. Harding
William McKinley
 
oshron

oshron

instinctively, i vote for Lincoln, as i think the US would be much better off if Reconstruction went more smoothly under his continued administration

thought, out of interest, i wonder how Harrison's presidency would go? it would also be alot easier to save him: just insist that he wear a coat and gloves, give him my own if necessary ;)
 

JacktheCat

Roosevelt; not for his presidency, that was nearly up in any case.

But for what he would have done post-presidency, vis-a-via turning the United Nations into a real international organisation with teeth, not just some fancy expensive talk shop.

What a different second half of the 20th century we would have had.
 

Paul V McNutt

Banned
Lincoln's political skills would have been very helpful during reconstruction. sSaving him would have kept that racist incompetent out of the White House.
 

serbrcq

JacktheCat said:
Roosevelt; not for his presidency, that was nearly up in any case.

But for what he would have done post-presidency, vis-a-via turning the United Nations into a real international organisation with teeth, not just some fancy expensive talk shop.

What a different second half of the 20th century we would have had.
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Wouldn't an FDR-dominated UN basically become super-NATO and evolve into a partisan organization in the Cold War?
 
Driftless

Driftless

Donor
Lincoln - Better Reconstruction and the Civil War actually ends in the 19th Century.

Nixon - The significance of opening the door to China & Russia too often gets overshadowed by the crimes of Watergate. Play by the rules, Dick and and you swamp McGovern anyway.

Also, the country had a shot at a functional national health system in the 70's.

Nixon without the paranoia (hard to imagine, isn't it?) could have been one of the greats.
 

Mr.J

Driftless said:
Nixon without the paranoia (hard to imagine, isn't it?) could have been one of the greats.
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Oh, he still has the paranoia (unfortunately): he's just smart enough to realize he can beat McGovern without making the effort to cheat.

Also, I can't believe I forgot Zachary Taylor! Go ahead and vote for him in the thread if you want.
 
The Kiat

The Kiat

Driftless said:
Nixon without the paranoia (hard to imagine, isn't it?) could have been one of the greats.
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I think insecure might be a better description. Politics can often be a rich boys' club, and Nixon wasn't rich. He actually had to work his way up, and those boys tend to look down their noses at anybody who isn't one of them. Nixonland (that'd make a great theme park) goes on and on about it.
 

Richter von Manthofen

I voted Nixon because IMHO that whole "affair" was just played up a bit.

A little intelligence gathering is nothing - really.

I can imagine that after Agnew has to resign he still takes Ford as VP. Without his pardoning Nixon he probably wins the 1976 election and 1980 too. This probably butterflies aeay R.Reagan :D
 

Mikestone8

Driftless said:
Lincoln - Better Reconstruction and the Civil War actually ends in the 19th Century.
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The Civil War did end in the 19th Century. By 1898 young Southerners whose fathers had fought stubbornly against the US were eagerly joining up to fight for it. So indeed were many of the fathers themselves, including at least one former Rebel general.

It puts me in mind of an ncident from the Franco-Prussian War, in which Crown Prince Frederick of Prussia found himself with a number of Bavarian allies under his command. These latter, of course, had been fighting on the Austrian side in 1866, and after Frederick had led them to victory in a battle with the French, a Bavarian soldier reportedly called to him "If we'd had you leading us four years ago, Sir, we could have chased those ****ing Prussians all the way to the Baltic". Frederick laughed his head off.
 
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