I heard that Patti Reagan is similar to both Hilary Clinton and his OTL wife Laura, but both of their fathers are presidents, is it possible for them to get married? Would he still be a president?
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Bush never meets Laura. Continues as an alcoholic. Meets Patti Reagan in 1984 whilst visiting the White House. Both find mutual comfort in one another; Bush, a self destructive alcoholic how hasn't found his way in life and feels that his father is disappointing by him, Patti Reagan, victim of abuse and parental neglect and pill popper. They develop a deep bond, and eventfully fall in love. With someone to depend on, Bush and Patti give up the bottle and pills and seek to make a better life. Bush gains ownership of a the Texas Rangers and remains an Episcopalian, Patti becomes a political author.
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Christ, that sounds like a romantic drama that Aaron Sorkin would write.
And I know that George W. Bush did go on a date with Nixon's older daughter as well. It didn't go very well.The merging of two political families? It's happened before: Eisenhower's grandson married Nixon's daughter, and the two had children that are directly descended from two presidents.
Bush never meets Laura. Continues as an alcoholic. Meets Patti Reagan in 1984 whilst visiting the White House. Both find mutual comfort in one another; Bush, a self destructive alcoholic how hasn't found his way in life and feels that his father is disappointing by him, Patti Reagan, victim of abuse and parental neglect and pill popper. They develop a deep bond, and eventfully fall in love. With someone to depend on, Bush and Patti give up the bottle and pills and seek to make a better life. Bush gains ownership of a the Texas Rangers and remains an Episcopalian, Patti becomes a political author.
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Christ, that sounds like a romantic drama that Aaron Sorkin would write.
Anything that happens before Bush's Born Again experience and renouncement of alcohol is something that will not have a huge effect on OTL unless Patti is not nearly as supportive as Laura was and Bush therefore wastes away his life as a drunk without purpose or mission.
The merging of two political families? It's happened before: Eisenhower's grandson married Nixon's daughter, and the two had children that are directly descended from two presidents.
Possible, but highly unlikely. George W. married Laura in 1977. Wouldn't have met Patti until 1980. She is a lib. He's a conservative. She is a very gifted writer but not one to be a wife of a businessman turned politician.