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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72
A rather dystopian Cold War era timeline by Drew.
Chapters
Update 1: Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72
Update 4: The Hayride begins: Late summer, early autumn
Update 5: Nixon in the crosshairs
Update 6: Tuesday, November 7, 1972
Update 7: Left makes right: The Congressional races of 1972
Update 8: Shock and ... say what?
Update 9: George Corley Wallace: Burnin' down the house
Update 11: Uncle Sam wants you George
Update 12: Judges Judge, Electors Elect and the lawyers make off like bandits
Update 14: Courts and Communists
Update 18: Who here, seriously, wants to allow Spiro Agnew to become President?
Update 19: Cold Days in January
Update 21: Springtime For Spiro
Update 25: A Transformative Presidency for a New American Century
Update 26: Fear, Loathing and Crisis '73
Update 27: Spiro Fishing at DEFCON 2
Update 28: Spiro - You're Fired!
Update 29: Cap Weinberger and James Gavin's list of ten choices for Vice President
Update 31: After the Fall: The unbowed right
Update 32: Henry's Odyssey Oct 31 - Nov. 11, 1973
Update 34: Cleaning-up after the last guy
Update 35: One Step Forward; One Step into the Abyss
Update 37: An ounce of prevention
Update 39: French National Assembly Elections October 1974
Update 40: TV and the California Governor's race
Update 41: Le Grand Gachis v. 2.0
Update 42: Crime and Punishment in America - Autumn 1974
Update 43: The new President of South Vietnam
Update 44: America's Grand Gachis
Update 45: Pennies and Peanuts
Update 46: The Long Slide Down
Update 47: November 5, 1974 - "The Tuesday Night Massacre"
Update 48: It's not the votes but who is seen to be casting them that counts
Update 49: The Rumblings of Fanatics
Update 50: Peace on Earth? Not this Christmas
Update 51: The Ninth Circuit - December 1974
Update 52: The Cauldron Bubbles
Update 53: No Lame Ducks on the menu
Update 54: Oops - if it wasn't for those pesky laws...
Update 55: The Bite of the Red Eminence
Update 57: Adana Kebab and Ouzo gives you indigestion
Update 59: Fear, Loathing and Red Jelly Beans on the Campaign Trail ‘76
Update 61: Of Hot Lips. New Hampshire and the First Nephew's Dream
Update 62: Flavor of the campaign
Update 63: Settin' the Woods on Fire again
Update 64: So, you want to go there, do you?
Update 67: Republik Maluku Selatan (RMS)
Update 69: "You'll come a-Waltzing Whitlam, with me"
Update 71: Hot Lead Anniversary
Update 72: April Showers bring May Primaries
Update 73: And then the Rubber Hits The Road
Update 76: The 1976 Democratic National Convention
Update 77: Fear, Loathing and Alka Seltzer on the Campaign Trail '76
Update 78: Wallace by a Palm Leaf
Update 79: Now, Tomorrow and Forever...
Update 80: The Broken Dragon: The Two Maos and the Agony of the Middle Kingdom
Update 81: No Punks, Pinkos, Religious Nuts or Tories Need Apply
Update 83: The Year of the Tiger: 23 January 1974 – 10 February 1975
Update 84: Eddie -- You're fired!
Update 85: Wallace's Summer of Tough Love
Update 87: Agnew On Point - Sprio vs. the Slithering Snopes
Update 88: Dysfunctional Marriages
Update 91: Frost and Nixon 2.0
Update 92: Oily Politics and lit matches
Update 93: ABC News Close-up: America: A Nation on the Rails Once More (1978)
Update 95: Planes, Trains, Trucks and Wallace
Update 97: Persistent Populism Piles-up Plentifully Putrid I
Update 98: Persistent Populism Piles-up Plentifully Putrid II
Update 99: If you are so sick ... why am I so pale?
Update 100: Map of Laos with Flags
Update 101: Laos War 1978 - 1979 Part I
Update 102: Laos War 1978 - 1979 Part II
Update 105: Sand in your sheets
Update 106: Neither Founding Fathers nor Bolsheviks
Update 108: More Breaking News...
Update 109: Georgia Gubernatorial election 1978
Update 110: An Iowan for Iowans?
Update 111: ’79 - Hell of a Year I
Update 112: ’79 - Hell of a Year II
Update 115: Throwing Stones at the Stone Age
Update 116: Japan's Political Earthquake
Update 118: The Years of the Skull
Update 120: Popes and Libertarians
Update 122: A World of Troubles
Update 123: The Democratic and Republican Presidential Primaries 1980
Update 124: The Democratic and Republican Presidential Primaries 1980 (Maps)
Update 127: Koufax Pitches in the Hardest Game Yet
Update 128: A Very Troublesome Woman
Update 129: A Wolf in the Woods
Update 131: The New Democracy: The candidate with fewer votes wins
Chapters (Rumsfeldia)
Update 2: The Rumsfeld Administration
Update 3: The Inaugural Address of President Donald Rumsfeld
Update 4: Rumsfeldia: Year One - The Job He Always Wanted
Update 5: Year One: A Rummy Run
Update 6: Sorry, missed the wedding
Update 7: What part of "no more debt" didn't you understand?
Update 8: Ah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction?
Update 9: Soviet Politburo (1982)
Update 11: The 20th United States Census
Update 13: French Presidential Term
Update 14: Michael Foot, Deputy Prime Minister
Update 15: The Road to Rumpire
Update 20: Updates - Several Pages
Update 24: Update V - The Rummy Shot
Update 25: Popular Vote - U.S. Presidential Election 1984
Update 26: Electoral Outcomes - U.S. Presidential Elections 1972-1984
Update 27: Mid to late 1984-1985
Update 28: Sorry - you failed to apply for a permit to conquer the world!
Update 29: Smith's Invisible Hand - Mightier than you thought
Update 30: Let's all go to the cinema...
Update 31: An update (Merry Christmas)
Update 33: The restive armed forces - and Sarah Louise
Update 36: The US Supreme Court Bench 1985
Update 37: It's a Rummy world - Brought to you by better living through investment banking
Update 39: No More Mr. Loveable
Update 44: Saturday, July 4, 1987
Update 46: Spitting Image - June 1986 - The Rummy and Dick Show
Update 48: Idaho: Labratory of Liberty
Update 51: Where Are They Now 2
Update 53: Where Are They Now 3
Update 54: It's Not a Wonderful Life
Update 55: Where Are They Now 4
Update 56: Where Are They Now 5
Update 57: Where Are They Now 6
Update 59: Near Another Watering Hole Far Far Away...
Update 62: Where Are They Now 7
Update 63: Where Are They Now 8
Update 64: Spring and Summer 1988 - Newspaper headlines and Snippets
Update 66: A bit of space p*rn
Update 67: Where Are They Now 9
Update 68: Where Are They Now 10
Update 69: товарищ будущее (Comrade Future)
Update 72: 1988: The Year the Establishment Failed
Update 73: Where Are They Now 11
Update 74: Where Are They Now 12
Update 76: Excerpt from "Screenplay of The Commune"
Update 77: Rumblings from the Mountains of Liberty (A look into the Libertarian Party, 1987-1988)
Update 78: Rumblings from the Mountains of Liberty (part 2)
Update 79: 1988: The Year the Establishment Failed (part 2)
Update 81: The Popular Vote Cast on Tuesday, November 8, 1988
Update 82: Rummy with a smiley face and a Bible
Update 85: The Stars Fall Out (part 1)
Non-canon, unofficial updates:
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Canada in the Lougheed '80s
Somewhere near Robeson County, NC
Meanwhile, on a parallel Earth.....
Fear and Loathing in the 1990s
Fear and Loathing in the 1990s, continued
Awards
Info to be added soon.