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Clinton, even with impeachment, arguably did have a successful presidency given the times. The issue with saving the middle class in the 88/92 time frame is that there were a large number of economic forces working against that middle class. This was an era of free trade, deregulation, lax...

This. There were a large number of battlefield nukes on both sides. It isn't hard to imagine these being used all over the Continent. IIRC, this was when France was still in the NATO integrated command structure, so I imagine Germany, the UK and France are all nuked with a combination of...

Yes, he would have been able to cobble together the old New Deal coalition for a few more years. The New Left really wouldn't have anywhere to go but to sit out 1972, but Humphrey would have held on to labor (for whom it can be expected he would have produced something) and thus a part of the...

Secretary of State is problematic. Few Presidents appoint people who might overshadow them and that would have been an issue with Nixon. Nixon isn't going to beat George Murphy in the 1970 primary. Nixon hated practicing law. He found it very unfulfilling. He'll wind up practicing law in New...

I didn't know this; it provides for a host of possibilities down the road. First, this is two years before Delta 191 crashed at Dallas/Ft. Worth due to a microburst. You'll probably see windshear detection at airports and on aircraft a couple of years earlier as a result. This is also a month...

Very good stuff. I would have been 4 during this TL and living in Toledo, 20 miles or so from Monroe. The impact on the whole region would have been significant. In October, the prevailing winds are out of the northwest as colder weather sets in; I can see this badly affecting Lake Erie and the...

This is heresy and I've lost all respect for you. :p I'll bet you hate Coneys and redpop, too.

it's probably going to be whoever wins New Hampshire. Dukakis was from neighboring Massachusetts and effectively took it off the table. It's possible Gephardt wins Iowa as in OTL and then takes NH. Gore would have had to change strategies entirely; his plan was to skip the early states and focus...

I disagree a bit with what most are posting here, since I think he had a post-Pearl Harbor opportunity to use the war as an excuse to "temporarily" suspend segregation as a necessary step in the war effort, particularly if he played it off against the prevailing sexism of the day and said the...

I think he loses the nomination to Dole. A few reasons: comparative inexperience next to Dole, too soon after his father was President, it was Dole's "turn" (a factor that still mattered in GOP presidential politics in 1996). If, somehow, he managed to win the nomination, he loses to Clinton...

Well, Morgan died just shy of a year later on March 31, 1913. His presence and death might add to the legend of the sinking, but the actual effect would in reality be rather small. His son takes over his business empire a year earlier. His death, despite owning the holding company that owned...

A series of accidents involving the E-120 Brasilia early in their entry into service such that they get a bad public reputation might do it. You basically need the public to believe that the company builds third world unsafe aircraft that kills the E-135/E145 programs. Perhaps another couple of...

Just throwing this out there, because it isn't necessarily an insurmountable issue, but even if Sears' management did everything right, they still had a problem: the company brand was considered old and stodgy by the mid-90s. Sears was where your grandparents shopped, not where you shopped if...

In that case, wouldn't it be far easier to simply make conditions so intolerable for German Jews that they are forced to emigrate? The Nazis were rather squeamish about conducting that project inside Germany; this is why the exterminations were conducted in Poland and the conquered territories...

A series of blunders leads to a short non-nuclear ground war in Europe that winds up with the Soviets on the banks of the Rhine. Short of something like that, this is really hard. By the time of his election, he was already one of the great heroes of World War II.