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    Impossible Dreams Can Come True: US President Tom Bradley

    IT'S BRADLEY Governor's Victory Makes History The Los Angeles Times, November 8, 1988 Thomas Bradley, the grandson of enslaved people, was elected the nation's 41st president Tuesday, breaking the ultimate racial barrier to become the first African American to claim the country's highest...
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    TLIAD: Three Presidents and a Princess

    19 de Junio, 1865 El Paso, Nuevo México The slave bent down and shined his master’s shoes, trying hard not to listen to what was being said. It was not his business. They learned him to be meek, not a sneak. “Governor, the President of México is here to see you,” said one of the master’s...
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    DBAHC: Avoid Arabian War

    Your challenge is to see if you can avoid the American invasion occupation of the Saudi regime with a POD AFTER 9/11. What are other steps the Lieberman Administration could take?
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    WI: Humberto Delgado becomes President of Portugal in 1958

    Obviously Salazar would never allow a free and fair vote, though Delgado's strong support IOTL scared the shit out of him. Let's say Salazar slips in the bathtub a bit earlier than OTL, and President Craveiro Lopes (who would later go on to support a coup attempt against Salazar in 1961) takes...
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    1867 proposal: United States annexes Venezuela

    Forget Santo Domingo: in 1867 Minister Thomas Stilwell entertained the notion of annexing Venezuela in order to avoid dealing with corruptions in customs. Such a proposal seems to be a) an absurd overreaction b) imperialist arrogance c) unlikely to come to pass, given Sumner's resistance to...
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    US annexation of Northern Mexico in the 1910s: Effects on Mexico?

    The US went very close into becoming embroiled in a wider war with Mexico during the Mexican Revolution. Henry Lane Wilson's collusion in the Ten Tragic Days, Woodrow Wilson's occupation of Veracruz, the Pancho Villa expedition... The Democrats charged in 1916 that the GOP was planning to bring...
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    The Diplomat: A Presidency in a Week

    It was a cold January morning. The Acting President-elect reflected that he probably should have worn gloves. But he didn't feel the cold. He didn't feel much of anything. Besides numbness. The Acting President-elect privately doubted that he was up to the task. As did millions of others...
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    WI: No Tokyo Rose flight

    This one practically writes itself. What if Steakley was more tired and the Tokyo Rose had not flown that day?
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    TLIAD: Waiting for Obama

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    DBWI: Women's rights in a continuing Saudi Arabia?

    I know a continuing Saudi monarchy is hard to imagine, but what would be the status of women in Saudi Arabia had the Nasserist coup not occurred and Saudi Arabia never joined the United Arab Republic as a result? Many say that economic necessity would have led to the end of gender segregation...
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    WI: Robert Peel lives longer

    So, how about it? WI Peel had not been thrown off his horse? Would a surviving Peel try to become the first Liberal Prime Minister? Would he succeed? And if not, then what would he do?
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    Possible Presidents of Australia

    Assuming the 1999 Australian republican referendum resulted in an Irish-style ceremonial and directly-elected President, who would be likely to run, and who would be likely to win?
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    Canadian politicians who would be successful in US politics?

    American politicians stand out in the Anglosphere for looking a decade or two younger than they actually are. Other Anglosphere politicians look older. This is just one example of the truth that Presidential and parliamentary democracy produce differing political styles. the House of...
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    WI: 1967 coup in Israel

    Such a coup wouldn't be the first where the military reluctantly overrode civilian authority for what was seen as the salvation of the nation. I also would not be surprised if, as in many other countries, the military would keep ruling on e they got a taste of absolute power. So what would be...
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    Juan Perón returns from exile earlier

    The recent thread about Perón not returning from exile reminded me of something I was wondering the other day: what if Perón returned during the 1960s, which would give him a longer second rule?
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    Gaston Monnerville, President of France

    There have been a number of threads in the past dealing with the OAS' assassination of de Gaulle in 1962. Gaston Monnerville, a black descendant from French Guinea, would have become interim president. But none of these threads have addressed the possibility of Monnerville running for his own...
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    AHC: Western Canada Concept wins Alberta election of 1983 or 1984

    Western Seperatism won't gain steam unless Alberta leads it. But threading that needle is very difficult. One would probably have to get rid of Lougheed while simultaneously keeping Trudeau. So, let's say Lougheed dies before he can call a snap election. After that, then what? Would Patriation...
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    WI: MacArthur in 1944

    Vultan's speculation in The Red's D-Day fails scenario has got me thinking... If Douglas MacArthur did manage to win the Republican nomination and then the presidency in 1944, following a disaster at D-Day, how would he run the war and the peace?
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    No Longer Jack

    No Longer Jack A Timeline In A Few Days by Vultan and Plumber
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    DBWI: Kashmir War doesn't go nuclear

    What would be the implications of the 2001-2002 Indo-Pakistani War over Kashmir remaining a limited conflict, like the Kargil War in 1999? OOC: The POD is no 9/11.
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