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On the morning of July 24th 1956, Air Force One arrived in Birmingham Airfield. President Eisenhower arrived in Birmingham that day for a campaign rally. At 11:30 AM, Eisenhower attended the rally and made a speech condemning racial segregation in the South. At 11:59, President Eisenhower finished his speech with a standing ovation from the crowd. He then went to shake hands with people, including an unsuspected man who walks up to President Eisenhower, shakes his hand, and says “Goodbye, you nigger lovin’ son of a bitch.”, pulls out a revolver from his jacket and fatally shoots the President three times in the chest. He then shoots dead a Secret Service bodyguard and wounds several other people before fleeing the scene. President Eisenhower is rushed to a hospital, where he is pronounced dead an hour later. The whole nation stands still when they heard that Eisenhower died. =====

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Meanwhile, in Washington DC, Vice President Richard Nixon is sworn in as the 35th President of the United States. After his inauguration, Richard Nixon addresses the US, sharing his solidarity with America, and announces his plan for further civil rights reform in reaction to Eisenhower’s death. Three days later, Eisenhower’s funeral is held in the Arlington Cemetery, and is attended by President Nixon, First Lady Pat Nixon and the First Family, members of the former Eisenhower Cabinet, fellow military staff members, and hundreds of Americans. That day, Alabama police officers detain a suspect who was involved in a gunfight with authorities near Montgomery. The suspect, Burt DuPont, is a white supremacist of Cajun descent who acted strangely in the past few weeks prior to the shooting, according to family members. Before he is able to be tried, he is found dead in his cell from asphyxiation. =====

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A week later, President Nixon uses executive action authorizing the desegregation of Southern states. This spurs anger from KKK and many other white Southerners, including Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and the controversial Birmingham police commissioner Bull Connor. At the 1956 Republican National Convention, President Nixon wins the Republican nomination and chooses former Senator and UN Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. as his running mate. The Nixon-Lodge campaign wins in a landslide against the Stevenson-Johnson, gaining the Negro vote as well. At the inauguration of President Nixon, a man calls Nixon a “nigger-lover” and Nixon owns him by saying “Oh shut up!” and receives a standing ovation as the man is removed from the event by the Secret Service. =====

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As a result of the election, Lyndon Johnson’s popularity has plummeted and loses the Democratic presidential nomination to Senator John F Kennedy, who selects Senator Hubert Humphrey as his running mate. Even though both Nixon and Kennedy were civil rights legends, the South, angry at Nixon (a Republican), went full Democrat, and the Kennedy-Humphrey campaign won over the Nixon-Lodge campaign. =====

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Under President Kennedy, a lot of things changed. The Peace Corps was invented, the Federal Reserve and the IRS were gone forever and the Vietnam conflict was ended with a wall dividing South Vietnam from North Vietnam. President Kennedy, with the approval of the Republican Congress and Senate, passed the Civil Rights Act of 1968. To this day, the majority of Southern states are blue states. The Republican Revolution of ‘68 resulted in a close election between Governor Nelson Rockefeller and Kennedy’s Vice President Hubert Humphrey. Rockefeller ended up winning and nominated the Vice President as his soon-to-be Ambassador to the United Nations. However, as the years passed by, Rockefeller’s approval rating went down. =====

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One January 22, 1974, Nelson Rockefeller suddenly died in his sleep. His Vice President, George Romney succeeded him. President Romney’s approval rate went higher than Rockefeller’s approval rate  when he decided to nominate Bob Dole as his Vice President, however a large conservative movement headed by California Governor Ronald Reagan nearly kept him away from the Republican nomination, however Romney won the nomination but -was defeated in a close election by Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter. =====

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Unfortunately, for Carter, he handled the Iranian hostage crisis terribly, and he was defeated in a landslide by Ronald Reagan, who did the same the following election to Vice President Walter Mondale. Reagan’s Vice President George HW Bush lost horribly to Governor Michael Dukakis in 1988 not because of the message of the Bush-Quayle campaign, but because Dan Quayle couldn’t spell “Vice President”. In 1992, former Vice President George HW Bush narrowly won the Republican nominate against former House Speaker Gerald Ford, former Vice President Bob Dole and former Congressman Ron Paul. George HW Bush ended up picking former House Speaker Gerald Ford as his running mate, however billionaire Ross Perot ended up winning the election after President Dukakis’ handling of the Gulf War resulted in a month-long oil embargo and George HW Bush’s liberal Republicanism was found to be very similar to President Dukakis’ political platform. =====

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President Perot, with the help of Vice President Stockdale and his second term Vice President Pat Choate, closed NAFTA, returned jobs back to America, and within three years, the Perot surplus was twice the size of the Clinton surplus. Due to President Perot’s high approval rating, he easily won election over Democratic nominee and former Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton and Republican nominee and former Vice President Bob Dole. By 2000, the world was at peace and the American economy was successful. =====

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Unfortunately, Reform Party nominee and Vice President Pat Choate, along with former Tennessee Governor Al Gore, lost to Republican nominee and Texas Governor George W. Bush. However, when Bush invaded Iraq in fear of an imminent Iraqi attack of the United States, his approval ratings when far down the drain and he was defeated by Democratic nominee and anti-Iraq War Massachusetts Senator John Kerry. President John Kerry ended up doing the same as his predecessor and was defeated by Republican nominee and Texas Congressman Ron Paul in the following the election. A Ron Paul presidency would have the troops brought back home from Iraq and Afghanistan, and Ron Paul won the 2012 presidential election against former Vice President John Edwards. =====