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| Differences with OTL |
While some minor changes in foreign politics, there is not any important change in US domestic policies from OTL for the next 10 years after POD
- 1958
- Many people was worried about the situation in Cuba, some guerillas were fighting President Batista, and there were reports on human rights abusses by the government. Batista was a SOB, ... but it was our SOB. Probably with a more stable and democratic regime, Cuba could be elegible to statehood, or something similar to the commonwealth status of Puerto Rico.
- Lawyer Fidel Castro was discussing this situation with other Cubans and Americans in New York this autum. Himself, he was not very fond of the United States, but he was less fond of Batista. He had once contemplated the idea to join the guerrillas, as his brother, but was skeptical on getting enough popular support.
- His boss was more convinced, though, that the Americans would be the key. The American model is faulty. The Negroes are almost subhumans in the South, and not much better in the North, but the system seems to produce money, and money seems to be the key for progress: for social progress.
- 1960
- Election year. Vice President Nixon faced little opposition for the Republican nomination. He chose former Senator and Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. as vice presidential candidate. Barry Goldwater was nominated, but declined the nomination and supported Richard Nixon.
- The democrats decided for young Catholic war hero John Kennedy.
- The elections were close. Some people believe that a crucial factor in this election was the first televised presidential debate. Both candidates seemed confident but Nixon experience and knowlege on foreign-policy cuativated the audience. The results were tight. Some have annalysed that if some 10.000 voters had switchd to Kennedy in just Illinois and Montana, the Democrat would have wun.
- 1964
- Election year. Richard Nixon is the undisputed republican candidate. While he got some opposition for his progresist and civil right policies, he easily defeated Democrat candidate Lindon Johnson.
- 1968
- Election year. Vice President Lodge won the Republican nomination and the Democrats chosed Hubert H. Humphrey. Lodge won, partly by the split in the Democratic campaign with Wallace running as Independent.
- 1972
- Election year. Lodge got some opposition in his party but managed to get the Republican nomination. Former disident Wallace managed to get the Democratic support. In November voters favoured Wallace.
- 1976
- Election year. President George Wallace was the undisputed Democrat candidate. The Republicans choosed former actor Ronald Reagan. The incumbent won in November.
- 1980
- Election year. [[Robert KennedyBob Kennedy{{{3}}} (President Gaitan)|Bob Kennedy]] won a very disputed Democrat primaries, while the Republicans choosed again Ronald Reagan. Kennedy won the elections.
- 1984
- Election year. President Kennedy was de undisputed Democrat candidate. George Bush was chosen as the Republican candidate. In a very tight election Bush won the presidency.
- 1988
- Election year. President Bush faced a lot of opposition inside the Republican party, but won the nomination. Al Gore and Gary Hart disputed an emotive campaign. Gore won the nomination and chosed Hart as VP candidate. The Democrats won.
- 1992
- The election year was affected by the tragic assasination of President Gore in July. Vice President and acting president Hart was appointed as the Democrat candidate. The Republicans had chosen Bob Dole.
- Acting President Hart won in a landslide.
- 1996
- Election year. President Hart faced little opposition in the democrat party for running again in 1996. The Republican nomination was won by Patrick Buchanan. As Hart won the elections, he became the second president to serve for more than eight years, since July 1992 to January 2001.
- 2000
- Election year. The Democrats chosed senator Bob Kerry from Nebraska as their presidential candidate. Newt Gingrich easily won the Republican nomination, and boldly chosed in his ticket Elizabeth Dole. As Gingrich won in November, Dole became the first woman ever elected in a presidential ticket.
- 2004
- Election year. Gingrich nomination for the Republican party was disputed by Quayle and Buchanan. Gingrich won the nomination and Buchanan run as independent. The Democrats chosed Dick Gephardt as their candidate.
- The split in the Republican vote gave Gephrardt the presidency.