General Resources
Final 1968 ResultsTheodore White - The Making of the President 1968 (Landmark Political)
Rick Perlstein - Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
By the Candidates
Richard Nixon - The Memoirs of Richard NixonHubert Humphrey - 1948 Civil Rights speech
George Wallace - 1967 speech on dissent and intellectualism
The Vietnam War
Stanley Karnow - Vietnam: A HistoryMisceallany
Secret of '68Living Apart: How the Government Betrayed a Landmark Civil Rights Law
The G.O.P.'s Journey From the Liberal Days of Nixon
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He's not a politician, not by a moonshot. The only time he's ran for office, he's dropped out from a head injury. But he's running nonetheless. The people behind him are all second-hand, taken from the late Bobby Kennedy's campaign. In Glenn, they see the embodiment of Bobby's impossible dream, and he, their sworn knight of Camelot, must ride in to defend it. Pressing forward unto not just castle Camelot, but towards the Final Frontier.
\n\nOnly time shall tell if he'll succeed.
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You give your victory speech to a jubilant crowd outside the hotel you were staying in, and take dejected concession calls from Nixon and Wallace. You and Hughes are over the moon with the joy of the victory!
Filling the boots of your friend Bobby Kennedy will be an incredibly difficult task, but if anyone can do it, it's you. You should start making calls to your cabinet picks, President-Elect Glenn!
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You call Nixon, offering him good luck for the years ahead, and then deliver a glum concession speech to the defeated crowd. Hughes is saddened, as are you.
The American public will only be able to dream of what might have been if you had won. But, don't get too down on yourself. You're still young for a politician, your career sure isn't over if you don't want it to be. And, who knows what might happen in the years ahead? This might not be the only time you run for President...
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Wallace's machinations have succeeded. The election will go to the House of Representatives, where the Democrats hold a solid majority.
Let's hope most of those Democrats aren't Dixiecrats, because if they are, you might have to make a deal with Wallace. But, with how odious he truly is, making a deal with Nixon might be your best bet. You might not even have to make a deal at all. However, all of that remains to be seen. Best of luck to you in January!
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If Glenn dares stand against him, Nixon will not hesitate to fight like a cornered fox for the power he feels has been denied to him for so long. He will rip and tear and claw his way through that pompous spaceman because it is the only way he knows how to function, and because the wilderness often consumes men, swallowing them whole and leaving them hollowed out, and Nixon refuses to become one of them.\n
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It looked like a hopeless case as you accepted the nomination, but you have run an outstanding campaign in the interval.
Now you must press forward with your efforts to defend the Great Society and to end the war in Vietnam. Failure in the latter case could be devastating when you seek reelection in 1972. After all, just look at what happened to the once-lustrous reputation of Lyndon Johnson over the past four years...
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You may have performed admirably under trying circumstances, but it was always a tough sell for you after the chaos at the Democratic Convention in Chicago.
Your only consolation is that Nixon himself is a former loser. Even so, this is a horrednous turn of events for Democrats after the landslide of 1964. The best you can do now is to plot a comeback to the Senate, or as a candidate for President in 1972.
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Fortunately for you the Democrats have won a majority of the nation's Congressional delegations. Unfortunately, you also have to deal with George Wallace. He will not allow the Southern states to support any candidate who advocates desegregation.
Your best chance, sadly, is to try to broker a deal with Nixon or with other moderate Republicans.
You are the likely winner, but who knows where this all ends?
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His ruthlessness is almost impossible to exaggerate, considering he hid his wife's cancer diagnosis from her just so he could stay in the Governor's mansion for another four years. He forsook his mentor Jim Folsom's moderate path, taking the easy way to victory in 1962. Unfortunately, the easy way only works in the deep South, meaning he stands no chance of winning outright. But, if he succeeds in hanging the election, it will be his magnum opus, the final triumph of segregation. This cannot come to pass.\n
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Dixie forever! Even with the Long Hot Summer of 1967, nobody guessed that you could do well enough in the Northern states to win the election outright. You have instantly become most polarizing President-elect since Abraham Lincoln.
", "electoral_loss_message": "Sorry, you did not prevent an electoral college majority.
You put in a good effort, but your dream of brokering an end to desegregation will not come to fruition in 1968. No winning candidate will negotiate that point with you unless they absolutely have no choice.
The best you can do for now is continue to sound the call for a return to sanity in American politics. Perhaps if the riots and discord continue, you will have a better chance of making your voice heard in 1972.
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In a close election, your electoral votes in the South have prevented either candidate from winning a majority. Get ready to put the squeeze on Humphrey and Nixon.
Of course, you still have to deal with the possibility that Humphrey and Nixon dislike you so much that they will simply strike a deal with each other. Whatever happens, it's sure to be interesting.
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Glenn and him are both moderate Christian liberals from the Midwest, so there's little regional balance. His story is uplifting, but, unfortunately, Nixon and Wallace and all the other hateful jackals might try and play off of his past issues, like his opponent in 1966 did. One can only hope he delivers as good a rebuttal as he did in '66.
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