Harold Stassen is serious, and don't call him Shirley.
By all conventional wisdom, Harold Stassen's political career died sixteen years ago, with Ike winning the Republican nomination. He last held elected office in 1943, and hasn't been in office at all for over a decade. He can't even win a mayoral race. However, \"conventional\" is not a word in Harold Stassen's vocabulary.
\nOfficially, his base consists of Republicans of the vaguely liberal sort. Unofficially, all the public really knows of him is that he is not Lyndon Johnson. For some, this is enough to justify a vote, but for most it is not. He will need to coalesce the shattered Republican Party behind him if he hopes to stand a fighting chance against LBJ.
\nGood luck, Harold. God knows you need it.
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In one of the great turnarounds of American politics, you have salvaged your once-wrecked political career and shed your label as a 'loser' once and for all. As it turns out, the press will have Nixon to kick around.
If you can end the War in Vietnam and roll back the excesses of the Great Society, you may just go down as a truly great President. Good luck working with a Democratic Congress, however...
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Never has a candidate been so far ahead in a Presidential election, only to come up short. After your heartbreaking loss in 1960, it's going to take a long while for you to recover from this new defeat.
The American public will never know what might have transpired with you in the Oval Office. As it is, you are sure to enjoy a long retirement after this one...
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Wallace's machinations have succeeded. The election will go to the House of Representatives where the Democrats hold a clear majority.
You do hold some cards however -- Humphrey would certainly rather make concessions to you, rather than deal with George Wallace. Perhaps you could obtain a place in his Administration, or some assurances on a policy issue of your choice.
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As president, Johnson is fighting countless wars. Some are on concepts, like the War On Poverty. Others are on Asian children, like the war Vietnam. He believes, no, he knows that no other man can be trusted with any of his wars. Not the golden boy Robert F. Kennedy, not the crook Richard Nixon, and not the old fogy Harold Stassen. They are his and his alone.
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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.
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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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\nThe hardest of the hardline segregationists, George Wallace is running a race he knows he cannot win. But, he does not need to. All he needs to do is take up enough space in the electoral college to force a deadlock. Then, he can force Stassen or Johnson to bend to his will, and stomp out any hopes of racial integration in the south. Of course, they could just make a deal with each other, but George doesn't like thinking about that.
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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.
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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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Based on our research on Nixon and his friends, Robert Finch is the easiest way to Nixon's heart.
The Lieutenant Governor of California under Reagan, he is a direct protege of Nixon and was at the top of Nixon's shortlist of VP options. He is not a well-known figure, nor a particularly inspiring one, so he will not be of much help making stump speeches. However, the closeness with Nixon he brings to the table cannot be underestimated.
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As you probably guessed, running as a liberal Republican would require you to run a particularly strong campaign in the North, as his commitment to racial equality would practically write off every state below the Mason-Dixon to Wallace and Johnson. On top of this, he is known to be a bit of a vibrant, aloof figure. But, it's your call, of course.
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A lying, cheating demagogue who smokes cigarettes like it’s a hobby, shovels steak into his mouth, and sends young boys to die in Asia. Also, the 36th President of the United States."},
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Many thought he was inevitable. But he now sits in the shadows, pulling the strings."},
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A big tent club of politicians."},
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Speaks like a preacher, acts like Thurmond."},
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