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Lists of Heads of Government and Heads of State

(This was the second attempt, and yes, No Bryan Gould New Party leader...I'm not that much of a hack).
I think you'll find unoriginal hacks like me are a proud people, smh.

Fun list, like the leader choices.
 
The New Party as the home of the Wonk Left makes perfect sense to me
The New Party essentially becoming 'Positive Money: Political Party' is really where it likely would have gone, Tory Keynesian Radicalism can only last so long. Be thankful that I didn't put the Wonks of the Wonks in the list like Julian Le Sand or Alan Simpson.
and Mick Jagger's New Agenda causes several emotions. Great work.
The fact that Tom Driberg and Richard Acland tried to create a Christian Socialist party lead by Mick Jagger to harness that New Left discontent in the late 60s never gets old as one of those facts that never ceases to amuse me.

Also thanks.
 
"Reach Out and Touch Faith"
1952 - 1960: Francis Herman Pencovic (Fountain Party)†
1961 - 1968: Edward Longstreet Bodin (Spiritual Party)
1969 - 1972: Charles "Charlie" Maddox (Family Party)
1973 - 1978: James Warren Jones (People's Party)
1979 - 1986: Lafayette R. Hubbard (Scientific Party)
1987 - 1992: Vernon Howell (Adventist Party)
1993 - 1998: Marshall Applewhite (Next Level Party)
1999 - 20XX: Lyndon LaRouche (National Democrat Party)
 
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this irks me not just because william adelin is a chud but because in most timelines post-conquest I feel like Edward deserves to be about as current a regnal name as Ethelbert is

Eh, I think it's 50/50 really. On the one hand it's not necessarily likely that you'd get a king devoted to the cult of St. Edward the Confessor.

On the other hand, considering the way how William the Conqueror claimed he was Edward's legitimate heir and the fact that he was a royal saint and had been the man who built the Abbey in which Royal coronations were held, he's probably the most likely saint to have ended up as a royal cult figure.

I think I'd say that 'Edward becoming a name used in the Royal family/junior branches thereof' is likely but 'Edward as a common regnal name' is significantly less likely.
 
First time posting to this thread, so any pointers are welcome!

Timeline of U.S. Presidents in "Divided Worlds: An Alternate Space Race"

Franklin D. Roosevelt (D): 1933-1945 [1]
Harry S. Truman (D): 1945-1949 [2]

(Insert Staunch Anti-Communist GOP Prez Here): 1949-1953 [3]
(Insert 2nd Staunch Anti-Communist GOP Prez Here): 1953-1961 [4]

Richard M. Nixon (R): 1961-1977 [5]
John M. Ashbrook (R): 1977-1981 [6]
Ronald W. Reagan (R): 1981-1989
George H.W. Bush (R): 1989-1997 [7]

John S. McCain (R): 1997-1999 [8]

[1] Chose not to run for a fourth term on health grounds.

[2] Fought to maintain the New Deal coalition and programs, but solidly conservative in foreign policy; not enough for the GOP, Dixiecrats or a slim majority of the voters, though, in the face of the Comintern and its specter of "Permanent Revolution" advocated by GenSec Trotsky. Seen by some academics and politicos as the bridge to an era of uncompromising "bipartisan" anticommunism in the U.S. and the League of Democratic Nations generally.


[3] Eisenhower doesn't seem of the right temperament given the basically unending "Red Scare" by this time; thought about McCarthy, but that seemed a bit obvious. Currently thinking about Dewey, as one of the last "moderate" GOP types and the other end of the "bipartisan anticommunist bridge"; if anybody's got ideas, share away!

[4] Ditto.

[5] Defeated Kennedy by a fair though not outstanding margin in 1960. 22nd Amendment wasn't passed in Truman's time, though "principle"/"tradition" kept previous GOP presidents from trying for three terms. Nixon's doing so prompted a short-lived party rebellion that dissuaded him from running again in 1976, though he did manage to get a 22nd Amendment analogue shot down in Congress in 1967.

[6] The "traditionalist" wing of the GOP got their man into the White House; he then promptly decided not to run again in 1980, now that the "principle" was cemented :D .

[7] Last one to seriously consider a third term; internal party fighting prevented this. Saw the first construction begun on the League's sector of lunar base Terra Unum in 1993. Having former astronaut John Glenn as VP got even more funding and resources devoted to this and the League Aeronautics and Space Administration (LASA), and a flood of both beginning in '96 when construction of the Soviet sector looked to be making better progress.

[8] President at the time of the novella.

Updated version, after suggestions and more musing:

Timeline of U.S. Presidents in "Divided Worlds: An Alternate Space Race"

Franklin D. Roosevelt (D): 1933-1945
Harry S. Truman (D): 1945-1949

Harold E. Stassen (R): 1949-1953 [1]
Estes Kefauver (D): 1953-1961 [2]
Richard M. Nixon (R): 1961-1977

John M. Ashbrook (R): 1977-1981
Ronald W. Reagan (R): 1981-1989
George H.W. Bush (R): 1989-1997

John S. McCain (R): 1997-1999

[1] Put in office largely out of voters' fears of Communism and desire to have a military man in charge. His moderate stance on social programs, however, soon brings on the ire of the Dixiecrats and the hardline GOP, and his lukewarm attitude towards segregation/civil rights as this debate boils over into further demos and violence causes his public support to wither. Infighting between his "liberal" faction and the hardliners under McCarthy and Nixon at the '52 GOP convention, plus the siphoning-off of other conservative voters by the Dixiecrats, leads to his defeat that year.

[2] Narrowly wins (with John McCormack as VP) on a platform combining anticommunism, continued New Deal-style reforms & governance, and pledges to settle the civil rights issue. Has decent success in the first two cases and somewhat less in the third, though variants of OTL's desegregation measures and earlier forms of the CRA and the VRA are passed on razor-thin margins; widespread anger at these in the South leads to Nixon winning on a "Southern strategy" much like that of OTL.
 
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Eh, I think it's 50/50 really. On the one hand it's not necessarily likely that you'd get a king devoted to the cult of St. Edward the Confessor.

Mildly disagree. Multiple kings found useful things there. See Richard II's association with as a shield against childlessness etc. I think Edward is more obscure without the conquest.
 
1960: Lyndon Baines Johnson Democratic John Fitzgerald Kennedy

1964 John Fitzgerald Kennedy Democratic Terry Sanford

1968 George Romney Republican Spiro Agnew
 
"Germany is Our Problem"
Disclaimer: I've more or less just winged this after McCarthy, but here's some kind of riff on Losing the Peace that's probably not half as good as that work.

1940 - 1944: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Democratic Party)†
1944 - 1945: Harry S. Truman (Democratic Party)
1945 - 1949: Henry Morgenthau Jr. (Democratic Party)

1949 - 1953: Henry Wallace (Democratic Party)
1953 - 1957: Joseph McCarthy (Republican Party)†
1957 - 1961: Richard Nixon (Republican Party)
1961 - 1963: Edwin Walker (Democratic Party)†
1963 - 1969: Lyndon B. Johnson (Democratic Party)
1969 - 1973: Barry Goldwater (Republican)
1973 - 19XX: Roy Cohn (Republican Party)
 
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"Germany is Our Problem"
Disclaimer: I've more or less just winged this after McCarthy, but here's some kind of riff on Losing the Peace that's probably not half as good as that work.

1940 - 1944: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Democratic Party)†
1944 - 1945: Harry S. Truman (Democratic Party)
1945 - 1948: Henry Morgenthau Jr. (Democratic Party)

1948 - 1952: Henry Wallace (Democratic Party)
1952 - 1957: Joseph McCarthy (Republican Party)†
1957 - 1960: Richard Nixon (Republican Party)
1960 - 1964: Edwin Walker (Democratic Party)†
1964 - 1968: Lyndon B. Johnson (Democratic Party)
1968 - 1972: Barry Goldwater (Republican)
1972 - 19XX: Roy Cohn (Republican Party)
It's a fun list but I am legally obligated to point out that the Presidential term doesn't happen the same year as the election.

That said it's another push in my slow march to a President Cohn vignette
 
It's a fun list but I am legally obligated to point out that the Presidential term doesn't happen the same year as the election.

That said it's another push in my slow march to a President Cohn vignette
the most heterosexual president
 
It's a fun list but I am legally obligated to point out that the Presidential term doesn't happen the same year as the election.

That said it's another push in my slow march to a President Cohn vignette
I'd be lying if I said that part of me was conflicted over whether I had it right, but the truth is that the thought never crossed my mind. Thanks, will fix when I'm back home!
Edit: And fixed!
 
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