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Clouds so swift, the rain falling in Going to see a movie called Gunga Din Pack up your money, pull up your tent McGuinn You ain't goin' nowhere

Nevermind then Presumably though armed revolt.

Have Washington lose out on the Army Command to Charles Lee in 1775 for a Pre-1783 POD. Having the Burr Plot actually lead the frontier out of the Union and into Louisiana and Texas and creating a new country is the most interesting way to kill it IMO.

Shoot it under my fingernails

Megaman

Nice. Bernie as a Republican is a surprising conclusion.

Just picked up a copy, we'll see how my girlfriend's nephew enjoys hearing the stories.

The Soviets only felt that they could get away with Missiles in Cuba because Khrushchev felt that Kennedy was weak after their first summit. Nixon was a much more known quality whom Nikita had been willing to partake in the farce of the Kitchen debate for because of that. The idea that he'd...

The Russian Army would actually get supplies. And helmets. As such it's unlikely the Spring offensive could even be launched as it, and the Italian Offensive entirely depended on the transfer of Eastern Front forces Westward.

Its a great situation for a Labor Party IMO. Only better chance after the Communists killed Farmer-Labor is the CIO forming its own political party like it considered doing in '36.

Prime situation for the 60s and 70s to see one party collapse IMO.

Oh I've read it. Caro's biggest problem over the whole length of the Biography is that he is determined to place laurels around the heads of all of LBJs opponents (See his sanctifying of Coke Stevenson past reason.) obviously in the fight Nixon did matter but the key thing is beyond "This will...

I like the fact that the Republicans don't change at all. Accurate depiction of how Nixon's interest in Civil Rights in 1960 was entirely a ploy to break up the New Deal.