AHC: President John Glenn

[Seriously]

So basically, this is your AHC. Make John Glenn President of the United States.

 

[Ricardolindo]

So basically, this is your AHC. Make John Glenn President of the United States.

If Ford won in 1976, Glenn could have been either presidential or, more likely, vice-presidential Democratic nominee in 1980.

 

[Bolt451]

Could it have helped if he'd not withdrawn from the senate race in 1964? If maybe he'd not slipped in the bath tub (not a euphemism)

 

[Steve Brinson]

He would have been a solid VP candidate for plenty of Democrats throughout his career, though as a Presidential candidate he always kind of underwhelmed. He was part of the Keating Five, which tarnished him, but on the other hand it didn’t seem to hurt McCain too much so who knows?

 

[zaffre]

Doesn’t hit his head on a bathtub in ‘64, Humphrey picks young first-term Senator Glenn for VP in ‘68 for much the same reason that Fred Harris was one of the two finalists, Glenn brings (marginally) more to the ticket than Muskie and is sworn in as President sometime in the mid ‘70s when HHH passes away.

tbh President Glenn is so straightforward an AHC that you can practically just speed-run it

 

[lerk]

Doesn’t hit his head on a bathtub in ‘64, Humphrey picks young first-term Senator Glenn for VP in ‘68 for much the same reason that Fred Harris was one of the two finalists, Glenn brings (marginally) more to the ticket than Muskie and is sworn in as President sometime in the mid ‘70s when HHH passes away.

tbh President Glenn is so straightforward an AHC that you can practically just speed-run it

Yeah it'd be more interesting to make a "WI President John Glenn" than an AHC.

 

[Charles EP M.]

Seems easy enough to make Famous National Hero John Glenn a president, so I guess the bigger question is "what does he do when he is one"

 

[OHC]

Seems easy enough to make Famous National Hero John Glenn a president, so I guess the bigger question is "what does he do when he is one"

I suppose "more money for NASA" is too obvious

 

[Time Enough]

I suppose "more money for NASA" is too obvious

The John Glenn/Jerry Brown team up we never knew we needed.

 

[Torten]

I suppose "more money for NASA" is too obvious

Even if he becomes VP in 1968, as suggested above, it probably saves NASA from having to cancel Apollo 18 at least.

 

[Elektronaut]

Seems easy enough to make Famous National Hero John Glenn a president

John Glenn Astronaut actually was a liability for him in '84, because it kind of dwarfed every other aspect about him and made him this one-dimensional celebrity candidate.

It was so strong that Mondale could kind of get away with calling him a 'celluloid candidate' and Fritz Hollings could make jibes about being 'confused in your cap-sool', and fuck, I mean look at Glenn's military record and vote-getting in Ohio.