History Characters / TNOUSA

->'''In-Game Biography''' (Speaker of the House) [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Melvin Laird is a respected congressman from Wisconsin, having served in Congress since 1953 as a member of the House Appropriations Committee specializing in defense budget and procurement issues. Though well-versed in defense affairs - advocating for a gradual reorientation of American force structure to support a defensive posture with OFN allies - Laird continually fights to defend his portfolio against Nixon's Secretary of the Treasury, Robert [=McNamara=], who pushes for a more statistical and results-driven approach to a more assertive defense policy.\\\
Finding his own position in question in the Nixon administration and with his talents increasingly used purely for Congressional affairs, Laird has expressed his desire to run again for the House of Representatives in 1964, potentially setting up a race to succeed him in the Nixon Administration.[[/labelnote]]

* {{Hypocrite}}: They condemn Germany and Japan as tyrannical, imperialist regimes that are threatening the Free World, even though the United States engages in its own imperialistic actions to advance its interests at the expense of other countries or its own allies.

->'''In-Game Biography: (Vice President)''' [[labelnote: Click to Show]]Young, rich, handsome, and charismatic, John Fitzgerald Kennedy doesn't embody his nation as it exists. He embodies his nation as it wants to be.\\\

->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote:Click to Show:]]Birch Bayh is not a fresh face to Washington or politics. The golden child of the 1962 freshman class, the handsome Hoosier has climbed the ladders of politics, from lowly state representative to speaker of the Indiana State House to the United States Senate. With his good-humored nature, talent for persuasion, and mastery of Senate procedure and constitutional law, Bayh has established himself as Senator's Senator, one of the most talented legislators in the august body. A tireless fighter for equality and equal justice under the law, able to work across coalition and party lines for the betterment of the country.\\\

->'''In-Game Biography: (Secretary of the Treasury)''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Robert [=McNamara=] is an outside appointment in President Nixon's cabinet - coming from industry rather than the political class. A veteran of the Army Air Force during World War II, [=McNamara=] entered government after over a decade of service as one of the Ford Motor Company's 'Whiz Kids' - turning the company around through the revolutionary application of a statistical and scientific approach to management and business. In poaching [=McNamara=] from his position as President of Ford in 1960, Nixon hopes to transplant [=McNamara=]'s methods from the boardrooms of Detroit to the smoke-filled rooms of Washington D.C.\\\

->'''In-Game Biography: (LBJ Secretary of Defense)''' [[labelnote: Click to Show]]Robert [=McNamara=] is an unusual holdover appointment from Richard Nixon's cabinet - shifting laterally from his position as Secretary of the Treasury to Defense. Given President Johnson's stated focus on improving America at home, the going assumption is that President Johnson is willing to keep the business of national defense in proven hands - and [=McNamara=] had already been involved in defense issues beyond his portfolio during the Nixon years.\\\

->'''In-Game Biography: (Goldwater Secretary of Defense)''' [[labelnote: Click to Show]]The military is no place for emotions. Fierce, pathos-filled born-and-bred warriors are as obsolete as the trebuchet, replaced by an endless flood of cool and calculating administrators. Optimizing the logistic process to ensure an uninterrupted delivery of materiel to operational theaters may not be the yearn heroic tales are spun of, but modern warfare is all about percentages, statistics, and evidence-based decisions.\\\

->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Life can be a curious thing. When Carl Trumbull Hayden got elected president pro tempore of the Senate, he prepared for years of administrative work and political legwork. Him being third in line to succeed the President of the United States was more of a fun fact to him, something he could tell his grandchildren - after all, there is no way that three presidents would leave office in a row, right? Now, two out of three are gone, and Hayden is slowly getting worried.\\\

->'''In-Game Biography''' (Speaker of the House) [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Melvin Laird is a respected congressman from Wisconsin, having served in Congress since 1953 as a member of the House Appropriations Committee specializing in defense budget and procurement issues. Though well-versed in defense affairs - advocating for a gradual reorientation of American force structure to support a defensive posture with OFN allies - Laird continually fights to defend his portfolio against Nixon's Secretary of the Treasury, Robert McNamara, who pushes for a more statistical and results-driven approach to a more assertive defense policy.\\\

->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Melvin Laird is a respected congressman from Wisconsin, having served in Congress since 1953 as a member of the House Appropriations Committee specializing in defense budget and procurement issues. Though well-versed in defense affairs - advocating for a gradual reorientation of American force structure to support a defensive posture with OFN allies - Laird continually fights to defend his portfolio against Nixon's Secretary of the Treasury, Robert McNamara, who pushes for a more statistical and results-driven approach to a more assertive defense policy.\\\

** The Axis-aligned French Madagascar is an unstable mess and the United States jumps at the island when it finally collapses. If the Malagasy Rebellion succeeds, the United States has a number of Malagasy leaders to support and align them with the OFN, including Tsiranana, Jaona, and Zafimahova.

** The United States despises the Trujillo regime in the Dominican Republic, so they finance and train anti-fascist fighters in the Caribbean Legion to land in Hispaniola and depose the Caribbean dictator.

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** [[spoiler:The Oil Crisis conflicts fracture Italy's hold over the Middle East and the United States immediately funnels support to pro-American factions in Yemen, Oman, Iraq, and Sudan, giving them a foothold in the region.]]

* ShoutingFreeForAll: Meeting in the Situation Room to discuss HMMLR's victory in the Sealion II teaser, the National Security Council descends into chaos as Germany prepares for an invasion. Surrounding [=McCormack=] are advocates of hawkish and dovish stances to the crisis, arguing back and forth as to how Germany would respond to an American response, resorting to shouts and insults before McCormack intervenes.

* BlackAndGrayMorality: While they have taken rather unscrupulous actions before the start of the game and have opportunities to continue doing so, America and the OFN are far less reprehensible compared to their opposition in Nazi Germany, the Empire of Japan, and the Triumvirate, who commit even more blatant atrocities than them, both domestically and internationally. American foreign policy has its list of atrocities, but at least it doesn't compare to horrors seen in the German Reichskommissariats, the IJA-controlled territories, or the fascist dictatorships backed by their rival superpowers. Depending on the leadership, it's also comparatively easier for the United States to push for policies and reforms that will lighten their hand, fix the injustices in their social institutions, and benefit US interests, if not the rest of the world, in the long run.

* BlackAndGrayMorality: While they have taken rather unscrupulous actions before the start of the game and have opportunities to continue doing so, America and the OFN are far less reprehensible compared to their opposition in Nazi Germany, the Empire of Japan, and the Triumvirate, who commit even more blatant atrocities than them, both domestically and internationally. Depending on the leadership, it's also comparatively easier for the United States to push for policies and reforms that will lighten their hand, fix the injustices in their social institutions, and benefit US interests, if not the rest of the world, in the long run.

* BlackAndGrayMorality: While they have taken rather unscrupulous actions before the start of the game and have opportunities to continue doing so, America and the OFN have the chance to pursue more peaceful solutions to situations, such as a ceasefire negotiation in Africa and detente with other powers. Depending on the leadership, this also translates into pushing for policies and reforms that will benefit US interests, if not the rest of the world, in the long run. They also have a greater moral basis, at least on the surface, when their opposition includes the Nazi regime as a superpower, the brutal Empire of Japan, and [[spoiler:Burgundy's plans for ''global nuclear annihilation'']].

* SmallRoleBigImpact: His presidency is short-lived and no major campaigns are fulfilled in his term, but his efforts to calm the American political scene after Nixon's resignation and Kennedy's assassination save the Republican-Democrats from complete electoral destruction and ensures that they remain politically relevant enough to still stand against the National Progressives.