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** [[spoiler: Ariel Sharon is killed by Egyptian commandos during the Yom Kippur War.]]
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** [[spoiler: Ariel Sharon is killed by Egyptian commandos during the Yom Kippur War.]]
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* ElectionDayEpisode: "The World Turned Upside Down", covering the 1972 election, and most of "Ad Interim" and all of "Conclave", covering the 1974 midterms.
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* ElectionDayEpisode: "The World Turned Upside Down", The last section of "October Surprise? You Should See November...", covering the 1972 election, and most of "Ad Interim" and all of "Conclave", covering the 1974 midterms.
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* BackfireOnTheWitnessStand: Senate Foreign Relations calls Anna Chennault to testify about the X File, hoping to get evidence of Nixon's guilt. She manages to put forward a fairly effective defense.
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* CourtroomEpisode: "Tipping The Scales", a two-parter covering the Nixon trials.
* CrusadingLawyer: All of the "Brookingsgate Irregulars" (including Hillary Rodham, William Weld, and Bob Mueller), but especially John Doar.
* CrusadingLawyer: All of the "Brookingsgate Irregulars" (including Hillary Rodham, William Weld, and Bob Mueller), but especially John Doar.
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* RedOniBlueOni: McGovern's chief lieutenants fit this dynamic, with the impetuous Gary Hart contrasting with the cool-headed Frank Mankiewicz.
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* TheLastDJ: Archer Blood's outrage at the Nixon administration's inaction during the Bangladesh genocide almost destroyed his career - and did, in our timeline.
* RedOniBlueOni: McGovern's chief lieutenants fit this dynamic, with the impetuous Gary Hart contrasting with the cool-headed Frank Mankiewicz.
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* VelvetRevolution: Not completely, but the fall of the Military Junta in Greece happens with very little bloodshed.
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: The PLO tries to assassinate Golda Meir with a car bomb during a New York parade. They fail, however, to pay for parking, and instead assassinate a scrapyard in Staten Island.
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* VelvetRevolution: Not completely, but the fall of the Regime of the Colonels in Greece happens with very little bloodshed.
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* SadisticChoice: Does the Army Corps of Engineers open the Morganza Spillway and deliberately flood Southern Louisiana, or does it not do so, allow the Old River Control Structure to be overwhelmed, and flood New Orleans and points downstream? [=McGovern=] chooses [[spoiler: to open the spillway]].
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* StrawmanNewsMedia: Tim Crouse declares [=McGovern=] essentially impossible to report on because of this:
-->Almost no one could actually report on President [=McGovern=], at least not by the official rules of objective journalism. This was because, for nearly all professional reporters, what [=McGovern=] did and said was not “news” in the strict sense since none of its substance was new. To the press everything he did was a foregone conclusion, for good or ill. Everything filtered into one frame or the other. The people who could just take an act of this White House, work from facts, and then reason towards the administration’s logic or to possible outcomes, were few and far between. For everyone else those were just details in a tale already told. The outcome would be what they thought it would be, because George [=McGovern=] was who they thought he was. Not even Dick Nixon had wrecked American journalism so thoroughly, and President [=McGovern=] hadn’t even tried.
-->Almost no one could actually report on President [=McGovern=], at least not by the official rules of objective journalism. This was because, for nearly all professional reporters, what [=McGovern=] did and said was not “news” in the strict sense since none of its substance was new. To the press everything he did was a foregone conclusion, for good or ill. Everything filtered into one frame or the other. The people who could just take an act of this White House, work from facts, and then reason towards the administration’s logic or to possible outcomes, were few and far between. For everyone else those were just details in a tale already told. The outcome would be what they thought it would be, because George [=McGovern=] was who they thought he was. Not even Dick Nixon had wrecked American journalism so thoroughly, and President [=McGovern=] hadn’t even tried.
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* AmbiguousSituation: Did [[spoiler: Orlando Letelier know about Allende's planned assassination ahead of time?]] Not even the author knows.
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* WeInterruptThisProgram: [=McGovern=] first hears of Egypt's invasion of Israel from news breaking into a baseball game broadcast.
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: The PLO tries to assassinate Golda Meir with a car bomb during a New York parade. They fail, however, to pay for parking, and instead assassinate a scrapyard in Staten Island.
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* TeethClenchedTeamwork: The Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, and Posse Comitatus agree to coordinate on their response to the [=McGovern=] presidency, but that doesn't mean that any of them especially like each other.
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-->McGovern grinned back, almost impishly. Now Tom, said [=McGovern=], I might want to take that as a compliment.
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* ForceAndFinesse: Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres, respectively, are described as these:
--> The bluff Rabin, clumsy with words and sentiment, felt keenly the lack of Peres’ francophile charm. Peres, the face of Israel to its military suppliers, midwife of the nukes, had never worn the uniform and craved Rabin’s rugged ''sabra'' credibility.
--> The bluff Rabin, clumsy with words and sentiment, felt keenly the lack of Peres’ francophile charm. Peres, the face of Israel to its military suppliers, midwife of the nukes, had never worn the uniform and craved Rabin’s rugged ''sabra'' credibility.
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* PocketProtector: Archbishop Aloisio Lorscheider narrowly averts death when a bullet aimed at his heart is stopped by his ornamental cross necklace. Understandably, many people see this as a miracle.
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* ShoutOut: The timeline and the style used in it is a homage to the writings of Creator/HunterSThompson, particularly his famous coverage of the 1972 election. For what it's worth, Thompson shows up in the timeline; he's much the same as he ever was, but has a few more reasons for optimism in this version of history.
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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
** The timeline and the style used in it is a homage to the writings of Creator/HunterSThompson, particularly his famous coverage of the 1972 election. For what it's worth, Thompson shows up in the timeline; he's much the same as he ever was, but has a few more reasons for optimism in this version of history.
** The Introduction alludes to Literature/FearLoathingAndGumboOnTheCampaignTrailSeventyTwo, while a later chapter namedrops Literature/FightAndBeRight.
** The timeline and the style used in it is a homage to the writings of Creator/HunterSThompson, particularly his famous coverage of the 1972 election. For what it's worth, Thompson shows up in the timeline; he's much the same as he ever was, but has a few more reasons for optimism in this version of history.
** The Introduction alludes to Literature/FearLoathingAndGumboOnTheCampaignTrailSeventyTwo, while a later chapter namedrops Literature/FightAndBeRight.
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* Inspirational Martyr: [[spoiler: Orlando Letelier refers to Allende as one of these, and may have knowingly allowed his assassination to proceed in order to make him into one.]]
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** [[spoiler: Salvador Allende survives a coup, but is killed a few weeks later in an assassination attempt by rogue military brass.]]
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* AttackOfThePoliticalAd: Nixon puts out an ad implying [=McGovern=] is playing games with the military; [=McGovern=] counters with another ad, courtesy of Creator/WarrenBeatty, claiming that Nixon deliberately sabotaged UsefulNotes/VietnamWar peace negotiations at the cost of thousands of lives to win the Presidency.
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* AFatherToHisMen: After [=McGovern=] determines that an apparent security breach was in fact a young enlisted man on a joyride, Admiral Tom Moorer speculates that he would have been one of these had he remained in the Air Force:
--> Mister President, said Tom Moorer in a ruminative tone, I have thought sometimes about what might’ve been if you had kept that uniform on and stuck around when the Army Air Corps turned into the Air Force. After a pause Moorer added: I don’t believe you ever would have made general.
-->McGovern grinned back, almost impishly. Now Tom, said [=McGovern=], I might want to take that as a compliment.
-->A look of guarded but friendly sarcasm crossed Moorer’s face. I thought you might, Mister President, said Moorer. The admiral tilted his head a little. You’d have been a fine colonel, though. Just fine.
--> Mister President, said Tom Moorer in a ruminative tone, I have thought sometimes about what might’ve been if you had kept that uniform on and stuck around when the Army Air Corps turned into the Air Force. After a pause Moorer added: I don’t believe you ever would have made general.
-->McGovern grinned back, almost impishly. Now Tom, said [=McGovern=], I might want to take that as a compliment.
-->A look of guarded but friendly sarcasm crossed Moorer’s face. I thought you might, Mister President, said Moorer. The admiral tilted his head a little. You’d have been a fine colonel, though. Just fine.
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* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Nixon's White House staff refuses to provide the incoming [=McGovern=] team with briefings or information, steals 'A' keys from their keyboards (for "amnesty, abortion, and acid"), and fills their offices with toilet paper.
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* ScareCampaign: Rick Stearns claims in "Conclave" that the [=McGovern=] campaign will likely have to run one of these to win a second term; if a liberal Republican wins the primary, they will have to scare conservative voters into thinking that candidate will sell them out and they should stay home or vote third-party, whereas if a conservative wins, they will have to scare moderate voters that that candidate is an extremist.
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* TakingYouWithMe: Israeli General Ariel Sharon goes down fighting, Uzi in hand, during the Yom Kippur War.
* TwentyFifthAmendment:
** Hillary Rodham uses this to argue that President Nixon was not immune from prosecution during his presidency, since he could have stepped down temporarily if dealing with that criminal case made it impossible for him to discharge his duties.
** The [=McGovern=] administration sees this amended further by the War Powers Amendments, which expands the scope of eligible presidential succession in case of disaster.
* VelvetRevolution: Not completely, but the fall of the Regime of the Colonels in Greece happens with very little bloodshed.
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** Hillary Rodham uses this to argue that President Nixon was not immune from prosecution during his presidency, since he could have stepped down temporarily if dealing with that criminal case made it impossible for him to discharge his duties.
** The [=McGovern=] administration sees this amended further by the War Powers Amendments, which expands the scope of eligible presidential succession in case of disaster.
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** [[spoiler: Fanne Foxe goes on a different wild, drunken ride in downtown DC, still flees the car in question, but trips in the Tidal Pool, cracks her head, and drowns, setting up a far larger scandal for Congressman Wilbur Mills]].
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** [[spoiler: Fanne Foxe goes on a different wild, drunken ride in downtown DC, still flees the car in question, but trips in the Tidal Pool, cracks her head, and drowns, setting up a far larger scandal for Congressman Wilbur Mills]].Mills just before the midterm elections]].
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** [[spoiler: Carlos the Jackal and several fellow terrorists are hired, much as they were IOTL, to take over an OPEC summit at the organization's headquarters in Vienna. The terrorists kill a couple of senior diplomats and appear set to make their getaway, when instead, the Iraqis double cross them - Carlos and his gang are killed by Austrian sharpshooters]].
** [[spoiler: Saddam Hussein attends an Arab League summit in Algeria to sign a peace agreement with the Shah of Iran and Hafez al-Assad of Syria. On his arrival he's assassinated by a Red Army Faction terrorist in revenge for her comrades who died alongside Carlos in Vienna after the Iraqis betrayed them]].
** [[spoiler: Saddam Hussein attends an Arab League summit in Algeria to sign a peace agreement with the Shah of Iran and Hafez al-Assad of Syria. On his arrival he's assassinated by a Red Army Faction terrorist in revenge for her comrades who died alongside Carlos in Vienna after the Iraqis betrayed them]].
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** [[spoiler: Carlos the Jackal and several fellow terrorists are hired, much as they were IOTL, hired by Saddam Hussein to take over an OPEC summit at the organization's headquarters in Vienna.Vienna (Similar to the siege in real life). The terrorists kill a couple of senior diplomats and appear set to make their getaway, when instead, the Iraqis double cross them - Carlos and his gang are killed by Austrian sharpshooters]].
** [[spoiler: Saddam Hussein attends an Arab League summit in Algeria to sign a peace agreement with the Shah of Iran and Hafez al-Assad of Syria. On his arrival he's assassinated by a Red Army Faction terrorist in revenge for her comrades whodied were killed alongside Carlos in Vienna after the Iraqis betrayed them]].
** [[spoiler: Saddam Hussein attends an Arab League summit in Algeria to sign a peace agreement with the Shah of Iran and Hafez al-Assad of Syria. On his arrival he's assassinated by a Red Army Faction terrorist in revenge for her comrades who
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** [[spoiler: Saddam Hussein attends an Arab League summit in Algeria to sign a peace agreement with the Shah of Iran and Hafez al-Assad of Syria. On his arrival he's assassinated by a Red Army Faction terrorist in revenge for her comrades who died alongside Carlos in Vienna after the Iraqis betrayed them]].
** [[spoiler: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini cracks his head in a fall and dies of an unattended cerebral hematoma]].
** [[spoiler: Fanne Foxe goes on a different wild, drunken ride in downtown DC, still flees the car in question, but trips in the Tidal Pool, cracks her head, and drowns, setting up a far larger scandal for Congressman Wilbur Mills]].
** [[spoiler: Carlos the Jackal and several fellow terrorists are hired, much as they were IOTL, to take over an OPEC summit at the organization's headquarters in Vienna. The terrorists kill a couple of senior diplomats and appear set to make their getaway, when instead, the Iraqis double cross them - Carlos and his gang are killed by Austrian sharpshooters]].
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** [[spoiler: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini cracks his head in a fall and dies of an unattended cerebral hematoma]].
** [[spoiler: Fanne Foxe goes on a different wild, drunken ride in downtown DC, still flees the car in question, but trips in the Tidal Pool, cracks her head, and drowns, setting up a far larger scandal for Congressman Wilbur Mills]].
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* ItSeemedLikeAGoodIdeaAtTheTime: The [=McGovern=] administration makes a deal with Israel to provide Pershing II medium-range missiles in exchange for their participation in Middle East peace talks.[[spoiler:Israel secretly shares the technology with South Africa for use in their nuclear program]].
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* ActionPolitician: When [[spoiler:Salvador Allende]], the President of [[spoiler:Chile]], is targeted in his presidential palace by an assassin, he picks up an AK-47 and goes on the offensive. This is especially ironic because in actual history, he used the same gun to [[spoiler:commit suicide after being deposed in coup d'état in 1973]].
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* ActionPolitician: When [[spoiler:Salvador Allende]], the President of [[spoiler:Chile]], is targeted in his presidential palace by an assassin, he picks up an AK-47 and goes on the offensive. This is especially ironic because in actual history, he used the same gun to [[spoiler:commit suicide after being deposed in a coup d'état in 1973]].
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** Nixon generally doesn’t cope very well with the aftermath of the bombing, the investigations or the campaign, but losing the election completely unhinges him, leading to drinking, violence against his wife, and planning to drop atomic weapons on Vietnam.
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** Nixon generally doesn’t cope very well with the aftermath of the bombing, the investigations or the campaign, but losing the election election, including his home state of California, completely unhinges him, leading to drinking, violence against his wife, and planning to drop atomic weapons on Vietnam.
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* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: The [=McGovern=] makes a deal with Israel to provide Pershing II medium-range missiles in exchange for their participation in Middle East peace talks. [[spoiler:Israel shares the technology with South Africa for use in their nuclear program.]]
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** Usually a master of media management, Jesse Helms Helms' racially-charged comments about McGovern's [=McGovern=]'s proposed "Medicare-for-all" legislation are caught on a hot mike, helping rally votes for cloture.
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