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Presidents (1964 election)

Robert F. Kennedy

Role: Senator (Massachusetts), Head of State (1964 Election)

Party: Democratic Party, Progressive Party (civil rights vetoed by Nixon)

Ideology: Eastern Progressivism^note Progressivism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}What things on this earth are worth fighting for? What things are worth dying for? For Robert Francis Kennedy, the answer to that question has always been obvious: family; honor; and duty to one's common man. These are ideas that he has spent his entire life pursuing, aspirations that were, engraved on his soul by a father determined to see his family win at any cost.

Raised in suburban Massachusetts, Bobby Kennedy enjoyed a glamorous but unhappy childhood. While he avoided much of the suffering of the Great Depression as a member of the glamorous Kennedy clan, he was forced to contend with a withholding father who considered him a "runt" unworthy of his attention. Unable to seriously pursue the priesthood or journalism as he might have done in another life, Bobby shed his gentle and generous, personality to become a ruthless opportunist unwilling to stop at anything to achieve his ambitions.

This new Bobby was put to the test in the 1950s. After a brief stint in the US Navy and a tour observing the implementation of the Kyoto Accords, the family installed Bobby as the campaign manager of his beloved brother John's 1952 Senate campaign. Hard-fought against an entrenched incumbent, Bobby earned the approval of the larger Democratic Party by winning. He earned similar accolades as Sen. J. William Fulbright's assistant counsel and an aide in the Kefauver administration. In 1960, he managed his brother and Nixon's run for the White House before winning a special election for his brother's former Senate seat in Massachusetts.

Tragedy would strike soon after. Nixon's failures on civil rights and the death of his brother broke Bobby's heart. Enraged at the RDC and in grief, he did not halt the "Draft Kennedy" movement as it consumed the NPP's Progressive Caucus. Having now won the presidency, an enraged Bobby Kennedy, is determined to do what it takes to realize his brother's legacy. He will fight whoever stands in the way of his family's vision of a free, prosperous, and liberal America.

JFK’s younger brother, Robert F. Kennedy fights for the rights of the unfortunate and is even more of a progressive than his brother. While he and his brother are members of the Republican-Democrats, Nixon’s final decision on the Civil Rights Bill might shake his loyalties...

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• Allohistorical Allusion:
  • Just as in real life, RFK has the option to authorize COINTELPRO, where the government uses illegal means to secretly hinder and crack down on various groups and ideologues deemed dangerous. Fortunately, though, he goes exclusively after the far right instead of prioritizing civil-rights and left-wing groups as he did in OTL.
  • When Bormann visits the White House to discuss easing relations with America in favor of combatting Japan, he and Kennedy will briefly get into an impromptu debate in the garden over their nations' differing economic and political systems, similar to both Nixon's "kitchen debate" and his brother JFK's Vienna Summit with Khrushchev in real life. It works out better for RFK than it did his brother, earning the miserly Bormann's grudging respect.
• Being Good Sucks: RFK is one of the most progressive presidents that can be elected, but his radical progressivism makes him likely to get assassinated.
• Berserk Button:
  • Mocking his brother is a huge one for Robert, especially in light of his tragic assassination.
  • Wallace's attempt to appeal to Kennedy's race if the former is elected President so deeply angers him that he nearly physically attacks Wallace.
• Broken Pedestal: Should he give his approval for executing COINTELPRO, not only will it further destabilize American society and tarnish his reputation, but also make his assassination more likely to happen.
• Defector from Decadence: If the Nixon administration refuses to sign the Civil Rights Act, Bobby will leave the Democratic Party and join the Progressive Party, becoming the NPP's presidential candidate in the 1964 election. According to Kennedy, the Democrats no longer represent the USA, nor are they willing to do what is necessary for the American people, and he feels that the Progressives represent the change that he and his brother believe in. The assassination of his brother also contributed to his defection, as he's now got nothing left in the Republican-Democrats. Despite this, he does remain cordial with some members of his former coalition, like Kirkpatrick.
• Despair Event Horizon: Should Robert lose the 1968 election, he will be crestfallen, wishing that he could've done more to build the United States that he and John envisioned. Though he can find comfort in his family, Robert can never truly move on, always haunted by the lingering thought that he could've done more in his time at the White House.
• Due to the Dead: After failing to get a second term in 1968, Robert will open the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in memory of his late brother, with thousands flocking over to do the same.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: It will take a lot of work and luck to pull off a successful two-term presidency, but if he does, Robert can finally rest, knowing he's created a more progressive America and avenged his brother by completing their shared dream.
  A brother at peace at last.
• Foil: To George Wallace.
  • Both are NPP candidates that will become more likely to rise to power following Nixon's decision over the Civil Rights Act, proclaiming that their terms will concern domestic policies and reforms. RFK contrasts by starting with affiliation under the R-D's and will only defect to the National Progressive Pact following Nixon vetoing the Civil Rights Act, while Wallace will always side with the Nationalists and gain prominence by championing for segregationists if Nixon passes of the Civil Rights Act.
  • They also share the chance to pursue actions that ruin their image amongst their voter bases and direct more influence to the far-right, or get replaced by a "secret president" that will subvert the nature of their presidencies an potentially lead to a radical gaining power. RFK is one of the more progressive leaders, but he can end up with serious irreversible damage to his reputation should he opt for extreme methods to take on the far-right. If assassinated, he is replaced by corrupt segregationist Thurmond, who uses the most underhanded methods to take power. Depending on the actions taken, RFK could spend his last few days in office contemplating his actions and if he lived up to his brother's legacy. Meanwhile, Wallace can secretly go against his intentions for segregation or get impeached before he can make his policies stick, prompting LeMay to succeed him and sign a new Civil Rights Act. Should he avoid segregationist policies, he'll note the loss of support from far-right hardliners, but accept the actions he's taken near the end of his term.
• Graceful Loser: He is not the least bit mad if Hart is elected over him in 1968, fondly remembering his service in the Senate and expressing his hopes that Hart has a successful presidency.
• Heel Realization: In a scenario where he has approved of COINTELPRO and failed to prevent it from going public, he becomes fully aware of how it will make him look in the eyes of the public. His last few days spent in contemplation over his time as President can potentially count as this, should it follow an execution of COINTELPRO and avoidance of assassination.
• Historical Hero Upgrade: While the historical RFK wasn't reactionary by any means, the game portrays him as being more radical and progressive than he was in real life. Granted, you have the option to implement some rather dodgy policies, although the real RFK was more of a populist liberal than an outright social democrat. Though it's not out of the question that the existence of the powerful Nazi empire radicalized him in this timeline.
• Hypocrite: Kennedy expresses himself as a politician in full support of equality and freedom to all Americans, but this may not stop him from implementing COINTELPRO to target and suppress far-right groups.
• I Should Write a Book About This: In his post-presidency after just one term, Robert will write an autobiography dedicated to the Kennedy family, To Seek a Newer World.
• Knight Templar: He veers into this territory should he approve of COINTELPRO, secretly sabotaging various ideologies through corrupt tactics and outright crushing far-right groups like the Sovereigntists. The damage done to his reputation is irreparable.
• Let Me at Him!: If Wallace is the President, Kennedy is already disgusted if he tries to win his support for his deeply segregationist Social Security Bill. Wallace tries to point out how many fellow white people the bill will help, and doesn't understand why RFK would put racial equality first. Kennedy is furious and has to be restrained by his aides lest he attack the President.
• Men Don't Cry: Subverted. In a transition letter from McComarck, the former President spends the majority of it voicing his condolences for the assassination of Robert's brother, fondly remembering the hope he inspired and encouraging his successor to carry on his legacy. Kennedy tries to rein in his emotions, but he can't and starts crying.
• Necessarily Evil: He tries to justify COINTELPRO by rationalizing that it's in the name of public safety and preventing subversive elements of whatever stripe from destabilizing America; specifically, the entire American far-right, from segregationists to Nazis.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero:
  • If a player tries to implement RFK's progressive policies too rapidly, he could be assassinated by a far-right radical with a homemade submachine gun. Following that, Strom Thurmond will then take his place and proceed to undo everything that RFK stood for.
  • Kennedy will approve of COINTELPRO based on fighting against the far-right in the United States. It will ruin his image, make his assassination by radicals more likely, and even draw support towards the far-right.
• "Not So Different" Remark: Though Kennedy leaves the RDC before becoming President, he spends his transition letter to Romney comparing themselves, focusing on their shared interest on reforming several aspects of the country.
• Precision F-Strike: If COINTELPRO is revealed to the press, RFK drops one as he realizes his reputation is ruined.
  This is the end of my presidency. I'm fucked.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: His entire transition letter to Schlafly◊ is spent berating her, making it clear that he has no faith that she can effectively lead the country, calling her worse than Nixon and Hoover, and effectively vowing a campaign of political sabotage against her administration to ensure her removal. It's the only presidential letter not addressed to Yockey (or written by LeMay, for that matter) to contain such a level of unconcealed vitriol for the author's successor.
• Reconcile the Bitter Foes: Kennedy has the option to ally the Progressives with the Democrats from the opposite party, noting that both have shared progressive values and an interest in establishing a welfare state.
• Red Baron: If Robert successfully completes two terms of his presidency, civil rights groups will nickname him the "New Lincoln".
• Red Scare: Well, more of a Brown Scare if anything. When Kennedy decides to hijack the FBI's Nixon-era anti-civil rights operations to bring COINTELPRO into being, he starts by targeting the actual Nazis and white supremacists in America, like the Sovereigntists and the John Birch Society, but some time after dealing with them, he starts to go after increasingly mainstream targets like the segregationists within the NPP, and eventually can go after Barry Goldwater and his fellow Republican Hardliners.
• Refuge in Audacity: His "door-in-the-face" plan for bringing reforms entails proposing proposals even further out there than he wants to go, only to mellow out of said proposals, making Kennedy seem like a pragmatic problem-solver while allowing him to push through more reforms.
• Suffrage and Political Liberation: Kennedy is determined to push for civil rights and the re-enfranchisement of the United States' African American population. However, pushing too far with the issue might anger the Dixiecrats and split the National Progressive Pact in two, so Kennedy's overall challenge is balancing social reform with party stability.
• Taking Up the Mantle: John F. Kennedy's assassination is a great personal tragedy to his brother Robert, who decides that the best thing he can do is to honour John's legacy by embodying everything that he stood for if he becomes President.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: If he doesn't become president, RFK could potentially wind up working with George Wallace, especially if they both find common ground over social reform.
• Video Game Cruelty Potential: RFK has the potential to implement the extreme program of COINTELPRO to crack down on far-right groups.
• Video Game Cruelty Punishment: Should he actually go through with COINTELPRO, the act destabilizes society, plummets his approval ratings, and makes assassination and Strom Thurmond's rise more likely.
• Was It Really Worth It?: Depending on how he handles his tenure as President, especially regarding COINTELPRO, his last days in office have him wondering whether he lived up to JFK's legacy, or doomed America to prolonged social strife.
• Worthy Opponent: In the aftermath of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination, his successor Strom Thurmond continues to hold some respect for him as the first president to represent the National Progressive Pact, who allowed Thurmond and his allies a place in the government, despite their opposite views.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon B. Johnson

Role: Senator (Texas), Head of State (1964 Election)

Party: Democratic Party

Ideology: Dynastic Liberalism^note Liberalism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}In many ways Lyndon Baines Johnson, often referred to by his initials LBJ, is living proof that the American dream still lives. Born in a Texas farmhouse and raised in humble conditions, far from the glitz and glamour that America's elite grew up in, Johnson has not forgotten the lessons of his modest upbringing. Though he spent several years teaching impoverished children in Texas, he quickly found his calling in politics. With a natural talent for aggressive persuasion and dealmaking that would soon be widely known in Washington as the "Johnson Treatment", he began first as a congressional aide before quickly ascending to the House of Representatives, then the Senate. There he reigned as Majority Leader of the Democrats and then Republican-Democratic Coalition for a decade. Now he has finally climbed as high as any American can, and has been elected the President of the United States. LBJ has promised to heal the wounds that have been festering in America for decades, and is determined to tackle the issues of racial and economic inequality once and for all. Johnson envisions an American society where every man has equal rights and equal opportunity to succeed. However, with Germany descending further into chaos by the day, and Japan fighting to maintain and expand its sphere, Johnson may not be able to focus exclusively on the home front, as events beyond his control threaten to pull America back onto the global battlefield once more.

Lyndon Baines Johnson, often known by his initials LBJ, is a Democrat senator from Texas that is infamous for his domineering personality and aggressive style of dealmaking. A firm supporter of Civil Rights, Johnson believes in a progressive "Great Society" where all Americans are on equal footing and have the equal opportunity to succeed in life. LBJ's drive to solve the racial and economic inequality so often present in America will one day put him on the path to the White House, and then LBJ will become living proof that even a poor boy from Texas can ascend to the highest office in the land.

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• Allohistorical Allusion: LBJ's Great Society policies aren't much different from OTL's Johnson Presidency social reforms. However, depending on the circumstances, they can even go beyond what was enacted in real life.
• Association Fallacy: Debating with Michael Harrington can have him draw attention to violent Principles Zealot, Gus Hall, shunning the NPP for harboring him while implying Harrington to be just as bad for sharing socialist motivations.
• Being Good Sucks: While he doesn't get it as bad as RFK, his progressive Great Society program is likely to fracture his own party and destroy Johnson's own popularity the longer he stays in office.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: A maximal Great Society is a difficult goal to achieve and will cost the R-Ds much of their political influence, but achieving this goal leaves Johnson content with what he achieved in his presidency, happy that America is now truly a Great Society.
• Feeling Their Age: During his post-presidency after completing one term, the old Johnson is clearly not as energetic and fit as before, feeling a sharp pain in his chest and not having the strong handshake he used to have. He doesn't even have the strength to visit the presidential inauguration in 1972 before passing away.
• Friendly Rival: Johnson and Jackson come from opposing coalitions, but they nonetheless agree on many progressive policies and maintain a friendship with each other. In his succession letter to Jackson, Johnson offers the Democrats' assistance in whatever the new President may need.
• Good Is Not Nice: Lyndon B. Johnson has the best of intentions for America, and if he plays his cards right and fully implements the Great Society he can indeed succeed in forging a free, powerful, just America ready to steamroll the other powers in the Cold War, while making sure it treats all Americans right at home, even the poor and racially disenfranchised. He's also an extremely cruel and domineering man, given to both personal grudges and rivalries that interfere with his ability to govern and get his policies completed, and his succession letters to everyone who doesn't see eye-to-eye with him drip with carefully worded passive-aggressive insults that gnaw at most of them.
• Good Old Ways: He lives on a humble, old-fashioned ranch that feels like a throwback to the old days of an independent Texas or the Wild West.
• Good vs. Good: Downplayed. While both LBJ's "Great Society" and Harrington's plans for the "Other America" are similarly beneficial for American society, Johnson simply considers the latter to be both unprepared to do what's expected of the office and unpalatable due to his socialist views.
• Historical Hero Upgrade: Without the Vietnam War and subsequent domestic turmoil of the late '60s to tarnish his reputation, Johnson in TNO can potentially leave a more positive legacy than OTL, even fulfilling the promises of the Great Society.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Johnson is bullish and rude to most people, but he does want to reform the country into something truly egalitarian and he is extremely warm to those who have his respect.
• No Sense of Personal Space: Part of his gruff and domineering style is to get up close to other people, intimidating them in the process. When a Dixiecrat congressman confronts Johnson about the extent of his civil rights bills, he proceeds to put his hand on the other man's shoulder before threatening to run his career into the ground. The Dixiecrat begrudgingly nods.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business:
  • Johnson disapproves of several presidential candidates, but he mostly reserves his insults to snarky comments and passive-aggressiveness. The same cannot be said for a Yockey election, where Johnson doesn't even write him a transition letter. Instead, his secretary writes Yockey a caustic message that his predecessor's hometown of Johnson City, Texas is made off-limits to the Sovereigntists and that he will pursue legal action against him if he's further harassed.
  • On the flip side, the lack of any passive-aggressive assholery or snarky jabs is indicative of how he genuinely considers a successor to be worthy in his eyes. This is notably seen in the case of his letter to Jeane Kirkpatrick or personal meeting with Philip Hart.
• Passing the Torch:
  • After RFK or Wallace win the 1964 election, Johnson personally recommends Hart as the Democrats' presidential candidate for 1968, convincing him to accept and joking that he would've gotten his wife Janey to knock some sense into him, if he refused.
  • If Philip Hart becomes President in 1968, Johnson will step down from the senate, passing leadership of the Labor Democrat faction to Senator Hubert Humphrey.
  • If Jeane Kirkpatrick becomes President, Johnson leaves her a cordial transition letter, wishing her the best of luck and genuinely offering advice should she ever be in Texas. Notably, she's one of the only potential successors who isn't treated with passive-aggressive assholery, in contrast to most of his other letters.
• Pragmatic Hero: Johnson can choose to play nice with the conservatives by watering down his Great Society reforms, sacrificing progress for political support.
• Realpolitik: He supports an interventionist, sometimes ruthlessly pragmatic, foreign policy for the United States and even voices approval of Kirkpatrick's stance on the issue in his succession letter to her.
• Reconcile the Bitter Foes: If needed, Johnson can negotiate with the Progressive Party to pass bills that would satisfy their common social liberal goals, even if this might worsen the divide in the Republican-Democrats.
• Red Scare: Downplayed. In a debate with Michael Harrington, Johnson criticizes the NPP for harboring Gus Hall's fringe ideas and extremism alongside Harrington's socialist views, implicitly suggesting them to be one and the same. Harrington argues against this, denouncing Hall.
• Rightly Self-Righteous: On a political rather than personal level, given LBJ's country fratboy lifestyle. Johnson's critiques of most of his fellow politicians (Wallace's ugly racial policies and hypocrisy on the issue of states' rights, Harrington's lack of political experience and personal fortitude, Smith's fractured and vulnerable coalition that might leave her beholden to unsavory third parties, Romney's overall political weakness and boring and status-quo policies beholden to moneyed interests, Hall's authoritarianism and willingness to destroy America rather than compromise, Schlafly's general political ineptitude combined with closeminded rigidity, disgusting personal views, and a cabinet full of power-hungry snakes, Yockey's general Yockey-ness) are generally on-point, especially contrasted with his own impressive political credentials and strong, fair vision for America. But he's a passive-aggressive asshole about it.
• Sole Survivor: After completing two terms, Johnson reflects on his presidency and how he is the last surviving icon of a generation of liberals before the baton must be passed to a new generation in Washington.
• Sore Loser: Johnson will not be happy if he loses the 1968 election, unable to believe that he could be replaced by "some fucking idiot".
• Stealth Insult:
  • If Harrington becomes the succeeding president, LBJ writes a seemingly cordial and congratulatory transition letter◊ - albeit, one that reeks of patronizing contempt for the most ardent leftist elected president so far and his lack of actual political experience, evidently not trusting him to properly lead America.
  • Meanwhile, if Schlafly succeeds Johnson, he writes a rather short letter◊ that is dripping in sarcasm, hinting at his surprise that the American people, with all of their "infinite wisdom", would pick her as President.
  • His succession letter to Romney◊ patronizingly wishes luck to the recipient over wrangling the Senate, pointing out his relative inexperience in politics. The takeaway does not fly over Romney's head and he's more than a little insulted by it.
  • In his letter to Hall◊, Johnson very sneakily predicts a loss for Hall in the 1976 elections, and mockingly hopes that the transition of power in 1977 will be as smooth as Johnson claims to have made Hall's. The message seems to go over Hall's head, rather uncharacteristically for a man who can normally spot the critical wit in other letters and even frames LeMay's handy guide on how to use a gun to kill yourself.
  • In a less severe example, Johnson doesn't say much to Smith in his transition letter to her◊, stating it will be "certainly interesting" to see how she manages the "unique caucus" she's built.
• Suffrage and Political Liberation: A major focus on Johnson's Great Society program is on civil rights, in which he'll aim to give the African American community their much deserved suffrage in the pursuit of a more equitable America.
• Taking Up the Mantle: Johnson regards the tragically-short Kennedy presidency as possibly the best the Republican-Democrats could be, and vows to carry Kennedy's torch of progressivism and unity until America is whole once more.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Under his presidency, the conservative Republicans will protest Johnson's more radical plans for his Great Society program and the President himself is fatigued over hearing their growing complaints. If Johnson proves too radical with his reforms, the Republicans may defect to the Nationalists and disrupt the R-D's influence on the political scene.
• This Is Gonna Suck: Johnson can only let out a weary sigh when thousands of businesses across the South refuse to follow his new desegregation rules, knowing that he'll have to either ignore it and hope for the best or attempt to enforce them through federal policing (resulting in a massive political backlash and the RDC fracturing even further).
• When She Smiles: Upon reading McCormack's transition letter to him (talking about how he values their close friendship and how much he believes in LBJ's ability to better America) a small smile forms on the the weary Johnson's face.

Wallace F. Bennett

Role: Senator (Utah), Head of State (1964 Election)

Party: Republican Party

Ideology: Free-Market Conservatism^note Conservatism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Wallace Foster Bennett: America's best hope for a stable future. Born in Salt Lake City to a pair of devout Mormons, Bennett's upbringing was heavily influenced by the tenets of his parents' faith. After a brief stint in the Army as an instructor, he married the youngest daughter of the Mormon President and began a career in business, eventually owning a successful Ford dealership. Like many ambitious men who had accomplished all their goals, Bennett chose to go into politics, being elected Senator for Utah in 1951, albeit under a cloud of controversy after accusing his opponent of being a closet communist.

Quickly becoming a small-government and pro-business stalwart in the Senate, Bennett was soon entrenched as a major force in Washington pushing for conservative values. As the years wore on and America continued to stagnate, Bennett became convinced of the necessity to restore the nation's vitality, his conviction bolstered by Nixon's disgrace and the subsequent malaise that gripped America. Intent to prevent the NPP from steering America into uncertain waters, Bennett made the decision to throw his hat in the ring for the Presidency, hoping to keep the nation on track to a safe, stable and prosperous future.

Although he may not have the charisma or big ideals of some of his opponents, Bennett's gambit paid off, the American public choosing a candidate who promised to hold the ship steady and put to rest their uncertainty for the future. Whether or not he will succeed remains to be seen, but it seems that the American public, like their new President, believe the old proverb: that slow and steady wins the race.

A Republican senator from Utah, Wallace F. Bennet had a successful career as a businessman prior to entering politics. Seeing the NPP and Democrats’ radical ideas for America as detrimental to the USA’s safety and stability, Bennet champions conservative values in the midst of growing extremism. In the end, maybe Bennet's best bet to keeping America out of uncertain waters is to pursue the presidency and win it.

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• 10-Minute Retirement: If he loses the 1968 election, Bennett will feel dissatisfied in his retirement and resolve to continue working in politics, commenting on political affairs and opening the Wallace Bennett School of Government dedicated to the practice of public service.
• As the Good Book Says...:
  • In his succession letter to Schlafly, Bennett gives her general advice about remaining strong in times of trouble, quoting Mosiah 23:21 from the Book of Mormon.
  • Bennett quotes "I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not" from Luke 22:32 in his succession letter to fellow Mormon Romney, expressing his faith and well wishes that he has a successful presidency.
• Boring, but Practical: Unlike many of the other potential candidates, Bennett doesn't pursue radical agendas and makes a point to not rock the boat too much. That being said, the policies he can push, though more gradual in implementation, can significantly improve America's economy, civil rights, and global standing in the long run. His pragmatic and nonpartisan approach can also have the effect of making the political environment comparatively calm.
• Brutal Honesty: In his post-president work after completing one term, Bennett is asked by an audience for his thoughts on the geopolitical situation of the early 1970's. Bennett spares no kind word on how potentially catastrophic the situation could be, noting the reunification of Russia, the Oil Crisis' lingering effects, and the impending signs of a massive war between Japan and China. With the use of nuclear weapons still possible in these uncertain times, Bennett strongly emphasizes that the OFN must survive or else the Free World will follow its demise.
• But Now I Must Go: If he completes two terms of his presidency, Bennett will pack his things and leave the United States to visit the other nations of the OFN, deciding that he must personally see what the rest of the Free World looks like to understand what it needs.
• Dismotivation: Downplayed, but he makes a deliberate effort to not rock the boat too much while he's in office. That said, he would do whatever is necessary to uphold a sense of normalcy, such as reaching out to his fellow Americans and the OFN.
• Enlightened Self-Interest: Bennett believes that, rather than strongarming the OFN into serving American designs, it would benefit all parties in the long run if each member state considers the benefits of US hegemony as being in their own best interest. Unlike Jeane Kirkpatrick, however, he puts much more emphasis on the need for shared democratic values.
• The Federation: Bennett's most ambitious program is to turn the Organization of Free Nations into the Community of Free Nations, integrating the economic, military, and diplomatic power of the United States' allies into one federation united against Germany and Japan, while still maintaining the participants' autonomy so that they won't just be a collection of US puppets.
• Foil: In foreign affairs and geopolitics, Bennett is shown to be one to his potential successor, Jeane Kirkpatrick. While both share a similar Long Game vision for American hegemony, Bennett considers civil diplomacy and the idea of unity through common democratic values as the best way forward to victory in the Cold War. This stands in contrast to the Kirkpatrick Doctrine's cynical Realpolitik and penchant for propping up even autocratic regimes against Fascism abroad, albeit with the caveat of gradually easing them towards democratic reform.
• Global Currency: A considerable part of Bennett's reforms is oriented towards closer integration of the economies of the OFN members, which can result in the creation of the analogue of the OTL Bretton Woods system, which ties the currencies of other OFN countries to the US dollar.
• Golden Mean Fallacy: The major pitfall Bennett can fall into is compromising too heavily with the Dixiecrats, passing hobbled and loophole-ridden civil rights legislation or ignoring the issue altogether, forgetting what's important in the name of appeasement.
• Graceful Loser: If he loses reelection to Smith, Bennett will take the loss pretty well and congratulate her, complimenting her talents and only imparting advice to watch out for extremists in the NPP.
• Hypocrite: Bennett will pass the Silver Act to take the American economy off of the silver standard in favor of a fiat standard, justifying it as a measure to increase its flexibility and create a financial order to benefit the entirety of the OFN. However, when forced to temporarily seek more silver until the economic consequences of his reform end, Bennett can pressure Australia to sell their silver at a lower price that benefits them less than selling at market prices, contradicting Bennett's rhetoric of aiding all OFN members with his reforms.
• Innocently Insensitive:
  • As per his typical demure, Bennett tries to remain polite to Harrington in his succession letter, but his subtle condemnation of his radical agenda makes him come across as more passive-aggressive than anything else.
  • Bennett's subtle chiding of Kirkpatrick in his succession letter to her, especially over how it's "far easier to catch flies with honey than vinegar", isn't lost on her, leading her to brush it aside as patronizing prattle.
• Long Game: While Bennett is more concerned with making compromises and pragmatic decision-making, his seemingly mundane efforts can have far-reaching consequences for American dominance.
• Martial Pacifist: While still capable of participating in global proxy wars, Bennett's foreign policy is more aimed towards diplomacy with the other members of the OFN rather than focusing on its enemies in Europe and Asia.
• Our Presidents Are Different: Bennett is President Personable for his willingness to compromise and President Minority since, if elected, Bennett would be the first Mormon President of America.
• Pragmatic Hero: In regards to civil rights, Bennett can choose to largely ignore the issue, arguing that reconciliation is more important than rapid progress.
• Passing the Torch: If Bennett manages to succeed in his goals during his presidency, his agenda will be continued by George Romney, as he shares many of the same views, should the latter win the 1972 election.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Bennett is an open and negotiable individual who tries to bring the American nation together in the aftermath of the rather turbulent Nixon presidency. He is also one of the better presidents in terms of foreign policy, doing much to pull together the OFN, and even potentially ending segregation in Australia.
• Reconcile the Bitter Foes: Bennett focuses on passing his reforms by getting the support of as many factions in the American political scene, including the NPP. This even extends to some of the most reviled figures in America; his succession letters to Schlafly, Hall, and Yockey are all sincere, last-ditch efforts to get through to people he is genuinely (and in some cases very reasonably) concerned will destroy America.
• Stealth Insult: His criticism of the Kirkpatrick Doctrine in his succession letter is summed up by a slyly chiding remark about how it's "far easier to catch flies with honey than vinegar". Kirkpatrick, however, is quick to catch on, and isn't pleased.
• Suffrage and Political Liberation: Downplayed. While not to the same extent as RFK or Johnson, Bennett can choose the progressive route to the civil rights issue, implementing mild reforms to guarantee African Americans more political and voting rights.

George Wallace

Role: Governor of Alabama, Head of State (1964 election)

Party: States' Right Party

Ideology: Dixiecrat^note Paternalism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}George C. Wallace portrays himself a both an honorable Southern gentleman and a true red-blooded American, being the only one willing to protect his proud country from the Japanazi menace while preserving the rights and liberties his people hold dear. In reality he is an opportunist par excellence, willing to mold his ideology as he sees fit in order to maximize the possible turnout at the polls. Seeking to court the fine white voters as governor in his native Alabama, this inevitably manifested itself as a staunch segregationist platform, defending it on all fronts from un-American fifth columnists seeking to undermine states' rights. As the Democratic Party imploded in 1948 and the "Solid South's" party loyalty wavered, Wallace eagerly jumped ship to Richard Russell Jr.'s fledgling States' Rights Party, then to the Patriotic Party, then finally to the National Progressive Pact.

On the campaign trail, Wallace successfully moderated his position just enough to win the support of the NPP's Frankensteinian voter base, and eventually the majority of the nation. Now that he finally sits in the White House, his alliance of convenience with many of the NPP's more left-leaning members is rapidly wearing thin - how do you hold together a party bound only by hatred of the establishment if you are the establishment? But Wallace likely doesn't plan for the alliance to last much longer. Rather, it seems he'll be using his time to legally buttress segregation as much as he can. When it is effectively impossible to dislodge, he will return home, where he shall be forever immortalized as the savior of the South.

The champion of the States' Right Party, George Wallace is a southern opportunist whose staunchly segregationist platform has attracted many supporters. Should Nixon sign the Civil Rights Act into law, Wallace will do everything in his power to become the NPP’s nominee and potentially become president. As president, Wallace would repeal the Civil Rights Act and push for the universal segregation of whites and blacks forever.

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• 0% Approval Rating: No matter what Wallace does, he will leave office hated by the rest of the country as someone who's poisoned the political scene with his rhetoric and undone decades of racial progress. Even the Nationalist Caucus wants nothing to do with him after he leaves, dismissing him as a relic of the past. And that's not even the path where he gets impeached.
• Alas, Poor Villain: Wallace is a deplorable, opportunistic racist who promotes segregation to advance his career, but the moments where his presidency crashes and burns, whether from his impeachment or from preceding a Yockey election, are showcased with a degree of pity rather than triumph. From there, Wallace gets to witness the catastrophic consequences of his unsavory rhetoric that lead to the deaths of innocents and/or the emboldenment of the Sovereigntists to carry out atrocious hate crimes, making him realize how wrong it was to fan this flame. He spends his transition letters to LeMay or Yockey being remorseful of what has transpired and knowing that he is beyond forgiveness, with the latter in particular miserably declaring that he should've perished in the Air Force than live long enough to pave Yockey's rise to power.
• Allohistorical Allusion: By the end of a playthrough where he's managed to establish universal segregation, he's seemingly given a Heel Realization that he's damaged America with his actions, much like how he came to regret his beliefs in OTL. In the secret event that happens after he doesn't enact and enforce this, he'll be much more accepting of integration, even if it still doesn't sit completely right with him at the moment.
• Bait-and-Switch Tyrant: Wallace's tree is filled with items that enforce a racist stance pushing segregation. However, it is entirely possible to ignore all of them and go down a path leading towards slow but inevitable integration. It will effectively destroy Wallace's powerbase, but if you take this route, a secret event plays where Wallace decides it was all Worth It.
• Beneath the Mask: Beneath all his bluster and segregationist rhetoric, Wallace is shown to have some doubts over those views, implying that he doesn't fully subscribe to them himself. Depending on how his term goes, these could either be brushed aside as he doubles-down on his policies and witnesses their ramifications the hard way, or build up to the point of realizing how wrong he's been.
• Beyond Redemption: After getting impeached, Wallace tries to ease his conscience and salvage his reputation by apologizing to a mother of a victim from the Little Rock massacre. Not only does the mother thoroughly reject his wimpy apology, she outright wishes that he were dead, making a remorseful Wallace realize that he's far beyond forgiveness by this point. He also comes to a similar realization if Yockey succeeds him, making him wish that he had died during the war rather than lead America to ruin.
• Broken Pedestal: If he doesn't follow through with any segregationist policies, Yockey's supporters gain more influence, as his voter base (mostly Southern segregationists) becomes disillusioned with the States' Right Party and forms the National States' Right Party, affiliated with the Sovereign caucus.
• Crazy Enough to Work: Wallace could hire a strong legal team to cover for him should he be impeached. There's a chance that this would not only succeed in keeping him in office but lead to the man himself expressing surprise that it'd actually worked.
• Despair Event Horizon: As shown below in My God, What Have I Done?, he goes over this if Yockey is elected, wishing that he had died in the war.
• Developer's Foresight: Wallace can get impeached in either his first or second term. Depending on which one, the epilogue event of a Nationalist presidential candidate scorning him will either be Smith for the first term or Schlafly for the second term.
• Don't You Dare Pity Me!: If he's defeated in the 1968 election, Wallace takes a walk through his home state of Alabama, where a column of middle aged white Americans greet and apologize to him for being scorned by the rest of the country. Their efforts to comfort him end up having the opposite effect, as Wallace feels angry and depressed about being treated like a has-been who needs to be pitied.
• Dystopia Is Hard: Unless Wallace manages to win over Congress and exert enough force among the public, not only would he find implementing his aggressively segregationist policies incredibly difficult, but doing so may also potentially lead to his impeachment before he can do enough damage to make them stick.
• Earn Your Bad Ending: It takes considerable effort to accomplish his entire segregationist agenda, but if he manages to do so without getting impeded or impeached, especially if he's used federal funding to squeeze the entire country into accepting and legitimizing his segregationist policies, the game makes it known that his actions have damaged America almost irreparably and will leave him with a tarnished legacy. Much to Wallace's heavily-implied dread.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • While a hardliner for segregation, Wallace is reluctant to begin negotiations with Bormann and Nazi Germany, and expresses discomfort when Bormann praises his racial policies.
  • Seeing Yockey get elected as his successor will also send him into a despair which makes him reevaluate his whole presidency.
  • After getting impeached, Wallace finally gets the nerve to look at photos from the Little Rock massacre, seeing the corpse of an innocent black girl. Wallace is so horrified by the image that he can't stop thinking about it and finally realizes how destructive his presidency was to the American nation.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: While attempting to win the support of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party for a segregationist welfare bill by negotiating with Robert F. Kennedy, Wallace is bewildered that Kennedy is outraged at the notion, and is confused about why he would abandon his pro-welfare stances "for a bunch of coloreds". Kennedy goes berserk and has to be held back by his aides while he berates Wallace.
  Kennedy: Fuck you, you racist bastard! I'd rather die on my brother's grave than appease your racist, whitewashed, disgusting attempt at aid for the poor. This bill has more holes in it than the swiss cheese on my sandwich this morning, and it's going to fail outside of your little cadre of backward, authoritarian warhawks. You hear me?
• Evil Reactionary: Wallace becomes the NPP nominee only if the Civil Rights Act was signed into law under Nixon. If he is elected, Wallace will do everything in his power to repeal it and enforce racial segregation. Even if other aspects of his presidency are fairly liberal, in stark contrast to most of the other potential Evil Reactionary Nationalist presidents, Wallace's attitudes towards Civil Rights are more than enough to fit him here.
• Foil: To Robert F. Kennedy.
  • Both are NPP candidates that will become more likely to rise to power following Nixon's decision over the Civil Rights Act, proclaiming that their terms will concern domestic policies and reforms. They also share the chance to pursue actions that ruin their image amongst their voter bases and direct more influence to the far-right, or get replaced by a "secret president" that will subvert the nature of their presidencies and potentially lead to a radical gaining power. Wallace contrasts by siding only with the Dixiecrats, gaining prominence by championing for segregationists in response to Nixon's passing of the Civil Rights Act, while RFK starts with affiliation under the Democrats and defects to the National Progressive Pact if Nixon vetoes the Civil Rights Act.
  • Wallace can secretly go against his intentions for segregation, even feeling better about doing so near the end of his term, or he could get impeached before his policies can stick, causing Vice President LeMay to succeed him with a new Civil Rights Act signed in. RFK can lose the support of his progressive voter base with immense damage to his reputation from COINTELPRO, and he may get replaced by corrupt segregationist Thurmond, who takes power with underhanded means. If he hasn't been assassinated, during his last days in the office, he'll contemplate if his time as President has lived up to JFK's legacy.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: If Wallace loses the 1968 election, he becomes an outcast in the NPP, as the rest of the coalition moves on from issues of segregation. During an interview, the reporter calls out his lack of support outside of the South, his increasingly implausible lies of not promoting states' rights to enforce segregation, and his unwillingness to change with the political environment. Not even Schlafly, the coming Nationalist candidate for the 1972 election, wants anything to do with him, where a journalist visits to ask his opinion of her and then taunt him by saying his words will mean nothing to her.
• Good Feels Good: In the secret event he gets for entirely ignoring his segregation foci, Wallace goes for a private drive after de-escalating the Vandals standoff. He admits to himself that, while it's cost him a few hardline friends and there's a part of him that will never really be cool with integration, he rather enjoys being the man who helped unite and heal a torn America, viewing integrated efforts to clean up urban ghettos and even smirking at a white crossing guard helping a black girl to school.
• Graceful Loser: In some of his transition letters, notably with Goldwater and Kirkpatrick, Wallace is shown to be remarkably cordial and willing to lend advice to them. Even if none of them return the favor.
• Heel–Face Door-Slam: Even if he comes to be remorseful for his actions, few outside his family and friends like LeMay buy into it, at least initially. This is particularly evident in most of the responses to his succession letters, ranging from disbelief to revulsion.
• Heel Realization:
  • Seemingly invoked by the phrase "Was it worth it, Mr President?" that shows up in response to enacting universal segregation across the United States through collaboration with fascist elements. This is likely also a reference to the fact that OTL Wallace eventually repented of his segregationist beliefs late in life, but not before he'd done his damage via a lifetime of pouring racist poison into the waters of wider American politics.
  • If he goes too far and gets impeached, his final letter to LeMay is full of remorse, outright saying that he deserves what he's getting for his crimes after seeing the dead at Little Rock.
  • If he has a particularly-vile successor, his final letter is a depressed Villainous Breakdown, where he takes full responsibility for scarring America enough to bring such dangerous men to power.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: The more segregationist actions undertaken by Wallace, the more likely he will start a crisis when the Governor of Arkansas resegregates his state. This will incite African American students to march in protest and the Federal Guard will likely open fire on them (also determined by how radical the segregation is), murdering children in cold blood and raising the possibility for Wallace to be impeached for mishandling the Little Rock Massacre.
• Hypocrite: When Hart succeeds Wallace, the latter's transition letter calmly denounces the former's rhetoric as divisive and harmful to the nation, even though his own segregationist platform is controversial to many Americans, not to mention immoral.
• A Lighter Shade of Black: As potentially malevolent as Wallace could be during his tenure, he's still not quite as horrible as his potential successors, whether it be Schlafly or especially Yockey.
• My God, What Have I Done?:
  • If he is succeeded by Yockey, his transition letter is one of utter despair:
    I have failed this country. I have failed America. My career was a mistake. If I had known what I would cause, I would have stayed in the Army Air Corps and let myself get shot down. I am beyond saving. We both are.
  • His transition letter to Hall is somewhat more restrained, but still carries this tone a bit:
    I have seen the hate in people's eyes when they look at me. I can tell myself that what I did was good and necessary but I know, in my heart of hearts, that it is a lie. My actions have made America a poorer nation and a more divided nation. My actions have allowed you, a man determined to end the American experiment, to ascend to the White House.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Even if he becomes the President and tries to pursue his segregationist policies, there's a chance that he might not be able to make them stick and may lead to his impeachment. If a successful impeachment happens, Wallace will be removed from office and Curtis LeMay will take over. He'll then sign a new Civil Rights Act, combatting what the States' Right Party sought with Wallace's presidency.
• "Not So Different" Remark: Despite acknowledging their different political allegiances, Wallace attempts to compares himself to Kirkpatrick in his succession letter to her, pointing out their commitment to labor reform and desire to see the United States stand above the geopolitical order. The sentiment is completely one-sided and Kirkpatrick destroys his letter out of disbelief.
• Old Shame: Getting impeached and watching his reputation be destroyed in his post-presidency, Wallace regrets ever ascending to the White House and drumming up segregationist talking points to get there. When a Nationalist presidential candidate condemns his failed presidency a reporter from Life Magazine asks for his retort, a dejected Wallace solemnly admits he doesn't have a retort and wishes that the nation just move on from him.
• Once Done, Never Forgotten: If he gets impeached, Wallace becomes regularly targeted by center-left Americans who will never forgive the actions he conducted in his presidency, threatening to bomb his house. As a result, Wallace catches little sleep in his post-presidency.
• Pet the Dog:
  • His main goal as president is to preserve and enforce racial segregation. However, it is possible for his presidency to ignore his focus tree's policies doing so and to instead follow a plan to downplay segregationist rhetoric while engaging in important social and economic reforms. The result is Wallace allowing integration to develop with an approach that moderates approve of. The secret event that occurs after this has him smile at an integrated school during a personal drive.^note It's important to note the Real Life Wallace wasn't originally a passionate segregationist. He genuinely wanted to improve the lot of Alabamans, and was pretty moderate in his racial views early on. It was after losing the 1958 gubernatorial election to an open segregationist that he embraced racial slurs and racist policies out of political pragmatism, and as time went on he found it hard to distinguish who he was from whom he pretended to be..
  • He and RFK know that they will almost never see eye-to-eye on the political battleground, but when they sit down to discuss Bobby's universal healthcare bill (assuming RFK hasn't totally torched that bridge), Wallace expresses his and the States' Right Party's full support for it without even asking for compromises, knowing that it will help them and their voters as well.
  • Despite coming from opposite poles on the American political spectrum, Wallace is friendly to Jackson if he's elected as his successor, writing a letter of congratulations and encouragement to help the American people.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: Being a member of the States' Right Party and Southern populist, Wallace is more than willing to stomp on the rights of blacks and enforce racial segregation to appease his voter base.
• Pragmatic Villainy:
  • Despite being a far-right racist, hardliner Wallace seeks to earn the support of workers' unions in some form of legislation, so that Southern workers and liberal R-Ds will appreciate the government and he can secure votes. Similarly, a more moderate Wallace can simply repeal the Civil Rights Act and incentivize individual states to pursue segregation rather than inflame tensions by trying to enforce it nationwide. If RFK is President, Wallace and the States' Right Party will even support his universal healthcare bill - provided RFK hasn't snubbed the Dixiecrats too many times - because their supporters stand to benefit from it.
  • During his presidency, Wallace watches an interview where Schlafly denounces him as "another liberal beholden to the kingmakers" and calls him worse than Robert F. Kennedy. Though Wallace is visibly offended by the insult, he listens to LeMay's advice to do nothing because she's just trying to get a rise out of the President and any targeted response to her would make her even more famous.
• President Evil: Wallace is potentially the second most overtly evil and malevolent potential President (after Strom Thurmond) if he chooses to go through with his promises and bring back or enforce segregation. That is, until Schlafly and Yockey show up. Even if Wallace doesn't actually repeal the Civil Rights Act, he is content to subject federal civil rights legislation to malign neglect by putting the South in charge of enforcing these laws for itself.
• Revenge Before Reason: If RFK is the President and has angered the right too much, then when he approaches Wallace for support for his healthcare bill, Wallace will declare that the States' Right Party will never support his bill, despite the benefits to his constituents, blaming RFK for having burnt too many bridges and ignored his and the rest of the Dixiecrats' suggestions and angrily decrying it as just another big-government program.
• Sore Loser: Downplayed if he loses reelection to Goldwater. Wallace admits to feeling disappointment about losing and how hard it is to remain positive, but he nonetheless remains cordial to Goldwater in his succession letter and tries giving him some advice for his presidency.
• Surprisingly Happy Ending: While Wallace has an entire focus tree devoted to enforcing segregation on an unenthused America, he can potentially ignore it and focus largely on economic and social issues outside of race. Getting far enough into his presidency without pushing segregation triggers a hidden event, where he muses that, despite privately still not being a fan of integration, he has won over the moderates, helped America unite and move forward, and that his legacy will be a good one. However, it does have a dark undertone, since it increases the Sovereign wing's popularity and developer comments suggest it leads to a Yockey counterculture movement down the line when disenfranchised and disenchanted racists turn even more reactionary and side with the Sovereigntists because they no longer trust the States' Right Party to support their interests.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: In his moderate path, Wallace and Kennedy, whose hatred for one another the text remarks on, sit down together and draft a bipartisan social security bill to shave down the American poverty rate.
• Video Game Caring Potential: It's possible to purposefully neglect his segregationist focuses and instead selectively enforce his economic policies. It's also possible for him to end up downplaying his Dixiecrat rhetoric on top of his other goals. Doing so nets a Surprisingly Happy Ending to his presidency... though isn't without its consequences.
• Warhawk: Wallace is strongly in favor of military intervention and investing in the South African War in particular, to the point that Barry Goldwater denounces his foreign policy as wasteful if he's the Coalition nominee in 1968.
• Was It Really Worth It?: If Wallace successfully manages to impose mandatory segregation in all schools across the entire United States, said national spirit's description ends with:
  "Was it worth it, Mr. President?"
• What the Hell, Player?: Should Wallace enact universal segregation across America, the description will make it clear that mass riots in response are tearing up the country, as are emboldened American fascists going around arresting black children for the crime of going to school. The text that reads "Was it worth it, Mr. President?" is highlighted red to emphasize it's not just taking a jab at Wallace, but also you, the player, who chose to go down this hellish path.
• Your Approval Fills Me with Shame: Should Bormann meet with him during his presidency to discuss cooling diplomatic relations with the US, Bormann will praise Wallace for instituting his racial policies. Wallace can only quietly grimace and be thankful that no live cameras would be recording the scene.

Presidents (1968 Election)

Michael Harrington

Role: Senator (Missouri, potentially), Head of State (1968 election)

Party: Farmer-Labor Party

Ideology: Democratic Socialism^note Progressivism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show} Michael Harrington was born in St. Louis to a Catholic family in the beginning of 1928. Growing up, he attended Catholic schools and inherited conservative views from his parents. However, while studying at Yale and the University of Chicago, he began taking on Christian views that advocated for social and economic progressivism, opposing what he saw as the exploitation of the common American by capitalism. This approach, which was notably anti-collectivist, inspired him to join the Catholic Worker movement and write about politics. After the war ended, he was disgusted with the Catholic Worker and it's apparent ignorance of the threat of Fascism. Seeing the need to join more radical groups, he joined up with Trotskyist Max Shachtman, leader of a virulently anti-Bukharinist and anti-Fascist group.

Harrington continued to shift farther left, while retaining his opposition to strict collectivization. By the late 1950's, his strong views on Civil Rights as well as his distaste for the increasingly authoritarian Socialist Party of America led him to join the rising National Progressive Pact. Now, as President of the United States, Michael Harrington advocates for his own take on Democratic Socialism, one of liberation and freedom, both economic and social, for all.

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• Actually Pretty Funny: If Harrington is elected Thurmond's successor, he receives a letter, condemning his progressive attitude and offering him a chance of redemption if he repents to God for his "deviancy". Harrington is in so much disbelief that he laughs at the message.
• Allohistorical Allusion: Many of Harrington's policies and efforts to help the "Other America" are taken from the book of the same name that he wrote in OTL.
• Being Good Sucks: His radical agenda to end poverty in America makes him one of the most controversial presidents, leading to widespread political polarization and riots across the nation. Even worse, it could drive even more Americans to join the Sovereigntists, increasing their popularity and increasing the possibility of them becoming a more powerful political force.
• The Chains of Commanding: Harrington, an academic and organizer with little practical political experience, immediately finds himself nigh-overwhelmed upon entering the White House. While this adds tremendous stress, especially as he feels woefully unprepared, he nonetheless tries to focus on what he'd been elected to do.
• Crazy Enough to Work: In the event of Harrington winning the elections, the man comes off genuinely surprised that he pulled it off, evidently not expecting his campaign to be all that successful.
• Dark Horse Victory: Harrington's self-declared socialist beliefs convince many that he can't possibly muster the support to win the presidency, yet it is possible for him to defy their expectations in the 1968 elections.
• Defector from Decadence: Harrington was originally a member of the Catholic Worker movement, but left because of the movement's ignorance of the threat of Fascism. He then became an associate of the Socialist Party of America and the Trotskyist Max Shachtman but left that too after the party became increasingly authoritarian. He has since settled in with the Socialists.
• Do Well, But Not Perfect: Empowering the "Other America" requires Harrington to balance out the interests of the working classes and unrepresented, while also ensuring that the wealthy elites and the rest of American society aren't alienated by those policies.
• Everyone Has Standards: He seeks to uplift the marginalized American citizens and the working class, enough to anger the wealthy with his upcoming policies. While Gus Hall proclaims to do the same, Harrington has nothing but disapproval for Hall's underhanded tactics and extremism.
• Fish out of Water: Downplayed. While Harrington has credentials as a both an activist and academic, he admits that entering the White House is akin to biting off more than he could chew. That said, he is genuinely committed to his constituents, while being all too willing to learn from and appoint competent advisors.
• Foil: To Gus Hall. While a socialist with ambitious plans to alleviate the plight of the working class, Harrington still firmly believes in what the US symbolizes. He considers a reconciliatory, compromising approach, as well as working within (and reforming) the system, to be the best option for bridging the gap between the "Other America" and the rest of the country. This stands in contrast to Hall's uncompromising insistence in advancing orthodox Marxist solutions for the same problems, while circumventing (if not breaking) the system due to viewing it as being too broken to serve the working class.
• Good vs. Good: Downplayed. While both LBJ's "Great Society" and Harrington's plans for the "Other America" are similarly beneficial for American society, the latter's socialist views, relative inexperience in politics, and guilt-by-association with Gus Hall, make his case a harder sell.
• Heroic BSoD: If his radical agenda fails to live up to its goals, Harrington will be downtrodden, knowing that he's failed the lower class of American society and destabilized the country's social climate.
• Heroic Fatigue: Michael Harrington might not be as totally devoid of political experience as, say, Phyllis Schlafly, but he has never held elected office prior to the highest office in the land. The crushing pressure of taking control grinds him down throughout his presidency.
• I Did What I Had to Do: Harrington doesn't relish his tarnishing of the United States' foreign perception as a Shining City through his book The Other America. He considers it necessary, however, in order for America to live up to that image.
• Internal Reformist: Harrington is a democratic socialist who will try to tackle poverty, unemployment, and hunger in America through reforms.
• My Country Tis of Thee That I Sting: Downplayed and ultimately subverted. The release of Harrington's book, The Other America, exposes the hidden social ills afflicting the United States and tarnished its idealized and romanticized image abroad. Harrington, however, considers himself a genuine patriot and believes it necessary to shine a light at the realities on the ground if America hopes to live up to its proud ideals.
• Nervous Wreck:
  • In general, Harrington doesn't do very well with the immense pressures that come with being President.
  • He's sweating and shaking over the upcoming arrival of Bormann at the White House, even though he has decided that this is a necessary step for the "greater good." He makes their meeting brief, snubbing Bormann with a quick picture before directing him to Secretary of State Glen H. Taylor for the actual diplomatic discussion. Once the Nazis leave the room, he sighs and puts his hands on his head.
• Pragmatic Hero: Harrington isn't blind to how his efforts to lift up the "Other America" could unwittingly risk alienating not just the rich, but the rest of American society if not handled well. As such, he makes a conscious effort to make compromises with, and reach out to, all Americans, even if it means his radical plans are implemented more gradually.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: If Kirkpatrick succeeds him, Harrington makes his displeasure to the turn of events clear in his letter to her, criticizing her pessimistic, relatively conservative version of American liberalism and her imperialistic foreign policy.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Harrington cares deeply for the common men of America and seeks to uplift the living conditions for the impoverished. As such, his presidency involves meeting with activists and civilians to earn their trust and support.
• Reconcile the Bitter Foes: Optionally, Harrington can seek out the support of the progressive Democrats from the opposite party so that they may achieve their mutual progressive goals. While in general, succeeding in helping the "Other America" requires him to reach out to all Americans in order to guarantee his reforms' longevity.
• Richard Nixon, the Used Car Salesman: The geopolitical situation in TNO and the circumstances leading up to 1968 can give Harrington a chance to become president. This is in contrast to OTL, in which though he founded the Democratic Socialists of America, he never attained political prominence.
• Suffrage and Political Liberation: The central theme of Harrington's Presidency is to try and empower the "Other America" of generally impoverished and unrepresented people alongside the politically-active working class. Whether this is successful or not largely depends on if he can re-center American politics on these groups before angering the wealthy enough that they turn on him.
• Take That!: A highly rumored, in-universe example of such, if he doesn't win reelection. His newly announced book after his presidency, The Poverty Problem, is suspected by some as using personal anecdotes of his time at the White House as an excuse to attack his political opponents, but Harrington has refused to comment on this speculation.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Harrington can choose to work with the Far Right to implement his progressive reforms, even though neither are fond of each other and only working together because Harrington is intimidating them into cooperating.

Philip Hart

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Role: Senator (Michigan), Head of State (1968 Election)

Party: Democratic Party

Ideology: Dynastic Liberalism^note Liberalism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}The most important left-liberal of the 20th century is a man you've probably never heard of. For a good reason, too: he is beyond humble, refusing to take even the slightest inkling of credit for his policy, and he doesn't have the stomach for media tours. The lanky senator from Michigan hardly cuts a presidential figure, but looks can be deceiving behind his calm, kind eves is a dormant passion that, when called upon, roars to life and enables him to fulfill any promise, no matter the size. That is why Philip Hart has, in some form or another, involved himself with nearly every significant labor, infrastructure, consumer protection, conservation, and civil rights bill that has circulated in the Senate since his election. But, to Hart, going unnoticed is an acceptable cost for accomplishing good policy.

First elected to the Senate in 1958, Philip Hart arrived on Capitol Hill unsure about his purpose in the legislature. However, as votes came and passed, Hart realized that he could not simply vote "along party line" as was expected of partisan legislators, pushing him to conduct policy according to his conscience. Hart's reputation for independent voting and a powerful work ethic solidified him as an indispensable asset for Democratic liberal projects, and his ability to forge friendships despite policy agreements ingratiated him with nearly every section of the Senate.

Unlike Philip Hart's maneuvering in the Senate, the White House is an entirely different beast with the potential for incredible highs and crippling lows. Ideal America for Philip Hart is one with blooming cities enriched by investment, a healthy network of crisscrossing highways and railroads, and a thoughtful, community-oriented approach to law enforcement, but this requires deliberation. Careful, political, and sometimes unconscionable review, like, nothing Philip Hart has done before, is how these decisions for the greater good will be made. Their necessity is predicated on the fact that such a chance may never come again, meaning success for the champion of forgotten America is doubly needed and potentially worth any sacrifice.

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• Affluent Ascetic: Hart isn't comfortable with the extravagance of living in a luxurious suite, only inhabiting one when he becomes President and he has no choice.
• Beneath the Mask:
  • In private, Hart doubts the chances of the Americar program becoming a success, expressing pleasant surprise if it does.
  • Beneath his optimistic vigor in public, Hart is secretly worried about how far he can come to realizing his vision for an urbanized and fair America, knowing that his financial spending will become increasingly difficult as more people begin to oppose it. As his cancer slowly begins to overtake him, Hart spills his bottled-up anxiety to Chep and how he had to hide his emotions so he could be the leader that Americans could depend on.
  • Much as he tries to remain dignified in his resignation, Hart is internally distraught that he will never see his work completed and he tearfully asks why he couldn't have lived longer, not just to finish his second term, but to also grow old with Janey and tell stories to his grandchildren.
• Broken Pedestal: There are multiple ways for Hart to lose the trust of various demographics.:
  • If Little America's trust in Hart drops too low, one farmer will recall his admiration of Roosevelt and his response to the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression. Now, he thinks the Democrats are neglecting his family under Hart's direction and joins the thousands who turn on the party they once respected.
  • If the city's budget turns "bloated", everyone will feel betrayed by the Hart administration, who promised them the moon and drowned their cities in debt and high-interest loans. Hart's reputation sinks even further if the bankruptcy crisis isn't resolved, as more cities will declare bankruptcy or slash their public services budget, with many voters turning on the URI and mayors withdrawing support from it.
  • If the white flight happens unabated and the cities' taxes are cut, the Hart administration is blamed for ruining the urban areas and bringing crime to them, with many cities turning on the URI.
  • If the race riots go out of control, many former Democrats will leave the party in dissatisfaction. White Americans are annoyed that Hart left the cities to burn in the violence, while black Americans are disappointed that Hart fell short of his promises that he would support their community.
• The Chains of Commanding: Stricken with cancer, Hart spends his last moments in office revealing to Chep that he never wanted to become President, only accepting the job because Johnson and many senators encouraged him to do so. He calls the presidency a very anxious and painful job that he's had to bottle up, lest he disappoint his followers. Hart confesses his insecurities to assure Chep that he himself wasn't a perfect man when he entered the Oval Office and that Chep can rise to the occasion too.
• Commonality Connection: Hart has formed a friendship with Lyndon Johnson during their years of service together in the Senate.
• Dark Horse Victory: Everyone expected Humphrey to become the Democratic candidate in the 1968 election before Hart snatched it.
• Despair Event Horizon:
  • Hart falls into despair if the white flight crisis isn't solved, causing the cities to lose their taxpayers' money and become ridden with crime.
  • If he didn't resign in time before he collapses in office, Hart expresses his immense regret to Chep about his personal failure and that he's handing him an unfavorable, stressful position that he's ill-prepared to handle.
• Do Well, But Not Perfect: Generally, more radical legislation will alienate congressmen from supporting Hart's agenda in the long-term, so it's best for him to not go overboard with his reforms too quickly.
• Even the Loving Hero Has Hated Ones:
  • In stark contrast to his usual humble mood, Hart despises the Nazis and works with both Truman and Kissinger to build a strict embargo bill against them.
  • While not to the same extent as the Nazis, Hart can barely tolerate Kissinger for his disrespectful attitude and secrecy against Truman. When the PAST passes, Hart admonishes Kissinger for his deception in a snarling tone, something which he never uses against anyone else.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • Though Hart is an American patriot, he does not condone the CIA's shadowy and immoral actions throughout the globe, spending his time in the Senate trying to leash it and only reluctantly accepting it as President to combat Germany.
  • For a time, Hart tolerates Kissinger's borderline illegal actions to pursue détente with Japan, but he finally draws the line when a leaker reveals their secret talks and Kissinger wants to wiretap the State Department HQ to identify the culprit. Hart calls these "Gestapo tactics" and dismisses Kissinger from his office in frustration.
• Facial Scruff: In a small move to change things up, Hart doesn't shave for a few weeks to grow out a beard, but this only inspires a satirical political cartoon that portrays it as unkempt. The public is just as unimpressed and think that it makes Hart look unprofessional, something that even Chep points out. Depending on his choice, Hart can go back to being clean shaven or keep the facial hair.
• Family Man: Though busy with matters in the White House, Hart still delegates some time to relax with his family at home.
• Feigning Healthiness: Hart is physically unwell from cancer in his second inauguration, but he hides it by applying a thick make-up on his face and a suit to hide his emaciated skin.
• Good Is Not Soft: As much as LeMay, like the rest of American political society, respects Hart, he's worried that he may be too much of a Nice Guy and wind up a pushover. LeMay invokes this trope in his transitional letter to Hart◊.
  It is read and re-read, both on the day of the recipient's inauguration and on the many days after.
• Graceful Loser:
  • Though he doesn't like Schlafly, he remains civil in the transition to power, if she is elected. Notably, his transition letter to her is a polite request to cease her mudslinging against her opponents and emphasizing the need for people to show basic decency.
  • Owing to their similar political alignment, Hart takes a defeat from Jackson very well, congratulating him on the achievement and voicing support for his presidential term.
• Happily Married: He's been married to his wife, Janey, for decades. Though Philip will face many tribulations in his administration, he's content that his wife will always be at his side.
• Heroes Gone Fishing: Whenever he feels overwhelmed, Hart retreats to Camp David so he can meditate and relax.
• Heroic BSoD: If the race riots aren't stopped in time, Hart is crestfallen with news that many of America's great cities are being burned down. While Chep and Jacobs argue over what to do, Hart sits in silence and with his head in his hands, as if something inside him broke. When he later takes a look out his window, he only sees division and violence instead of the promise of progress that he used to see.
• Honesty Is the Best Policy: A firm believer in this. When he hears of Nixon's unconstitutional actions, Hart is disgusted and frustrated that the President had to resort to corruption when dealing with the NPP.
• Humble Hero: Despite being one of the most influential liberal politicians in the 20th century, most have never heard of Hart because he's too humble to take credit for his work and rarely makes public showings. Even in his presidency, he doesn't enjoy being in the limelight for too long, with him being particularly relieved over finishing the ceremonial first pitch in baseball and returning to the quiet of his Luxury Box.
• Hypocrite:
  • He prides honesty as one of the best qualities for a politician to have and condemns Nixon for his shadowy actions, but when Hart becomes President, he reluctantly abets to Kissinger's secret negotiations with Japan behind Truman and the nation's back.
  • Hart promises the nation that he will never compromise on his principles and act hastily to see justice done, a vow that he breaks when gun violence rises in the cities and he doesn't do anything. Eventually, Hart recognizes his hypocrisy and repents with Executive Order #334498, creating a commission led by Dr. Milton Eisenhower to study the causes and prevention of gun violence.
• I Did What I Had to Do: Hart is apprehensive towards Kissinger and the questionable means he employs to divide the State Department so that he alone can negotiate with Japan. Nonetheless, Hart promotes him as Secretary of State when Truman dies, which shocks Chep.
• In Harmony with Nature: Hart has always been supportive of environmental protections and works with Walter Reuther to pass legislation on the matter.
• Internal Reformist: His foci are all about trying to dramatically reform and revitalize American society to be more just and equal by working within the existing system.
• It's All My Fault: After rejecting the Nationalization and Electrification plan, Hart is dejected to see powerful railway titans like Union Pacific close their doors after the Oil Crisis, feeling personally responsible that they are dying because he hesitated to save them. Janey Hart tries to comfort him through the tragedy.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: Hart may choose to appease the NPP early in his presidential term and uphold bipartisanship because anything more extreme would produce political gridlock.
• Living on Borrowed Time: Near the end of his first term, Hart receives terrible news that he has cancer and tries to undergo surgery to kill the tumor. Unfortunately, his physician tells him that the cancer has already metastasized and Hart's days are officially numbered.
• Long Game: Though his intended reforms are downright revolutionary, Hart also wants to implement them at a cautious pace because doing them too fast will invite a conservative backlash to undo his progress.
• Necessarily Evil:
  • The Clean Streets Act is a radical, temporary measure to clean the streets is to relocate the homeless away from high-traffic areas, giving in to short-term cruelty to score a supposed win to impress Congress and ease up the gridlock that would trouble him in the long term.
  • Hart keeps Kissinger's talks of détente with Japan a secret to Truman, despite his own moral reservations about withholding confidential information that his minister should know.
• Nice Guy: Hart more than earns the nickname "Conscience of the Senate" as a good-hearted, humble politician who is polite to almost everyone and expresses a lot of regret about the relatively few, morally questionable actions he can undertake. When he resigns due to his cancer, he receives a mountain of letters from Americans from all sorts of backgrounds giving their condolences and calling him a good man, even by those who disagreed with him politically.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: His Urban Renewal Initiative has a good chance of bankrupting the nation and leaving the cities unable to pay their bills. If they happen, Hart can only mitigate these financial crises before they turn into an even bigger problem.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Hart usually acts as the mediator between Chep and Jacobs, commanding enough respect between them to control their arguments when they get out of hand. That all changes if the race riots break out and he doesn't fix them in time. While Chep wants to call the National Guard and Jacobs opposes it out of sympathy for the civil rights advocates, Hart remains silent and puts his head in his hands, showing how dejected he is by the crisis.
• Peaceful in Death: If he resigns in the middle of his term, Hart peacefully dies in his sleep, while his family somberly surrounds him.
• Punny Name: Some of his foci feature puns on his last name, such as "Hart and Soul" and "Breaking the Hart of the World."
• Realpolitik: Out of a pragmatic desire to focus on isolating Germany, Hart seeks to de-escalate the Cold War in the Pacific and pursue détente with Japan.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Hart prefers to achieve his reforms through cooperation with local governments, which he believes are the optimal way to inspire humanist policies to combat poverty and crime.
• Rebuilt Pedestal: After being abused so many times by his administration, the farmers will revolt against Hart. However, if the President pushes four pro-rural policies in recompense, they will regain their confidence in Hart and start applauding his apologies instead of jeering at them. Soon, every prairie house in the Midwest has a sign reading "Farmers for Hart '72!"
• Red Baron: He's known as "the Conscience of the Senate".
• Reluctant Ruler: Hart originally didn't have the ambition to become President. He only ran for the job because his fellow Democrats urged him to do so and he could no longer stand to see the United States ruined by reactionaries.
• Screw the Rules, I Make Them!: A positive example where Hart intends to reform and invest in the school system, per Jacobs' insistence. Many parents will complain about federal overreach in education, an issue traditionally handled by the states, but Hart is in a powerful position to set new precedents.
• Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Hart will never compromise on the issue of racial integration, even if it would cost him the votes of white Americans. During the white flight, Chep advises him to pump the brakes on this issue, but Hart's answer is a thorough no.
• Secretly Dying: To not seem weak to the public, Hart hides the fact that he's dying from cancer, which serves as a unique mechanic where his lifespan depends on the trajectory and stress of his presidency. The more successes he reaps while in office, the longer he will live.
• Serendipitous Survival: Hart would've been killed in World War II, had a German bullet been inches closer to his vital regions. He recognizes how lucky he was compared to those who didn't survive the conflict.
• Shell-Shocked Veteran: Downplayed. He's been traumatized by his experience in the Second World War, empathizing with another veteran who struggles to reintegrate into American society. While he's largely overcome his trauma, Johnson's mention of his service makes Hart's arm twitch.
• Shout-Out: One event where he meets Ted Kennedy to discuss appeasing the rural voter base is titled "Phil and Ted's Excellent Adventure".
• So Proud of You: Hart mentored Ted Kennedy during their time in the Senate and is proud of how far he's come to being an influential politician in his own right.
• Stepford Smiler: Hart is not impressed with Thurmond's succession letter to him and advice to respect state rights at the expense of progress, barely masking his contempt with a thin smile.
• Take Up My Sword: In 1975, as his cancer reaches its terminal stage, Hart resigns from office and lets VP Morrison serve out the rest of his term. In his final speech, he announces that he would like to spend the final months of his life with those close to him.
• Taking Up the Mantle:
  • Many of his policies are a continuation of the ones advocated by Franklin D. Roosevelt, namely redoubling protections for consumers and opening more opportunities for the average American to advance their socioeconomic class.
  • One of his more ambitious projects is continuing construction of the Interstate Highway System, which began under Eisenhower, but was left unfinished due to a truant Congress. An entire game mechanic is dedicated to reinvigorating and completing the ramshackle collection of disconnected highways and railroads still left in the nation. He even receives Eisenhower's blessing upon his election, mere weeks before the latter passes away.
• The Teetotaler:
  • Hart abstains from alcohol. When he and Rockefeller drink together on the Sequoia yacht, Hart drinks cream soda instead of liquor.
  • During the Oil Crisis, Hart is also revealed to abstain from smoking if he rejects the Nationalization and Electrification plan. He feels glum that so many ancient railway companies are going out of business and he considers smoking for the first time since World War II out of anxiousness.
• The Unfettered: Though one of the nicer politicians in America, he's no doormat and remains headstrong in his commitment for civil rights and reform.
• Universally Beloved Leader: Subverted. Given his popular reputation in the Senate, Hart expected multi-party support for his presidency, but being President is a different beast from being a senator. His old acquaintances in the Republicans are coldly courteous at best, his friends in the Progressives are no longer visiting him, the Nationalists never liked him anyway, and even his allies in the Democrats are queasy about his "reckless" plans.
• Wide-Eyed Idealist: Hart believed that his personal friendships with the other Senators would carry his presidency, but this belief gets crushed very early into his presidency, as he realizes that these "friends" do not make reliable political allies.
• Wild Card: Hart is known for voting independently rather than in lock-step with his party, especially according to his own sense of right and wrong.
• Workaholic: Hart starts working late every day in the white flight crisis, desperate to find any solution to it. His wife openly expresses concern that he's overexerting himself.
• Worthy Opponent: Hart's unabashed liberalism, yet strong character has earned him the begrudging respect of his opponents in the Senate.

Barry Goldwater

Barry Goldwater

Role: Senator (Arizona), Head of State (1968 election)

Party: Republican Party

Ideology: Natural Conservatism^note Conservatism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}A Christian, a Jew, a pilot and a senator walked into a bar in DC. 'What can I get you, Mr. Goldwater?' asked the tender." Thus goes one of the jokes Barry Morris Goldwater tells about himself, and it reflects the complicated and colorful background of the man dominating the Southern and Western wings of the R-D Party. Born in the Arizona Territory to a Jewish father and Episcopalian mother who ran a department store together, the young Goldwater lived an unremarkable life until the outbreak of the Second World War, when he would become a reserve officer in the USAAF, and a pilot with the Ferry Command.

Moving supplies around the various war fronts in Asia and Europe, Goldwater would come to develop a great loathing of both his fascist enemies and what he viewed as the failures of the Kennedy administration's peace policies. Following the defeat, Goldwater's aggressive rhetoric and unabashed social conservatism propelled him to the Senator's seat for Arizona in 1953, replacing the retiring Democrat MacFarland.

Goldwater rose to become one of the leaders of the Democratic faction in the R-D's, resisting recruitment attempts by both the Republicans, due to his personal animosity with Eisenhower, and the NPP, which he views as too fixated on Japan alone and dominated by socialist radicals. His charisma and fiery presence soon set him on a path to the White House.

Now, with Goldwater swept into power by a wave of popular support, the world looks across the seas in hope or worry, as the USA takes another step towards full military mobilization against its fascist enemies around the world.

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• Allohistorical Allusion:
  • Goldwater can implement 'Reganomics', an economic model involving minimal government spending (especially on things considered fruitless like social welfare), supply-side economics and deregulation, and disregarding Keynesian and Marxist theories, devised by Secretary of the Treasury Don Regan (who served as Secretary of the Treasury under President Ronald Reagan and advocated for Reaganomics in real life). Even more amusingly, Ronald Reagan himself (who never enters politics in this timeline) shows up several times as a supporter of Goldwater.
  • One foreign policy he can pursue is the North American Trade Cooperation Agreement (NATC), which is designed to increase trade between the United States, Canada, and Mexico, similarly to the OTL North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
• Berserk Button:
  • Goldwater is furious to find out that major businesses have been trying to lobby against his pro-environment policies, which just makes him even more committed to seeing his policies through.
  • His disdain for fascism and National Socialism is as strong as, if not more so than, any of his diatribes against anything he deems communist.
• The Determinator: In spite of his controversial actions, there's no denying that Goldwater is rigid, steadfast politician who will do anything to implement his conservative agenda, even if it means engaging in unconstitutional actions.
• Enemy Mine: If he loses reelection to Hall or Yockey, Goldwater will host an emergency meeting with politicians from all caucuses and organizations, even labor unions, to deal with the common threat and do everything in their power to stop the new President.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • Justified in both cases; even the rock-ribbed right-wing Goldwater is ultimately still half-Jewish and has little patience for National Socialism.
    • Goldwater targeting the Sovereigntists sees him go all-in on denouncing fascism as an affront to American values.
    • He is also the only president to refuse the Bormann regime's offer of improved relations no matter what, explicitly because he remembers his Jewish relatives talking about fleeing deadly peril in Europe and knows if they'd stayed he very well could've perished in a concentration camp as a boy.
      America does not negotiate with monsters.
  • Though Goldwater promotes the supremacy of state rights over the federal government, he does not approve it as an excuse to enforce segregation. Notably, he responds negatively to Wallace or Thurmond's succession letters to him.
• The Federation: If Goldwater follows the Bennett Plan, he will focus on lifting trade barriers between the OFN nations, uniting their alliance even more.
• Friendly Rivalry: Goldwater is a fiscal conservative who opposes Hart's expensive URI programs, but they have a mutual respect for each other. When they meet at Mission Point's West Residence to discuss the budget, Goldwater remarks that he misses him in the Hill.
• Graceful Loser: If defeated by Jackson in the 1972 presidential election, Goldwater gives his congratulations to his opponent, certain that he will do good for the country.
• Historical In-Joke: After being defeated in the 1972 election, Goldwater hosts a farewell meeting with his allies in Congress, inspiring them to lead the new generation of small government conservatives and encouraging one specific man that he could see someone ascend to the White House to complete his work. That man is Dan Quayle, the OTL Vice President of George H.W. Bush.
• Hypocrite: Goldwater derides all fascists and communists as radical terrorists who threaten American democracy, even though he can resort to authoritarian methods to crush the support of these groups.
• Knight Templar: The actions that he can take to dismantle far-right and far-left groups in the United States can be morally ambiguous at best and unconstitutional at worst. His attempts to crush worker's unions also fall under this.
• Must Have Caffeine: Goldwater is continually depicted drinking scalding-hot coffee.
• My God, What Have I Done?: If he fails to beat Hall or Yockey in the 1972 election, Goldwater will feel immensely ashamed for letting them into power and take full responsibility for their election. In the end, he forms a coalition with other politicians to impede their administration and atone for his mistake by somehow forcing them to leave office.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero:
  • Goldwater isn't explicitly racist like the Dixiecrats or Sovereigntists, but what many African Americans disapprove of him is that he won't do enough to advance racial equality through civil rights legislation, wasting an opportunity to amend the discrimination present in the nation.
  • If he proves too staunch in his conservative beliefs and starts making draconian cuts to welfare programs, the NPP will radically increase in popularity and start mass protests against him. And if this popularity allows Yockey to get elected in 1972, the United States is screwed.
• No Sympathy: Goldwater's apathy to the labor unions is well known throughout the nation, in which he regards them as little more than troublemakers who just want to coast by on government aid. As an extension of these beliefs, Goldwater plans on breaking up the AFL-CIO by scrounging up dirt against them to sway the Supreme Court into dismantling them.
• Odd Friendship: In spite of their political differences, Goldwater was a close friend to John F. Kennedy and Robert's succession letter to him reminisces how much John praised their time together.
• Our Presidents Are Different: Goldwater can be President Corrupt, as he can perform Nixonesque actions against the Communists or the Sovereigntists to discredit them, which will absolutely not backfire on him. Should he be elected, he's also President Minority since he'd be the first of Jewish descent to enter the office.
• Pet the Dog: No matter how authoritarian Goldwater is played as, he will always be one of the most eco-friendly presidents in the United States, implementing numerous reforms to preserve the nation's lush environments even if it means going after some of his own erstwhile corporate supporters. His most sympathetic transition letters describe America's natural beauty and ecology as its most precious resources.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: While Goldwater is unrelenting in whatever he pursues, his moderate path shows he's also not above compromise or pursuing conciliatory approaches, if it means achieving his goals.
• Red Scare: Played straight in flavor text from Goldwater's own perspective if he attempts to crush the Communist Party. Other events show you the real consequences of this campaign, with one event showing a supporter of the far-right comparing Goldwater approvingly to the Nazis.
  We will continue to isolate more communist traitors...
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Goldwater has a strained relationship with his VP, Nelson Rockefeller, whose political views couldn't be more different from his own.
• Warhawk: A part of Goldwater's foreign policies is to strengthen the American military so that they can combat fascism abroad.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Goldwater is a staunch libertarian-leaning conservative and everything he does from implementing right-wing economic policies to using the government to crack down on communist or fascist groups is done in the name of upholding the values Goldwater considers core to the US.
• Your Approval Fills Me with Shame: Goldwater is greatly discomforted when he reads Thurmond's transition letter◊ praising his platform of "responsible, conservative government". He also doesn't take too kindly to Phyllis Schlafly's admiration of him.

Margaret Chase Smith

Role: Senator (Maine), Head of State (1968 election)

Party: Nationalist Party

Ideology: National Conservatism^note Paternalism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Margaret Chase Smith has been making history her entire life. The first woman to serve in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. The first woman to serve on the Senate Armed Services Committee. The first woman to stand for the Presidency - and win. Every step of the way, her detractors have whispered that she would be a shrinking violet, unfit to serve - and President Smith delights in proving them wrong every time, having built a reputation as a hard-nosed and principled defense hawk over her two decades in Washington.

To her few allies, President Smith is a pillar of consistency in a fractious NPP; to her many rivals and enemies, President Smith is an infuriating iconoclast. She stunned her Republican Senate colleagues by being the first among them to break ranks and denounce Joseph McCarthy's Grey Scare as 'un-American' for its attack on civil liberties, even as Tokyo labeled her a 'beast in the shape of a woman' for commenting that she would have nuked Japan back after the atomic attack on Pearl Harbor. After abandoning the R-D's after their merger in 1951 (refusing, she said, to work with the architects of America's surrender) Smith has had an uneasy relationship with the rest of the NPP, utterly refusing to break bread with the NPP-Far Right's segregationists while chastising NPP-Center or former Republican colleagues if they seemed to be losing focus on the fascist threat.

Smith is convinced that America must take the fight to - and defeat - the fascists, without selling its soul in the process. And now that the NPP has rallied behind her - if only to capitalize on the cowardice of the R-Ds while putting the segregationists to the side - President Smith faces the even more daunting task of convincing the rest of America that the fight against foreign tyranny is never done, while consigning the worst impulses of the NPP to the dustbin of history. It is her greatest challenge yet - but for President Smith, it's only Tuesday.

The leader of the Nationalist Party's hawkish Militarists, Margaret Chase Smith has spent most of her life making history as the first woman to serve in both the House of Representatives and the Senate and the first woman to serve on the Senate Armed Services Committee. Despite being part of the Nationalists, Smith has an uneasy relationship with the segregationists (led by Wallace) and the Sovereigntists (led by Yockey). Smith also refuses to break bread with the rest of the NPP, especially the Progressives. To her few allies, Smith is a pillar of consistency in the fractured NPP...and maybe even a fit for the presidency.

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• Bait-and-Switch Tyrant: Downplayed. Smith is more of a saber-rattling Warhawk than a racist, and can potentially implement many progressive policies. In general, while Wallace represents the segregationist wing of the Nationalist caucus, she represents the militarists. However, she can choose to go in a more far-right direction if she makes the poor decision to try to make a coalition with the Sovereigntists to unite a fractured NPP.
• Breaking the Glass Ceiling: If Robert F. Kennedy or George Wallace is not the incumbent President in 1968, Smith can become the first woman to stand for the Presidency, and potentially America's first female President. Unsurprisingly, several of her focuses are aimed at granting greater equality to women.
• Deal with the Devil: If her policies split the NPP she can ally herself with Francis Parker Yockey and his faction, causing her administration to take a much harder line on Japan and intensify its anti-Japanese rhetoric, leading to hate crimes and government-vigilante repression against Japanese-Americans, and potentially letting Yockey himself take her place as the NPP nominee in the 1972 election.
• Driven to Suicide: If nuclear war starts when she is president, she kills herself after the bombs drop and civilization collapses, writing a note that she does not want to be "queen of the ashes".
• Everyone Has Standards: While she is a warhawk herself, Smith doesn't take it to the lengths as LeMay and is disgusted by his potential transition letter to her, encouraging her to start nuclear war and proclaiming that the mass casualties will not matter so long as America stands victorious.
• Feeling Their Age: If she loses the 1972 election to anyone besides Hall or Yockey, Smith retires to her Skowhegan home, wondering what other political work she should pursue in the post-presidency. However, she's soon reminded of her back being sorer than ever and her joints stiffer than before, so she resolves to rest instead.
• Good Old Ways: Smith represents a return to the Nationalists' roots as a primarily militaristic bloc rallying around foreign policy points rather than segregation.
• Graceful Loser:
  • In her succession letter to Kirkpatrick, Smith confesses her disappointment in losing the election to her, but nonetheless remains cordial with her and expresses sympathy for her campaign promises before imparting some final advice.
  • A more downplayed case if she's beaten by Romney. Smith admits to feeling bitter about being defeated, but nonetheless remains professional to him and wishes him luck to facing the new challenges the United States will face into the 1970's.
• Iron Lady: Smith has built a reputation of being a principled hardliner and hawk, and is convinced that the US must take the fight to the fascists without losing its soul in the process. And when Bormann passive-aggressively insults her gender and America for electing a woman during their meeting, then suggests that perhaps he should instead speak with her Secretary of State about the alignment against Japan, Smith quickly puts him into his place.
• My God, What Have I Done?:
  • Smith has two paths in which she can have this reaction. The first is if she forms a Deal with the Devil by aligning with Yockey and sees the horrors inflicted on the Japanese-American population due to the racism she stoked for political gain. She also has this reaction if nuclear war breaks out which leads to her ultimately committing suicide rather than be "queen of the ashes."
  • If she loses the 1972 election to Hall or Yockey, Smith will be horrified and guilty that she's inadvertently brought an extremist into the Oval Office, fearful of what harm they will bring to the country and herself, if they or their supporters see her as a threat.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: If Smith begins favoring the Navy and Air Force over the Army, several Army commanders will strongly protest against the budget cut in "The Revolt of the Generals". This starts a PR crisis against the NPP and starting a congressional investigation on how badly they've mismanaged the military.
• Passing the Torch: Smith's transition letter to Jeane Kirkpatrick shows both gratitude and confidence in the fact that America is being run by another Iron Lady, albeit one more competent than herself who's willing to do what needs to be done.
• Our Presidents Are Different: Among other things, MCS can count as President Minority, as both the first female presidential candidate from a major party and the first female President.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Her transition letter in case Yockey wins the presidency is essentially this, and can be summed up as calling him a clown and buffoon with Delusions of Eloquence. What is more, not only is it the only letter that Yockey actually reads in any meaningful degree, but it manages to seriously get under his skin as he ends up tearing it up in a fit of rage after reading it.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Smith believes that the NPP can best function if all of its members work together and many of her focuses involve negotiating compromises between the Progressives and Nationalists.
• Reconcile the Bitter Foes: If Smith doesn't favor either Harrington or Wallace, she can choose to appease both parties for the sake of keeping the NPP united and strong.
• Warhawk: Smith once commented that she would have nuked Japan for their attack on Pearl Harbor, and believes that the fight against foreign tyranny is never done until the fascists are destroyed.
• You Are a Credit to Your Race: If she wins, Burgundy considers her to be this. They respect her belligerence toward Japan and claim she has risen above her "cowardly" English and French ancestry and consider her election to be the Americans making a "sensible" choice.
• Your Approval Fills Me with Shame: She can only conceal her anger when she receives a succession letter from Thurmond, praising her rhetoric and giving her Innocently Insensitive advice to not enforce "the parochial interests of Maine or [her] sex" on the entire country.

Vice Presidents (1964 election)

William Guy

Role: Governor of North Dakota, Vice President^note Head of Government (RFK cabinet)

Party: Progressive Party

Ideology: Progressivism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}If asked about their thoughts on William Guy, most Americans would give a blank stare and ask, "Who?" That anonymity might be galling for other politicians, but it's exactly the dynamic the president and vice president prefer.

Elected to the North Dakota legislature during the chaos of the early 1950s, William Guy was to many a calming presence. While his rivals sought glamor, Guy was a farmer-turned-politician with a tidy crew cut and unassuming wardrobe. While rivals dazzled crowds with rhetoric, Guy delivered slow, boring speeches about infrastructure development. His dry, direct, but competent approach to progressivism became a charisma of its own-vaulting him into the governorship in 1956 on the Nonpartisan League ticket which he, in a shrewd move, attached to the National Progressive Pact's Progressive Caucus only a few years later.

Having traded a governorship for the vice presidency, Guy knows that he will never deliver a speech that will move a room to its feet. Still, he's happy to provide the subtle, consensus-oriented approach to politics that earned him success back home. He will work in the back rooms to help President Kennedy build infrastructure, advance, civil rights, and expand welfare-even if it earns him no fame in return.

William Guy is the Governor of North Dakota, known for his plain yet effective approach to progressivism. He can serve as Vice President to President Robert F. Kennedy.

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• Humble Hero: Guy is content with working behind the scenes to help President Kennedy build infrastructure, advance civil rights, and expand welfare, even if it earns him no fame.
• Sacrificial Lion: If Robert Kennedy is too progressive with his policies, Guy will be assassinated alongside Kennedy by a member of the American Nazi Party.

Edmund Muskie

Role: Senator (Maine), Vice President^note Head of Government (Johnson cabinet), Secretary of State^note Foreign Minister (Bennett cabinet)

Party: Democratic Party

Ideology: Liberalism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Edmund Sixtus Muskie cuts an unusual figure as one of the leading champions of liberalism within the Democratic Party in New England, when many other Democrats come from the South or the more conservative Midwestern states. A pugnacious and combative legislator, Muskie and then-Senator Johnson had more than their fair share of clashes on the Senate floor in the 1950's. However, his commitment to advancing civil rights and American liberalism - much like the late John F. Kennedy - made him the natural running mate for President Johnson, a Democrat he could count on to advance the vision of the Great Society.

Beyond his accumulated experience in the Senate and its Northern members, Muskie is also a passionate advocate for environmental causes, often claiming to supporters that he would pick up the mantle of Theodore Roosevelt's conservation efforts - a claim that won him some support in the West, but has met more skepticism in Washington as the President advances his other priorities.

In-Game Biography (Secretary of State) ^{Click to Show}Some say that international politics is a cutthroat business, where only the fierce and ruthless survive. Others claim that it's a highly delicate affair, where only careful and risk-averse diplomats can avoid the worst possible outcome.

Edmund Muskie can be both.

As a Maine-born son of Polish immigrants, Muskie always had an affinity for forging bridges between different cultures. His political career is marked by a strong showing of bipartisanship and an unshakable belief in the United States and her military - being one of the first sitting Senators to publicly support an intervention in the South African war, Muskie's dedication to a strong and bold foreign policy is a continuation of his long-lasting history of interventionism and antifascism. Despite this apparent jingoism, Muskie has also been a vocal proponent of partial denuclearization. One has to wonder if this differentiated world view was what moved Bennett to nominate him as his Secretary of State, as his administration is a clear statement against extremism and fundamentalism. Muskie's term is set right in the middle of perhaps the most turbulent times since WW2, and history will be the judge if Bennett's decision was the correct one.

Edmund Muskie is a senator from Maine and one of the biggest champions of American Liberalism within the Democratic Party in the North. Despite having his fair share of heated debates with the man, he can end up serving as Lyndon B. Johnson's Vice President. He can also be appointed the Secretary of State by President Bennett, owing to his unique background in forging relations between different cultures.

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• Not Helping Your Case: When Bennett calls Muskie to criticize the Office Of Economic Opportunity (citing that it's trying to deal with problems best solved locally), he questions if the federal government knows what jobs need filling in Scofield, Utah. A bewildered Muskie can only ask where that is, before Bennett rebuts that "that's the point!".
• Taking Up the Mantle: Muskie is an advocate for environmental protection in the Johnson administration, claiming to take up the mantle of Theodore Roosevelt’s conservation efforts.
• Warhawk: Zig-Zagged. Muskie is extremely confident in the United States' military capabilities and was one of the first sitting Senators to support intervention in the South African War. However, he's also vocal in his opposition to nuclear war, advocating a partial denuclearization.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: He and Johnson have had intense debates in the Senate, but both are ultimately committed to civil rights and American liberalism, making them natural allies.

Gerald Ford

Role: Speaker of the House^note Head of Government (LeMay cabinet), Vice President^note Head of Government (Bennett cabinet)

Party: Republican Party

Ideology: Conservatism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Vice President Gerald Ford was largely unknown outside Washington in 1964 - but, among Washington's powerbrokers, his selection as President Bennett's running mate came as little surprise. Leveraging a decorated record of military service in WWII to win a seat in the House of Representatives from Michigan, Ford eschewed the publicity stunts or blatant politicking of many of his colleagues, instead serving as one of the key go-betweens within the Republican-Democratic Coalition in the years after its merger - earning a reputation as a 'Congressman's congressman' in the process.

As a respected military officer with over a decade of service in the House and with a sterling reputation for integrity and fairness among his colleagues, Ford was a natural fit to Bennett's promise of stability and reconciliation after the tumultuous Nixon years. Ford's support for civil rights and liberalism also helped seal Bennett's support in the North, despite his fiscal conservatism being more in line with Bennett's own views.

In-Game Biography (Speaker of the House)^{Click to Show}Gerald Ford's current position is a testament to his lack of enemies as much as it is his political ability. Fulfilling his dream of becoming Speaker only after the dramatic and improbable ascension of John McCormack to the Presidency and multiple rounds of balloting that eliminated men several times his senior. An achievement due in no small part due to a sterling reputation for fair and even-handedness.

Ford presides over a body where ad hoc political alliances have long-held precedence over nominal party affiliation and a caucus that extends from unrepentant segregationists on one end to staunch liberals on the other; wielding his cumbersome majority to mixed success in stymying the legislative agenda of the NPP.

Yet, with Wallace removed and President LeMay in his place, Ford now stands next in line for Presidency, waiting warily for where fate will bring him next. America has survived one accidental president. Can it survive another?

Gerald Ford is a Republican representative from Michigan, being elected Speaker of the House of Representatives following John W. McCormack's ascension to the Presidency. He can later serve as Vice President for Wallace F. Bennett if he is elected President.

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• Consolation Prize: He's brought on Bennett's ticket due to his support for civil rights, appeasing the liberal voters of the R-Ds.
• Friendly Rivalry: Ford is a Republican and Hart is a Democrat, yet they are friendly enough with each other to go by a First-Name Basis and Ford can pull some strings in the Works Committee to fund his Amtrak system.
• Loved by All: He's one of the few congressmen who is well-liked by both the Republicans and Democrats, in which he helped foster unity between the two parties.
• Nice Guy: Ford is an honest and fair politician that makes him well-respected by most. It's also how he becomes Speaker of the House and a Vice President to Bennett, since he has few personal enemies and thus can help calm down the tumultuous political scene after Nixon's resignation or Wallace's impeachment.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Without Bennett's knowledge, Ford can make a televised speech in support of the civil rights movement, which alienates much of the Dixiecrats from their support base. This creates a PR nightmare for Bennett to deal with, who has to win them back by making some major economic concessions to the southern agricultural base.
• Oh, No... Not Again!: If George Wallace is impeached, and Vice President LeMay ascends to the office, Ford’s biography points out that just a few years after McCormack’s ascension to the presidency, the Speaker of the House is once again next in line to the presidency.
  America has survived one accidental president. Can it survive another?

Curtis LeMay

Role: Vice President^note Head of Government (Wallace cabinet)

Party: Nationalist Party

Ideology: National Conservatism^note Paternalism

For his tropes, see the main United States page. Unmarked spoilers ahead!

Vice Presidents (1968 election)

Irving Howe

Role: Vice President^note Head of Government (Harrington cabinet)

Party: Farmer-Labor Party

Ideology: Progressivism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Enacting sweeping changes requires a certain degree of ideological purity, and few people are as ideologically pure as Irving Howe. Howe spent his entire life as an influential advocate for democratic socialism, paving the way for the success of quite a few left-wing politicians like Harrington himself. His contributions to socialist newspapers such as the Partisan Review were instrumental in radicalizing young people with nothing more than a fleeting interest in politics, and his involvement in organizations like the Independent Socialist League ensured that the unfocused actionism of these freshly minted activist got funneled into a highly efficient network with nationwide sway.

Howe and Harrington have been close friends for years, and these two leading the nation together is a natural development of their long and fruitful relationship. They won the election, and now they are about to face their greatest challenge yet - the administration of the United States of America.

A lifelong democratic socialist who has paved the way for the success of left-wing politicians in US politics, Irving Howe is a close friend of Michael Harrington and will serve as Harrington's Vice President should his comrade get elected President.

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• Enemy Mine: When Harrington needs to find support from another party, Howe suggests reaching out to the Republicans, since they'd be the most sympathetic to their agenda.
• Hope Bringer: Howe is a democratic socialist whose had a long career of inspiring activists to fight against American poverty.
• Number Two: Howe has been close friends with Harrington for many years and both work together to combat the economic inequality gripping the United States.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: When a despondent Harrington asks Howe if he ruined America through his controversial reforms, the latter responds that it doesn't matter if it's his fault and that they can fix the current gridlock together.

Chep Morrison

Role: Vice President^note Head of Government (Hart cabinet)

Party: Democratic Party

Ideology: Liberalism

For his tropes, see the main United States page. Unmarked spoilers ahead!

Walter Judd

Role: Vice President^note Head of Government (Goldwater cabinet)

Party: Republican Party

Ideology: Conservatism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Walter Judd has never been afraid to go against the grain.

A missionary physician born to humble roots in a small Nebraskan town, Walter Judd spent much of his youth in China as a medical missionary, where he saw firsthand the horrors of Japanese aggression. Guided by his Christian faith and driven by his time abroad, Judd returned to the United States as one of the foremost speakers against Japanese military expansion.

His staunch internationalism earned him a seat in Congress but Judd could not stem the advance of Rising Sun. In the halls of the Capital, he stood on his principles, waging forlorn battles against the abandonment of America's Chinese allies and for the liberalization of Asian immigration, lambasting the decision by the Dewey administration to seek terms with the Japanese aggressors.

Judd's selection as Vice President emphasizes not only Goldwater's commitment to the right flank of the Republican Democratic coalition but its commitment to combating totalitarianism abroad. There will be no negotiating with tyrants and no peace with dictators. For, if America cannot survive a hot war, then it must win the Cold War.

A former Christian missionary turned US Congressman, Walter Judd has seen the horrors of the Japanese tyrants first-hand and supports the Republicans' more hawkish tendencies. These tendencies combined with Judd's conservative views can lead to him serving as President Goldwater's Vice President.

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• The Missionary: Judd spent his youth as a medical missionary in China, where he first witnessed the horrors of Japanese aggression.

Spiro Agnew

Spiro Agnew

Role: Governor of Maryland, Vice President^note Head of Government (Smith cabinet), Secretary of State^note Foreign Minister (Thurmond cabinet)

Party: Nationalist Party

Ideology: Paternalism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}When Spiro Agnew first sought a career in politics, the senior partner at his Maryland law firm told him to renounce the Democrats and join the NPP, where young, competent members were in short supply. This advice paid off for him when he was selected and elected as the party's candidate for Governor of Maryland. Having run against a segregationist Democrat, Agnew's administration was marked by improvements in Civil Rights legislation, making him one of the most liberal members of the Right wing. However, Agnew's compulsive love of order and visceral hatred of protests drove him to publicly berate the movement's leaders, endearing him to many a white southerner.

This record gave him a simultaneous appeal to both the Northern and Southern wings of the party, leading to his unexpected selection as compromise candidate for Vice President. Spurred on by his speechwriter, Patrick Buchannan, Agnew deviated to right-wing populism during the campaign trail, making a number of racially charged remarks against the Japanese and Polish. Since then, Agnew's political status has soared, being seen by many in the right as the defender of "suburban ethnic" interests with his regular attacks on hippies, socialists, the Japanese, the liberal press, and all other "nattering nabobs of negativism." Not all is rhetoric, however, and Agnew's value to President Smith lies primarily on his ability to achieve congressional compromises, particularly on the ever contentitious matter of Civil Rights.

In-Game Biography (Secretary of State) ^{Click to Show}America has always prided itself on honesty, both in domestic affairs and in regards to foreign policy. It was a nation that valued its allies and honored all treaties and pacts, no matter how they might benefit or damage the position of the US. The world was a dark and wretched place, but America was a beacon of integrity among the darkness, proving that humanity still has a place in diplomacy.

Now look where that got them.

Spiro Theodore Agnew is not afraid of fighting fire with fire. America has no friends, just interests - and these interests constantly change, shifting in response to the tides of international politics. A nation that supports everything America stands for can be dropped in an instant, as long as the situation demands it.

Some might call it heartless. Agnew calls it pragmatic.

Spirit Agnew is the Governor Of Maryland and a big believer in law and order. His popularity with both the southern and northern wings of the NPP can lead to him being chosen as compromise Vice President under President Margaret Chase Smith.

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• Consolation Prize: Agnew is chosen as Smith's Vice President to act as a compromise candidate for both the Northern and Southern wings of the NPP.
• The Cynic: Agnew rejects any idealistic notions that the United States can have permanent allies, believing that alliances should be formed out of conveniences and pragmatic truces instead.
• Order Is Not Good: Agnew's fundamental principle in life is to uphold order and the law, but this devotion can lead him to adopting unfriendly or even contradictory political positions. For instance, he's normally willing to pass civil rights legislation, but his distate for "liberal" protests and the chaos they create leads him to denounce them and look like a Dixiecrat politician, like Wallace.
• Pet the Dog:
  • When he was Governor of Maryland, Agnew made marked improvements to civil rights legislation.
  • In a rare moment of emotion, Agnew comforts a distraught Smith if she fails to keep the NPP stable.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: Spurred on by his speechwriter, Pat Buchanan, Agnew made several racially charged remarks against Japanese and Polish people on the campaign trail.
• Realpolitik: A stringent advocate of a pragmatic approach in both foreign and domestic affairs. Abroad, Agnew resorts to dirty and ruthless tactics to advance the United States' agenda and combat the influence of their rivals. In the nation itself, Agnew has some sympathies for civil rights, but has no problem making racially charged remarks against the Japanese and Polish to win over southern voters.
• Reconcile the Bitter Foes: Agnew coordinates Smith's meeting with Harrington and Wallace, seeking to appease both of their interests to keep the NPP united.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: If Smith and Agnew's plans backfire repeatedly, their working relationship becomes increasingly tumultuous, as the latter is blamed for their failures. Should matters reach a critical point, Agnew will resign, stating that their personal conflicts would create national chaos and that would go against his principles for order and stability.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: When it comes to defending American interests abroad, Agnew will resort to any means, no matter how unethical.

RFK Cabinet Members

Claude Pepper

Role: Secretary of State^note Foreign Minister (RFK cabinet)

Party: Progressive Party

Ideology: Progressivism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}America aims to be the lighthouse in a sea of fascism, the guiding light helping the few remaining free nations to navigate through the dark waves. The keeper of this proverbial lighthouse is no one other than Clause Pepper, the current Secretary of State.

Pepper's career is peppered with groundbreaking achievements, such as being one of the youngest senators to ever take office and being a trailblazer when it comes to fighting for labor and the elderly. His foreign policy is marked by his bold anti-fascist ideology, which extends not only to the US itself or her sphere of influence, but the entire world instead. Anti-american ideologies simply do not belong on this planet, and Claude Pepper is set to ensure that even the smallest microstates stay far away from allying with the Germans.

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• Gunboat Diplomacy: Pepper advocates a strict anti-fascist ideology, willing to show off American military might to fight off Germany and Japan in foreign proxy wars.
• Internal Reformist: In the Senate, Pepper spearheaded reforms in favor of labor rights and benefits for the elderly.
• Politically Incorrect Hero: Downplayed. Pepper is a staunch progressive who supports Kennedy's civil rights agenda, but at one point, he uses "Japs" as an ethnic slur when discussing America's foreign policy toward the Sphere.
• Wrong Line of Work: When discussing the need for a minister of defense, Pepper can be chosen for the position, even though he has no experience in security policies. He's brought on purely to block the promotion of Arleigh Burke, an ally to the Dixiecrats.
• Young and in Charge: He is the youngest senator to have been elected in American history.

Maurine Neuberger

Role: Secretary of the Treasury^note Economy Minister (RFK cabinet)

Party: Progressive Party

Ideology: Progressivism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}When people hear "Secretary of the Treasury", they usually don't imagine a female teacher with a Bachelor of Arts - and yet, Maurine Neuberger defied all expectations and made history by becoming the first woman holding one of the most important offices of the United States.

Her climb to the top has been a long and arduous one. Coming from an unassuming middle class family, she lived a normal life teaching high school kids until she met the love of her life, Richard Neuberger. As a senator, he had the political connections she needed to kickstart her own career - and due to her incredible talent, she rose through the ranks at a breakneck speed. In 1950, she became a representative, in 1960 a senator, and in 1964, she got invited to be a member of Robert F. Kennedy's cabinet. The future is bright for Maurine Neuberger, and many are already convinced that her illustrious career won't stop here.

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• Beware the Nice Ones: She has a soft voice and smile, which makes it easy to underestimate her shrewdness and long experience in politics.
• Breaking the Glass Ceiling: She can potentially be the first female Secretary of Treasury if Kennedy or Harrington is elected.
• Honor Before Reason: Harrington asks Neuberger what she thinks about raising income taxes, in which she voices her support for it because it would generate more income and win the people's appreciation. However, such a decision would also cost Harrington's chances for reelection, leaving it up to him whether he goes with Neuberger's gamble.
• Iron Lady: Beneath her warm exterior, Neuberger is a tough politician who won't back down so easily when fighting the corrupt interests of Wall Street and other large businesses.
• Nepotism: When she married senator Richard Neuberger, she used her husband's political connections to jumpstart her own political career, using her own talents to advance through the ranks quickly.
• Pragmatic Hero: Neuberger voices her hesitance about Harrington adding more amendments to the Fair Labor Standards Act, noting that it would invite further backlash from the businesses who already hate them.
• Wrong Line of Work: Invoked. More than a few people raise an eyebrow at Neuberger becoming an economy minister for Kennedy, noting that she has more focus on social reforms than economic policies. Except that's exactly what Kennedy wants, emphasizing his administration's focus on welfare over profit.

Henry Mucci

Role: Secretary of Defense^note Security Minister (RFK cabinet)

Party: Progressive Party

Ideology: Progressivism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}In dark times like these, it takes a hero to shatter the enduring malaise and revitalize the eternal American spirit. Henry Andrews Mucci fits that archetype to a T - his daring liberation of a prisoner camp back in the Scottish theatre sparked the hope that the war could be turned around after all, and even though it wasn't enough to turn the tides, it still created a legend that lives on to this day.

Born into an Italian immigrant family with ten children, Mucci never had any success handed to him. His career is nothing but decades of dutiful work for the United States, and his nomination by Robert F. Kennedy signifies that personal courage is still something to be rewarded in America.

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• Self-Made Man: Mucci built his career from decades of hard work, in which he is nominated by Kennedy to his cabinet as a reminder of the social mobility in American society.
• War Hawk: In contrast to his otherwise calm and moderate political stances, he has no tolerance for fascism, due to witnessing its grossest atrocities in his military service.
• War Hero: When he served in World War II, Mucci heroically liberated nearly 513 men during the Bataan Death March and a prison camp in the Scottish theater, earning him two Bronze Stars, a Purple Heart, and a Distinguished Service Cross.

Maxwell Taylor

Role: Military Commander, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (RFK cabinet), Vice President^note Head of Government (Thurmond cabinet), Secretary of Defense^note Security Minister (Smith and Schlafly cabinet)

Party: Nationalist Party

Ideology: Paternalism

In-Game Biography (General) ^{Click to Show}Maxwell Davenport Taylor is best known among peers as daring and competitive with his military career; graduating 4th in his West Point class, serving as a Japanese diplomat and a Chinese attaché, being mentored by Matthew Ridgeway, graduating as a Major from the Army War College, and eventually coming into the position as the commander of the 101st Airborne Division. Under Taylor, "The Screaming Eagles" had great but limited successes in the UK. Once the war was lost, Taylor returned to West Point to serve as Superintendent, even writing the foundation for the modern Cadet Honor Code, but was later assigned to serve as Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Administration at the Pentagon. In this position, Taylor became critical of the Eisenhower administration's foreign policy shortcomings, later becoming an ally of President-Elect Nixon. Later appointed to the Joint Chiefs of Staff under the Nixon Administration, Taylor will use his experience as a skilled and veteran commander of the 101st to guide Special Operations on the ground force, wherever America may need them.

In-Game Biography (Vice President) ^{Click to Show}General Maxwell Davenport Taylor doesn't know why he was appointed Vice President of the United States. He never ran for office, nor did he publicly take a political position in his life. He certainly isn't a segregationist like Thurmond, and would have happily used the army to enforce desegregation had previous Presidents given him the order. He accepted Thurmond's request to fill Humphrey's office, but still struggles to comprehend why Thurmond would want an apolitical airborne cavalry commander to preside over the US Senate.

Yet, perhaps a man with no political ambition is exactly the sort of piece Thurmond needs on his side of the board. Taylor doesn't understand Thurmond's political goals, nor does he try to figure them out. He is grateful for the prestige of the position, and will gladly vote as Thurmond requires when tie-breaking is needed. Like a rook castling a king, Taylor can make his master safer and give him a slight edge in the game of politics. Soon, Taylor may cast the decisive vote that fulfills Thurmond's ultimate ambition.

In-Game Biography (Smith Secretary of Defense) ^{Click to Show}Following the tragic death of Secretary of Defense John Stennis, and the resulting diplomatic crisis with Japan, the Smith Administration desperately needs to look tough on defense issues to maintain any credibility with the American people. Taylor's rushed appointment to Secretary of Defense - pulling him out of the Army with a special dispensation from Congress - was not something he wanted, but in the state of emergency following Stennis' death, it wasn't something he could turn down, either.

Now Taylor finds himself saddled with the task of overseeing his former peers in America's armed forces and coordinating with the massive military-industrial complex, all for a President struggling to maintain control over her own party and the American people. It is a job that only a patriot would do willingly - and he is nothing if not a patriot.

In-Game Biography (Schlafly Secretary of Defense)^{Click to Show}General Maxwell Davenport Taylor does not understand why he has been called out of retirement yet again. Did he not serve his country dutifully as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs under Nixon and his successors, not merely supporting them but acting as a true believer? Did he not defend American interests in South Africa, enabling the use of overwhelming force? Has he not shown complete, unquestioning loyalty to every commander-in-chief? How would these qualities serve the Secretary of Defense, someone meant to exert independent civilian control?

Whatever the reason for his confirmation, the aging general has never been one to refuse a call. With a weary heart, the one-time "Screaming Eagle" drives every morning from his home in Washington's Embassy Row to Arlington. From the Pentagon, he oversees President Schlafly's effort to restore America's strength and forces himself to ignore the mounting exhaustion creeping in along the edges.

In-Game Biography (CIA)^{Click to Show}Anyone who is about to jump feet first into the middle of enemy territory and tasked to do the impossible is going to want as much and as accurate information as possible. Maxwell Taylor knows this as much as anyone else. In charge of the 101st Airborne Division from Europe to Little Rock, Taylor has been all that he could be in the US Army. And now he's tasked with making sure his country always will have the drop on their enemies.

Focused on the tactical and strategic benefits of special operations, Taylor knows its not only the lives of American soldiers that rely on accurate intelligence, but the lives of their allies fighting for freedom. It's his goal to ensure that every warrior for liberty is given the benefits of the world's greatest intelligence group. Everyone, from the Army Ranger to the African Militiaman to the Oceanic Freedom Fighter, now has General Taylor and all the minds of Langley behind him.

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• Everyone Has Standards: Though Taylor is in the military and part of the Nationalist Caucus, he is rightfully horrified by Schlafly's authorization for commanders to use nuclear weapons whenever the United States is threatened.
• Gondor Calls for Aid: As CIA director, Taylor recognizes that the United States can't fight fascism alone and calls for its international OFN allies for the fight.
• My Country, Right or Wrong: By nature, Taylor is an apolitical man who would've happily desegregated the military just as easily as he listens to Thurmond's orders, if the President told him to.
• Odd Friendship: Despite coming from different parties and backgrounds, Taylor is a close friend of RFK and serves as his CIA director.
• Only Sane Man: He's the only person in Schlafly's cabinet who is both actually competent and doesn't share her reactionary views.
• Reluctant Ruler:
  • Taylor has no political ambition or publicly stated positions and never wanted to be Vice President, only serving after being chosen by Thurmond after Kennedy and Guy’s assassination.
  • Likewise, Taylor is apprehensive to Schlafly's recruiting him as Secretary of Defense, wishing that he could just retire in peace and only accepting the invitation out of duty.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: He has no clue that he's being manipulated by Thurmond into gutting the CRA and reversing the progressive work done by Robert F. Kennedy.
• Yes-Man: Thurmond only chooses Taylor as Vice President because he’ll serve as a yes man and, most importantly, as a tiebreaker in the Senate.

Johnson Cabinet Members

Dean Rusk

Role: Secretary of State^note Foreign Minister (Johnson cabinet)

Party: Democratic Party

Ideology: Liberalism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}The world is an unfriendly place. Holding hands and singing Kumbaya is simply not an effective method to stem the ever looming threat of fascism - only an uncompromising diplomacy backed by a well-oiled military can stand up to the dictators in Tokyo and Germania.

Dean Rusk is poised to reassert America's status as the only bastion of freedom on an international stage. Born into a lower-class family, he climbed the ladder at an incredibly high pace, rising from the son of a sharecropper to perhaps the most important member of Johnson's cabinet. His bold stance on foreign policy may be the necessary antidote to the creeping sprawl of imperialism, although there remains a lingering fear of what might happen if his gutsy approach to diplomacy backfires.

The Secretary of State under Lyndon B. Johnson, Dean Rusk believes in an uncompromising and hawkish foreign policy (backed by a powerful military) that can reassert America's status as the bastion of liberty while standing up to the Germans and Japanese on the world stage.

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• Good Is Not Nice: Rusk believes that only an uncompromising diplomacy backed by a well-oiled military stem the tide of fascism and imperialism as well as to reassert America's status on the world stage.
• Rags to Riches: Rusk grew up as the son of a sharecropper and can potentially occupy the most important position in cabinet should LBJ be elected to the presidency.
• Warhawk: Rusk proposes a hawkish foreign policy dedicated to reasserting American strength against the rise of German and Japanese dominance.

Henry Fowler

Role: Secretary of the Treasury^note Economy Minister (Johnson cabinet)

Party: Democratic Party

Ideology: Liberalism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Henry Fowler brings a lifetime's worth of experience in law, public policy, and financial affairs to the Johnson Administration, despite never having held elected office of his own. Following his graduation from Yale Law School in 1932, Fowler is best known for having defended the constitutionality of public works programs to combat the Great Depression, and then for serving as a senior legal advisor to the War Production Board during WWII, gaining familiarity with the business of how America built and paid for its war machine.

Following America's defeat, Fowler became a key member of the Eisenhower administration after the merger of the Republican and Democratic parties, leveraging his experience in the war to oversee the linking of the newly-founded OFN's economic and military policies. Now, after nearly twenty years in government, President Johnson has called on Fowler to provide a steady hand at the Treasury - which will surely be needed, if the cost of Johnson's Great Society are anywhere near as high as estimated...

The Secretary of Treasury under Lyndon B. Johnson, whose lifetime's worth of experience in law, public policy, and financial affairs makes him a valuable ally in keeping the economy stable enough to pay for LBJ’s costly “Great Society” programs.

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• Boring, but Practical: He doesn't have any radical agenda as Johnson's Secretary of the Treasury and only needs to keep the economy stable enough to pay for the President's Great Society programs.
• Crazy Enough to Work: Fowler's big achievement under Bennett is the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), a radical proposal of breaking down tariffs in the OFN to promote mutual international trade. It's incredibly controversial among many Americans, but with enough compromise and luck, it is possible for it to pass.
• Honor Before Reason: Wishing for a more fair alliance among the other OFN members, Fowler proposes weakening the United States' tariffs to allow the rest of the Free World to sell their goods and accrue wealth themselves, even if it comes to the detriment of the American workers and proves massively unpopular.
• Taught by Experience: Fowler has never formally held an elected office, but he served as a senior legal advisor to the War Production Board during World War II, giving him a lifetime's worth of experience in law and business.

Robert McNamara

Role: Secretary of Defense^note Security Minister (Johnson, Goldwater, and Kirkpatrick cabinet)

Party: Republican Party

Ideology: Conservatism

For his tropes, see the main United States page.

Richard Helms

Role: Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (Johnson cabinet)

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}The termination of the OSS in 1945 was not the end of the story for people in its ranks like Richard Helms. One of the agents centered on intelligence in Central Europe, he found himself with a tremendous opportunity when his organization was merged into the CIA. Handling a variety of operations within the agency, Helms found himself rising quickly through the ranks, and now it's his turn to run the company.

A dedicated believer in human intelligence, Helms places a premium on information gathering and defense against enemy agents. He is far more skeptical of the value of covert activities than others may be. However, he firmly believes in the value of the organization to coax world affairs. Mostly to the benefit and security of the United States.

Richard Helms is a CIA agent known for his expertise in gathering information and subverting enemy infiltration, which he showed during his time in Central Europe. He can be appointed Director of the CIA by President Lyndon B. Johnson.

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• Knowledge Broker: Helms' specialty is on gathering information and subverting enemy infiltration, which is why he rose through the CIA's ranks quickly after the merger with the OSS.

Bennett Cabinet Members

Edmund Muskie

Role: Secretary of State^note Foreign Minister (Bennett cabinet)

Party: Democratic Party

Ideology: Liberalism

For his tropes, see the 1964 Vice Presidents section.

A. Willis Robertson

Role: Secretary of the Treasury^note Economy Minister (Bennett cabinet)

Party: Republican Party

Ideology: Conservatism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}A. Willis Robertson is a lawyer by training, a legislator by trade. Having spent over 30 years in both the House and Senate, Robertson's long history within government would not make him an unusual choice for a cabinet position. That is if the President was a Southerner. For Robertson's long history in Virginia rests upon the political machine that has dominated the state for decades, the Byrd Organization. Whose operation as "Independent Democrats" nominally aligned with the wider area of the Democrats has long since faded with the rise of the NPP in the South and the salience of Civil Rights in the North.

Only his relative moderation, long working relationship with Bennett, and cordial relations with the members of the august Senate kept his nomination from floundering. Robertson's appointment reflects not a rewarding of a political ally but an olive branch to the wayward South and lingering hopes among some in the Democratic Party that the Dixiecrats can be brought back into the fold. No matter the compromises needed.

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• Consolation Prize: Since Robertson is a Virginian politician, Bennett brings him onto his cabinet to appeal to southern voters and Dixiecrats who used to be aligned to the Democratic party.
• Defector from Decadence: He used to be a part of the Byrd Organization, the dominant political machine in Virginia. However, as the group became more closely aligned to the NPP, Robertson distanced himself from them and only kept his career alive due to a number of circumstantial factors, like his association with Bennett.
• Despair Event Horizon: If his proposal for an International Money Fund is rejected, a dejected Robertson goes silent and only asks for a strong coffee to down his sorrow.
• Didn't Think This Through: To fix the national budget, Robertson starts a flat cut for agricultural development and agricultural production zones. At best, it slashes funding for southern farmers and drives even more people away from the Democrats. At worst, it could spell doom if the economy slows down. A panicked Bennett intervenes quickly to cut the program before things get worse.
• A Lighter Shade of Black: Robertson is opposed to civil rights and generally looks down on foreigners, even if they are members of the OFN. However, he is relatively moderate compared to the other members of the Dixiecrat faction and he does help Bennett rejuvenate the American economy.

Clark Clifford

Role: Secretary of Defense^note Security Minister (Bennett cabinet)

Party: Republican Party

Ideology: Conservatism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Few systems can be considered to be as fine and complex as the political machine in Washington, and quite a lot of hopeful reformers were rendered entirely ineffective due to their lack of experience with the inner mechanics of the Capitol and its surroundings. The conglomeration of interest groups, lobbyists, personal feuds and utter absurdities transpiring in the Capitol may be completely incomprehensible to the average human mind, but Clark Clifford is thoroughly clairvoyant when it comes to federal politicking.

Hailing from Kansas, Clifford has been involved in legal matters for decades. After acquiring a law degree and practicing for a few years in St. Louis, he decided to enter politics during the aftermath of WWII after witnessing the structural failures of the then-dominant system. He served in numerous posts under a wide variety of Presidents, and over the years, he acquired an astonishing base of knowledge that's sure to benefit Bennett and his ambitious agenda for America.

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• The Ace: Clifford is supremely good at politicking in the Capitol, able to comprehend the intricate web of interest groups, lobbyists, and political conflicts far faster than the average politician.
• Innocently Insensitive: When giving a report on their work, Clifford surmises that the OFN is steady and could remain strong against the Pakt and Sphere, if they continue to not "rock the boat too much, so to speak". The rest of the cabinet chuckles at the little joke, but Bennett is not amused by the comment.

Laurence E. Bunker

Role: Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (Bennett cabinet)

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}If anyone knows what a failure of intelligence looks like, it's Laurence Eliot Bunker. Arriving on the Pacific theater as an aide to senior officers, including General MacArthur, he saw firsthand what could come of an underhanded plot against an unaware nation. The disaster of Pearl Harbor, and the expulsion of America from the Philippines convinced him America could never allow an international plot to destroy it come to fruition again.

One of the most dedicated individuals to protecting the United States from enemies foreign and domestic, Bunker is now in a position to hunt down the nefarious schemes of the world against the American people. Long has he seen the warning signs that others missed or wanted to ignore. But now, the CIA is ready to blow the lid off what the enemies of freedom are trying to do to this great nation.

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• Cynicism Catalyst: He served as an aide to senior officers in the Pacific theater of World War II, witnessing the disastrous Japanese ambush on Pearl Harbor and conquest of the Philippines. These failures convinced Bunker that the United States and the torch of freedom can only survive through the surveillance and Realpolitik actions of the CIA.
• My Greatest Second Chance: After the United States' defeat in World War II, Bunker vowed to never let another international plot humiliate his country again and will unleash the CIA to crack down on the slightest hint of an anti-American scheme.

Wallace/LeMay Cabinet Members

J. William Fulbright

Role: Secretary of State^note Foreign Minister (Wallace and LeMay cabinet)

Party: States' Rights Party

Ideology: Paternalism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}If George Wallace is the personification of firebrand Southern populist politics, then J. William Fulbright embodies the South at its most genteel. A Rhodes Scholar, former university President, and the son of two of Arkansas' captains of finance, Fulbright is educated, cosmopolitan, well-connected, and far more comfortable at a state dinner than a state fair.

Fulbright is the OFN's staunchest advocate, and perhaps the world's last true believer in a multilateral international order. Fulbright envisions America as the guiding light for the Free World, the last beacon of liberty in a sea of tyranny. He supports funding student exchange programs between the United States and other nations and spoke up in defense of these programs when they were criticized during the Grey Scare. Fulbright wants the OFN to expand its membership, even to nations following dramatically different ideologies, and forge a friendlier and more peaceable world.

Yet, Fulbright is still a Dixiecrat. He broke with the Democratic Party when Thurmond led the exodus in the wake of Brown v. Board. He voted against Nixon's Civil Rights Act after trying to filibuster it. He is a proud member of the Nationalist bloc, and campaigned vigorously for Wallace in his home state. If Fulbright sees a contradiction between being a champion of peace and international cooperation abroad and defending Jim Crow at home, he doesn't show it. In that respect, there is no better choice than him to be Wallace's Secretary of State.

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• Affably Evil: Despite being a Dixiecrat like the President he serves, Fulbright is well-educated and personable.
• Hypocrite: He champions the United States as a nation of liberty, but sees nothing wrong with defending Jim Crow laws to oppress black Americans.
• Pet the Dog: Believing that the United States is a beacon of hope, Fulbright supports student exchange programs with fellow OFN nations and generally wants a more peaceful world order.

Wilbur Mills

Role: Secretary of the Treasury^note Economy Minister (Wallace and LeMay cabinet)

Party: States' Rights Party

Ideology: Paternalism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Wilbur Mills was a natural pick for Wallace's Treasury Secretary. As a county judge, he set up a county-funded healthcare plan for the poor in his home state of Arkansas. As chairman of the House's Ways and Means Committee, the former banker was an expert in the tax code and a master of balancing fiscal conservatism with humanitarian goals. As a segregationist and one of Thurmond's Dixiecrat defectors to the NPP, Mills naturally falls into alignment with Wallace's social policies. Moreover, he is the strongest supporter and chief architect of Wallace's Social Security and Medicare initiatives. If anyone can find room in the budget to help the little guy, it's Mills.

Outside of Mills' political life, the man is an enigma. His intense secrecy about his personal life has fueled rumors of binge drinking and wild parties with the Beltway's sultriest strippers. Whatever the truth of these rumors, Wallace will have to keep an eye on Mills and make sure he doesn't drag this administration into a torrid scandal.

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• The Alcoholic: Some suspect that Mills likes to binge drink, but this has yet to be proven publicly.
• Covert Pervert: There are rumors that Mills likes to party at the Beltway to see some strippers, but if they are true, he's really good at keeping it a secret.
• Pet the Dog: When he was a county judge in Arkansas, Mills set up a healthcare plan to help the poor and generally pursues policies that balance fiscal conservatism with humanitarianism.

Robert Byrd

Role: Secretary of Defense^note Security Minister (Wallace and LeMay cabinet)

Party: Nationalist Party

Ideology: Paternalism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}There is no member of the Wallace Administration, aside from the man himself, that American progressives loathe more than Robert C. Byrd. The former Senator got his start in politics as an organizer for the Ku Klux Klan, and it was the Grand Dragon of West Virginia who mentored him to run for office. Byrd would earn a reputation as a vitriolic segregationist; he attempted to filibuster the 1962 Civil Rights Act by speaking for a full 14 hours. He once wrote that, "Rather I should die a thousand times and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds."

For some time, there had been rumors that Byrd was tempering his segregationist views to move closer to the political mainstream. All hopes of that were dashed as he doubled down on his segregationist politics following the election of George Wallace. In contrast to more moderate voices like Fulbright or Mills, Byrd has gone "all-in" on racial segregation. This has earned him a post in Wallace's cabinet, and he has used his new position to become Jim Crow's top advocate in the Executive Branch. With racial politics that are just barely to the left of Yockey's American National Vanguard, Byrd is sure to hold Wallace's feet to the fire if he doesn't go through with repealing the Civil Rights Act.

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• Hate Sink: Somehow, Byrd is the most actively detestable member of George Wallace's already odious administration, actively spouting bigotry that borders on fascism while being aligned with the Klan.
• Historical Villain Upgrade: Probably as a result of the setting, the Robert Byrd of the game's world has become both more influential and more wildly hateful than his real-life counterpart, who eventually renounced his Klan allegiances and spent his latter years atoning for them and making amends with Black communities.
• The Klan: He started his political career in the Ku Klux Klan, which was the first sign that he's not a good guy.
• More Despicable Minion: Byrd is perhaps the only man in the Capitol more racist than Wallace himself. He never relents with his segregationist rhetoric, even when his fellow cabinet members decide to tone it down for pragmatic reasons.
  Rather I would die a thousand times and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: Nearly everyone in Wallace's cabinet is a racist segregationist, but Byrd takes the cake on who is the worst, only a smidgen more moderate than the Sovereignists.

George Brown

Role: Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (Wallace cabinet)

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}In war, the greatest sin of all is to be complacent. General George Scratchley Brown knew far too many men in the Eighth Air Force who lost their lives in an instant as a good mission went bad. Expecting and preparing for the worst was the difference between being washed out of the plane with a hose or becoming a senior officer. And just like those days in Europe, Brown is stepping up to complete the mission and bring his people home.

He is under no illusions about how hard the job will be. The allies America works with won't put in the work to relieve the country of its burden. It falls to the CIA to close the gap between free and slave worlds. And once again, there will be no room for complacency against the German Reich and Japanese Empire. If America ever thinks it is winning this cold war, it will lose.

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• I Work Alone: Seeing the United States' allies as too ineffective and lazy, Brown believes the CIA can only rely on itself to combat Germany and Japan.
• We Have Become Complacent: Brown's direction is about subverting this mindset, arguing that the United States must never feel too safe, lest Germany and Japan get too dangerous from being unchecked.

Harrington Cabinet Members

Glen H. Taylor

Role: Secretary of State^note Foreign Minister

Party: Progressive Party

Ideology: Progressivism

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• Wrong Line of Work: Subverted. Taylor becoming Secretary of State is initially seen as an odd choice, given Taylor's limited political experience and current occupation as an average businessman and activist. However, when asked for his rationale, Harrington states that he picked Taylor because he's willing to stand up for his ideals, even in the face of intense scrutiny from the far right, making him a suitable ally to have.

Douglas Fraser

Role: Secretary of the Treasury^note Economy Minister (Harrington cabinet)

Party: Progressive Party

Ideology: Progressivism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Just as Harrington fights for the other America, Douglas Fraser fights for the other world.

Born in Scotland to an avid trade unionist, Fraser has never been a very political figure. After moving to America at the tender age of six years old, he followed into the footsteps of his father and quickly became one of the most influential union leaders of the Midwest. His foreign policy experience can be charitably described as lacking, but his vision for a global community united against fascism was promising enough for Harrington to offer him a spot in his newly formed cabinet.

The political establishment may sneer like they always do, but Fraser is convinced that he knows better. It's up to him to prove that a complete outsider can do a better job at directing a nuclear superpower than some career politicians more concerned about the state of their own careers than the state of the planet. Some might call him inexperienced - and for a good reason, at that - but Fraser merely describes himself as untainted, not influenced by the ivory tower residents from Washington.

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• The Federation: Fraser dreams of creating a global front to stem the rise of fascism, which is what convinced Harrington to bring him into his cabinet.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Most politicians dismiss Fraser as an upstart idealist with minimal experience. Fraser intends to prove them wrong.

William Winter

Role: Secretary of Defense^note Security Minister (Harrington cabinet)

Party: Progressive Party

Ideology: Progressivism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Racial integration is the most important issue of our time, and none other than William Winter is better equipped to tackle this monumental challenge. Winter, a highly decorated WWII veteran, has a long history of attempting to end the racial divide between black and white soldiers. During his service as an officer during the Philippines campaign, he distinguished himself by being one of the few white officers who treated their black subordinates as more than disposable cannon fodder. This drew the ire of quite a few of his peers, who viewed that as a crass and obscene violation of traditional military protocols - but eventually, history proved Winter right, as Harrington noticed his long list of accomplishments and decided to offer him a spot in his cabinet.

The people might support the Harrington administration, but the military is still torn about whether to support or to oppose an actively left-wing politician. Only time will tell if Winter will manage to pacify these incendiary voices or get swept away by them.

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• Reasonable Authority Figure: He fought for racial integration in the military during his career there, even when his colleagues criticized him for violating "traditional" protocols.
• Reconcile the Bitter Foes: His primary job in Harrington's cabinet is to mediate the relationship between the President and the military, who are hostile to the former's left-wing views.
• Token Good Teammate: When he was a military commander in World War II, Winter was one of the few officers who fought against segregating his unit and treated his black subordinates as equals.

Henry M. Jackson

Role: Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (Harrington cabinet)

For his tropes, see the 1972 American Presidents page.

Hart/Morrison Cabinet Members

Harry Truman

Role: Senator (Missouri), Secretary of State^note Foreign Minister (Hart cabinet)

Party: Democratic Party

Ideology: Liberalism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}In the tradition of Clay and Webster, Harry Truman was once a titan of the senate who could never become president. It wasn't for lack of trying; the Missouri senator had vyed for the Democratic Party's nomination on four separate occasions, but fate would not have it. By the time he retired from the Senate in 1964, Truman could look back at over, two decades of public service, see his mark on nearly every facet of postwar policy, and feel that he was content.

Except he wasn't content. Harry Truman had never surrendered his ambition for higher office, and President Hart's victory provided him an opportunity to realize this dream. He is old, and Secretary Truman wishes for nothing more than to leave behind a world made safer through American diplomacy and protection by the OFN. If he can Succeed, this will be Haberdasher's most significant triumph; if he fails, he won't be around to see it through.

Harry Truman is a Democratic Senator from Missouri and unsuccessfully sought the Democratic presidential nomination on four separate occasions. He can be appointed Secretary of State under President Hart.

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• The Determinator: Truman has never surrendered his ambition for higher office, unsuccessfully seeking the Democratic presidential nomination four times before retiring in 1964. Hart becoming President can allow him to realize this dream, with Truman being tapped to serve as Secretary of State.
• Elder Employee: Due to never being President in TNO or having to deal with the accompanying stress, Truman is a senator for far longer than his real-life counterpart and can become a potential cabinet member under Hart. However, being a key government official so late in his life also means that he still dies a couple of years anyway from old age, passing right before Hart's second term begins.
• Locked Out of the Loop: Truman is never made aware of Kissinger's secret negotiations with Japan, with the latter figuring he'll tell him about it later. Kissinger's secret deals with Japan are finally revealed to Truman when the Japanese-American Transit Treaty is brought to the Senate.

Jane Jacobs

Role: Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare^note Economy Minister (Hart cabinet)

Party: Democratic Party

Ideology: Progressivism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}A native of Scranton, Pennsylvania, Jacobs, born Jane Butzner, first traveled to New York seeking economic independence and a more significant outlet for her writing. She toured the neighborhoods of New York and wrote about what she saw: apathy, neglect, resilience, and a bit of hope for the future. By the 1950s, the "angry housewife" had become a symbol of modern, urbanism, and her advocacy proved to be indispensable in defeating several of architect Robert Moses's proposed developments. As head of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Jacobs aims to do her part in expanding aid for cities and releasing grants for responsible, community-oriented city planning. No longer will the understudied, underrespected cities be served as sacrifices to collegiate renewalists. Should Secretary Jacobs and the President succeed in their efforts, these cities will prosper like never before.

Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare for Philip Hart.

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• Allohistorical Allusion: Many of the policies and initiatives endorsed by Jacobs are based off of The Death and Life of Great American Cities, a book criticizing contemporary "urban planning" that she wrote in real life.
• Due to the Dead: After most of the anti-URI bills are stopped, Jacobs suggests that Chep can honor his predecessor's memory with the Presidential Libraries Act, building a library in honor of not only Hart, but other past Presidents like John F. Kennedy.
• Everyone Has Standards: Jacobs may not like Chep, but even she feels bad for him being stuck in an increasingly abusive relationship with Zsa Zsa Gabor and how he's become a victim of verbal abuse.
• Fire-Forged Friends: She and Chep initially start as rivals arguing over how radical Hart's reforms should be, but when Hart dies and Chep succeeds him, the two become closer friends as they rely upon each other to save the late President's legacy.
• It's All My Fault: Downplayed. Much as she tries to blame Chep if most of the anti-URI bills pass, Jacobs internally questions her own capabilities and thinks that she has some responsibility for failing to save the URI.
• It's Personal: Jacobs is a former teacher with intimate knowledge on how the quality of education is inconsistent across the nation. Thus, there is a personal stake for her when passing the National Education Act, creating a standardized curriculum so that all Americans can become well-educated.
• Long Game: Similarly to Hart's plans for a Shining City, she believes that rejuvenating America's cities doesn't mean throwing communities to the gutter or bulldozing neighborhoods for short-term gain.
• Not So Stoic: Jacobs is a generally unflappable person, but even she's taken aback when a bearded Hart reveals that he shaved his facial hair.
• Screw the Money, I Have Rules!: Jacobs is adamant about not skimping the budget for infrastructure, believing that Hart would be compromising his ideals to save money. Unfortunately, Hart has no choice and must either choose the highways, rural roads, or the railroads to take the hit.
• Stepford Smiler: If most of the anti-URI bills pass, Jacobs retires to Greenwich Village, forces a smile to her neighbors, speaks positively about her work under Hart and Chep, and mentions some interest in returning to Congress when she finishes her break. Truthfully, Jacobs is discontent that most of her work is undone and, though she tries to blame Chep for their failures, she is insecure that she could have done more.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: She has a contentious working relationship with Chep, as her unabashed progressivism clashes with the latter's urge for caution and moderation. When Hart is revealed to have cancer, Jacobs is not pleased that Chep is going to be President and reluctantly stays on his cabinet at the request of his predecessor.
• Took a Level in Cynic: If the bankruptcy crisis goes uncontrolled, Jacobs will be disillusioned in the aftermath, having faced scathing attacks from the URI's critics. When Hart meets her to discuss program adjustments, she lets Hart handle most of the discussion before leaving home early for an "important appointment".
• We Help the Helpless: Jacobs and her volunteers are dedicated to fighting against wealthy interests that threaten development projects that would take the homes of the unprivileged. In the "Community Unity" event, she leads her supporters to prevent a renovation plan that would split Greenwich Village.

Edward Lansdale

Role: Secretary of Defense^note Security Minister (Hart cabinet)

Party: Republican Party

Ideology: Conservatism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Convictions do not die by being ignored, bombed, or smothered; instead, they must be replaced by better ideas from a place of understanding. Former CIA agent Edward Lansdale first formulated this philosophy while attached to Colonel Fertig's forces in the Philippines, where he observed American soldiers interacting with locals in their native, language. Building upon this observation, Lansdale, incorporated mandatory bilingualism and culture, studies into his advisements, improving relations between American advisors and their local counterparts.

If being offered to join the Department of Defense was unexpected for Lansdale, it was doubly so for, the rest of the military bureaucracy; Lansdale had nominally been a Major General in the Air Force, but most of his service had been with the CIA. Institutional infighting notwithstanding, President Hart has confidence that Secretary Lansdale's alternative approach to warfare is just what the administration's defense policy needs.

Secretary of Defense for Philip Hart.

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• Internal Reformist: His experiences in the USFIP motivates Lansdale to reform the CIA. Namely, he'll restructure the CIA into better understanding the cultures and people they are working with abroad, teaching bilingualism and other study plans.
• The Quiet One: Lansdale speaks infrequently and usually just nods when conversing with someone, which gets on Hart's nerves. When Hart creates the Department of Veterans Affairs and makes Lansdale pick Martin B. McKneally or John E. Davis for its head, it's a huge surprise when Lansdale responds with "Philip" and "Thanks".
• Unexpected Successor: Lansdale is more well-known for working in the CIA than for his time in the Air Force as a Major General, which is why it surprises many when he's promoted to be Hart's Secretary of Defense.

Henry Kissinger

Henry Kissinger

Role: Secretary of State^note Foreign Minister (Hart cabinet)

Party: Republican Party

Ideology: Conservatism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}To most Americans, the rise in prominence of "modernity's Carl Schurz" was unsurprising, and his recent dramatic, unauthorized diplomatic overtures only elevated his fame. However, TIME's Man of the Year 1972 was an unlikely success story, and his rise to prominence did not come easily. Born Heinze Albert Kissinger to a Jewish family in Fürth, Bavaria, Kissinger escaped Nazi persecution in 1938 and immigrated to the United States. There, he gained renown for his writings as a professor of political science at Harvard before being invited to join the Hart administration.

Since then, Kissinger gained a reputation for intrigue and manipulation, with a score of allies and enemies to show for it. His tendency to create bureaucratic rivalries was universal throughout his career, and perhaps yielded him his current job as Secretary of State from the late Harry Truman. No power is enough for the darling of Georgetown's elite, but he would never admit it outright; Kissinger will listen, share secrets, build bonds, and if it suits him, wage campaigns to overcome those in his way to perfect policy. The world stage is ripe with potential, and for a carnivorously ambitious man like Kissinger, all that mattered was ratifying treaties signed with his name before anybody else's.

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• Allohistorical Allusion: Kissinger adopts a strategy of exploiting the split between the German Reich and Japan, by approaching the latter diplomatically to get a edge against the former. This very much corresponds to how his OTL counterpart used the Sino-Soviet split to thaw the USA's relationship to China in order to get an edge against the Soviet Union.
• Ambition Is Evil: One of his most unlikable character traits is his ego, craving the spotlight and carrying out duplicitous actions so that he becomes the face of American foreign affairs. He even talks back to President Hart, only willing to continue his détente with Japan so long as he's given free rein to dictate America's foreign policy.
• Bad Liar: Kissinger loses his smooth-talking when he's trying to hide his identity. When Hart refuses Japan's request to restrict civilian trade in the Strait of Malacca, Kissinger calls Takeuchi as "K" to deliver the news, stuttering occasionally and getting suspiciously adamant when Takeuchi asks if he's speaking to Kissinger.
• Can't Take Criticism: He's received plenty of criticism for his amoral actions and general secrecy, but Kissinger dismisses all of these insults.
• Cassandra Truth: Kissinger doesn't buy Speer's reformist act for a second, recognizing his role in building the Nazi slave labor system and seeing through his lies. Even though he's right, most don't believe him and reject his embargo against a Speer-led Germany because they are "rewarding recent encouraging reforms from Germania".
• The Cynic: Kissinger uses his cynicism to justify his Realpolitik actions and secrecy against Truman, believing that honor is a weakness that America's enemies can exploit. This puts him at odds with Hart, a man who Kissinger respects, but still calls overidealistic.
• Enemy Mine: He proposes an American alliance with Japan as the optimal solution to containing the influence of Germany and Nazism.
• Everyone Has Standards: For his moral dubiousness and practice of realpolitik, Kissinger draws the line at negotiating with Germany, which is justified, considering that he is a German-born Jew who was forced to flee his home from the Nazis.
• Glory Hound: Kissinger's main motivation is to be recognized and respected as one of the greatest diplomats in American history, adoring the attention he receives for his success.
• Has a Type: As he thinks in his third date, Kissinger likes tall women.
• Hero-Worshipper: Kissinger's idol is Klemens von Metternich, a 19th century Austrian foreign minister who aided Europe's defense against Napoleon's invasions.
• I Work Alone: Kissinger practically scoffs at Hart's suggestion to share his plans of a Japanese détente with the Secretary of State, considering his work too important to be ruined by bureaucracy.
• Jerkass Has a Point:
  • His secrecy and animosity towards Truman is awful and rude behavior, but Kissinger points out that his methods are producing fruit and establishing détente with Japan, so any disrespect shown towards one man would be worth it to avenge and contain the threat posed by Nazi Germany. Hart can't respond to that argument and reluctantly abets his continued negotiations.
  • One indisputable point he brings up is Speer's phony act as a liberalizing influence on the Reich and that he remains a Nazi at heart.
• Kavorka Man: By appearance, Kissinger is unimpressive. He's pudgy, lacks expressiveness, has a gravelly voice, and shows up to one date, tardy and messy. Despite this, he still scores at least three dates within the game's timeframe, partly helped by his natural charisma.
• Never My Fault: When his talks with Japan are leaked in the third phase, Kissinger blames Truman and his "bleeding-hearted amateurs" for spilling his secret, averting any personal blame for keeping the talks secret in the first place.
• Nominal Hero: He can be recruited by Chep to rally public support for the URI after being asked a second time, but only because supporting his administration could prevent a Schlafly or Jackson election, who wouldn't approve his diplomatic talks with Japan.
• Not So Above It All: Beneath his cold, pragmatic exterior, Kissinger is capable of optimism, but he does everything he can to squash it. When Kissinger discusses a German embargo, he explains the policy with extreme vigor and an emotional justification of avenging the Holocaust's victims, which excites Hart about the brief change of pace.
• Oblivious to His Own Description: Kissinger dismisses the press' talk of him being a "puppetmaster" commonly associated with the word "conspiracy". He's self-confident that these insults aren't accurate to his character, even though his subplot features him running negotiations with Japan under Truman's nose and starting conflict in the State Department to elevate his own status.
• Odd Friendship: Through his extensive talks of détente with Japan, Kissinger forms a personal friendship with fellow Japanese diplomat, Ryuji Takeuchi. In the epilogue of a successful diplomacy, Kissinger and Takeuchi eat together at the former's favorite restaurant, Sans Souci.
• Pet the Dog:
  • His contact in Germany, whom he's blackmailing into cooperation, will get discovered by German intelligence as a mole. From there, he is advised to sever all contacts with the informant and focus on covering America's tracks, but Kissinger also has the option to try rescuing his informant, even though there is minimal strategic value from doing so.
  • During his talks with Takeuchi, Kissinger can loosen travel restrictions on Americans living in Hawaii, risking the negotiations' progress so that they can see their loved ones again. A part of him selfishly believes this will add to his personal glory, but there is another part that is genuinely happy that families can reunite with each other.
  • In spite of his disappointment of Japan potentially rejecting the Pacific Transit Treaty, he still shakes hands with Takeuchi and reciprocates the feeling that it was a pleasure to work together. Kissinger himself is surprised that he genuinely means it.
  • Kissinger gives a rare genuine smile if Congress enacts an embargo against Germany, where he personally thanks Hart for standing against the Nazis.
  • He has his disagreements with Hart, but he grieves over the late President's passing, respecting him as a man who would do whatever he deemed right.
• Rags to Riches: When he emigrated to the United States from Germany, Kissinger was a poor refugee, but would grow up into becoming one of Hart's National Security Advisor and the architect of détente with Japan.
• Realpolitik: This is Henry Kissinger, after all. Kissinger subscribes to the theory of multipolarity, which believes that the global balance of power is divided between "poles" of influence held by the United States, Japan, Germany, and the sum of other countries; it would thus be necessary for two of these poles to unite against the untrustworthy, fascist Germany. Thus, Kissinger proposes an American alliance with Japan to contain the spread of Nazism, ignoring their own crimes in the Sphere's territory.
• Refuge in Audacity: Kissinger blatantly flaunts Hart's suggestions and oversteps the President's authority so that he can dictate their foreign policy. Hart is flabbergasted, but he reluctantly lets it slide because his skills are too invaluable to pass.
• Right Hand Versus Left Hand: Kissinger is infamous for his intrigue plots in the government, starting rivalries and working against people in his own bureaucracy to advance his own goals.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: If the PAST treaty doesn't get passed, Kissinger recognizes that his talks of détente with Japan have been rendered null and he resigns from his position, in spite of Hart's pleas to stay.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Invoked and exploited. Kissinger is very much a conservative, but he hires liberals in his staff who constantly disagree with him, because he wants to avert groupthink and encourage debate. It's a contentious working environment, but Kissinger considers it a net benefit.
• We Need a Diversion: Kissinger helps Chep's efforts to save the controversial URI by drawing media attention to his foreign affairs, grabbing the people away from scorning the Initiative.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Kissinger resorts to many dubious tactics, from blackmail to secrecy, all in the name of combatting Nazism from the shadows.
• Who's Laughing Now?: In the final stage of détente, Kissinger hears some anti-Semitic jeers from a passerby, which reminds him of the bullying he faced in his childhood. However, Kissinger was a scared child back then; now, he is in a prime position to engrave his name in history.
• Wild Card: Kissinger is personally a conservative, but he's worked for every President since Eisenhower and it's traditionally expected that he would do the same for Hart.
• Worthy Opponent: Though they come from rival superpowers, Kissinger earns the respect and friendship of Japanese ambassador Ryuji Takeuchi. By the third phase of their negotiations, Takeuchi would've never thought about making permanent ties with the United States, but does so out of respect for Kissinger.
• Wrong Line of Work: Subverted. Initially, Hart doubts his capacity to negotiate with Japan, since Kissinger's literary career and brief stint in the Army wouldn't qualify his knowledge in national security. However, Kissinger proves much more cunning than the President's expectations and he can secure a truce to stand against the Reich.
• You Are in Command Now: After Truman's passing, Kissinger replaces him as Hart's Secretary of State.

John S. Cooper

Role: Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (Hart cabinet)

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Many heads of intelligence have come from some sort of military background, but for Senator Cooper, his time as an Army lawyer is not why he wanted to become director. After his time in the military, he ran for congress, serving his home state of Kentucky. Making friends across the aisle and keeping a bipartisan streak, he was awarded with diplomatic postings the world over. Now the Kentucky lawyer is bringing a new way of thinking to Langley.

Senator Cooper doesn't believe the United States can win the Cold War by itself, even with the CIA behind it. Just like America, the CIA must work with and respect the other nations of the world, and bring their assets to bear against the enemy. His focus on inter-OFN cooperation and standing in Washington has convinced DC this is the way to go. But it remains to be seen how his unorthodox strategy will work in the black chambers of the CIA...

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• Odd Friendship: Like Hart, Cooper forged many friendships across the political aisle while he served in Congress.
• The Power of Friendship: Cooper warns that the United States can only have a fighting chance against fascism if it respects and works with its OFN allies, a viewpoint that was unprecedented before his appointment.

Goldwater Cabinet Members

Carl Curtis

Role: Secretary of State^note Foreign Minister (Goldwater cabinet)

Party: Republican Party

Ideology: Conservatism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Barry Goldwater promised a return to normalcy, and Carl Curtis is one of his most valued assets when it comes to implanting his rather modest visions. Born and raised in Nebraska, Curtis' career has been a slow and steady decade-long uphill climb. He passed the bar, practiced for a few years, got elected to the House, got elected to the Senate, and so on - as a firm believer in the traditional democratic process, Curtis never had the opportunity or desire to surf a wave of populism right to the top of the ladder.

Goldwater and Curtis have been close allies for years. His conservative, risk-averse policy concept is a perfect match with Goldwater's ideology, and his decades of experience are bound to be of great importance in both national and international politics.

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• Boring, but Practical: Curtis is adverse to taking risks in foreign policy, which makes him a good fit for Goldwater's international agenda.

Donald Regan

Role: Secretary of the Treasury^note Economy Minister (Goldwater cabinet)

Party: Republican Party

Ideology: Conservatism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Few systems are as complex as the economy. For hundreds of years, economists have been trying to decipher what keeps the world spinning - and for the man hours spent, the results are mediocre at best. America is a bloated mess filled with obscure regulations, overbearing taxes, nonsensical clauses, and much more.

Donald Regan is poised to clean up that mess and turn the rusty old engine into a fine-tuned machine. As a former Merrill Lynch executive, he has first-hand experience with the inner workings of the American economy, and over the years, he forged his solution on how to fix it. His bold plans will transfer every level of American society, and people are cautiously awaiting the results of his daring experiment.

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• Allohistorical Allusion: His advocacy of economic deregulation and tax cuts in the Goldwater administration mirror his OTL support for Reaganomics in the Reagan administration.
• Taught by Experience: Regan had first-hand experience with the American economy from his time as a Merrill Lynch executive, which influences his proposed solutions on how to deregulate the bloated bureaucracy hindering it.

Robert McNamara

Role: Secretary of Defense^note Security Minister (Johnson, Goldwater, and Kirkpatrick cabinet)

Party: Republican Party

Ideology: Conservatism

For his tropes, see the main United States page.

Richard Bissell

Role: Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (Goldwater cabinet)

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Sun Tsu said what enabled the wise king and good general to achieve things beyond the feat of ordinary men was foreknowledge of the enemy's disposition. And this foreknowledge was only gained through the use of other men, not spirits or experience. Richard Mervin Bissell Jr. took this quote and put it at the heart of the CIA. For there was nothing the enemy could do if it was known well in advance.

His U-2 program was only the start, giving America the cutting edge it needed to expose the axis. Now that Bissell is in charge, this masterpiece of material intelligence collection is going to be the model for his programs. Any information, by any means necessary is his goal, regardless of diplomatic niceties. The Germans and Japanese decided to seek continental Empires full of slaves, they gave up the right to live without the Eagle watching their every move.

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• Knowledge Broker: Bissell has a keen eye for getting intel on America's enemies and using this to the CIA's advantage. Under his command, the CIA will expand its reach and collect any useful information for the United States' benefit, regardless of who it may offend.
• Necessarily Evil: His CIA operations are unfettered by diplomatic courtesy or boundaries, which he deems necessary to defeat Germany and Japan.

Smith Cabinet Members

Edwin Walker

Role: Secretary of State^note Foreign Minister (Smith cabinet)

Party: Nationalist Party

Ideology: Paternalism

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• Everyone Has Standards: Despite supporting a powerful American military, Walker knows the consequences of antagonizing a nuclear superpower too much and wants to avoid it as much as possible. After Stennis' accidental murder from a Japanese anti-aircraft gun, Walker starts feeling uneasy if the situation starts to escalate.

Caspar Weinberger

Role: Secretary of the Treasury^note Economy Minister (Smith cabinet)

Ideology: Paternalism

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• The Ace: He's an expert in both military strategy and politicking, achieving impressive victories during the Second World War and consolidating the NPP's support base in California.
• The Strategist: He directly served under Douglas McArthur during World War II and commanded several operations that nearly turned the tides of the conflict.

John Stennis

Role: Secretary of Defense^note Security Minister (Smith cabinet)

Party: States' Rights Party

Ideology: Paternalism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}John Stennis is, after Strom Thurmond and George Wallace, one of the most influential leaders of the Nationalist Caucus's Southern wing. Formerly a prosecutor for the State of Mississippi, Stennis credits his political awakening to the storm of anti-Democratic sentiment that swept America in the aftermath of America's defeat, quickly becoming one of the NPP's primary political organizers in the South, rallying the masses to the cause of preserving racial segregation.

Where Thurmond leads the NPP nationwide and Wallace canvasses the South as a self-styled defender of white America, Stennis has carved out a niche as a policy specialist, serving as an expert on defense issues and ensuring that the South has a voice in a debate otherwise dominated by Henry Jackson from the Progressives - and Margaret Chase Smith from the North. When Smith was elected President in 1968, Stennis was the obvious choice to ensure Cabinet unity within the Nationalists - a man who would bolster Smith's credentials with the South and the expertise to carefully manage her ambitious military reforms at the Pentagon.

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• Consolation Prize: Smith promotes him to her cabinet so that she can appease the Dixiecrats from the NPP.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: Stennis is one of the most influential segregationist politicians in the United States, working as a policy specialist to ensure that the demands of the Dixiecrats are heard in the Capitol.

James Schlesinger

Role: Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (Smith cabinet)

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}The son of Jewish immigrants in New York, James Rodney Schlesinger was especially susceptible to the pain of watching the great crusade against Nazi tyranny. Even though he would later convert, he never forgot the shame of the defeat of the United States by its enemies. And when he was tapped to become director, he found himself finally in a position that America would never be forced to its knees ever again.

The United States is back, holding a diplomatic strength brought by a resurgent armed forces. The CIA under Schlesinger is another arm of this effort. Through the collection of intelligence, the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines will have another leg up when the shooting starts. And maybe the new second generation Americans will sleep soundly, protected from emperors and dictators abroad.

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• America Saves the Day: With the combined effort of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and CIA, Schlesinger is convinced that the United States will have the edge needed to stop the spread of fascism and keep its citizens safe.
• It's Personal: Schlesinger was born into a Jewish immigrant family, which makes his enmity with Nazi Germany even more palpable.

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