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Presidents (1972 election)

Gus Hall

Role: Senator (Minnesota, potentially), Head of State (1972 election)

Party: Communist Party USA, National Progressive Pact (Marxist)

Ideology: Communism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Many words apply to Gus Hall, and "presidential" isn't likely to be one of them. Born Arvo Kustaa Halberg in Minnesota's great Iron Range, he grew up speaking Finnish with nine other siblings, in a frigid log cabin that his immigrant father built after having been driven from work for organizing with the International Workers of the World. Hall himself left school to work in logging camps at the age of 15, to support his family, and soon after joined the Young Communist League. That work with the YCL allowed him to travel to Bukharin's USSR, and Hall spent several years studying at the International Lenin School. Throughout the 1930s, Hall stared down police and bosses at strikes across Minnesota and Ohio, among steelworkers, farmers, and teamsters.

After a stint in the Navy during the war against Japan, Hall then spent much of the 1950s being hounded by prosecutors for proposing the overthrow of the US government. He made himself known as a prominent member of the Communist Party of the USA, speaking on college campuses and debating conservatives on live TV. Despite this, Hall seemed doomed to become a marginal figure in American political life. However, the rise of the NPP's leftist faction has propelled him far beyond such margins. Now, after the unlikeliest political triumph in American history, President Hall is seeking to uplift America's marginalized, unite the working class, and create a new America, built for all instead of the few.

Gus Hall's presidency takes a radical path. His platform does not just call for raising taxes on the wealthy, but for a near-total restructuring of the United States economy to fulfill his socialist vision. As part of this vision, he seeks to clean out many of the American institutions that have so often been led by reactionaries and conservatives. Socialism will be promoted the world over, and old imperialist American ambitions will be replaced by a new, red, eagle. Labor unions - that great, old invention - will be restored to the position they once held in industry. Judges supporting egalitarianism and equity will be appointed. Above all else, Hall's presidency seeks to preserve and promote democracy — even if that means the death of the American system.

Maybe he isn't presidential. But President Gus Hall is certainly aiming to be revolutionary.

Gus Hall is the leader of Communist Party USA, the small but furthest-left member party of the NPP. A well-known Communist with frequent appearances on national television, he and his party's actual political influence remain minor as of 1962. But should things grow too dire, they may eventually find themselves propelled to the top echelons of American politics...

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• Actually Pretty Funny:
  • LeMay's letter of transition for Hall is him giving him instructions on how to properly commit suicide by Ate His Gun, explaining that he has seen plenty of communists showing general ineptitude when it comes to the handling of firearms. Hall responds to this by having the letter framed and placed as a permanent fixture on his desk, implying that he is impressed and/or amused by the sheer audacity of it.
  • Thurmond's letter is filled with such utter contempt over his successor's flagrant Marxism and "godlessness" that it impresses Hall. After reading it, he seriously entertains having it preserved for future generations as a testament to reactionary America's final gasp.
  • Downplayed with Harrington's letter, which is filled with warnings about the "forces of totalitarian communism" and potentially compromising any hopes for a credible left. Hall responds by chuckling and filing the letter away in a desk drawer, dismissing those concerns as groundless.
• Beneath the Mask: Underneath Hall's open claims of preserving American democracy through Marxism is a deep-seated contempt towards what he considers a broken, failing system, and a much more radical reckoning than what he initially lets on.
• Can't Kill You, Still Need You: Despite Hall's disdain for what the FBI and CIA have done amidst his purges, he still retains these organizations and appoints people to head them, in the name of advancing his revolution.
• Conspiracy Theorist: Hall mixes some unfounded personal beliefs that the FBI helped arrange the deaths of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X in with many of the all-too-verifiable misdeeds he's aware of while airing its dirty laundry in a live televised address to America.
• Cultural Cringe: Downplayed. Hall's institutional purges reveal his deep-seated contempt for what he sees as fundamentally wrong with both America's political system and its society. While he is genuine in seeking justice for the downtrodden, the means and ramifications of those efforts don't bode well.
• Dark Horse Victory: It requires tremendous socio-economic strife in America, as well as deteriorating trust in its political system, for Hall and Communist Party USA to be anywhere close to achieving dominance and win the presidency, achieving far greater success than they ever came close to in OTL.
• The Dissenter Is Always Right: Defied, and arguably deconstructed. Hall does have quite a few good points regarding the United States suffering from widespread problems and injustices, like structural racism and economic inequality, and the political establishment doing very little to combat these issues at best, and actively working to strenghtening them at worst. He also has a valid point about the FBI's role in setting back civil rights. But this does not mean his plans for addressing them are good ideas.
• The Dreaded: Despite his initially fringe position, Hall casts a long shadow among both Progressives and more liberal R-Ds in light of his openly Communist credentials. Harrington, who calls himself a socialist as well, despises Hall for his willingness to use organized political violence and generally painting self-proclaimed leftists like himself in a bad light.
• Everyone Has Standards: While Hall is more than happy to incite or encourage riots in the name of advancing communist causes, he considers direct violence against fellow Americans outside of self-defense to be reprehensible.
• Foil:
  • To Francis Parker Yockey
    • Both Hall and Yockey are the most radical presidential options in the first decade of the game. They represent ideologies that have never before been tested in the White House and getting them elected is a laborious achievement, since their caucuses are so weak and unsupported by the general public. However, both presidents are ideological opposites to each other. Hall is a communist who wants a societal revolution that will guarantee equality for all Americans, even if his methods are more questionable. Meanwhile, Yockey is a Nazi who promotes white supremacy and hate crimes against minorities, which inarguably makes him the most evil president.
    • Unlike Yockey and the Sovereigntists, Hall doesn't resort to blindly condoning violence or mob "justice". The idea of directly inciting bloodshed against his fellow Americans outside of self-defence is too abhorrent for him.
    • Additionally, their public reputations juxtapose each other; Hall is a charismatic, outspoken leader who is polarizing to the public, while Yockey is an unsavory, pretentious speaker despised throughout the country.
  • He's also this to Michael Harrington
    • Harrington's radical plans are tempered by a conciliatory tone and a willingness to reform America from within the system to help society's marginalized. In contrast, Hall seeks to achieve similar results (and more) through circumventing if not breaking said system, viewing it as too rotten and unjust to serve the working class.
    • While Harrington makes a conscious effort to make his brand of progressivism and socialism palatable to all Americans, Hall is unapologetic about his explicitly communist views and openly invokes Marxist rhetoric, even if such moves risk sowing further social discord.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: While Gus Hall isn't exactly a nobody, he starts out as head of a fringe faction within the NPP, which is not too dissimilar from his political obscurity in real life. Given the right circumstances, however, he can not only find himself propelled to the presidency, but also pursue his vision for a Communist USA, no matter the cost.
• Hated by All: Gus Hall is one of the most hated presidential candidates amongst his colleagues, with only Yockey and possibly Schlafly exceeding him. Every possible transition letter he can get from his predecessor is a condemnation of his zealotry or plea to rethink what he is doing.
• Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: Hall's efforts to expose the dirty laundry of the FBI and CIA in his purging of the organizations are initially welcomed by his supporters. These are strongly implied, however, to not only be setting a precedent for circumventing the rule of law to advance his goals, but also setting the stage for a more radical reckoning on America itself.
• Knight Templar: He genuinely believes in helping the downtrodden people of America by introducing a new socialist order, and he has some support in contrast to Yockey's infamy. However, he will never settle for compromises, instead turning to tactics that will seriously destabilize the country if it means seeing his ideas put into practice.
• Loophole Abuse: Almost immediately, Hall finds ways of pushing his agenda and generally circumventing standard protocol that just barely stop short of being deemed unconstitutional.
• New Era Speech: Hall's inaugural address begins with words never before heard from an American President:
  Hall: My fellow Americans, citizens of the world... comrades.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Despite often being lumped in with Schlafly and Yockey as "bad ending" presidents for 1972, Gus Hall is not a monster. He sincerely wishes to uplift those crushed by unjust systems and preserve American democracy and its institutions. But, in his devotion to put his ideas into practice, he doesn't care much about making them practical, nor all that interested with making compromises. His desire to remake American society will have catastrophic consequences for both himself and his country.
• My Country Tis of Thee That I Sting: Played With. Of all the potential candidates, Hall is arguably the least patriotic. Owing to both his experiences and Marxist background, he finds little to take pride in America as it stands. That said, he does have some parts of America that he admires, like the Bill of Rights, and genuinely cares for the American working class. He ultimately seeks to lead a nation worthy for the everyman, by any means.
• Patriotic Fervor: Zigzagged. Born to Finnish immigrants in Minnesota, Hall's come a long way from comparatively humble origins to potentially entering the White House. On the flip-side, his experiences are described as akin to a distorted mirror of the American Dream. While he is genuine in seeking to uplift America's downtrodden, his encounters with the less savory aspects of American society combined with his communist convictions are strongly implied to have soured him on being patriotic for the US as it stands.
• Principles Zealot: Hall doesn't have "compromise" in his dictionary, and will do anything to subvert and undermine the more conservative and reactionary crowd of America, even if in doing so he greatly threatens the very stability of the USA. His "Unearthing the Bones" event is a good example of that, with him purging both the heads of the CIA and the FBI because he thinks they are reactionary, even though that will leave both institutions vulnerable in the middle of a Cold War against two superpowers and his enemies' subversive activities completely unchecked. When Margaret Chase Smith writes him a letter urging him to not overreach too harshly, it only emboldens him further rather than getting him to slow down and think.
• Propaganda Machine: Downplayed. In contrast to the dour mood of Yockey's election, Hall's is noted to have applause so loud that listeners can barely hear his inauguration speech. His superevent also is less melancholy than Yockey's (a cover of "Which Side Are You On?" over roaring crowds, with ominous sounds in the distant background). Meanwhile, Hall's public efforts to clean house regarding the CIA and FBI are as much done out of a genuine desire to exact "justice" as to garner further support for his later plans.
• The Purge: As his bio shows, Hall plans to clean out government institutions of reactionaries and conservatives. In his first hundred days, he starts with the FBI and the CIA by declassifying documents implicating them in cracking down on civil rights activists, enflaming the people to attack them and setting up the perfect opportunity to fire everyone. Never mind the fact the purges in question will take both institutions down for maintenance at the worst time possible, what with two fascist superpowers running unchecked and trying to stir the pot in the US itself too.
• Screw the Rules, I Make Them!: Upon being elected, he does everything in his power to see his agenda through (up to and including political violence), even if it means subverting the democratic institutions America relies on.
• The Unfettered: Downplayed. Hall isn't inherently bloodthirsty, nor does he blindly condone violence. That being said, he's so adamant with his convictions that he's reckless with the potential consequences of those actions for the country at large.
• Unreliable Expositor: It's left ambiguous whether Hall's evidence is actually substantial enough to justify his "cleaning house", or whether he may be lying about FBI complicity in stifling if not killing civil rights activists.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Hall is genuine and well-meaning with his radical ideas. His absolute convictions and complete disregard for "compromise", however, can have widespread, unforeseen consequences for the US. His purging of the FBI and CIA alone risks leaving America vulnerable to German and Japanese meddling on a large scale, to say nothing of doing so by inciting riots based on conspiracy theories mixed in with actual shameful dirty laundry.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: President Hall seeks to uplift America's marginalised, unite the working class, and create a new socialist America, built for all instead of the few, even if it means tearing apart the American institutions and bringing an end to American democracy as we know it.

Henry M. Jackson

^{1960 portrait}

Role: Senator (Washington), Head of State (1972 election), Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (Harrington cabinet)

Party: Progressive Party

Ideology: Western Progressivism^note Progressivism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Henry Martin "Scoop" Jackson has made a career of fighting injustice across the country. A rabid anti-extremist, Scoop, in more than 30 years of politics, has continually carried a torch of progress while refusing to give in to the draw of the far-left elements of the NPP. Scoop has always termed himself an American first and a progressive second. Every decision he has taken was done so with the well-being of the American people at the forefront of his mind.

However, his fervent anti-extremism borders on extremism in and of itself. He despises the communists of the L-NPP and the Yockeys, to the point where he has campaigned on a seemingly anti-democratic platform of banning the two parties. His populist, progressive, and moderate political positions give him a unique standing that echoes the progressivism of Theodore Roosevelt.

Now President, Jackson stands in a position from which he can achieve the dreams that he has proclaimed for more than 30 years: liberty, equality, and civility. In one fell swoop he may be able to remove the Yockeys and communists from American politics forever, passing landmark civil rights bills and other progressive legislation, and drawing a hard line in the sand for both the Empire and the Reich to fear.

In-Game Biography (CIA) ^{Click to Show}Henry Martin "Scoop" Jackson seemed to have hit his ceiling in Washington. Failing to gain the presidency despite three successive runs in 1960, '64, and '68, it seemed the honorable senator from Washington State's lifetime of public service would end in the senate. But that was before another longtime fixture in the Progressive wing of the NPP gave him an opportunity to make a mark on the world in Virginia.

President Harrington put a cold warrior in the tank, and the CIA is ready to pounce. After years in the senate talking about what America should do for the world, Jackson is in a place to do it. Every man and woman in Langley knows they are fighting for nothing less than the liberation of the world. If Germania and Tokyo don't have the fear of God in their hearts, they will when they see the company come for them by any means possible.

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• America Saves the Day: Jackson invokes this trope to build up public support for a strong military, having the Pentagon fund entertainment media to praise American militarism as a symbol of freedom.
• Back for the Finale: Having lost the 1960 presidential election (the last before the game's start) to Richard Nixon badly, Jackson largely withdraws from having any significance to the plot and only appears in the occasional event until the 1972 election, in which he can run. That election is the last before the mod's content cuts off.
• Berserk Button: He takes any form of détente with Japan as an insult. When Kissinger presents the Pacific Area Security Treaty to mend relations with them, Jackson goes on a long-winded speech about how this disgraces the Americans who died in World War II and the millions enslaved by the Sphere.
• Everyone Has Standards: Hawkish as he may be, Jackson does not approve of LeMay's plan to annihilate Germany through a nuclear war "when the time is right" (and the controversial comments are far from the PR he wants), and burns his succession letter as soon as he is done reading it.
• The Fettered: As militant and fervently anti-extremist as Jackson is, he still knows that there are lines that are not to be crossed, and purposefully stops short of crossing them.
• Foil: He is one to Curtis LeMay. He's a similarly unrepentant Warhawk who lionizes American militarism and seeks to win the Cold War through jingoistic intimidation. Unlike LeMay, however, he still has restraint and tact in how he goes about it such that he consciously holds back from crossing the point of no return.
• Friendly Rival: Jackson disagrees with Bennett on numerous political stances, but he does respect Bennett enough to keep his transition letter.
• Good Is Not Nice: On the domestic front, Jackson does plenty of good for the underprivileged, advocating greater welfare and union protections to combat inequality at home. Abroad, though, Jackson is ruthless to the United States' enemies, using military threats and intimidation to get his way. Sometimes, he even combines these qualities, such as his Army Modernization Program, which will eventually raise education standards for all Americans, but is primarily focused on intensifying the training of Army recruits.
• Hegemonic Empire: Jackson's vision for the OFN amounts to a globe-spanning network of glorified puppets under American hegemony and protected by its proud military.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: If Harrington gets elected in 1968, Jackson will give up his ambitions of becoming President and settle for becoming Harrington's CIA director to leave one last bit of his legacy.
• Minor Major Character: In 1962, Jackson is the leader of the Progressive Party, but he has little actual impact on the narrative during the early 60s, as RFK becomes the Progressive candidate during the 1964 election. He only becomes a potential presidential candidate in the 1972 election.
• Mutually Assured Destruction: On top of his jingoism and militaristic bent, Jackson also believes that through both conventional and nuclear arms, America could deter any attempt by Germany or Japan to fight back. He also has just enough restraint to avoid invoking a lose-lose scenario.
• Patriotic Fervor: In addition to his fervent anti-extremism, he's exceptionally jingoistic, advancing American interests (and specifically American militarism) as a righteous crusade to both crush fascism and establish global hegemony.
• Pet the Dog: For all his ironically extreme stance of anti-extremism, he still makes a point to prioritize economic prosperity and the general well-being of the average American.
• Propaganda Machine: Taking a hawkish stance against Germany and Japan, Jackson organizes the mass production of propaganda to demonize them as enemies who must be contained with raw force. Often, these images contain the same three motifs: an octopus wrapping its tentacles around, a skull, or both at the same time.
• The Purge: Jackson despises communists and the Sovereigntists, to the point where he has campaigned on a seemingly anti-democratic platform of banning the CPUSA and the ANV.
• Rejected Apology: A lot of tension emerges between him and Robert Kennedy when the latter is nominated to the 1964 election in his place and potentially elected. If Jackson becomes his successor, Kennedy writes an apology letter about how he loosened his influence over the Progressives, but Jackson's weary sigh while reading implies that he's not yet ready to let water under the bridge.
• Taking Up the Mantle: His focus on populism, progressivism, centrism, and civil rights means that he'll be continuing many of the same policies pursued by Theodore Roosevelt.
• Victory Through Intimidation: Jackson's foreign policy involves flexing American might to cow its rivals into submission, using the threat of nuclear weapons to back up their talk. However, Jackson doesn't actually intend to start a world war with Germany and Japan because it would be a lose-lose scenario for everyone.
• Warhawk: While in most other respects quite liberal, Jackson is one of the most interventionist and hawkish potential Presidents for America. Since OTL Jackson is considered a major influence and precursor to neoconservatism, this shouldn't come as a surprise.
• You Are What You Hate: Ironically, his anti-extremism is an extreme position itself, as he'll aim to ruthlessly censor the Sovereigntists and communists present in America, to the point that some criticize him for being too authoritarian.
• Your Approval Fills Me with Shame: If he succeeds LeMay, Jackson's hasty urge to the destroy the succession letter is as much out of discomfort over being given praise and encouragement from the man as it is an effort to avoid a PR scandal.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

Role: Head of State (1972 election)

Party: Democratic Party

Ideology: Dynastic Liberalism^note Liberalism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Many less liberal-minded politicians once presumed a woman to be too soft to hold the office of President— too weakened by feminine tenderness. Now, the fools and doubters line up out of respect and fear to Jeane Duane Kirkpatrick: a woman with a heart of steel and a mind for politics. One of the founding members of the modern Far Right Wing, Kirkpatrick was rocketed to the political spotlight as the Oil Crisis grew in intensity. With her mastery of geopolitics and unbreakable resolve, the Presidency was relatively easy to win. Now, as President, she advocates what is being called the "Kirkpatrick Doctrine": a geopolitical precept that America should support friendly dictatorships in order to prevent the spread of Nazi totalitarianism. While this concept has drawn ire from many, few doubt its effectiveness in achieving its goal.

Originally from Oklahoma, Kirkpatrick studied at Columbia University while a member of the "Young People's Socialist League", the youth wing of the Socialist Party of America. While continuing to study political science at Columbia, she became less and less enthralled with socialist maxims, eventually deciding that socialism required a fundamental change in human nature to succeed. Over many years, her conservative values grew while others withered, until all that remained was cold, hard, pragmatism. After completing her PhD in 1968, Kirkpatrick became an extremely outspoken member of the Far Right, with her focus on foreign policy playing a major role in the rebranding of the group since the end of the Civil Rights debate.

Now, the practical, calculating woman of iron sits in the Oval Office, slowly hammering a soft nation into a creature as unyielding as she is. If she has her way the Central Intelligence Agency budget will skyrocket, as will the number of pro-American third world dictatorships. The chaotic winds of the world, whether through words or through swords, shall be rent into an order that respects and fears the United States of America.

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• Allohistorical Allusion: The Kirkpatrick Doctrine is almost identical to what it was in real life, with anti-communism replaced by anti-Nazism, as the USA's Arch-Enemy in this timeline is the German Reich, instead of the Soviet Union.
• Bread and Circuses: Downplayed. A less charitable interpretation of Kirkpatrick's domestic policies is that much like the Kirkpatrick Doctrine, they're a cynical attempt to keep the American public sedate and less likely to protest her more dubious actions abroad. Said policies, however, are in the best interests of Americans, be it tearing down sexism and racism, or empowering labor unions.
• Breaking the Glass Ceiling: If Margaret Chase Smith didn’t run in the previous election, Kirkpatrick can become the first female presidential nominee of a major party, possibly sharing this achievement with Schlafly. If elected, she will become America’s first female President.
• Can't Take Criticism: The Kirkpatrick Doctrine is extremely controversial, with many Americans protesting its application. However, Kirkpatrick ignores these naysayers, considering them "pacifists and cowards" who would bow to the Germans and Japanese. That being said, she's not blind to said naysayers either, and instead tries to make her ideas more palatable to the public.
• Cynicism Catalyst: Kirkpatrick's experiences with socialism in her youth, combined with her observations of geopolitics, left her increasingly jaded with what she considers to be blind idealism. She becomes convinced that cold Realpolitik and propping up autocratic regimes against Fascism are the best way for America to emerge as the unquestioned victor of the Cold War.
• Developer's Foresight: Kirkpatrick can become the first female president and her first focus description notes this achievement. However, if Smith was elected before her, the description changes so that Kirkpatrick recognizes her predecessor as the first woman to be President and vowing to exceed her legacy.
• Enemy Mine: She's more than willing to cooperate with (and prop up) unsavory dictatorships if it means dealing another blow to Fascism.
• Enlightened Self-Interest: At best, the Kirkpatrick Doctrine aims to both advance US interests in deterring fascism and give willing allies, no matter how autocratic or dictatorial they are, a taste of American democracy and prosperity. How effective or sincere such goals are, however, is left up to the player.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • If Kirkpatrick succeeds Curtis LeMay, she's genuinely uncomfortable not only with his sexist comments and contempt for her academic background in his transition letter, but also for his flagrantly militaristic suggestions on foreign policy, which would risk nuclear war. She immediately destroys the letter after reading it to avoid a potential scandal.
  • As much as Kirkpatrick is unapologetic about her coldly pragmatic and calculating policies, she firmly draws the line at racism and segregation. This is especially evident in her discomfort over George Wallace's transition letter expressing even a modicum of common ground with her.
• Foil:
  • Kirkpatrick is one to Wallace F. Bennett. While both seek to ensure long-term American hegemony and victory in the Cold War, she's much more pragmatic and coldly calculating through her doctrine, viewing the OFN almost purely in a Realpolitik lens, in which commitment to democracy is secondary, or at best a gradual affair. This stands in sharp contrast to Bennett's more idealistic vision of a federalized OFN united in shared democratic values from the offset.
  • She's also one to Phyllis Schlafly. On top of having experience both as an intellectual and in political circles, Kirkpatrick is a committed pragmatist who's willing to make calculated compromises. Moreover, while she's not a feminist candidate, she doesn't outright endorse bigotry or reactionary policies like Schlafly does with utter zeal.
  • Despite having some similarities with Henry Jackson in how her efforts to curtail Fascism and anti-American threats abroad clash with otherwise liberal and reformist policies domestically, Kirkpatrick seeks to achieve her goals through cynical Realpolitik and more discrete activity through the CIA. These stand in contrast to Jackson's riskier Victory Through Intimidation plans, which involve even more interventionism and flexing of American militarism.
• Hypocrite:
  • During a presidential debate with Schlafly, Kirkpatrick criticizes the opposition for allowing fascist dictators to rise up as a result of her isolationist foreign policies, but she is fine allying with other fascist leaders if they are compatible with American interests, like an Italy led by the neo-fascist Almirante.
  • Kirkpatrick's domestic policies prioritize social reform, workers' rights and bolstering democratic institutions. These, however, could grow increasingly dissonant with America's image abroad, given the cynical Realpolitik and Regime Change antics that characterize the Kirkpatrick Doctrine.
• Immediate Self-Contradiction: Kirkpatrick says that she wants to prove that there can be powerful political women in America, but when asked if she is an ally of the feminist movement, she rolls back her words and says that she never set out to be the "women's candidate".
• Iron Lady: Kirkpatrick is an iron-willed President who pursues a policy of hardline diplomacy towards America's enemies. Her appearance alone commands power and respect from those around her, inspiring even young girls that they could become like her one day.
• Lesser of Two Evils: In a 1972 election against Phyllis Schlafly, she is seen as this to supporters of George McGovern, as seen by a quote from Hunter S. Thompson in the Schlafly teaser.
  Kirkpatrick may be an evil, half-true hack, but she’s nothing compared to the Nazi that the NPP’s scrounged up along with her band of Mussolinis.
• A Lighter Shade of Black: As cynical and calculating as Jeane Kirkpatrick's policies are, they're not as overtly cold as Robert McNamara's ideas or amoral as Henry Kissinger's.
• Long Game: Much like the real Kirkpatrick Doctrine's justifications, her policies involve tolerating and supporting pro-US autocrats as a means to curtail Fascism, with the added hope that they'll gradually be "nudged" into embracing genuine democracy.
• Metaphorically True: Kirkpatrick doesn't deny the less savory aspects of her doctrine, such as propping up autocratic regimes and staging coups in foreign countries. Yet while she's unapologetic about them, she nonetheless invokes euphemistic and academic terminology in an attempt to make these more palatable to Americans.
• Necessarily Evil: The Kirkpatrick Doctrine in a nutshell. While Kirkpatrick herself is unapologetic over how unpalatable policies such as propping up friendly dictatorships can be to many Americans, she's not blind either to such concerns. Nonetheless, she believes that her plans are vital in the struggle for global hegemony against fascism, and that said autocrats could be pushed gradually towards democracy.
• Obstructive Bureaucrat: Inverted, as Kirkpatrick is actually making the CIA's job too unregulated. She passes legislation to bend the rules and give the CIA more freedom in their work, such as the CIA Act of 1973, which exempts them from restrictions on federal money and allows important defectors to skip the immigration process.
• Patriotic Fervor: To encourage recruitment into the military, Kirkpatrick plays them up as a force for freedom and liberty, appealing to the people's patriotism so they can join the fight against fascism.
• Pet the Dog:
  • However hawkish her foreign policies are, she is generally friendly with labor rights, being an AFL-CIO Democrat who supports unions for helping the average American individual. If she succeeds Lyndon Johnson or RFK, it’s strongly implied that she retains much of their progressive policies domestically, befitting their shared Dynastic Liberalism. Moreover, while the Kirkpatrick Doctrine involves a lot of cold, heartless Realpolitik, it does have provisions for gradually steering otherwise autocratic pro-US regimes towards actual democratic reform.
  • In contrast to putting the United States' interests first, Kirkpatrick has an alternative path to prioritize the OFN as a whole, stressing mutual cooperation between its members and streamlining the application process.
• Propaganda Machine: To destroy the Sovereignist and Marxist Caucuses, Kirkpatrick doesn't resort to direct censorship tactics. Instead, Kirkpatrick will launch massive campaign ads to demean them as a threat to the country, turning the populace against them.
• Realpolitik: Kirkpatrick will ally with any regime or partisan group, regardless of how morally questionable, to stem German and Japanese influence. The Kirkpatrick Doctrine makes a distinction between short-lived "authoritarian" governments and longer-lasting "totalitarian" governments, in which she believes that the former should be supported to destabilize the latter. She cynically believes that dirty geopolitical actions are the only way to achieve results, rejecting Bennett's more idealistic view on foreign policy.
• Reconcile the Bitter Foes: Downplayed. Despite Kirkpatrick's disillusionment with socialism, she still at the very least shows sympathy to liberal and progressive causes. Thus, at least domestically, she'll try to form a broad reformist coalition, though it's left ambiguous whether she's genuine.
• Regime Change: The policies Kirkpatrick endorses include propping up pro-American dictatorships and gradually pushing them towards embracing genuine democracy, though unlike OTL, these aren't confined to Latin America.
• The Spock: Downplayed, when compared to Robert McNamara. Due to her academic credentials and hard pragmatism, Kirkpatrick has a reputation for being coldly calculating, which LeMay mocks as being obsessed with lecturing people rather than getting the job done. That said, however, she's not blind to this public image and makes an effort to show how her policies are indeed in the best interests of the American people.
• Unscrupulous Hero: Kirkpatrick is determined to combat inequality in the United States, whether it be discrediting sexism or guaranteeing more protections for the labor unions. However, the Kirkpatrick Doctrine calls for an interventionist and Realpolitik-dependent foreign policy, where the United States commits any action, regardless of how morally dubious, to combat the spread of fascism.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: The Kirkpatrick Doctrine is a geopolitical precept that America should support friendly dictatorships to prevent the spread of Nazi totalitarianism. And under her rule, she could further empower the CIA and construct dozens of "Black Sites" to advance that precept, American interests at large and for the struggle against fascism, becoming a shadow government in all but name. She doesn't care if critics despise her for it, if this means guaranteeing US hegemony in the long term.
• What Have You Done for Me Lately?: Despite the rest of the OFN helping the United States combat their rivals, Kirkpatrick may think that they aren't doing enough and adopt a stricter hand against them, such as demanding more troop commitments or requiring a one way lend-lease to donate resources to the United States.
• Your Approval Fills Me with Shame: She is incredulous over receiving a succession letter from Wallace, praising her Iron Lady qualities and drawing similarities between their campaign promises. She destroys the letter after reading it, evidently uncomfortable with the thought of having anything in common with him.

George Romney

Role: Governor of Michigan, Head of State (1972 election)

Party: Republican Party

Ideology: Modern Conservatism^note Conservatism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}George W. Romney was born to all-American parents in the Mormon colonies of Mexico. From an early age, he interacted with strong themes of religiosity, a factor that would influence him later in life. Eventually due to the Mexican Revolution of 1910, his family fled back to the United States moving from city to city, struggling financially during the Depression years, until ultimately arriving in Salt Lake City, Utah.

As an adult, he worked in several part-time jobs and attempted to secure a college education several times - failing each round, eventually ending up in Detroit where he worked for the American Automobile Manufacturers Association (AAMA), which gained him his claim to fame as the chief spokesman within the automobile industry at the height of World War II. Dejected following America's coerced defeat, he would go on to work in the private sector - first at Nash-Kelvinator in '48 and then as CEO of it's successor, the American Motors Corporation in '54.

By 1960, Romney tired of the corporate life, inspired by his strong religious convictions he ran for Governor of Michigan in '61 as the candidate for the Republican-Democrats, re-elected multiple times he eventually took the side of the marginalized in the Civil Rights Movement arguing against party dissenters like Goldwater and Dixiecrat opposition figures like Strom Thurmond - even going as far as to condemn the NPP for harboring 'traitorous elements' in response to a speech by the Sovereignist leader Byers in his home state of Utah.

Now after a tumultuous decade, Romney represents peace, stability, order and good old Christian America, leading the Conservative wing of the RDCs, George W. Romney has ascended to the ranks of the Oval Office intent on building an America for everyone , strengthened by Christ and steadfast in spirit.

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• Berserk Button: LeMay's transition letter to Romney, accusing him of being a coward too busy cozying up with automobile industry executives during World War II, is enough for the otherwise calm Mormon to tear the letter in palpable anger.
• Boring, but Practical:
  • His tenure as President of the American Motors Corporation focused on selling compact cars rather than competing for the same niche with the more impressive, gas-guzzling vehicles of the "Big Three" automobile companies that dominate Michigan. This strategy paid off and saved the company from bankruptcy.
  • Romney's rhetoric does not inspire much passion, often being seen as too technocratic or paternalistic for the masses. However, this means that his policymaking is a lot more careful and consensus-oriented to best resolve the problems that plague the United States, working against segregation and economic inequality.
  • In his first 100 days in office, Romney will pass a bipartisan bill to increase funding for schools. It's the most widely acceptable legislation he can pass and will be available to him, regardless of whether he focuses on civil rights legislation or boosting private volunteer organizations.
• Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Romney’s Attorney General, Edward Brooke, is the first African American to hold the position. Notably, Romney goes out of his way to guarantee Brooke's appointment, fighting against the Nationalist's attempts to prevent it out of naked racism.
• But Not Too Foreign: Romney was born in Mexico and could potentially become the first foreign-born President.^note Typically being born in another country would disqualify someone from becoming President. However, Romney’s parents were American citizens, so he qualifies as a "natural-born citizen" and is eligible to become President.
• The Charmer: His persuasiveness lies in his pleasant demeanor, which he uses to convince senators to join his side and approve his actions, like nominating Brookes as Attorney General.
• Enemy Mine: If Romney's first priority is to guarantee civil rights, Romney will rally support from the Democrats to pass their desired legislation through Congress.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • Though he started his political career by challenging the RDC presence in Michigan, he didn't join the NPP either, partially because their Michigan branch was filled with bigots that he couldn't stand.
  • Despite his skepticism with federal overreach, Romney does not use it as an excuse to permit racism by local government entities. In his pro-civil rights path from his starting tree, Romney's normally cheerful demeanor turns serious when he hears of schools dragging their feet on desegregation, sending the Department of Justice to fix the issue "like a bloodhound".
• The Federation: Romney is a stringent advocate for American internationalism, seeking to strengthen the OFN and build diplomatic ties with potential new allies.
• Golden Mean Fallacy: Even more so than Bennett, potentially. A recurring criticism of Romney is how his platform and policies are so dull that it's unclear if they mean anything or amount to just trying to appease everyone without accomplishing much.
• Graceful Loser: If Kirkpatrick wins the RDC presidential primaries, Romney concedes in a graceful speech and will reaffirm the Republicans' support behind her campaign.
• Hero-Worshipper: One of Romney's biggest influences is Richard Cornuelle, sharing his skepticism of a big government and faith that private organizations can build a more equal United States. He even invites Cornuelle as an advisor on how to encourage public volunteerism.
• Meet the New Boss: If Romney succeeds Bennett, then his presidency will generally continue on from where the latter left off, only with an even more pronounced effort to not rock the boat and maintain an image of banal normality.
• Nice Guy: Romney is generally mild-mannered and the most polite of the 1972 presidential candidates. Notably, when he gets into an argument with López Mateos from Mexico, Romney apologizes later on and buries the hatchet during his visit in Mexico City.
• Our Presidents Are Different: Romney is President Minority since, if elected, he would be the first Mormon President of America. He can potentially be the second Mormon president if Wallace Bennett was elected beforehand in 1964. If the latter is the case, Bennett acknowledges their shared faith and its newfound achievement in his letter to Romney◊ upon leaving office, and Romney will essentially be continuing Bennett's pragmatic, bipartisan, and facts-based governance style.
• Pragmatic Hero: As religious and convicted as Romney is, he makes a conscious effort to make concessions and compromises wherever necessary to get his many opponents on board, all while listening closely to his advisors.
• Real Men Love Jesus: Romney is described as a devout Mormon, but tempers his religious zeal with a similarly firm belief in bipartisanship and compromise.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Romney is the least ideologically convicted of the possible 1972 presidents, preferring "evidence-based policymaking" by working with think tanks, nonprofit organizations, and corporations.
• Rousseau Was Right: He believes in an egalitarian America, but doesn't believe that the job can be adequately taken care of by the government alone. Instead, Romney has hope that people will contribute to volunteer and collaborative organizations to help their fellow man, with the government passing the necessary legislation, rewards, and encouragement to inspire this change.
• Sheltered Aristocrat: He certainly means well with his reforms, but he can sometimes be too disconnected to the people to truly know what's best for them. Best illustrated in Harrington's succession letter to him, where his predecessor gives him some photographs of the oppressed "Other America", eliciting confused concern from Romney.
• Your Approval Fills Me with Shame: Wallace's succession letter to him is one of congratulations and a request to respect the autonomy of the states, which leaves Romney with an overwhelming feeling of dread and misery.

Phyllis Schlafly

Role: Head of State (1972 election)

Party: Republican Party, Nationalist Party

Ideology: Paleoconservatism^note Paternalism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}To the glee of her supporters and horror of her opponents, Phyllis Schlafly has done the impossible. The firebrand conservative has vanquished the Kingmakers and become president of the United States.

A few years ago, the idea would have been absurd. In the 50s, Schlafly was little known outside of Midwestern right-wing circles. She worked as a conservative researcher and activist. Together with her husband, she authored a report for the bar association on communist and fascist infiltration. She ran two campaigns for Congress—in Illinois and Missouri—both of which she lost. Her books on national defense earned mild interest.

The chaos of the 1960s changed everything. Schlafly gained a following in 1960 when she led a protest against the RDC's decision to add a plank demanding action on civil rights. Her book "A Choice Not an Echo" denouncing liberal corruption and "New York kingmakers" was influential in the Republican Party's decision to select Barry Goldwater as its nominee. Global chaos earned her writings denouncing the Establishment's "America last foreign policy" newfound attention. By the time she defected to the Nationalist Party over their "feckless internationalism" and "assault on Christian family values," Schlafly had become an icon for millions of disaffected whites furious about a country that seemed to be leaving them behind. She exploited that deep sense of grievance to seize the Nationalist nomination, the NPP's support, and then the presidency.

Now an unrepentant reactionary with no elected experience stands in the most powerful office of the nation. Her ascension promises to introduce America to a new type of struggle: a culture war.

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• Allohistorical Allusion:
  • During a 1972 presidential debate with Jeane Kirkpatrick, Schlafly responds to a statement by the moderator with "there you go again," a phrase famously uttered by Ronald Reagan in OTL.
  • Her efforts to ban abortion inspire a progressive backlash, in which some of their members, led by Shirley Chisholm, prepare a proposed amendment to the Constituation. It is the Equal Rights Amendment, the same one that Schlafly helped kill in OTL.
• As the Good Book Says...: After placing stricter requirements on receiving government welfare, Schlafly justifies herself by quoting 2 Thessalonians 3:10 "He who does not work, neither shall he eat."
• Breaking the Glass Ceiling: If Margaret Chase Smith didn’t run in the previous election, Schlafly can become the first female presidential nominee of a major party, possibly sharing this achievement with Kirkpatrick. If elected, she will become America’s first female President.
  • In a bit of a deconstruction of this trope however, Schlafly's presidency does not mean a sign of liberation or new opportunities for the women within the nation, as it shows exactly what happens when a person representing the group whose glass ceiling was "broken" doesn't share their interests - she's little more than a continuation of the policies from the other reactionaries within the NPP, albeit with a "female face" behind them.
• Broken Pedestal: She worships Barry Goldwater, thinking that he would remove McNamara and the kingmakers in Washington who are getting the United States involved in foreign conflicts. If Goldwater becomes president, he will disappoint Schlafly by saying that he is friends with McNamara, ultimately moving her into the Nationalist caucus. That said, she still ultimately cherishes his succession letter to her if she takes the presidency from him when she refuses to think twice about almost all the others.
• Chekhov's Gunman: Throughout most of the American campaign, Schlafly starts out as a minor character in flavor events, spreading her conservative messages and stirring trouble for some politicians. By the end, she becomes the Nationalist's presidential nominee.
• Conspiracy Theorist: Rather than accepting the idea that most American presidents and policy makers are acting in what they believe to be America's interests and that they have simply come to different conclusions from her based on the same evidence, Schlafly blames a shadow cabal of "liberals" and “kingmakers” out to destroy America and sell it out to foreign powers.
• Deadpan Snarker: Schlafly is prone to making sarcastic and witty remarks during her presidential debates. However, this is Deconstructed to show how such comments would be inappropriate in what's supposed to be a professional environment; her snarking just creates an increasingly vitriolic atmosphere until both candidates begin interrupting each other and becoming harder to rein in by the debate moderators. Even Nixon, one of the debate's observers, notes that her insults are cheap potshots that don't really add anything substantial to the conversation.
• Dissonant Serenity:
  • When she makes a speech demonizing sexual education and promising to cut funding for schools that do so, a riot breaks out from the crowd, with one observer throwing a shoe at her. As Secret Service agents escort her away, Schlafly smiles at the whole debacle, knowing that she can use their violence as a means to discredit them.
  • Schlafly doesn't show any worry when the FAAI fails to pass Congress, remarking that all of her enemies have exposed their secret alliance to the public and that she will save the Judeo-Christian values of the country.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • As reactionary and generally repressive Schlafly can get, even she considers outright Fascism and Nazism as too un-American to support, if only because of her nationalistic disgust for "foreign" influences rather than because of the intrinsic features of those ideologies that make them repulsive to almost everyone else. During an interview, Schlafly notes her begrudging support for American intervention in the South African War, but only to stem the tide of fascism than to help the people living there.
  • Though she hated John F. Kennedy for his liberalism, Schlafly never wanted him dead for it and is saddened when news breaks of his assassination. However, this does not dissuade her from mocking his death in order to get Robert F. Kennedy riled.
• Evil Reactionary: To the point that the only president who actually has a good opinion of her upon taking office is fellow Evil Reactionary Strom Thurmond, with all the others decrying her lack of experience and repulsive views.
• Family-Values Villain: Schlafly genuinely believes in what she considers wholesome, traditional American values. Unfortunately for the rest of America, those also come with a hefty baggage of creeping authoritarianism, forced isolationism, anti-intellectualism, and a heaping helping of bigotry for anyone she considers outside of the category of "traditional American."
• Feeling Oppressed by Their Existence: She considers Americans to be the most oppressed people on Earth by the financial class or the "kingmakers", as she calls them. Without any evidence, Schlafly believes that they are shadowy individuals who are robbing the average American blind and propagandizing liberal, internationalist agendas to enslave them.
• Female Misogynist: A Type 2 example. She's firmly against the feminist movement because she believes that women are fundamentally different from men. One of her first acts as President is to cut federal funding for any state that teaches children feminist or "Anti-American" ideas.
• Foil: To the other female presidential contenders.
  • Unlike Margaret Chase Smith, Schlafly has little actual experience in Congress, uses considerably less tact in how she goes about advancing her policies, and shows no regard for hearing advice even from her fellow-travelers, let alone her rivals.
  • In contrast to Jeane Kirkpatrick, Schlafly not only shows open contempt at non-isolationist foreign policy, but also views intellectuals of any stripe and those deemed even remotely "liberal" as a threat to her idea of American values. She's also far less willing to make pragmatic decisions, since she has zero political experience or practical understanding of how the American government actually operates.
• Friendly Rival: Unlike most other politicians in the RDC, Schlafly doesn't hold much animosity towards Goldwater and keeps his successor letter to her as an addition to her memorabilia.
• Good Girls Avoid Abortion: Schlafly is a fervent believer in this and one of her first legislation as President is the Family Assistance Against Injustice Act (FAAI), written to outlaw abortion clinics throughout the country.
• Head-in-the-Sand Management: Zig-Zagged. Schlafly has very selective standards when it comes to using her authority. When it comes to enforcing her paleoconservative values, Schlafly will act with incredible zeal, unwilling to compromise on the issue. However, whenever someone brings up the consequences of her attempts to deregulate the federal government or her implementation of tariffs, Schlafly and her cabinet hides themselves away, telling the complainers to figure it out themselves.
• Hero-Worshipper: She idolizes Robert A. Taft as a conservative icon, still raw about him being defeated in the 1948 presidential election and blaming "internationalist demagogues" for sabotaging his campaign.
• Heteronormative Crusader: Schlafly is extremely homophobic, as shown in a political cartoon in support of her presidential campaign.
• Historical In-Joke: If she gets elected, Schlafly nominates fellow paleoconservative, Pat Buchanan, as her senior advisor. In OTL, Schlafly endorsed Buchanan in the 1996 presidential primaries.
• Hitler Ate Sugar: Schlafly compares the liberal movement to the Gestapo, simply because they want to separate the church and state.
• Hypocrite:
  • She clearly defines the traditional roles of a man and a woman; the former must work and enlist in the military, while the latter must bear children and perform household duties. However, she never applies these standards to herself and her bid to run for President.
  • She talks about how women are better suited to domestic duties than being in power, but when Nixon makes a sexist remark about her wasting time in politics, she gets offended.
• Improperly Paranoid:
  • When asked by a moderator in the 1972 presidential debate, Schlafly states that McNamara's interventionist foreign policies are intended to weaken the United States enough that they'll come to submit to Germany and Japan, while the New York financial class control the RDC to brainwash the population into accepting this alliance. Obviously, no such cabal exists in reality and American foreign ventures are simply to spread its own geopolitical interests.
  • She also unfavorably compares big government proponents to a cult, fantasizing a coalition of bureaucrats, union leaders, and politicians who are enriching themselves by placing government oversight on American corporations and parasitizing off the common worker. Despite all evidence to the contrary, Schlafly attacks this imagined threat by removing the regulations on the companies.
• Insane Troll Logic: Schlafly is somehow under the impression that interventionism is a plot to weaken America for the benefit of the former Axis, irrespective of how well it goes. Indeed, even after America's side loses, things don't go well for the winner, like in Colombia or South Africa.
• It's All About Me: In addition to viewing America as the only country worth even discussing, Schlafly tends to have a very myopic view of her own apparent competence.
• Kick the Dog: A Hart transition letter to her is nothing short of a polite request to turn down her inflammatory language, yet she quietly mocks the sender anyway.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: Her foreign policy emphasizes isolationism because she believes that Germany and Japan can't be negotiated with and involving the United States in proxy wars won't "soften" them, wasting thousands of American lives on a lost cause. Instead, she advocates a "Fortress America" plan, where the United States alone will build up its military capacity to a point where the fascist powers can never threaten her again, giving up on fighting their influence abroad.
• A Lighter Shade of Black: Remarkably, as bad as Schlafly is and can potentially become, she's still not the worst possible president for America. That unenviable honor goes to Yockey.
• Mutually Assured Destruction: In contrast to her otherwise isolationist foreign policy, Schlafly has an exceedingly lenient policy on building the United States' nuclear arsenal, serving as a warning to their rivals if they dare antagonize them too much. Unlike Jackson, however, she has less qualms about using said arsenal when push comes to shove.
• Nepotism: Most of her staff and cabinet is filled with colleagues who are more loyal to her than actually deserving of their station. Many of the people she surrounds herself with are young and inexperienced, with only a few veterans, such as Maxwell Taylor, on board.
• No Sympathy: She disdains welfare as building a culture of dependency in the country, giving freeloaders an easy pass and benefiting those who are already rich. According to her, people who need money just need to work.
• Poke the Poodle: For each of the 1964 Presidents, Schlafly tries to start a fight against them by flinging petty insults against them. The only President who responds is Robert F. Kennedy because she mocks his late brother.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: Besides her misogyny, she also considers homosexuals to be a blight on the "Judeo-Christian" values of the United States.
• President Evil: Everything about the Schlafly presidency strongly suggests that, between her pig-headed reactionarism, wild conspiracy theories, anti-intellectualism, isolationism, and general lack of political experience or interest in learning how to govern, she will be a truly historically awful president at a particularly bad time to be one.
• Principles Zealot: In contrast to Kirkpatrick, Schlafly is nigh-completely unwilling to make any compromises or pragmatic considerations in how she governs. As far as she's concerned, anyone who doesn't go in line with her thinking may as well not exist.
• Puppet King: Downplayed. Given the sort of people Schlafly's filling her cabinet with, it's implied that she's more of a glorified mouthpiece for the reactionary and isolationist elements of the NPP. That said, she's pig-headed and has a strong-enough personality to pursue her own take on their shared agenda.
• The Purge: When she ascends to the White House, she fires anyone who ever worked with McNamara, deeming them traitorous collaborators to the "kingmakers".
• Railroading: Whether because Goldwater disappointed her by not removing McNamara or because he was never nominated for the presidency, Schlafly will always leave the Republican party for the Nationalists.
• Right for the Wrong Reasons:
  • She calls Nixon a corrupt man, which is true in regards to his unconstitutional actions to subvert the NPP, but this fact was yet to be unveiled to the public. Instead, she used that insult in regards to Nixon not being conservative enough.
  • Schlafly hates Wallace, a sentiment that would be justified on the surface. However, the reason why she despises him is because he's a liberal rather than any of his truly unsavory qualities. If she succeeds Wallace, her predecessor will send a glowing letter to her, praising her achievements and imparting some political advice based on his experience, but Schlafly completely discards the letter.
• Small Name, Big Ego: She sees herself as Goldwater's biggest supporter and thinks that the feeling is reciprocated. However, if Goldwater is elected and the two finally meet, Schlafly is disillusioned to learn that, not only does Goldwater not really respect her, but he outright refuses her request to fire McNamara and the other "kingmakers".
• The Unfettered: Part of what makes Schlafly so dangerous is her lack of restraint. She considers her presidency to be special because it will be the first to never compromise on its principles for a Christian America and only ever appealing to fellow conservatives who share her beliefs.
• Unknown Rival:
  • She has a bone to pick with Bennett for his internationalism and, when they see each other in the flesh, Schlafly hands him a jar of jam as a metaphorical insult for getting the United States "jammed" into proxy wars. When she leaves, Bennett is left befuddled at what just happened and expresses confusion when a Secret Service agent tells him her identity.
  • She also has a one-sided rivalry with Johnson, who doesn't know her when she tries to bait him into a fight by protesting in front of the White House. He never identifies her by name and doesn't even bother going out to argue with them, figuring he's got better things to do.
• When All You Have Is a Hammer…: Schlafly doesn't have a well-thought-out plan to deregulate the government, besides directly tearing them out like a bandaid. When her administration is warned that doing so will take decades of work, their only solution is to merely pick up the pace of their strategy, regardless of whatever consequences will happen when these interdependent agencies have their work disrupted.

Francis Parker Yockey

Role: Senator (Illinois, potentially), Head of State (1972 election)

Party: American National Vanguard

Ideology: National Socialism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Francis Parker Yockey is a man that few ever expected to be clothed in the powers of the Presidency. Now, however, after one of the most contentious elections in American history, an outspoken fascist sits in the White House. Originally an author and philosopher, Yockey became enthralled with the authoritarian and fascist movements occurring across the world during the 1930s. He took a particular interest in the works of Adolf Hitler while studying to become a lawyer, embracing the Nazi ideals of anti-semitism and ultranationalism. Following the publication of his self-described magnum opus, "Imperium: the Philosophy of History and Politics", Yockey fathered a new movement in American politics by founding an ultra-far right section of the National Progressive Pact. Originally calling their wing of the NPP the "American National Vanguard", Yockey and his followers were quickly abhorred by the rest of the American political spectrum and simply dubbed "Yockeyites". However, through the failures of his enemies and sheer providence, his faction now stands triumphant over the American political system.

The election of Yockey as President has stirred more than a few rats from the woodwork. In many cities across America, mainly in the South, it is not uncommon to see men wearing the hooded white robes of the Klu Klux Klan. Similarly, there is open talk of repealing landmark Civil Rights legislation of the past 20 years. Increasingly common lynchings of Black Americans go unnoticed and uninvestigated. In short, hate is being normalized across the United States, and many within and without the political establishment are terrified where this authoritarian wave might go.

Yockey, despite being the leader of the most powerful free nation on Earth, has been unclear and contradictory on his opinions of liberty. Many believe that, regardless of whatever outward show he makes of keeping American liberties intact, he is still a fascist, and will do everything he is able to strengthen the office of President. Yockey himself simply decries "culture-distorters" and claims to safeguard Western Civilization. Exactly what Yockey is protecting it from remains unclear, but with a cross and a star-spangled cloak, Francis Parker Yockey sits in the Oval Office, ready to execute his will upon America.

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• 0% Approval Rating: Downplayed. Yockey does require some domestic support to win the Presidential election, but his inauguration event points out how there are few people to celebrate his inauguration, outside of a handful of brown-shirted supporters, and a delegation from the Reich. The R-Ds officially boycotted his inauguration, and almost every non-Yockey NPP party refused to attend. None of his potential predecessors like or respect him either, with their transition letters ranging from horror to open contempt. There are more police guarding Yockey's election (and FAR more anti-Yockey protesters getting as much as they can out of their First Amendment rights before Yockey begins to strip them away). His early focus tree acknowledges that most Americans still hold on to democratic ideals and works to marginalize them through disinformation campaigns and strategically-thrown bones towards the racists in the NPP.
• Anarcho-Tyranny: One of his methods of transforming America into a fascist state is refusing to enforce civil rights & letting hate crimes go unpunished. The Klan will riot in the South unimpeded, while attempts to stop them are punished. He also uses the media to encourage these acts of violence against minorities and to bolster his positive image.
• Culture Police: Yockey's first big move after becoming the President is to make the Safeguarding America's Fundamental Exceptionalism (SAFE) Act, which bans "all potentially law-breaking degenerative media-sources" in America to protect "America's Spirit."
• Dark Reprise: The Yockey Presidency superevent plays the United States anthem in a mournful minor key.
• Deal with the Devil:
  • If Wallace is unable to implement his segregationist policies for one reason or another, the segregationists and other hardliners in the Nationalist Party will become further radicalized and grant the Sovereigntists more influence, believing that they can accomplish what they want.
  • Should Margaret Chase Smith's policies split the NPP, she has the option to ally with Yockey and his supporters, who will work to intensify anti-Japanese sentiment from both the government institutions and the people. This results in more hate crimes against Japanese-Americans and Yockey possibly taking her spot in the 1972 Presidential election.
• Delusions of Eloquence: Yockey's haughty and needlessly convoluted writing style (which he filled his self-described magnum opus Imperium with) is present in all of his focus descriptions and many of his quotes.^note The latter is apparently an Artistic License, as the real Yockey was allegedly instead quite crude and coarse in his speeches.
  Focus description of "End the Overreach": "Liberalism: that pervading, horrible weakness, that great rotting disease-form of organismic tranquillity, that heckler of the cosmic rhythms governing all life, must be stamped out. It represents - in fact, it is - the destroyer of the American and the European mind-complex. This disease is universally found within both the Masters of Economy who manipulate the controls of the so-called pluralistic state and the profanum vulgus who compose the detritus upon which the culture bearing stratum should lie. Instead, the harvesters of cultural stupidity agitate this soil in pursuit of dilution of the High Culture...
• Downer Ending: The developers consider a Yockey presidency to be the worst possible path America can take. In his first 100 days in the Oval Office, Yockey moves quickly to flood America with lies and misinformation, while letting the Ku Klux Klan off the leash to cause huge problems through riots in the South... all before he introduces the SAFE Act to try to snip the wings off American journalism and media.
• Evil Is Petty: In a very minor, petty move, Yockey doesn't even read most of the transition letters he can get from his presidential predecessors, burning all of them, except for the one he can get from Smith (which he tears up upon reading anyway).
• Feeling Oppressed by Their Existence: He disdains all African Americans as criminals who are committing election fraud and part of the reason why he disdains liberalism is because it promotes equality with "backwards races". When he becomes President, Yockey immediately moves to disenfranchise them and/or let his supporters lynch them.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: As his profile tells, Yockey went from an obscure author and lawyer to a major figure in American politics that adheres to National Socialism, and he has enough influence in the NPP to potentially become President.
• Hated by All: Every President Yockey succeeds reacts to his ascension with nothing but undisguised disgust, horror and contempt.
• Hate Sink: Out of all the possible presidents, Yockey is easily the most despicable one. Most of the other presidents, regardless of party, can bring some genuine good to the United States through their programs. George Wallace implements social programs along with his segregationist platform and is implied to regret success if it comes. Strom Thurmond at least expresses pride for having served his country as a soldier and is unnerved at the prospect of negotiating with Germany. Gus Hall genuinely has the common citizens' interests at heart, even if he ultimately sees American democracy as an obstacle to be removed or subverted. Yockey incites violence against minorities even before becoming president and if elected suppresses the citizens' freedom of speech, actively subverts the democratic institutions that the United States was founded on, and willingly seeks to work with Germany.
• Historical Badass Upgrade: OTL Yockey died in obscurity and was never even remotely close to any position of political influence, let alone the Presidency. George Lincoln Rockwell's American Nazi Party had far more influence than Yockey ever did in OTL, but the devs chose to have Yockey be the prominent American fascist rather than Rockwell to add some flavor to TNO, as they thought Rockwell was somewhat overused.
• The Klan: Many members of Yockey's extreme right faction are also members of the Ku Klux Klan. He sees their brutality towards black Americans as a good thing and lets them off the leash by refusing to prosecute the Klan's crimes in the South. This results in the Klan Riots malus in several Southern states and cities, including Charleston, Birmingham, and Savannah.
• Ominous Clouds: A dour weather takes place in New Orleans, as Yockey sends Vanguard police officers to monitor all votes and ensure that everyone is supporting his own political party.
• Ominous Mundanity: His first 100 days in office are spent writing the Safeguarding America's Fundamental Exceptionalism (SAFE) Act and getting it passed through Congress. What the name doesn't immediately tell is that it would empower Yockey to shut down all "law-breaking degenerative media-sources" that would criticize him and trample over the people's freedom of speech.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: Yockey is a massive racist who sees himself as the guardian of the "Western Civilization", and looks down upon almost everything that's not "Western Civilization". He has nothing but contempt against Africans, Jews, Slavs, and the Japanese. His followers in the ANV include segregationists so vile to give even George Wallace pause.
• President Evil: Yockey is the leader of the fascist American National Vanguard and the worst person who can be elected President of the United States. Once in power, Yockey will immediately work on subverting democracy and spreading racism, so he can reshape America into a fascist nation.
• Purple Prose: His focus descriptions and quotes are written this way, just as he had written for Imperium. It turns simple writings about replacing the cabinet with more dedicated supporters into needlessly convoluted rubbish, all in the name of making himself look and sound smarter, to the point that Vice-President Louis T. Byers has to serve as a translator for the American populace to understand Yockey's rhetoric.
• Redemption Rejection: If Yockey is elected after Bennett, his predecessor writes him a sentimental letter begging him to reconsider what he's doing and telling him that redemption is still possible if he resigns before any harm is dealt to the nation. Unfortunately, Yockey burns his letter without even opening it or considering the possibility of turning back now.
• Richard Nixon, the Used Car Salesman: With an Axis victory making Fascism a more commonplace ideology and the formation of the NPP, Yockey's ideology and writings give him influence and the ability to head a movement of National Socialism that could land him the Presidency, instead of making him a minor ideologue in history.
• Screw the Rules, I Make Them!: Upon taking power, he'll resort to any action and policy necessary to see his vision of a fascist America through. Subverted in that it's still possible to hinder him earlier on, as his SAFE Act can still be stopped by Congress due to the system of checks and balances.
• Stylistic Suck: The descriptions of his national focuses are written in an imitation of his bizarre, pseudointellectual writing style, rife with references to various concepts that only make sense to him, Perfectly Cromulent Words, Gratuitous Foreign Languages, and a fetish for hyphenated compound words. As a result, each description is a rambling mess that'll probably make you add "writes like shit" to the list of reasons to hate the guy.
• Sworn in by Oath: If elected, Yockey will take the oath of office with his hand on his neo-Nazi manifesto Imperium rather than The Bible traditionally used for such occasions. The chief justice is disgusted by this, but too defeated to protest and continues the procession.
• Those Wacky Nazis: Yockey is the most popular (relatively, as he is still very marginal even within the NPP) American politician openly espousing Fascist and pro-Nazi beliefs. Notably, his inauguration has NSDAP delegates straight from the Reich in attendance, strongly suggesting that closer ties with Germany are on the table under his rule.
• Tranquil Fury: If the SAFE Act gets vetoed in Congress, Yockey remains outwardly calm, but admits to being furious that his National Socialist cause has been sabotaged. More perilously, it emboldens Yockey to push even harder against American liberalism and send the Capital Guard to break up a protest in front of the White House.
• The Unfettered: Part of the reason why Yockey is so awful is his blatant disregard for the American Constitution and the checks-and-balances system, in which he will resort to any means to turn America into a fascist dystopia.
• The Unsmile: If the SAFE Act passes Congress, Yockey gives Byers a rare smile that is more ominous than anything else.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Among all the presidential contenders, Yockey is the only one to appoint nobody to head the CIA, leaving it to rot...along with America's entire intelligence apparatus, effectively making the country vulnerable at the worst possible time.
• Villain Respect: Yockey is just about the only American who the Nazis acknowledge with some genuine respect. That the Reich openly sends delegates to his inauguration is a sign of potentially closer ties looming over the horizon.
• Villainous Breakdown:
  • If Congress doesn't pass the SAFE Act, he unleashes his frustration at his Vice President in the Oval Office with a rant that combines his usual pseudo-intellectual Purple Prose with a helpful dose of Tranquil Fury.
  • While Yockey throws most of the presidental transistion letters he can receive into the fire without reading them, he does read Margaret Chase Smith's... which turns out to be a brutal "The Reason You Suck" Speech. His reaction to this one is to tear it to pieces in a fit of rage.
• The War Has Just Begun: The confirmation of his cabinet causes a massive fuss in Washington D.C. and is seen as a victory for his administration, but as Yockey tells Byers, it's just the beginning of his agenda to transform the United States for the worse.
  Our work is far from done.
• Your Approval Fills Me with Shame: At regional stage, Vozhd Konstantin Rodzaevsky of Amur can express his support of Yockey in America. Upon learning about it, Yockey goes on a long rant about the nature of cultural wars, the inherent barbarity of the Slavic civilization and why Rodzaevsky's endorsement is no more valuable to him than the support of his dog.

Vice Presidents (1972 election)

Paul Robeson

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

Party: Communist Party USA

Ideology: Communism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Gus Hall distinguished himself from past presidents by disregarding party compromises and political expertise when creating his Cabinet. The unionist's vision of America awaited not the servants of repressive, antediluvian institutions, he proclaimed, but dreamers with foresight and revolutionary zeal. With this in mind, his campaign searched high and low for a running mate exemplifying both.

Enter Paul Leroy Robeson: film actor, All-American footballer, civil rights activist, and now the first African-American Vice President in history. The Princeton graduate served as the kinder, more educated contrast to the workingman Hall and his rhetoric, winning hearts with baritone-lacquered promises of an America that pays more than lip service to its principal values. Party fears over the untested "two-tone ticket" were summarily dashed by its upset victory in 1972, won in large part by black votes Robeson's presence had mobilized.

Yet talent mattered little before sickness and old age. Having barely fought down double pneumonia in 1965, the 72 year-old's health has only dwindled in the years since. Many worry that the aging vice president will spend more of his four years in a sickbed than in office; critics insinuate that President Hall considers Robeson's inevitable absence a prerequisite for his wide-reaching ambitions...

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• Breaking the Glass Ceiling: If Hall is elected, Robeson will be the first African-American Vice President.
• Sleepyhead: Due to his poor health, Robeson is constantly tired and rarely makes contributions to Hall's cabinet meetings, besides yawning.
• Vice President Who?: Vice President Robeson barely fought down double pneumonia in 1965, and his health has only dwindled in the years since. Many worry that the elderly Robeson will spend more of his four years in a sickbed than in office (historically, he died in 1976, meaning that he only gets to serve as Vice President for three years); critics insinuate that Hall considers Robeson's inevitable absence a prerequisite for his wide-reaching ambitions.

Sid McMath

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

Party: Progressive Party

Ideology: Progressivism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Sid McMath is a man of many surprises. Despite being a Southerner and a decorated veteran of the Marine Corps, he is a staunch progressive and a champion of civil rights. During his term as governor of Arkansas, he led the charge against poll taxes, rural poverty, and the influence of oil barons in state politics. Although failing to win re-election in the gubernatorial race against segregationist Orval Faubus, he went on to become a successful trial attorney. As an attorney he won several landmark cases in the fields of personal injury law and civil rights, winning multi-million dollar recoveries for his working-class clients.

He was a natural choice for Scoop Jackson's vice president. McMath is the perfect embodiment of the ideal of the "New South": A vision of a South that doesn't try to cling to an antebellum past through segregation and sharecropping, but instead looks forward to a new era of social equality and economic progress. He is Scoop's best hope for reconciling the Far-Right Dixiecrats with the party's new progressive leadership.

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• Internal Reformist: McMath has had a long career of fighting for civil rights and economic progress, which made him a natural choice for Jackson's Vice President.
• Reconcile the Bitter Foes: McMath is a Southerner and previously worked as governor of Arkansas, making him a valuable asset for Jackson to reconcile the Dixiecrat voters.

Leonard Woodcock

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

Party: Democratic Party

Ideology: Liberalism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Leonard Woodcock, a former leader of the United Auto Workers, is an untraditional vice president in an untraditional Administration. Woodcock was born in Providence, Rhode Island, the son of a socialist British machinist. After a childhood cut short by World War I and his father's imprisonment by German forces, Woodcock moved to England, then Detroit, interacting with people from all walks of life. His status as a college drop-out did little to stop his career as a machinist or his rise through the U.A.U. as a proud union man.

Now Woodcock stands in the vice presidency with no prior elected experience and visibility only among union workers. While this latter quality might help Kirkpatrick preserve her shaky coalition, still rattled by growing white working class resentment, it is unclear whether Woodcock can expand her appeal.

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• Richard Nixon, the Used Car Salesman: While Woodcock held a similarly distinguished track record as a union man in OTL, Kirkpatrick's rise and her patronage jumpstart his political career much earlier in TNO by elevating him to Vice President. This is in contrast to his real life counterpart, as while he became the first ambassador to the People's Republic of China, he never gained any higher office than that.
• Suffrage and Political Liberation: Woodcock had made a name for himself as both a hard-working machinist and a prominent union man seeking to better the plight of his peers. His standing as vice president reflects Kirkpatrick's commitment, at least on paper, towards social reform domestically.
• Vice President Who?: While well-known among union workers, Woodcock may as well be a complete unknown in Washington, with no prior political experience outside the United Auto Workers. It's also left vague whether Kirkpatrick genuinely picked him for his unionist experience or simply to pander to the working class vote.

Donald Rumsfeld

Donald Rumsfeld

Role: US Representative, Vice President^note Head of Government (Romney cabinet)

Party: Republican Party

Ideology: Conservatism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Donald Rumsfeld is, in many ways, the perfect Government man. A consummate insider with a mastery of foreign and defense policy whose colorless nature has helped disguise his relentless ambition.

A Midwestern Navy veteran who won his first election in the Chicago suburbs at barely 30 years old, Rumsfeld has compiled an impressive record in the halls of Congress. Once the ring leader of a group of Republican reformers, Rumsfeld has led an active career in Washington, forging close ties with academics and intellectuals involved in defense and foreign policy. As a consensus-minded conservative, broadly amenable to both the GOP's right and left flanks, Rumsfeld's selection as Romney's running mate owes as much to the divisions within the Republican Party as it does to his own political, expertise.

Vice President Rumsfeld's deep ties to the Washington beltway and aptitude in international, affairs have already turned him into the public face of the administration's foreign policy. One whose intellectual prowess and connections to Capitol Hill have made him an indispensable part of the Romney administration's day-to-day operation.

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• Allohistorical Allusion: Rumsfeld’s proposal for the South African War is implementing the CORDS Program, a focus on nation-building and winning the hearts and minds of the local populace, undercutting the support that the fascists and Boers get. President Johnson and Bennett can implement this strategy if they inherit the South African War.
• Consolation Prize: Being more conservative-minded, Rumsfeld is brought on as Romney's Vice President because he could appeal to the hardline Republicans.
• Quality over Quantity: Donald Rumsfeld and his "Technocrats" advocate sending only the best men to South Africa, with better leadership, doctrines, weapons systems, and intelligence, and focusing on counterinsurgency rather than sending more men and risking a gruesome war of attrition.

John B. Anderson

Role: US Representative, Vice President^note Head of Government (Schlafly cabinet)

Party: Nationalist Party

Ideology: Paternalism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}When the NPP kingmakers realized Schlafly would gain the nomination, they begged her to balance the ticket. They wanted her to run with someone safe and moderate. Schlafly refused. She would only pick a running mate with convictions. The choice was clear: John B. Anderson.

Anderson was elected to the US House in 1960 as a solid conservative. A veteran, lawyer, and former member of the foreign service, Anderson had the credentials and intelligence to rise quickly among the House ranks, earning friends and gaining prominent committee positions. His fiery denunciations of government excess and decision to introduce a constitutional amendment that would "recognize the law and authority of Jesus Christ" gained him a small following within the NPP. Schlafly hopes to use his connections and skills as an attack dog to pass her ambitious agenda.

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• Allohistorical Allusion: Anderson's shaky faith in Schlafly in spite of their shared values foreshadows a radical break with the Nationalists, much like how the Watergate Scandal and the Vietnam War prompted his sudden turn to progressivism.
• Everyone Has Standards: Anderson shares many of the same values as Schlafly, but he is stunned by the extreme lengths that Schlafly will go to "save" the United States, as shown in her rant after the FAAI passes or gets rejected.
• The Fundamentalist: Anderson proposed a constitutional amendment to "recognize the law and authority of Jesus Christ" over the nation when he was a member of the House of Representatives.
• Hypercompetent Sidekick: Despite being Schlafly's VP, he is way more experienced than her. He's served in the House since 1960, has a fiery charisma, and built a small following from his work. Meanwhile, Schlafly has no elected experience and has to rely on Anderson's connections to even have a chance of completing her agenda.

Louis T. Byers

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

Party: American National Vanguard

Ideology: National Socialism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Sometimes, it takes the likes of a great speaker to rally the masses and assume power. Sometimes, it's the master bureaucrat, capable of sliding any piece of law into the heart of the nation, no matter how many hurdles are in the way. Sometimes, it's the powerful likes of the soldier-politician, calling for a stronger nation than ever before. And, sometimes, it just takes someone who fancies themselves a writer.

Lous T. Byers was certainly not the expected choice of power within the government of President Francis Parker Yockey and his American National Vanguard, but the current cabinet thanks their stars for Byers' position. Establishing his fervent support of Francis Parker Yockey upon the campuses of America across the country after years of supporting George Wallace, Byers' name came to the limelight after continuous writings to newspapers across the country, defending now-Secretary Revilo P. Oliver's postulation about the potential Judeo-Bolshevik conspiracy which led to President John F. Kennedy's assassination. Brought forward as someone who understands the spirit of the Vanguard, President Yockey set his ardent-fan as his running mate, and now he sits as the chief position of government, behind President Yockey himself.

Luckily, however, Byers has managed to find friends throughout the cabinet, despite the rising tensions from within. Byers has taken himself to be a form of a translator for President Yockey, whose academic rhetoric tends to blow far above the understanding of much of America, as he attempts to popularize the National Socialist values of President Yockey in a digestible format for the American populace. What matters now is if the American public will take to enjoying Byers' reconstructed understandings of President Yockey's statements...or will they end up shooting the messenger?

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• Even Evil Has Standards: Downplayed. When Byers listens to one of Yockey's lectures, he typically feels a simultaneous mix of pride and dread in reaction.
• Evil Welcomes Defectors: After years of initially supporting Wallace, Byers switched sides to Yockey because he was enamored with his more extreme views.
• Layman's Terms: Most of his work involves simplifying Yockey's pretentious mumbo jumbo into something that can be more easily understood by the American populace.
• Mouth of Sauron: Since Yockey is a terrible public speaker, Byers is the one who communicates his message to the rest of the United States and disseminates his wild anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.
• Psycho Supporter: Fervently supports Yockey and his ideas of a Judeo-Bolshevik conspiracy, which earns him a place as Yocket's Vice President.
• Red Scare: In addition to the Jews, Byers blames communist agents for "brainwashing" the youth to adopt left-wing ideas he considers deranged.

Hall Cabinet Members

Alger Hiss

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

Party: Communist Party USA

Ideology: Communism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}As a man, Alger Hiss was equal parts brilliant and unpleasant. The long-time President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace combined minute-detail knowledge of every left-wing government and movement on Earth with obnoxious, condescending apologia thereof. Diplomats and officials learned not to spend a minute more than necessary around the former federal attorney; he often returned the favor by addressing his guests exactly a minute after their patience had worn thin.

But as a policymaker, the Harvard Law graduate was an avowed leftist with years of experience in public service: a rare breed within American foreign policy's establishment. His eager appeals to support socialist dissidents in Asia and Latin America eventually caught the attention of Washington's increasingly sympathetic politicos. Insiders prognosticated for Hiss a place in President Hall's Cabinet; by Inauguration Day, he was formally sworn in as Secretary of State.

Leftists abroad may rejoice in knowing that the Arsenal of Democracy now expresses its formal support for the world proletariat's struggle. Meanwhile, anonymous sources hint that Hiss's prosecutorial finesse contributed to his appointment as much as his discreet connections to foreign socialists...

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• The Friend Nobody Likes: Given his condescending, smarmy attitude, few officials would like to spend more time than necessary working with Hiss.
• Insufferable Genius: Hiss is just as much of a genius as he is haughty. His mind is like a steel trap and he's got a lot of experience in public service, yet he's also condescending and obnoxious to those he speaks to.

Larry Itliong

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

Party: Communist Party USA

Ideology: Communism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}In 1929, a sixteen year-old from someplace called Pangasinan stepped foot on the Port of San Francisco's docks. A year later, he joined his first strike. Beyond that was where old laborers' tales diverge, but all swore the legend of Larry Dulay Itliong, head of the United Farm Workers and darling boy of labor unions worldwide, began in the Gilded State's lowest dregs.

From there the Filipino immigrant made his name organizing strikes up and down the West Coast, rousing his fellow tenants to fight for fair wages and fair treatment. Losing three fingers to an Alaskan cannery barely hampered Pitong Daliri, or "Seven Fingers", in his own war on poverty; by the Nixon administration's twilight years, press cameras captured the man and his iconic cigar wherever workers expressed their solidarity.

Gus Hall's victory meant that high office was a certainty for the veteran striker. Yet few foresaw his appointment as Secretary of the Treasury, a title once reserved for the who's who of bourgeois capitalism. With the federal government at his disposal, Itliong will preside over the first critical years of America's transfiguration into a land not just of liberty and justice, but of bread and roses too.

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• Cigar Chomper: In the media, Itliong usually has his signature cigar.
• Fingore: Itliong lost three fingers to an Alaskan cannery, though this did nothing to hinder his involvement in labor strikes.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: He assists Hall's plan to sweep out the CIA, which could have potential consequences, but he does believe it will exact justice on their most corrupt officials and is generally genuinely in fighting against poverty and injustice through Hall's agenda.

William Martin

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

Party: Communist Party USA

Ideology: Communism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}William Hamilton Martin had few friends in Darwin and even fewer friends in the Pentagon. In fact he was as far away from the levers of American government as a naval intelligence officer can reasonably get, having been stationed in Australia for over a decade. Were it not for his supposed sympathies to domestic left-wing movements - rumors exacerbated by the multiple disciplinary actions he had accrued for disobedience "on moral grounds" - the glorified bureaucrat would have spent the rest of his career as one federal employee among many.

One can imagine his surprise when President Gus Hall offered Secretary of Defense out of the blue. Accepting it catapulted Martin into the Beltway overnight, with rank and stature high above the vast majority of his now-erstwhile superiors. But Hall's caveats were cryptic and disconcerting: Martin must uphold justice, he said, before the war profiteers and war criminals within his new bailiwick.

In the coming months, the Washington native will learn his exact place within the Hall administration... and the deeds his President will ask of him for justice's sake.

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• From Nobody to Nightmare: In most playthroughs, Martin is pretty much a nobody, serving as a minor naval intelligence officer in Australia. However, if Hall gets elected, Martin is suddenly invited to become his Secretary of Defense, turning him into one of the most powerful politicians in the United States, ready to enact whatever questionable policies Hall has in mind.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Martin is instrumental in discrediting the CIA by leaking their illicit activities, getting almost all of their employees, from the higher-ups to the common clerks, fired. However, when he drives by the empty CIA headquarters, Martin realizes the long-term repercussions of crippling the American intelligence agency and starts getting cold feet over what he's done, wondering if it was worth leaving the United States potentially vulnerable to its enemies abroad.
• Reassigned to Antarctica: Disliked in Darwin and hated even more in the Pentagon, Martin was purposely stationed in Australia for over a decade to keep him away from the White House, due to disobedience "on moral grounds". However, he can bounce back if Hall miraculously gets elected and invite him back to the mainland.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Martin intends to bring the "war profiteers and war criminals" in his ministry to justice, but his biography ends on an ominous note on what must be done to achieve this.

Jay Lovestone

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

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Many people were surprised when Jay Lovestone, the former leader of CPUSA, was nominated by Gus Hall as leader of the Central Intelligence Agency. After his purge from the party in the mid-1940s, few are as surprised as Jay Lovestone himself.

Jay Lovestone was born in Belarus to a Lithuanian Jewish family. He immigrated to the United States at the age of 10 with his father, a rabbi turned synagogue caretaker, and settled in Manhattan's Lower East Side. His experience of dislocation and his exposure to New York's vibrant political life led him to join a variety of different leftist and socialist groups. In 1919, he decided to drop out of New York University Law School to devote himself full-time to the communist cause, which seemed on the verge of a major breakthrough internationally. His unrelenting support for Nikolai Bukharin helped him to ascend through the ranks of the CPUSA and eventually become its leader.

Alas, the dream of socialism was not meant to be. The death of the Soviet Union and the triumph of the Axis led to crises both personal and professional. Lovestone was expelled for "deviationism" and began a long period of personal reflection. He came to privately denounce the mainstream communist movement as a totalitarian conspiracy with a goal of world conquest and became a willing informant to the CIA on communist labor-union activities. He operated a global network of informants for America's security state.

If the new president is aware of this background, he has not revealed it. Instead, he has held up his confirmation of Lovestone as proof of the communist movement burying old grudges and unifying to address "the real issues facing America." Lovestone now sits in an office in Langley, terrified by both his subordinates—who he regards as dangerous, prep school idiots—and his boss Gus Hall—who Lovestone fears may soon call for a global revolution that Lovestone wants no part in.

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• Can't Kill You, Still Need You: Lovestone suspects that Hall has ulterior motives behind putting him in charge of the CIA other than "burying old grudges." With the Agency's dirty laundry being exposed, he worries about what the CPUSA intends to do with it, and himself, once they're done.
• Easily Forgiven: A questionable example. Despite the fact that he turned on the CPUSA, Hall invites Lovestone to be his CIA director and claims that he's "burying old grudges" so the communist movement can stay united and strong. However, Lovestone worries that Hall has more pragmatic reasons to keep him around and will string him along a global revolution that he doesn't want to be in.
• In Spite of a Nail: Since Bukharin wasn't purged in this timeline, Lovestone's relevancy in the CPUSA never wavered and he eventually became its leader. However, this was not too last, as the Axis victory discredited Lovestone anyway and got him expelled from the party, sending him right back to being an informant for the CIA, like in OTL.
• Knowledge Broker: Through his network of informants, Lovestone helped the CIA spy on communist labor unions to ensure that they wouldn't become too powerful.
• Turncoat: After getting expelled from the CPUSA for "deviationism", Lovestone switched sides to the CIA, giving them information to spite his former allies.
• Unexpected Successor: Given his antagonistic history with the CPUSA, many, including the man himself, are surprised that Hall would nominate Lovestone as his CIA director.

Jackson Cabinet Members

Frank Church

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

Party: Progressive Party

Ideology: Progressivism

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• The Cassandra: Church is not afraid to go against public sentiment, such as denouncing American involvement in the South African War and fearing the rise of a securocracy during the Grey Scare. Years later, most of these claims ended up vindicated by history.
• Sheathe Your Sword: He's a dovish Secretary of State who criticizes America's participation in proxy wars and advocates for a more inclusive, transparent OFN.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: His general caution of getting involved in foreign conflicts is a point of contention with Jackson and Burke, who are considerably more hawkish.

Augustus Hawkins

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

Party: Progressive Party

Ideology: Progressivism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Gus Hawkins often likes to tell his story of riding a bus in LA as a child many years ago. A white woman sat down beside him and whispered to him, "You know, we sure are getting a lot of blacks in this neighborhood. I don't like sitting next to them, they smell." Hawkins, whose mother is black, was flabbergasted and told the woman that he was black himself. The woman refused to believe him. This left a strong impression on Hawkins, who resolved to refuse to pass as white and dedicated himself to the fight for civil rights.

The former Representative from Watt, California and current Secretary of the Treasury has had a long career as the "silent workhorse" of Congress. Hawkins never held rallies and marches, but worked tirelessly behind the scenes to pass a fair housing act. He never held a violent strike, but he worked closely with union leaders to craft new labor legislation. With his new post in President Jackson's cabinet, Hawkins will continue to fight for a fairer America the same way he always has: With firm words and strong handshakes.

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• But Not Too Foreign: He is half-black from his mother's side, something which a racist woman couldn't believe. After that experience, Hawkins vowed to subvert this status, refusing to pass himself as a white American and becoming more open in his support for civil rights.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Despite his staunch support for civil and labor rights, Hawkins won't yet resort to violence, if he doesn't have to. He prefers passing legislation and working tirelessly behind the scenes to achieve his goals, coordinating closely with leaders of those movements to craft his policies.

Arleigh Burke

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

Party: Progressive Party

Ideology: Progressivism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Admiral Arleigh Burke was once asked to explain the difference between a poor officer and a good officer. He answered, "ten seconds." A good officer is always vigilant, and never hesitates to fire when he sees the enemy in his sights. That was his method during the War, when his ships' standing orders were: "Destroyers to attack on enemy contact WITHOUT ORDERS from the task force commander." Some called him mad, but the number of IJN vessels he sent to the bottom of the Pacific helped him drown out that noise.

As Jackson's Secretary of Defense, he has championed the Navy's role in nuclear deterrence. He is active in promoting the mass deployment of submarine-launched ballistic missiles and as Chief of Naval Operations he proposed the 41 for Freedom initiative: The commissioning of 41 nuclear-armed submarines who can strike any nation from any sea undetected. His hawkish background and nuclear ambitions have brought him into conflict with Secretary of State Frank Church, and this inter-cabinet tension will be a continuing challenge for the Jackson administration.

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• Shoot Everything That Moves: During his naval service in World War II, Burke permitted his fleet to sink any IJN vessels they encountered without orders from their task force commander.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: His advocacy of nuclear defenses is highly contested by the more pacifistic Church, which may be a burden on the Jackson administration.
• Warhawk: Burke agrees with Jackson's interventionist foreign policy, promoting the mass deployment of nuclear-armed submarines to defend the homeland.

John Tower

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

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Many people thought they knew what they were getting with Director John Goodwin Tower. A staunch conservative who went against civil rights as a leading opponent, many felt he would be another American exceptionalist willing to mess over the rest of the world for the supposed good of the United States. But they were wrong.

Tower's CIA is not the one of assassinations and coups, of inhumane experiments and destruction of civil liberties. That Agency is, has to be, gone. This is going to be a clean organization which operates on pride and not ends that justify the means. If it can't be done the right way, it won't be done at all.

The American people deserve no less.

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• Internal Reformist: Tower's overarching mission is to clean up the CIA and transform it into a legitimate force for good rather than an arm for the United States to subjugate the rest of the world.
• Pet the Dog: Tower spent his political career opposing civil rights, but his direction of the CIA is surprisingly even-handed, wanting to redeem its image and stop their clandestine activities.

Kirkpatrick Cabinet Members

Zbigniew Brzezinski

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

Party: Democratic Party

Ideology: Liberalism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Zbigniew Brzezinski is a creature of the Establishment and an enemy to extremism everywhere. He is the son of an aristocratic Polish family who spent his earliest years witnessing the horrors of Nazism. He is an academic who has been a fervent opponent to purposeless militarism and advocate of peaceful engagement. He has been a fixture of the Democratic Party associated with the most dispassionate allies of Lyndon Johnson and Hubert Humphrey.

In his latest act, Zbigniew Brzezinski has reinvented himself as the Secretary of State of Jeane Kirkpatrick, another academic albeit with more radical theories than his own. While Brzezinski has never been one for conflict, time will tell whether he can steer the ship of the State Department or whether he will be swallowed up in Kirkpatrick's crusade against totalitarianism.

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• Technical Pacifist: As the son of a Polish family who were persecuted by the Nazis, Brzezinski is apprehensive to senseless violence and militarism, advocating peaceful engagement as an alternative approach. This thinking conflicts with Kirkpatrick's own agenda and only time will tell if Brzezinski can convince her otherwise.

Daniel Moynihan

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

Party: Democratic Party

Ideology: Liberalism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Daniel Moynihan rounds out Jeane Kirkpatrick's coalition of technocrats and, in terms of background, is unremarkable among them. He was Harvard-educated and served in the navy and foreign service. He has multiple degrees, including a PhD in history that he earned with a long dissertation on organized labor. He has served as a lecturer, author, and economic policy theorist—albeit one with controversial ideas.

What distinguishes Moynihan is his character. A self-described flamboyant dandy enthusiastic about political clubhouses, Moynihan often makes headlines with his quips, maxims, and uncensored thoughts on the world at large. This quality has made him a popular man for the press, but it is uncertain whether it will make him popular among his staid, new colleagues.

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• Brutal Honesty: Moynihan is well-known for his quips and uncensored comments, which makes him popular among the media.
• Camp Straight: He's a self-described flamboyant man, but he's also married to a woman.
• Overshadowed by Awesome: Moynihan has a pretty impressive resume to his name, being Harvard-educated and having multiple degrees. However, in Kirkpatrick's circle of technocrats and experienced politicians, Moynihan pales in comparison and only stands out because of his personality.

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.

E. Henry Knoche

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

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}A former sports star walked into the CIA in 1953, asking for a job. He had no experience in operations or clandestine intelligence, only some college basketball trophies and a stint in the navy. His qualifications were speaking a language nobody needed (Russian) and a Chinese dialect nobody cared about (Fuzhou). He should have been laughed out of the building. Yet Enno Henry Knoche now runs the organization. How did it happen?

Those who know Director Knoche realize his bare resume doesn't tell the story of the man's merits. A dedicated worker who handled some of the most important tasks of the management of the CIA, Knoche is well known at the intelligence briefs of the President, and has been running day-to-day operations for the longest time. It just goes to show experience can be padded, and resumes can be inflated, but there's nothing that beats talent.

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• Almighty Janitor: Prior to becoming CIA Director, Knoche made a name for himself by being exceptionally good at day-to-day operations.
• Wrong Line of Work: Subverted. A basic look at his resume would imply he's unqualified to be a CIA director, owning some college basketball trophies, having minor experience in the navy and speaking two languages few care about (Russian and Chinese in a Fuzhou dialect). However, this short list doesn't do his full history justice and cover his impressive track record of gathering intelligence briefs and running day-to-day CIA operations.

Romney Cabinet Members

Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.

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

Party: Republican Party

Ideology: Conservatism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Few people have had a greater impact on American foreign policy in the last decade than Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. Born to a prestigious political family, Lodge would follow in his grandfather's footsteps to become a senator in the state of Massachusetts. There, he became a proponent of internationalism and a robust American presence abroad. His love of negotiation continued into domestic politics. In the late 1950s, he would prove to be one of the essential interlocutors responsible for creating the Republican-Democratic Coalition—an accomplishment that saw him awarded a cabinet post under Nixon and Kennedy.

Now, years later, Lodge finds himself in a different administration, one perhaps more inclined to give him the full-throated support he needs to make America a force for good in the world.

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• Minor Major Character: Lodge is one of many American senators to appear in the mod, but he was instrumental in the Republican-Democratic Coalition's creation to stand up to the National Progressive Pact.
• The Social Expert: He has a natural talent for diplomacy and geopolitics, which he will harness to turn the United States into a beacon of liberty in the world.

George Shultz

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

Party: Republican Party

Ideology: Conservatism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}When people imagine a "policymaker," what they imagine is a man like George Schutlz. He is tall, older, and dressed in a fine suit. He carries with him a long resume of academic, government, and business accomplishments.

Born in New York City in 1920, George Schultz distinguished himself from his peers through an insatiable desire to get the facts, no matter what the cost. He earned a PhD in industrial economics in 1949 and learned from leading free-market economists Milton Friedman and George Stigler, he accepted unglamorous posts under various Presidents and developed close relationships with many business leaders. Now, under Romney, George Shultz has the opportunity to put his long resume and many years of learning to use

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• Sharp-Dressed Man: He perfectly fits the stereotype of a formal, experienced policymaker, which includes wearing a fine suit to go with it.
• Taught by Experience: Shultz accepted many unnoteworthy positions under numerous presidencies, gathering experience in politics and forging close friendships with business leaders. If Romney gets elected, Shultz finally gets the chance to put his expertise to good use.

John McCain Jr.

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

Party: Republican Party

Ideology: Conservatism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Few Americans have been as vocal foes of communism and fascism as John McCain Jr. Fewer still have been instrumental in the United States' foreign policy decision-making.

Since enlisting in the United States Naval Academy in 1927 at the age of 16, John McCain Jr.'s life has centered on the US military. He fought hard in the Pacific following the attack on Pearl Harbor and participated in several failed operations to support the French in North Africa. At the end of the war, as the United States re-assessed its failures, John McCain found himself gradually promoted into the Office of the Secretary of the Navy where he persuaded Congress to expand funding for submarines, aircraft carriers, and other tools—winning himself the name "Mr. Seapower." As the South African War came to a head, McCain was put in charge of various US operations and distinguished himself as an effective commander alongside the likes of William Westmoreland. Under Romney, McCain is expected to continue the same aggressive, sea-based policies that have earned him praise for years.

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• Red Baron: As Secretary of the Navy, McCain convinced Congress to increase funding for the nation's seapower, including the construction of submarines and aircraft carriers. This earned him the nickname "Mr. Seapower".
• Warhawk: Downplayed. He's not the most hawkish politician in the United States, but he does advocate an aggressive naval policy under Romney's administration.
• War Hero: During the South Africa War, McCain earned praise as an effective commander who led several American operations.

George Bush

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

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}George Herbert Walker Bush is no stranger to impossible tasks. Many felt taking on Texas and the Democratic Party machine there was a political death sentence. But Bush put the cracks in the stone and caused the one party system there to waver. Now Bush is no longer a party man. He serves his country on the national stage, which has slapped a well done two dollar flank steak right on his plate.

The CIA is reeling from many explosive and damaging revelations that threaten to overwhelm it. In front of this Gulf Hurricane is Director Bush, sent to talk it out of damaging the organization. It's his job to make sure the Agency survives the coming storm and handle the Public Relations for it. And the Public Relations for an agency that eschews relations with the public are gonna need him to get on the horse...

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• Crazy Enough to Work: Everyone thought he was crazy to start his political career as a Republican, given the Democrat's ironclad hold on Texas. But, beyond the odds, Bush overcame them and has built a solid reputation as a politician.
• Redeeming Replacement: Exploited. Bush gets nominated as CIA director so he can repair the organization's bad publicity as a secretive and unscrupulous cabal.
• Young Future Famous People As Romney's CIA director, George H. W. Bush appears roughly two decades before he claimed international fame in OTL as the 41st American President, and around four years before he became OTL CIA director under Gerald Ford.

Schlafly Cabinet Members

Jerry Falwell

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

Party: Nationalist Party

Ideology: Paternalism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}What American does not know the Reverend Jerry Falwell? For over a decade, the good reverend has graced the airwaves with his sermons extolling the virtues of Christian piety. He has been a constant, comforting voice to those souls adrift in a chaotic world. With a humble smile and cheery demeanor, he has reminded millions that their country is a battleground between the forces of God and the power of Satan. He has reminded them that the End Days are coming and God’s wrath will soon be meted upon the wretched abortionists, feminists, gays, and other sinners of the world. He shall blot out the sun and rend the earth asunder.

But enough of that. For now, Falwell is the bright, charismatic face of America abroad. Working alongside his close friend Phyllis Schlafly, the Secretary of State is eager to unite the world’s faiths to promote global political and moral change. He will do all he can to change hearts and prepare the world for the return of its one, true lord and savior.

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• Dramatically Missing the Point: Nobody in the OFN summit responds positively to Falwell's critical address of their supposed lack of commitment and even Falwell's staff cringe in embarrassment. However, the man himself doesn't take the hint and misinterprets their stunned silence as awe.
• Faux Affably Evil: Falwell has repulsively reactionary views on feminists, homosexuals, and other minorities, which he disguises with a cheery smile and infectious charisma. Whenever he sermonizes, there's an underlying tone of condescension and bigotry hiding behind his rhetoric.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: As the United States' representative in the OFN summit, Falwell gets treated like a black sheep by the other members, aware of Schlafly's skepticism over maintaining their alliance.
• The Fundamentalist: Falwell is a Christian evangelical who believes that America is a battleground between the forces of God and the power of Satan and that God’s wrath will eventually be unleashed upon abortionists, feminists, gays, and other sinners of the world. As Secretary of State, Falwell will work to unite the world’s faiths and prepare the world for the return of its one true lord and savior.
• What Have You Done for Me Lately?: In the OFN summit, Falwell verbally berates the other member countries as lazy freeloaders who aren't contributing enough to the United States and remarks his expectation that they must pay up more to keep their alliance alive.
• Windmill Crusader: Falwell believes that homosexuals are secretly infiltrating the military, and churches and businesses will soon be forced to hire a quota of homosexuals.

James L. Buckley

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

Party: Conservative Party of New York State

Ideology: Paternalism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}James L. Buckley is a curious figure. He is a New Yorker in an administration that abhors New York, a product of elite Ivy League universities within a party that scapegoats Ivy League elites, and an elder son perpetually trapped in his younger brother William's shadow.

Still, with his flashing humor, eloquence, and friendly nature, Buckley has found a place in the National Progressive Pact. First elected in the mid-1960s, Buckley spent his time pushing a mix of bills targeting campaign finance and doomed, hyper-conservative bills on issues such as abortion and federal grants. He became known on the Hill for his interest in law, civil service, and ecology as well as his strong, if quiet, religiosity.

Though he has little interest or experience in economics, Schlafly trusts Buckley and his brother to send a message to the liberals and technocrats. Together, she knows they can remake America.

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• Affably Evil: He may be contributing to Schlafly's reactionary goals, but he has a very friendly demeanor that earned him respectable prestige in the NPP.
• Always Second Best: No matter what James does, he will always be overshadowed by the accomplishments of his younger brother William.
• The Charmer: Buckley was able to find a place in the NPP and Schlafly's cabinet, thanks to his good humor and eloquent nature.
• Head-in-the-Sand Management: As Secretary of the Treasury, he instructs his staff to deregulate every federal agency, no matter what. When he's told that doing so will take decades of work, Buckley figuratively shrugs his shoulders and tells them to just work faster then, retreating to his office before they can tell him the catastrophic side effects that could come with their plan.
• Fish out of Water: Buckley has little interest or experience in economics and is shown to struggle in his role as Secretary of the Treasury, believing it would take only a few days to assemble a list of every regulation across the federal government.

Miles Copeland Jr.

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

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Who is Miles Copeland Jr.? After a rushed confirmation hearing orchestrated by a defiant Administration, that is the question haunting the Washington security establishment. Much of Copeland's life and career is shrouded in mystery. Much of what he does admit to seems fantastical and outlandish.

Here, at least, are the known knowns: Miles Copeland Jr. was born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1916. He attended, and then dropped out of, the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. Copeland then either became a popular jazz musician in the New York night club scene or held a series of insignificant sales jobs. He joined the US Army in 1940. There, he talked himself into a room with famous intelligence officer William "Wild Bill" Donovan and was recruited to serve as a special agent. Donovan then sent him across Europe, either to be rid of the man or to "root out Axis spies." At the end of the War, Copeland received commendations for services, which are still-classified, and was sent to the Middle East and Caribbean by the CIA to conduct information-gathering, that is still classified. In the early 1960s, he left the CIA for the world of television, radio, and journalism and became a popular feature in the National Review for his pieces deriding the foreign policy establishment.

While all can agree that Copeland is outstandingly intelligent, friendly, and charismatic, the gaps in his biography have alarmed activists and transparency advocates. Never before has the CIA been run by a man so unknown, so eager to muddle fact with fiction. With a smile on his face and a jaunty tune on his lips, Copeland has sworn to support Schlafly's campaign to root out the "kingmakers." Just what this means and why he supports it remains one of the many known unknowns of his life.

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• Affably Evil: He's charming, intelligent, and a collaborator in Schlafly's campaign to defeat the "kingmakers".
• Conspiracy Theorist: His charisma makes it extremely easy for him to disseminate Schlafly's conspiracy theories and convince the masses to accept his misinformation.
• Hidden Agenda Villain: Copeland is definitely helping Schlafly, though why is one of the many mysteries surrounding the man.
• The Spock: Copeland is a mysterious enigma to the political establishment. Not much is known about his background, which makes him scarier because no one knows what he'll do, other than a vague declaration to fight the "kingmakers".

Yockey Cabinet Members

Revilo P. Oliver

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

Party: American National Vanguard

Ideology: National Socialism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Dr. Revilo Pendelton Oliver has come far in the past ten years. A cofounder of the John Birch Society in 1958 and long time professor of philology at the University of Illinois, Oliver has become more famous for his anti-Semitic and white nationalist articles than his academic merit. The most notable of these articles, "Marxmanship in Dallas", postulates that John Kennedy was victim of a Judeo-Communist conspiracy and caused Oliver to break with the majority of his conservative colleagues.

Undissauded by this setback, Dr. Oliver claimed that the Birch Society was operated by a "committee of Jews" and fully committed himself to the American National Vanguard, a rising faction of the NPP lead by fellow academic Francis Yockey. Oliver's fervent anti-Semitism has earned him a prize spot in the cabinet, though his distaste for religion as a whole has been played down. Now, Oliver faces the task of creating new relationships with the remains of the Western nations. It is left to his expertise to determine whether America will succeed in bending the OFN to the will of the ANV, or flounder into uncertainty.

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• Conspiracy Theorist: Ever the anti-Semite, Oliver theorizes that John F. Kennedy's assassination was a Judeo-Bolshevik conspiracy.
• Defector from Decadence: As his work became increasingly anti-Semitic and pro-fascist, Oliver defected from the conservative movement to join the Vanguard.
• Hollywood Atheist: Oliver is staunchly anti-religion, so much that he has to publicly mediate his opinions on the subject to stay in Yockey's cabinet.
• Insane Troll Logic: When he got kicked out of the John Birch Society for his alarmingly fascist ideas, Oliver jumped to the conclusion that they are controlled by a committee of Jews to explain his expulsion.
• Resigned in Disgrace: Oliver cofounded the far-right John Birch Society, but he became increasingly unpopular within the organization for his disturbingly fascist views and claims that John F. Kennedy was murdered in a Judeo-Bolshevik conspiracy, something that even his colleagues were appalled by. In the end, Oliver was ostracized within the organization and would force him to leave for the American National Vanguard.

Harold Keith Thompson

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

Party: American National Vanguard

Ideology: National Socialism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}For a caucus so focused on the conspiracies of "Jewish financiers", it is ironic that such a secretive businessman with foreign intelligence ties was selected for the position of Secretary of the Treasury. With ties to much of the right wing of the NPP and the primary force behind the rise of the American National Vanguard, Thompson has worked to bring about change in America since the day of his recruitment as a Sicherheitsdienst agent at the young age of 18.

First coming to prominence with his controversial article "I am an American Fascist," at the height of the Grey Scare, Thompson used his money to rise to a position of great influence within the NPP. Latching onto rising support for the ideas of Francis Yockey, Thompson has wormed his way into the cabinet, determined to eliminate the influence of market-distorters, secure the financial institutions of America, and keep a copy of every report for his handlers in Germania.

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• Irony: Thompson is a secretive businessman who infiltrates the American government as a Sicherheitsdienst agent and gives secret intelligence to the Nazis in Germania. In other words, he embodies the anti-Semitic myth of Jewish financiers manipulating the world, except that he's a Nazi.
• The Mole: Having sworn loyalty to Adolf Hitler since he was a young adult, Thompson is a traitor and deceiver of the highest order. When he's not reshaping the American economy to Yockey's vision, Thompson is writing a report on his work and sending it back to his bosses back in Germania, giving them one more leg up in the Cold War.
• Refuge in Audacity: In the height of the Grey Scare, Thompson wrote the controversial and very open article "I am an American Fascist". This somehow didn't impede his rise within the NPP.
• The Spock: Thompson is a fairly mysterious guy who shies away from the public eye. During Yockey's inauguration, Thompson avoids the cameras while his colleagues soak up the attention.

John G. Crommelin

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

Party: National States' Rights Party

Ideology: National Socialism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Throughout the likes of the American National Vanguard, one can find some of the most academic and well-educated minds of America's far-right, ranging from authors to professors to their very own students. However, to exclude the common man of the far-right's voice from politics would be a mistake; thus, we find the strongman, Admiral "Bomb-Run John" G. Crommelin serving as Secretary of Defense within the Presidency of Francis Parker Yockey.

Born within the heart of the American South in Montgomery, Alabama, Crommelin was raised amidst a heavily military family filled with his five brothers, as each had graduated United States Naval Academy of Annapolis, Maryland, and all had been called to serve in the chaos of the Second World War. A heart of steel and fire drove John G. Crommelin throughout the war, as his service as a naval aviator earned him a reputation of courage and skillfulness, before taking command of officership and beginning to rise through the ranks of the Navy. However, as the onset news of several of his brothers' deaths at the hands of the Japanese in the Pacific War, one streak bore a hole into Crommelin's heart, one which he would never escape throughout the war: hatred. Rage enveloped him in his warfare, as his daringness continued even within the losses of America during the war, and would shift towards the government, as they implemented further favorability towards the Air Force, and began implementing further civilian control over the Navy. John G. Crommelin's dissatisfaction, strongmanism, and southern-gentlemenliness would drive him to the likes of politics, eventually being picked up by Francis Parker Yockey as a potentially very useful asset in his representation of the far-right. Crommelin's dreams became realized as he retained control over the armed forces of the United States as Secretary of Defense.

However, all is not dreamlike for Crommelin, or his attitude with the rest of the current administration. His furious hatred towards Hitler and the Nazis of Germany puts him in a fierce opposition towards many others in the Vanguard, for his belief in their aid towards Japan's murder of his brothers. Only time may tell how Crommelin will bear the stresses of the environment, however, one thing is for sure: the military has never seen such a wrathful fist driving its helm before.

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• Affably Evil: He has a "southern-gentlemanliness" that appeals to the populist side of the Yockey's support base.
• The Berserker: Torn upon the news of his brothers being K.I.A. in World War II, Crommelin furiously launched more daring attacks against Japan in the Pacific War and amplified his already venomous fighting spirit.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: When he learned that several of his brothers were killed in a Japanese attack during World War II, Crommelin was devastated and pursued more hate-filled attacks against Japan in retaliation.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Unlike most of the Sovereigntists, Crommelin despises Hitler and the Nazis.
• Guilt by Association: His contempt for Nazi Germany is rooted in their Axis partnership with Japan, which he thinks makes them partially responsible for his brothers' deaths.
• A Lighter Shade of Black: Very downplayed. Crommelin is a nasty far-right populist and warhawk, but he is one of the few high-ranking voices in Yockey's administration to protest diplomacy with Nazi Germany.
• Psychopathic Manchild: At his core, Crommelin is a high-strung warhawk who's channeled his grief and existing prejudices into a wrathful hatred against the Japanese, wildly lashing out against those who had nothing to do with his family members' deaths. Even Yockey at one point compares his anger to a childlike frustration.
• Red Baron: He's nicknamed "Bomb-Run John" for his past service as a naval aviator.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Upon learning of his brothers' demise in the Pacific Theater, Crommelin went on a mad rampage against the Japanese forces and fought viciously, even as the United States started losing the war.
• Warhawk: Still bitter over the deaths of his brothers and the Allied defeat in World War II, Crommelin pursues a highly militaristic approach to both Germany and Japan.

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