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In the first season of the television show For All Mankind, set in an alternate timeline where the Soviet Union reached the moon first in 1969, Ted Kennedy became the 38th president of the United States in 1972, having cancelled his trip to Chappaquiddick Island to deal with the aftermath and used congressional hearings into NASA's failings as ...
Perhaps one of the most spineless presidents in TV and movie history, President Logan, as played by the late great Gregory Itzin, made the wrong decision at almost every turn during his tenure on ...
In this timeline, too, Zangara succeeded in assassinating Roosevelt, John Nance Garner became President and was unable to handle the Great Depression - followed on this timeline by the equally unsuccessful Charles Lindbergh and Henry Wallace and finally leading to the far-right William Dudley Pelley become President following Lindbergh's ...
In real life, Hart ran for president in 1984 and 1988 (not 1980 and 1984), and the Monkey Business scandal happened in 1987 (not 1980). In this alternate timeline, Ronald Reagan never entered politics. In the alternate history science fiction series For All Mankind, Gary Hart is the president from 1985 to 1993, succeeding Ronald Reagan.
In the second season of the television series For All Mankind, set in an alternate timeline where Alexi Leonov being the first man on the Moon leads to an accelerated space race, Ronald Reagan was elected as the 39th President in 1976, defeating incumbent Democrat Ted Kennedy, albeit after Ohio's electoral votes were contested in the Supreme ...
However, President-elect Robert dies in a car accident in Chappaquiddick Island, resulting in Vice President-elect Nixon becoming the 37th president of the United States, instead. In the alternative history novel The Two Georges by Harry Turtledove and Richard Dreyfuss , Richard "Honest Dick" Nixon was a prosperous used- steamer salesman in the ...
Barry Sadler is elected president in 1984 in Mitchell J. Freedman's novel A Disturbance of Fate.A Republican, Sadler's pursuit of conservative policies triggers a second civil war that, after much destruction, results in his arrest and the drafting of a new Constitution in which the office of the presidency is abolished.
In the television series For All Mankind, set in an alternate timeline where the Soviet Union being the first nation to put a man on the Moon led to an accelerated space race, George H. W. Bush served as Secretary of State during the first term of President Ellen Wilson, formerly an astronaut, NASA Administrator and US Senator from Texas. After ...