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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 ...
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 ...
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. It is mentioned through newsreel footage that Hart won re-election in 1988 by defeating the Republican nominee, Pat Robertson, in a landslide.
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 one of the alternate timelines featured in Michael P. Kube-McDowell's novel Alternities, Dwight Eisenhower was killed in a plane crash in 1951. Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio was elected as the 34th president in 1952. President Taft pursued a policy of isolationism which allowed the Soviet Union to emerge as the dominant superpower. Taft ...
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 ...
From the cunning and back-stabbing ways of President Frank Underwood to the nice-guy antics of President Bill Mitchell in "Dave," these presidents get our vote for being the most entertaining ...
In the alternate history novel 11/22/63 by Stephen King, George Wallace was elected president in 1968 in an alternate timeline created when Jake Epping prevented the assassination of his predecessor, John F. Kennedy. Wallace escalated the Vietnam War into a nuclear war that precipitated numerous other atomic conflicts around the globe.