The American Republic: Rocky and Beyond

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COMING SOON.....

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Sketch of the Timeline:
Chapter 1: 09.05.75: The day the entire world was altered.
Rocky's ascension as the 39th President of the United States.
State Funeral of President Gerald Rudolph Ford.
Cleaning House: Getting rid of the Ford holdovers.

Chapter 2: His Own Man: Presidency of Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller
Personal PoV's
National Highlights
International Highlights

 

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Prologue: "We Want Rocky! We Want Rocky!"
Tuesday, 2 November 1976

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1976 United States Presidential Election
President Nelson Rockefeller (R-NY State)/Vice President Linwood Holton (R-VA): 51,829,773 (66.73%) 470 Electoral Votes: Declared Winner
Governor George C. Wallace, Jr., (D-AL)/United States Senator Jimmy Carter (D-GA): 25,700,056 67 (31.88%) 67 Electoral Votes


The results were coming in very fast across the country. Many people were shocked by the wide margin, "What in the absolute fuck?" gaffed Mike Wallace of CBS News during the network's election night special coverage. It was quite obvious that popular incumbent President Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller was running up the score against his Democratic challenger, three-term Alabama Governor George Corley Wallace, Jr., who had alienated pretty much everyone across the entire country------except for the Deep South, where the majority of his supporters cheerfully egged him on.

Wallace's shocking rise in getting the 1976 Democratic Party presidential nomination caused many people inside the party to bolt and bolt fast: right into the Rockefeller reelection campaign's lap. Independents, women, minorities ana all bolted to Rockefeller in large surprising numbers: numbers as of this day, haven't been topped ever since. Many political analysts and experts have long debated whether Wallace winning the nomination was the straw that broke the camel's back for the Democrats? However, the Democrats would have to endure a very long drought: 24 years in the wilderness of NOT sniffing the White House.

The Presidency remained in control of the Republican Party during the following administrations of 24 consecutive years: Nixon, Ford, Rockefeller, Holton, Reagan and Bush, Sr., before Democrats eventually finally broke through in 1992.

Now going back to the Prologue premise, Rockefeller had finally achieved the one elusive job and winning election to a first full four-year term as President of the United States in 1976 and with the likelihood of winning another full four-year term in 1980, there was nothing stopping him....

Or was it?

But first, a look back at how we all got there!