Alternate Wikipedia Infoboxes VI (Do Not Post Current Politics or Political Figures Here)

[Aztekk]

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CBS News reporting. We are receiving word that the Vice President of the United States, Richard M. Nixon, has been shot and killed in Caracas, the capital of Venezuela. Vice President Nixon was partaking on a "goodwill tour" of South America on behalf of the U.S. government. Yesterday, following a largely successful series of engagements elsewhere in the continent, he arrived to Venezuela, where he was met by agitated mobs of protesters and demonstrators. Less than an hour ago, the Vice President's motorcade was stopped in the streets of Caracas, where a large crowd of violent radicals arrived to harass the American delegation and attack Nixon's vehicle. The security detail of twelve Secret Service agents was hardly enough to contain it. According to the most recent information, an unidentified assailant fired three shots into the windows of Nixon's car, striking the Vice President and Venezuela's foreign minister, who was sitting with the Vice President and has since also been declared dead. Following this attack, the area was cleared by the Venezuelan Army, which had up to that point made no effort to disperse the crowds or to protect the American delegation. In fact, and according to a source in the American embassy in Venezuela, security forces of any type were absent throughout the visit, despite the clear risk to the Vice President's life. Nixon was quickly rushed to a Caracas hospital under intense security, where he underwent emergency surgery. Tragically, Richard Milhous Nixon, the 36th Vice President of the United States, has since been pronounced dead, with CBS News just receiving notice. President Dwight D. Eisenhower has declared a week-long period of mourning, and all U.S. flags are to fly at half mast. We are also receiving unconfirmed reports that an American military contingent led by the aircraft carrier USS Tarawa has commenced retaliatory actions against Venezuela, although details are still unknown. We'll relay more information as it comes to us.

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Following the assassination of Vice President Richard Nixon in Venezuela, President Eisenhower delivered an address to the American people, announcing the commencement of military action against the South American nation. According to Eisenhower, the government of Admiral Wolfgang Larrazábal has demonstrated "absolute disregard for the principles of democracy and justice" and that Nixon's death was "the result of deliberate action from his regime". A large U.S. Navy fleet led by the aircraft carrier Tarawa departed staging grounds in Puerto Rico and Guantanamo Bay late yesterday, alongside two amphibious assault ships carrying elements from the 2nd Marine Division and the 101st Airborne Division. Codenamed "Operation Poor Richard", a spokesperson from the Chief of Naval Operations has confirmed that air strikes, followed by the disembarkation of troops on Venezuelan soil, had already taken place, although further details were not provided. Admiral Larrazábal, President of Venezuela, publicly rejected any complicity in Nixon's murder, even going so far as to call the tragedy "a farce" to justify an invasion. The beginning of military action was preceded by the severing of diplomatic ties, with U.S. embassy staff arriving safely early today to Bogotá, Colombia. According to the most recent reports, U.S. forces have seized the port of Maiquetía, and are fast headed for Caracas.

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BREAKING NEWS: The President of Venezuela, Admiral Wolfgang Larrazábal, was captured earlier this morning by U.S. Marines in the Colombian border town of Auraca. Larrazábal had fled Caracas, as American forces descended on the Venezuelan capital, with the Venezuelan armed forces offering little resistance. He is sought by U.S. authorities for his potential involvement in the assassination of Vice President Richard Nixon by Venezuelan radicals less than a week ago. According to a spokesman from the State Department, he will be extradited back to Venezuela until after the country's upcoming presidential elections. According to this spokesman, they will "collaborate with whoever wins these elections" to either try Larrazábal in Venezuela or to extradite him to the U.S. President Eisenhower says he will "strongly push" for a trial in America. The two major candidates for this election are former President Rómulo Betancourt and former solicitor-general Rafael Caldera, both of whom have publicly denounced Nixon's assassination and offered to collaborate with American authorities to ascertain the facts. Wolfgang Larrazábal is currently in the Colombian city of Cúcuta under U.S. supervision, awaiting extradition back to Venezuela.

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In other news, the U.S.-led Extraordinary Electoral Commission has declared Rómulo Betancourt of the Democratic Action party the winner of Venezuela's presidential election. With over 80% of the vote, Betancourt achieved the largest voting share in Venezuela's recent history, comfortably beating his chief opponent, Rafael Caldera. Betancourt is the first democratically-elected leader of Venezuela since 1948, following a military coup which installed a decade-long dictatorship. In a speech delivered outside the American embassy in Caracas, President-elect Betancourt highlighted the end of the American occupation and the writing of a new Constitution as his two immediate priorities. He also promised to further "the cause of democracy", to rebuild the country's economy, and to expand social programs aimed at the disenfranchised. President Eisenhower was the first world leader to officially congratulate Betancourt for his victory, with other Latin American nations issuing similar messages. One nation that was displeased was the Soviet Union: Russian officials expressed their discontent at recent developments in Venezuela, calling the U.S. invasion "an imperialist and unjustified act of violence". They also asserted the elections were rigged in favor of Betancourt, who has received extensive backing from the Americans. Many in Washington and the Pentagon have alleged the existence of Soviet-backed communist subversion in Venezuela, with State Secretary John Foster Dulles even insinuating that the Communist Party of Venezuela was responsible for Vice President Nixon's assassination. Mikhail A. Menshikov, Soviet ambassador to the U.S., called these accusations "utterly false" and "irresponsible".

 

[prolemasses]

Fuck Joe Lieberman: A Different Al Gore 2000 Election

The 2000 election goes slightly different, the selection of Jeanne Shaheen helps Gore carry New Hampshire, and a few thousand less Dems vote for Nader in Florida. This very close election (NH, FL, NM, OR, IA, and WI all being decided by less than one point) is in stark contrast to the landslides Clinton won in '92 and '96.

Though Gore is initially popular, especially praised for his leadership after the 9/11 attacks, Republican resentment against 12 years of Democratic rule and Gore's inability to do much with an obstructionist house and senate do a lot to tank his popularity. Republicans claim that Gore is not doing enough to fight terrorism after 9/11. The runner up in 2000, and noted war hawk John McCain manages to gain the GOP nomination, beating NY mayor Rudy Giuliani, and selects NC Senator, former secretary of Labor and Transportation, and wife of 1996 GOP nominee, Elizabeth Dole as his running mate. He narrowly defeats Gore in November.

McCain authorizes additional troops to Afghanistan and orders airstrikes in Libya, Iraq, and Pakistan. Though this is initially supported as part of the "War on Terror", the public eventually begins to turn against war, especially with McCain beginning to escalate things with Iran and Iraq, seeming to push towards the edge of war. The economic crisis in 2007-2008 drops McCain's popularity even steeper. The 2008 Democratic Primary sees a huge field of candidates, including former Vice President Shaheen, NY Senator and former First Lady Hillary Clinton, Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, and NC Senator John Edwards. Shaheen manages to win out a narrow victory in the primary and selects Edwards as her running mate in an attempt to appeal to the left and hopefully win some southern support. Support for McCain has collapsed by election day, and Shaheen and Edwards win in a resounding victory. They manage to flip Nevada and Colorado, which hadn't been won since Bill Clinton, New Hampshire, Florida, New Mexico, and Iowa, states McCain had been able to flip in 2004, Ohio, which Gore had lost despite his victory in 2000, and two states that hadn't gone blue in decades, Virginia and North Carolina.

 

[Montgomerie Ward]

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George Sears portrait by u/risingbatman on Reddit

His presidency was the most refreshing. Not only was he the youngest president (inaugurated at the tender and very constitutional age of 28-29), he had the decency to "resign" after the Shadow Moses Incident. Most politicians would not have that strong sense of responsibility.

 

[Conster]

however, upon Taft's death, Welch's faction took over, making the party platform much more interventionist and strongly anti-communist.

No wonder they haven't managed to get one of their own in the White House till 2020...

 

[TheNixonator]

No wonder they haven't managed to get one of their own in the White House till 2020...

Yeah, it certainly did not make them more popular. But the Liberals did eventually moderate and even became socially liberal to an extent after Kemp's rather successful (for the Liberty Party) 1980 Campaign.

 

[Amadeus]

Fuck Joe Lieberman: A Different Al Gore 2000 Election

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The 2000 election goes slightly different, the selection of Jeanne Shaheen helps Gore carry New Hampshire, and a few thousand less Dems vote for Nader in Florida. This very close election (NH, FL, NM, OR, IA, and WI all being decided by less than one point) is in stark contrast to the landslides Clinton won in '92 and '96.

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Though Gore is initially popular, especially praised for his leadership after the 9/11 attacks, Republican resentment against 12 years of Democratic rule and Gore's inability to do much with an obstructionist house and senate do a lot to tank his popularity. Republicans claim that Gore is not doing enough to fight terrorism after 9/11. The runner up in 2000, and noted war hawk John McCain manages to gain the GOP nomination, beating NY mayor Rudy Giuliani, and selects NC Senator, former secretary of Labor and Transportation, and wife of 1996 GOP nominee, Elizabeth Dole as his running mate. He narrowly defeats Gore in November.

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McCain authorizes additional troops to Afghanistan and orders airstrikes in Libya, Iraq, and Pakistan. Though this is initially supported as part of the "War on Terror", the public eventually begins to turn against war, especially with McCain beginning to escalate things with Iran and Iraq, seeming to push towards the edge of war. The economic crisis in 2007-2008 drops McCain's popularity even steeper. The 2008 Democratic Primary sees a huge field of candidates, including former Vice President Shaheen, NY Senator and former First Lady Hillary Clinton, Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, and NC Senator John Edwards. Shaheen manages to win out a narrow victory in the primary and selects Edwards as her running mate in an attempt to appeal to the left and hopefully win some southern support. Support for McCain has collapsed by election day, and Shaheen and Edwards win in a resounding victory. They manage to flip Nevada and Colorado, which hadn't been won since Bill Clinton, New Hampshire, Florida, New Mexico, and Iowa, states McCain had been able to flip in 2004, Ohio, which Gore had lost despite his victory in 2000, and two states that hadn't gone blue in decades, Virginia and North Carolina.

Great TL! I think it's more likely that Hillary Clinton is nominated in 2008, but otherwise this is a very plausible scenario with really well-done wikiboxes.

 

[Oxander]

Is there a sorta how-to do these?

 

[Guy712]

Is there a sorta how-to do these?

If you have an account on Wikipedia, there’s a sandbox mode where can make your own articles/infoboxes, etc. although when comes to maps, logos, etc. you might need other programs like Inkscape, etc.

 

[sans1shashlik]

some both historical (first 3) and ah infoboxes with no context/expanded timeline around them

 

[Newne76]

I had some time on my hands, so I wanted to do a 20th century Civil War.

President Wallace's progressive pushes infuriated southern governors and senators. The rampant usage of executive orders to get around an initially strong conservative coalition of southern democrats and conservative republicans only increased mistrust between the administration and the Southern United States. Eventually, the straw that broke the camels back was the 1948 Presidential Election. World War II veteran, Naval Admiral and respected war hero William Halsey won the Republican nomination against Douglas MacArthur and Arthur Vandenberg. The Democratic Platform was mired in deep controversy and inter-party bickering that culminated in the adoption of a party plank to "desegregate the United States within 4 years." The Plank incensed the Dixiecrats, who walked out and nominated a ticket of white supremacist and Naval Admiral John G. Crommelin. Other names floating around were Alabama Senator J. Lister Hill and South Carolina governor Strom Thurmond. The Democratic ticket decided to hoist on two party liberals in place, knowing that they were going to sacrifice the southern parts to the Dixiecrats. The young Rexford Tugwell was nominated for the Presidency for the main Democratic Party.

While Halsey's views on segregation were ambivalent, he was opposed to calls within the U.S Senate to pass constitutional amendments that would overturn the 13th and 14th amendments. A collection of southern politicians decided that the only sensible cause was to attempt another peaceful succession on the basis of "State's Rights" from the United States, hoping that Wallace would see fit to leave them alone.
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The 1949 Confederate Presidential election was the first held by the newly reformed confederacy since the 1861 Presidential election, and the first to be contested by two major party-candidates of the Confederacy, as Jefferson Davis's administration had previously simply run as a nonpartisan figure (though with pro-davis and anti-davis factions eventually emerging within the legislature). Rampant and ardent backer of segregation Lyndon B. Johnson ran with the support of the Dixiecrat Party, boosted with his choice of Harry S. Byrd Sr, a respected American party elder, as vice president. The mainstream Democratic ticket that was not backed by the secessionist wing, though still had a presence in several southern states, picked out Georgia Senator Richard Russell Jr, with North Carolina senator Sam Ervin being nominated by acclamation.
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The Second American Civil War, known in the south as the Confederate War of Independence and in the North as the War of Southern Aggression, was one of the deadliest conflicts in modern memory, easily eclipsing the casualty rates of the First Civil War. One reason for this was the advancement of technology and the general disregard many generals had with respect to nuclear weapons, with Barry "Rolling Thunder" Goldwater personally dropping several confederate atomic bombs over yankee troop formations within Kentucky and Ohio. The war saw the return of political appointments north and south, as Governors of individual states became military leaders in their own right or by holding political positions. Some of the more incompetent officials participated in the disastrous offensive into Maryland by Confederate General William Westmoreland. Fierce fighting along the Mason-Dixon line continued for years until the end of the conflict. A large scale blockade by the Confederate Navy was ordered on Union Ports, though this was blunted with the actions of Admiral John F. Kennedy during the 2nd Battle of Hampton Roads, resulting in the balance of power on the seas remaining with the Union until the end of hostilities.

Partisan and guerilla warfare were also large parts of it, with Yankee loyalists being sent into the swamps of Florida in the Everglades Campaign, while the Confederacy retaliated with southern partisans and liberation fighters headed by Harry S. Truman into Illinois and Minnesota. However, the war was decisively decided after a slew of atomic bomb strikes on both sides lead to calls for a ceasefire. The election of General Richard Nixon formally slowed overall combat operations, and lead to the signing of the Treaty of Topeka, named after a controversially recent supreme court decision at the request of the victorious north.

The war left much of the country devastated, and saw the obliteration in the north of the Democratic Party, with them choosing to politically alter their name into the New Whigs, fighting it out against the center-right Republican Union. The war is the deadliest conflict on North American soil, with as many as roughly 4 to 5 million people dead. Currently relations between both the United States and Confederacy are tenuous, though both sides at least come together for historical reenactments of the various battles, making the memory of the first civil war all that more special in the hearts and minds of a generation that had to live through a period of modern war on the Continental United States.

 

[prolemasses]

Great TL! I think it's more likely that Hillary Clinton is nominated in 2008, but otherwise this is a very plausible scenario with really well-done wikiboxes.

I wanted to avoid HRC, I thought she was too cliche. Clinton, his wife, and his VP all becoming president is a little too dynastic for me.

 

[Kermode]

I wanted to avoid HRC, I thought she was too cliche. Clinton, his wife, and his VP all becoming president is a little too dynastic for me.

I think it's also fair to say that Hillary Clinton's career (or at least reputation) will be different ITTL, as Gore's victory would provide strong "post-Clinton" leadership, as well as give different politicians a greater national profile, so that Hillary is no longer the clear heir-apparent just waiting in the wings.

 

[Carnap]

Jacob Issac Sisko was a novelist, essayist, and journalist who rose to the prominence in the aftermath of the Dominion War as an implacable critic of the New Essentialist movement and their reconstituted Federation....


The POD is that Ben Sisko is unable to stop the Jem'Hadar reinforcements so the Dominion crushes the Triple Alliance but the Morphogenic virus makes their victory short lived.

 

[Mister Abbadon]

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Jacob Issac Sisko was a novelist, essayist, and journalist who rose to the prominence in the aftermath of the Dominion War as an implacable critic of the New Essentialist movement and their reconstituted Federation....


The POD is that Ben Sisko is unable to stop the Jem'Hadar reinforcements so the Dominion crushes the Triple Alliance but the Morphogenic virus makes their victory short lived.

I would love to read more of that

 

[X_X]

"My critics, especially those within the Republican Party, constantly state that I have no place in politics, claiming that I am too critical and disillusioned of this supposed great nation. They claim that I'm unpatriotic and have more in common with the Red Vietnamese than my fellow Americans. They want all who dare to imagine worlds and systems beyond our cynical existence to not dare speak out of the absurdism of American life in the ivory halls of the senate. Well, if the job of a senator is to speak for the American people, and there is nobody else currently who speaks for those who are disillusioned with the government, then surely there is nothing more patriotic than giving those who are voiceless an advocate? Surely they have the right to freedom of speech as well?" -Excerpt from a 1968 campaign speech

 

[Aztekk]

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Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – May 13, 1958) was the 36th Vice President of the United States, serving from 1953 to 1958. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as Senator for California in the early 50's, and before that as a Representative. Nixon is famous for his assassination in Venezuela by anti-American radicals, which triggered an invasion of the country and the deposition of Venezuela's president. His death is considered a landmark moment in American foreign policy, as it represented the precursor to the "freedom crusades" initiated by President Nelson A. Rockefeller to combat the spread of communism. Before becoming Vice President, Nixon was known as a staunch anti-communist, thanks to his pursuit of the Hiss Case, which elevated him to national prominence.

Follow up to: https://www.alternatehistory.com/fo...al-figures-here.491184/page-175#post-21680622

 

[Nofix]

"You know my private opinion of Mr. Adams: Talents, virtues, and integrity, and I am free to declare that I have never changed this opinion of Mr. Adams since it was first formed, I think him a man of the first rate mind of any in America as a civilian and scholar, and I have never doubted of his attachment to our republican Government…[I am] at liberty to say in my name both to my friends and enemies — that I will as far as my influence extends support Mr. Adams unless Mr. Calhoun should be brought forward."

- Andrew Jackson, stating that he would commit to supporting John Quincy Adams for President in 1824 unless John C. Calhoun entered the race, in a personal letter to James Gadsden, December 6, 1821.

 

[ColonelAdam24]

"You know my private opinion of Mr. Adams: Talents, virtues, and integrity, and I am free to declare that I have never changed this opinion of Mr. Adams since it was first formed, I think him a man of the first rate mind of any in America as a civilian and scholar, and I have never doubted of his attachment to our republican Government…[I am] at liberty to say in my name both to my friends and enemies — that I will as far as my influence extends support Mr. Adams unless Mr. Calhoun should be brought forward."

- Andrew Jackson, stating that he would commit to supporting John Quincy Adams for President in 1824 unless John C. Calhoun entered the race, in a personal letter to James Gadsden, December 6, 1821.

Absolutely love this, I wonder how 1828 will go?

 

[Nofix]

Absolutely love this, I wonder how 1828 will go?

My prospective POD is Jackson's health is far worse in the early 1820's, and/or he isn't elected to the Senate to deny John Williams (an ally of Crawford) re-election to the Senate. Instead he sits out and backs Adams, even serving as an elector for him.

I say this because, come the confrontation with Georgia, both Adams and Jackson are going to regret backing Calhoun for anything.

Let's just say the "National" Republican Party is going to drop one of those two designators in a few years.

Assuming I ever write anymore.

 

[SgtRL-3]

One question:
On which sandbox website did you make this kind of information box?
I used to do it directly on my Wikipedia personal talk page. In December of last year, an administrator notified me that I could not do this, and then I had to stop work.