I think Harry Truman suggested something like that where ex-presidents would have a non-voting seat in the Senate where they could take part in debate and discussion but could no vote. He said this would give us the benefit of the experience ex-presidents had accumulated during their years as...
So many threads about what if JFK had not been assassinated focus on JFK serving two full terms as President and on what his second term would have been like.
But what about his post-White House years? According to things he said to some of his closest friends, and to some of his private...
What if Bobbie Kennedy never ran for President? He instead feel he would be more effective in The Senate. As a result, he is not assassinated. He has a long successful career as a United States Senator from New York and even becomes a very powerful and influential senator. Today in 2008 Bobby...
The election of Abraham Lincoln, a strong anti-slavery Republican candidate was the match that lit the powder keg of The Civil War. Elect someone else in 1860, especially a Democrat, you are going to delay The Civil War until perhaps the late 1860's or early to mid 1870's. Doubt you could delay...
If Thomas Jefferson had been there and participated in The Constitutional Convention he would probably have put forth and supported constitutional proposals keep The USA largely an agrarian nation. Jefferson believed The USA should forever remain a nation madeup largely of self sufficient yeoman...
It would certainly have made the Native Americans much more mobile, and they would have had a very long period of time to be mobile and to have traversed what is today The USA, Canada, and Mexico before the arrival of European explorers.
Being more mobile means various tribes/Indian...
What if there had been no breakin at the Democratic National Headquarters at the Watergate, what if none of that ever happened? President Richard M. Nixon and his entire staff are completely honest, clean, and above board.
What if Spiro T. Agnew had never accepted any kickbacks when he was...
To deny Nixon the 1960 nomination would have put the Republicans in a very bad position. Nixon was the sitting Vice-President and he was seeking the Republican Presidential nomination. Denying it to him would have been almost as bad as having a sitting President eligable and running for...
Someone told me that they had read something about The US backed coalition going after Saddam and his sons.
The public wasn't told this, but another reason for wanting to get rid of Saddam and also his two sons and establish a Democratic government was concern about what would happen someday...
All things considered, I wonder if The South would have still seceeded with a President Seward as it did with a President Lincoln? Even though Seward and Lincoln agreed on many issues such as slavery, Seward was not Lincoln and his way of handling things might have been different.
You also have to look at The Roman mindset especially in the latter period. Even with some "orderly" or "conscribed" method of succession there would still have been a lot of political infighting by those in or closely connected with The Imperial Household to be in and at the top of that orderly...
In terms of what most people would consider to be agriculture The Eastern Woodland Indians such Iroquois did practice agriculture. It may have remained a somewhat "primative" (for want of a better term) form of agriculture because they lacked large domesticated animals fto provide power and...
This is something I've often wondered about.
For one thing, imagine all the devices that would have been invented over the ages to protect the egg, and to carry the egg, and to keep the egg warm. There would be a new group of crimes much like child kidnapping, in this case eggnapping.
Just...
If it's any help, I read somewhere that asphalt, also known as macadam was invented in 1839 by a Scotsman named David McAdam. I did not make this up.
I think the big problem was durability especially with metal horseshoes.
What if instead of being Marxists or Communists, Fidel Castro and his brother Raul had both been devout Roman Catholics and just as devoted Capitalists seeking true Democratic government for The Cuban People?
In 1959 when their revolution outsted the Batista government, Fidel Castro seeks to...