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Facts — surely that had never happened before and would never happen again …

Fair. Oh very much so.

This will not be a piece to match the length of some recent ones. But it will cover, in brief, some very important material, the kind that Watsonian historians, political scientists, and economists inside the McGNU itself would pore over and argue about in the decades after McGovernment has gone...

Because AH folk love them some listy goodness, we'll take a moment here to mention the senior personnel/inner circle of the US delegation to the Comprehensive Arms Reduction Talks at Rambouillet. Of course there are a few dozen support personnel of various kinds from the respective entities...

A Strategy of Arms II: How the McGovern Moment Learned to Parse the Bomb In 1946, after he'd returned from the most destructive war in the human experience to pick up a BA cum laude from his hometown alma mater Dakota Wesleyan University, George Stanley McGovern also went on to win South...

Like it says in the threadmark - this is a brief entry, but it condenses a key framework for understanding the McGovern administration's circumstances, the context of McGovernment's plot arc if you will. We've seen intimations in narrative chapters, we'll see more of it related to defense/natsec...

Well no, not as it turned out. The second one is in fact shorter (by a good bit I think, will have to check word count on that.) This one as they say grew in the telling.

A Strategy of Arms I: Thinking Big Let's come back at it, shall we? In the interest of not overburdening the forum's posting capacity - or the Careful Readers' stamina for single entries - I've decided to split this first post into its two distinct segments. The first deals with issues of...

Fair question — currently at work trying to whip the next two (in narrative order) into publishable shape.

President George McGovern briefed by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Thomas Moorer, during the withdrawal of US forces from South Vietnam in early February 1973 This post starts a limited-run Bonus Content series on a topic that's not necessarily the first we'd think of when it...

What you did there. It was seen. (And some of us saw that in the theatre, btw.)

I'm sure he'll slither out from under a rotting tree trunk at some point; though he was lower on the Nixonian food chain in those days he is ever on the make.

I like several of the allusions here, and want to draw attention to the "trial of the old regime" element. There's definitely a direct element of that to the prosecution of the Nixon crew, and I'd say that it's more true that McGovernment's supporters and followers - the political interests in...

I almost regret getting busy with my own thread again given that it's slowed me down commenting yet - I'll get there eventually - on this lovely, thoughtful TL. A TL that really does give us a meaningfully different Sixties - in many ways a sort of "Long Fifties" at least at the level of...

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