A New America Series - Main Thread

[Maxwell]

A New America Series

List of Presidents
32. Franklin D. Roosevelt (D-NY) [1933-1939]*
33. John N. Garner (D/C-TX) [1939-1941]
34. Robert Taft (R-OH) [1941-1949]
35. John Bricker (R-OH) [1949-1955]
36. Joseph Martin (R-MA) [1955-1957]
37. Richard Nixon (R-CA) [1957-1961]
38. John F. Kennedy (D-MA) [1961-1969]
39. George McGovern (D-SD) [1969-1973]
40. Mark Hatfield (R-OR) [1973-1981]
41. Jerry Brown (D-CA) [1981-1989]
42. Jack Kemp (R-NY) [1989-1997]
43. Dan Quayle (R-IN) [1997-2001]
44. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) [2001-2005]
45. John Kasich (R-OH) [2005-2013]
46. Russ Feingold (D-WI) [2013-2021]
47. Ben Jealous (D-MD) [2021-Current]

List of Vice Presidents
32. John N. Garner (D-TX) [1933-1939]*
33. Joseph Martin (R-MA) [1941-1949]
34. Wayne Morse (R-OR) [1949-1952]^
35. Doug MacArthur (R-AR) [1953-1954]^
36. Joseph Martin (R-MA) [1954-1955]*
37. Thomas Dewey (R-NY) [1955-1957]
38. Walter Judd (R-MN) [1957-1961]
39. George Docking (D-KS) [1961-1964]
40. Hubert Humphrey (D-MN) [1965-1969]
41. Birch Bayh (D-SD) [1969-1973]
42. Howard Baker (R-TN) [1973-1981]
43. John Glenn (D-OH) [1981-1989]
44. Gary Lewis (R-KS) [1989-1997]
45. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) [1997-2001]
46. Russ Feingold (D-WI) [2001-2005]
47. Melinda Schwegmann (R-LA) [2005-2013]
48. Josh Penny (D-ME) [2013-2021]
49. Diane Hidalgo (D-TX) [2021-Current]

List of Secretaries of State
47. Cordell Hull [1933-1944]
48. Arthur Vandenberg [1944-1948]
49. George C. Marshall [1948-1949]
50. Christian Herter [1949-1951]
51. William H. Taft III [1951-1957]
52. Christian Herter [1957-1961]
53. Dean Rusk [1961-1969]
54. Vance Hartke [1969-1972]
55. Robert Kennedy [1972-1973]
56. John S. Cooper [1973-1978]
57. Mike Mansfield [1978-1985]
58. George McGovern [1985-1987]
59. John Kerry [1987-1989]
60. Donald Rumsfeld [1989-1997]
61. Dick Cheney [1997-1999]
62. Donald Rusmfeld [1999-2001]
63. Richard Holbrooke [2001-2005]
64. Robert Zoellick [2005-Current]

List of Treasury Secretaries
52. Henry Morgenthau [1933-1941]
53. Owen Young [1941-1945]
54. Harland Jacobs (fic) [1945-1949]
55. George Humphrey [1949-1957]
56. Robert Anderson [1957-1961]
57. C. Douglas Dillon [1961-1967]
58. Joseph Barr [1967-1971]
59. Walter Hernandez [1971-1973]
60. Winthrop Rockfeller [1973-1977]
61. John Huntsman, Sr. [1977-1981]
62. W. Michael Blumenthal [1981-1984]
63. Bill Anderson [1984-1989]
64. James Baker [1989-1993]
65. Robert Rubin [1993-1999]
66. Henry Barnes (fic) [1999-2001]
67. Jim Johnson [2001-2004]
68. Roger Altman [2004-2005]
69. Glenn Hubbard [2005-Current]

*rise to the Presidency
^resignation

[Maxwell]

1940 Presidential Election
1940 Primaries

Senator Robert Taft (R-OH)/Minority Leader Joseph Martin (R-MA) - 49.0%, 287 EV's
Former Agriculture Secretary Henry Wallace (D-NY)/Former Interior Secretary Harold Ickes (D-PA) - 46.9%, 244 EV's
President John Nance Garner (C-TX)/Governor Paul V. McNutt (C-IN) - 4.1%, 0 EV's

1944 Presidential Election
1944 Primaries
1944 Democratic Convention, Ballot 2
1944 Democratic Convention, Ballot 3

President Robert Taft (R-OH)/Vice President Joseph Martin (R-MA) - 48.8%, 460 EV's
Senator Harry Truman (D-MO)/Speaker Sam Rayburn (D-TX) - 29.3%, 50 EV's
Businessman Wendell Willkie (L-NY)/Former Governor Philip LaFollette (L-WI) - 14.6%, 12 EV's
Governor Prentice Cooper (C-TN)/State Representative James Allen (C-AL) - 7.3%, 8 EV's

1948 Presidential Election
1948 Primaries
1948 Republican Convention, Ballot 2

Senator John Bricker (R-OH)/Senator Wayne Morse (R-OR) - 57.8%, 406 EV's
Senator Eleanor Roosevelt (D-NY)/Former Governor Robert S. Kerr (D-OK) - 42.2%, 125 EV's

1952 Presidential Election
1952 Primaries
1952 Republican Convention, Ballot 2

President John Bricker (R-OH)/Governor Douglas MacArthur (R-AR) - 44.2%, 383 EV's
General Dwight Eisenhower (D-KS)/Senator Estes Kefauver (D-TN) - 27.9%, 99 EV's
Vice President Wayne Morse (P-OR)/Senator Glen Taylor (P-ID) - 27.9%, 49 EV's

[Maxwell]

1956 General Election
1956 Conventions
1956 Democratic Convention, Ballot 2
1956 Democratic Convention, Ballot 3

Senator Richard Nixon (R-CA)/Congressman Walter Judd (R-MN) - 52.5%, 317 EV's
Senator Hubert Humphrey (D-MN)/Minority Whip Estes Kefauver (D-TN) - 47.5%, 214 EV's

1960 General Election
1960 Conventions
1960 Democratic Convention, Ballot 2

Senator John F. Kennedy (D-MA)/Senator George Docking (D-KS) - 52.7%, 317 EV's
President Richard Nixon (R-CA)/Vice President Walter Judd (R-MN) - 47.3%, 220 EV's

1964 General Election
1964 Presidential Conventions
1964 Republican Convention, Ballot 2
1964 Republican Convention, Ballot 3

President John F. Kennedy (D-MA)/Senator Hubert Humphrey (D-MN) - 48.8%, 273 EV's
Former Vice President Walter Judd (R-MN)/Senator Ralph Gates (R-IN) - 51.2%, 265 EV's

1968 General Election
1968 Conventions

Senator George McGovern (D-SD)/Former Governor Birch Bayh (D-IN) - 41.9%, 327 EV's
Senator Barry Goldwater (R-AZ)/Governor Spiro Agnew (R-MD) - 37.2%, 108 EV's
Governor George Wallace (AI-AL)/General Curtis LeMay (AI-CO) - 20.9%, 103 EV's

[Maxwell]

1972 General Election
1972 Conventions

Senator Mark Hatfield (R-OR)/Majority Whip Howard Baker (R-TN) - 54.9%, 417 EV's
President George McGovern (D-SD)/Vice President Birch Bayh (D-IN) - 45.1%, 121 EV's

1976 General Election
1976 Primaries
1976 Republican Convention

President Mark Hatfield (R-OR)/Vice President Howard Baker (R-TN) - 36.7%, 286 EV's
Congressman Larry McDonald (C-GA)/Congressman Ron Paul (C-TX) - 34.7%, 231 EV's
Former President George McGovern (D-SD)/Governor Albert Brewer (D-AL) - 28.6%, 21 EV's

1980 General Election
1980 Primaries

Governor Jerry Brown (D-CA)/Senator John Glenn (D-OH) - 41.2%, 314 EV's
Former Congressman Larry McDonald (C-GA)/Senator James Buckley (C-NY) - 37.3%, 220 EV's
Senator Paul Laxalt (R-NV)/Senator John P. Hammerschmidt (R-AR) - 21.6%, 4 EV's

1984 General Election
1984 Primaries

President Jerry Brown (D-CA)/Vice President John Glenn (D-OH) - 52.3%, 331 EV's
Governor Barry Goldwater Jr. (R-AZ)/Congressman Jack Kemp (R-NY) - 47.7%, 207 EV's

[Maxwell]

A Historical Take On The Presidents - President Robert Taft (R-OH)
President from 1941-1949

President Taft was the surprise victor of the 1940 Presidential Elections, one of the narrowest in recorded history, and his election was a sharp turn from 8 years of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, to this day one of the most effective Presidents in history. Taft did not acquire FDR's charisma, but what he lacked there he made up for in intellect. Taft knew how to run the office of the Presidency, and got a lot of his conservative agenda through the congress despite sometimes fierce opposition.

But Taft's legacy is not just one of his conservative policies, Taft in his Senate career made himself known as an isolationist. That would change when America was attacked on Pearl Harbor. Taft used his allegiances with the conservative Southerners and decided we fight in World War II. The War almost singlehandidly dug us out of the depression, made us the lone super power, and ended the isolationist point of view for a long time. Taft also is credited for the end of protectionism, as his Secretary of State's and his ambassadors negotiated low tariffs to rebuild the Southern economy, largely his gift given to the region for winning him the Presidency twice. Taft in a speech would say that "the time for protectionism is over".

In the last few years of his Presidency he began to become more conciliatory with members of congress, and his last two years in the White House were among his most effective. He passed broad reforms and pro immigrant policies and left office more popular than he ever was while occupying. Taft would be remembered as a kinder, gentler era of conservatism, even as he basically ended union dominance in the economy.

[Maxwell]

A Historical Take on the Presidents - President John Bricker (R-OH)
President from 1949-1955

Good will from the Taft administration elected his selected successor in John Bricker. Bricker managed two very impressive electoral victories even as his own popularity never came close to President Taft, and those victories were won with various whisper campaign tactics. While Bricker and Taft were of similar ideology, their tactics and their ethics divided them greatly. Taft was, if anything else, well-respected across the aisle, while Bricker proved to be more effective by being ruthless. Bricker was fiercely anti-communist, and made sure to rid the Government of communists and aggressively target those he suspected. The ways he went through with that proved unpopular, and caused wide losses for the Republican Party in his midterms.

Bricker's administration was riddled with corruption, and his ability to pass large scale conservative legislation came to a screeching halt after his Chief of Staff was implicated in a bribery scandal. The charges never came to Bricker's desk, but too many of his men fell to the prison cell for him to not be suspected by the public. This, combined with his general unpopularity causing the worst losses for the Republicans since the beginning of the Great Depression, Bricker would be the first and potentially last President to resign from public office.

Bricker is remembered as one of the worst Presidents in history.

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A Historical Take on the Presidents - President Joseph Martin (R-MA)
President from 1955-1957

Joesph Martin was a powerful leader in Congress before he was tapped to be Taft's Vice President. Originally a Taft loyaist, he grew more moderate  as he dealt with congress more. He grew in popularity in the chamber to the point that when President Bricker had nearly his entire administration fall to the law, Martin would be forced onto him as a Vice Presidential option. when Bricker himself would resign, the nation was shocked to learn that Martin would be the next President.

Martin's administration was surprisingly accomplished for its short time. Martin's experience as Vice President and as a congressionial leader allowed him to be able to work with a heavily Democratic Congress. He passed several important initiatives, but the most important was the Civil Rights Act of 1956, which seriously expanded rights for AFrican Americans and ended many forms of discrimination. Martin would leave office popular, and highly regarded even for his short time there.

[Maxwell]

A Historical Take on the Presidents - President Richard Nixon (R-CA)
President from 1957-1961

When 1956 came around, Republicans found it difficult to rise in the face of President Bricker's legacy. Republicans searchd deeply for talent, finding that the divided party of progressives and conservatives would not accept one another. The solution had to be someone who could play gatekeeper - Senator Richard Nixon was that man. Bright, young, conservative but not too conservative, anti-communist but vague on the details, Nixon was the perfect candidate, and managed to squash conservative candidate Jim Rhodes and liberal candidate Christian Herter. His Vice Presidential choice was also a choice from the center - Congressman Walter Judd. Nixon's victory in November was thanks to a still recovering Democratic infrastructure, his own brand of campaigning, and the fact that Humphrey was portrayed as just too liberal for the country.

Nixon's own presidency was disappointing at best. The economy was strong, and America was at peace. But his administration almost seemed to run without a purpose - there was no great legislative push that Nixon would take part in. There wasn't much he really wanted to do. He didn't even do the thing he was supposed to do well - conservatives and liberals were still quite at eachothers throats for decades to come. Nixon's do nothing Presidency made vulnerable, and a young Democrat named John F. Kennedy, with the help of moderate Kansan George Docking, reshaped the electoral map to defeat Nixon in something of a major upset for such good economic times.

Despite many calls in the future for Nixon to run, Nixon promised his career as a politician was over. He retired to his home in California and would reside there the rest of his days. When asked, he would always give his perspective on the issues and the candidates, and had a brief resurgence stumping for Mark Hatfield. Beyond that, Nixon seems like a lost President - a what if of sorts.

[Mr. Smith]

Excellent!

So when you gonna put in the results of '88?

[Maxwell]

I'll put them up in a while - in ten minutes I gotta get somewhere.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Heartbreaking to lose the Dick Nixon we knew and loved. Alas, his rise was too early, and he had insufficient time to hone his skills and instincts that otherwise could have made him one of our greatest.

[Maxwell]

1988 General Election
1988 Primaries

Former Congressman Jack Kemp (R-NY)/Senator Gary Lewis (R-KS) - 39.5%, 451 EV's
President Jerry Brown (D-CA)/Senator Patsy Mink (D-HI) - 28.9%, 54 EV's
Congressman Hank Grover (I-TX)/AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland (I-SC) - 31.6%, 33 EV's

1992 General Election
1992 Primaries

President Jack Kemp (R-NY)/Vice President Gary Lewis (R-KS) - 53.8%, 386 EV's
Senator Joe Biden (D-DE)/Mayor Mario Cuomo (D-NY) - 46.2%, 152 EV's

1996 General Election
1996 Primaries

Senator Dan Quayle (R-IN)/Former Education Secretary Lamar Alexander (R-TN) - 54.8%, 390 EV's
Governor Ann Richards (D-TX)/Senator Harvey Gantt (D-NC) - 45.2%, 148 EV's