Keys to the White House: 1948 a different America (1960 election)

[TransfemmeGoreVidal]

Awesome! I'm in

Name: Michael Feinberg
Age: 23
Political Party: Republican
Occupational History: Codebreaker during WWII, currently in training to be an FBI agent while taking classes at Georgetown on the GI Bill.

Biography: Michael Feinberg was born into a working class Jewish family in Brooklyn, the youngest son of Polish immigrants. From an early age he was picked on, unlike his older brothers who were highly athletic track and field and basketball stars he was awkward, bookish and wore thick glasses from an early age. However he was an excellent student who excelled in Math and Science and he became a voracious reader with a contrarian streak. It was this contrarian streak that led him to become a harsh critic of FDR and the lone conservative in a family of New Deal Democrats and Socialists (one uncle fought for the loyalist side in Spain.) In 1940 he went door to door campaigning for Wendell Willkie and was pelted with rocks in his heavily Democratic neighborhood.

After graduating high school early he attended Brooklyn College for a semester before attempting to enlist in the Army after Pearl Harbor where he was rejected for his poor eyesight but due to genius level intelligence and an understanding of German was recruited to be a codebreaker. After serving behind the lines in Europe during the war he discovered he had a knack for intelligence work and decided to make a career out of it. After the war he was recruited by the FBI to go undercover infiltrating subversive leftist groups.

Domestically Feinberg is a relatively moderate Eastern Establishment Republican and on foreign policy is a zealous anti-Communist with a particular venom (bordering on self-hatred) of Jewish leftists and communists who he fears will lead to hardworking patriotic Jews such as himself being victimized by anti-Semitism and eventually bring about an American Hitler. On Civil Rights Feinberg is conflicted, he's avowedly anti-racist because growing up he became friends with the black kids at his school who he sympathized with as a fellow outsider (He also enjoys pointing out to his pinko friends that they're the ones voting for a party filled with southern segregationists) but for the aforementioned reason believes that Jews should have no place in advancing the cause of civil rights. Currently he's even more tortured at the prospect of having to report on the political activities of his fiance, a young Jewish nursing student who he met at a singles weekend in the Catskills last winter who is supporting the presidential campaign of Henry Wallace.

[TransfemmeGoreVidal]

Let's say that Kenway served as a runner to intelligence headquarters in Europe and became friends with Feinberg. Could make for an interesting subplot since he might be able to serve as a good source of information on Wallace supporters and potential communist infiltration of the Young Democrats.

[TransfemmeGoreVidal]

Let's say that Kenway served as a runner to intelligence headquarters in Europe and became friends with Feinberg. Could make for an interesting subplot since he might be able to serve as a good source of information on Wallace supporters and potential communist infiltration of the Young Democrats.

I'm fairly set on Kenway as things are. In addition, it's not exactly a secret that the 101st was particularly bitter towards Allied intelligence, especially after the extremely faulty intelligence they received during Market Garden.

Okay, fair point

[TransfemmeGoreVidal]

Is the game going on in a separate thread?

[TransfemmeGoreVidal]

I'm interested in jumping in if it's not too late. Do I just post my character biography here?