By a Fluke of the Gods: Cox Defeats Harding

[MasterJedi]

Great update!

To me Jackson=Obama and will have one term.

[PBrunsel]

Anywho, just a query about the 1992 Electoral College map PBrunsel. How was Jackson able to win the usually strong Democratic state of Oklahoma? I thought Jackson would be considered too liberal for the hardcore conservative state.

Once again, as I always do. Looking forward to the next update regarding the Presidency of Reggie Jackson. I have a gut feeling that Vice President Bill Clinton will resign or do something shifty regarding Whitewater.

Rocky,

Oklahoma was just a fluke of the writer. I made the mistake while compiling the map a little bit too fast. I am human, painfully human, after all.

Whitewater will come up in 1993, as will another major event which will define the Jackson Administration.

[MasterJedi]

Before I forget to mention it you say Democrats take control of congress when Jackson becomes President but you really mean Republicans.

[HappyWarrior]

What you should do is write an alternative TL of an alternative TL. What would have happened if Vice President Symington had not been assasinated? or something like that lol.

[Robespierre's Jaw]

Also: How did he loose the Dakotas?

Could someone please explain the "loose" joke to me once and for all?

It's no joke my friend. I think EMD was trying to say why did the usually securely North and South Dakota's, whose population is not dense did not vote for Governor Reggie Jackson in the 1992 Presidential Election. Afterall, it is in Webster's Dictionary so it cannot be a joke .

[Хahar 🤔]

Also: How did he loose the Dakotas?

Could someone please explain the "loose" joke to me once and for all?

It's no joke my friend. I think EMD was trying to say why did the usually securely North and South Dakota's, whose population is not dense did not vote for Governor Reggie Jackson in the 1992 Presidential Election. Afterall, it is in Webster's Dictionary so it cannot be a joke .

[PBrunsel]

The Presidency of Reginald Jackson

Event Date: 1-03-1993
Event Description: The 103rd Congress convenes, with Republicans controlling both houses of the legislative body. “Now we’re in charge,” Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole (Republican of Kansas) tells the Senate as it opens, “And, by God, we are going to make a difference.” Senator Robert Byrd (Democrat of West Virginia) opts not to seek the Senate Minority Leader position, but defers to Senator Trent Lott (Democrat of Mississippi), a rising star amongst Southern Democrats. The new Speaker of the House, Tom Foley (Republican of Washington) and House Majority Leader Stenny Hoyer (Republican of Maryland) issue a “Call for Progress” from the House of Representatives which will, as Speaker Foley tells the press, “Usher in an era of care and concern for the down trod and overlooked.” House Minority Leader Newt Gingrich (Democrat of Georgia) is not at all happy about this turn of events, warning his colleagues on the Democratic side of the aisle, “We’ve got a lot of time to spend in the woods.”

Event Date: 1-10-1993
Event Description: U.S. President Jack Kemp and U.K. Prime Minister John Major visit the Falkland Islands, the first time since the Falkland War. The meeting is ceremonial, but it shows that Argentina now has the blessing of the two most powerful nations in the Western Hemisphere to reenter the world stage, especially when it comes to trade.

Event Date: 1-20-1993
Event Description: Reginald Martinez Jackson, age 46, is sworn in as President of the United States. “Let no man tell you that the best of America is behind us,” President Jackson tells the people of the nation in his Inaugural Address, “The best of America is yet to come.” This hopeful message had been a keystone of the Jackson Campaign, and it will be the guiding principle for the Jackson Administration. Outgoing President Jack Kemp shakes hands with President Jackson, telling him, “Mr. President, I think that you are just a great man.” “No, Mr. President,” President Jackson responds, “Lincoln was great, I’m just lucky.”

Event Date: 1-25-1993
Event Description: President Jackson unveils his new cabinet to the U.S. Senate, with several choices which many see as aimed to slight the Democratic minority. While Senator William Cohen (Republican of Maine) is easily confirmed as Secretary of State, as are former Congressman William Scranton III (Republican of Pennsylvania) as Secretary of the Treasury and General Colin Powell as Secretary of Defense. However, President Jackson’s choices for Attorney General, Secretary of Commerce and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development are not so unanimously approved of. His selection for Attorney General, former Nixon Chief Counsel John Dean, is attacked by Senator Jesse Helms (Democrat of North Carolina) as, “A disbarred, crooked, Nixon strong man who cares about the Constitution about as much as his crooked chief did.” The battle over John Dean as Attorney General is ended when Dean decides to turn down the nomination and accept the job as Chairman of Harvard Law School. The man whom President Jackson replaced Dean with is easily confirmed, former Senator Edward Brooke (Republican of Massachusetts). President Jackson is not so lucky with his nomination of Ralph Nader for Secretary of Commerce. “We might as well put the Devil in charge of Heaven,” House Minority Leader Newt Gingrich declares in disgust, “Because he’d destroy it as much as Nader will American business.” Nader will be confirmed after a prolonged debate on the issue. The final controversial nominee is former Congressman Malcolm Little as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. “I can not think of a better selection,” Vice-President William Clinton tells the press, “Mr. Little has dedicated his life to helping the impoverished and downtrodden. He the right man for this position.” “He’s also the right man to lead a socialist revolution amongst the proletariat,” Senator Alfonse D’Amato (Democrat of New York), who was reelected by 1% of the vote, last year, tells his colleagues. Little will also be confirmed, but by an exceedingly narrow margin. “Well the millionaires seem to be out of Washington, as promised” Rush Limbaugh tells his listeners, “Also as promised by Jackson, they have been replaced by the mentally insane.”       

Event Date: 1-22-1993
Event Description: President Reginald Jackson gives his first State of the Union Address. “The era of indifferent government is over,” President Jackson declares, “Now is the time for Americans to rise up and demand more from its representatives.” President Jackson outlines a progressive policy of energy independence, national healthcare, legislation ending all forms of discrimination and tax relief for small businesses and Middle Class Americans. “Most of all,” President Jackson tells the Congress, “It is time to end the tax cuts for the wealthy, who neither need nor want such tax relief.” This leads to cheers from the Republican aisle, but strong jeers from the Democrats. “We’ve returned to the era of big government in Washington,” House Minority Leader Newt Gingrich tells viewers in the Democratic response, “So watch your wallets, my fellow Americans.”

Event Date: 2-03-1993
Event Description: Representative John Dingell (Republican of Michigan) and Senator Carl Levin (Republican of Michigan) introduce the Gas Mileage Act of 1993. This act requires all American produced automobiles to expand their miles per gallon three times over what they were at the beginning of 1993. “This act will not just clean up the environment and help wean America of its addiction to oil,” Senator Levin tells his colleagues, “It will also give American auto manufacturers a leg up on foreign competitors, thus saving the dying American auto industry.” “This entire act is a dirty attack on the American auto industry,” Senator Thad Cochran (Democrat of Mississippi) declares, “If this act is enacted as law, then we might as well throw out free enterprise and replace it with Chinese socialism.” Though the vote is close in both houses, the act passes and is signed into law by President Jackson in three days. 

Event Date: 2-06-1993
Event Description: A fertilizer bomb explodes in a crowded market place in Tehran, Iran. The bomb kills 3,000 Iranian innocents, as well as injuring more than 8,000. Iranian police officers tie the attack to Al-Qaeda terrorists, upset about the liberal reforms to the government led by the Shaw of Iran.

Event Date: 2-24-1993
Event Description: In another defeat for conservatism, Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney resigns amidst political and economic turmoil. A close ally of President Kemp, he also has been accused of catering to the wealthy above the rest of the nation. Kim Campbell, his successor, becomes Canada's first female Prime Minister. She will face election in October 1993, facing a serious challenge from the popular leader of the Liberal Party, Jean Chrétien.

Event Date: 2-28-1993
Event Description: The Terror at the Tower. In New York City, five van bombs parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center explodes, killing 526 and injuring over 8,000 innocent people. It is the worst terrorist attack in the history of the Western hemisphere. President Jackson, touring an ethanol production plant in Iowa, immediately flies to New York City. “I need to show the people that the president is not a man who runs from tragedy,” President Jackson tells Chief of Staff Michael Nutter, who wants him to return to the White House. Upon the president’s arrival New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and New York Governor Mario Cuomo meet him and give him the grim news: this attack was most likely orchestrated not by domestic terrorists, but by foreign enemies. “I know someone out in the world has blood on their hands today,” Mayor Giuliani tells President Jackson. President Jackson himself is more concerned about helping the injured than getting revenge. “We will not abandon you in your time of need!” President Jackson tells relief workers as they rush into the collapsed parking garage in the North Tower, “I stand with you, the mayor stands with you, the governor stands with you and the entire free world stands with you today!”

[PBrunsel]

Event Date: 3-01-1993
Event Description: Secretary of State Cohen tells the world that yesterday’s tragedy at the World Trade Center was orchestrated by the Al-Qaeda terrorist network. “This organization espouses a view of the world,” Secretary Cohen states, “Which is the exact opposite of what we in the United States seek. They view us as meddlers in the Middle East. They despise our support of Israel and the Kurdish Republic. They oppose our support of the new progressive reforms in Iran. They oppose our work to empower women throughout the Middle East. In short, they oppose all progress.” “It is for this reason,” President Jackson, standing by Cohen’s side, interrupts, “We MUST oppose them.”

Event Date: 3-02-1993
Event Description: The United States Congress gives President Jackson War Powers, and with it the complete ability to send troops to the nation of Afghanistan, where the Al-Qaeda terrorist network finds a safe haven under the radical Islamic regime which rules the mountainous nation. “I will not misuse this mandate,” President Jackson promises the nation in the most watched address from the Oval Office in history, “We will destroy our enemies with quick, awesome force, and bring forth a new birth of freedom for the people of Afghanistan.”

Event Date: 3-03-1993
Event Description: Despite President Jackson’s 93% approval rating, former Congressman Ron Paul (Democrat of Texas) shows no fear in attacking the Commander-in-Chief. Speaking before the John Birch Society, a paleo-conservative organization chaired by former Nixon aid Patrick Buchanan, Paul attacks the, “Unconstitutional mandates for war,” which Congress gave President Jackson yesterday. “We can not let any terror attack make us throw the Constitution into the ash heap,” Paul tells the society, “Waging undeclared wars and becoming nation builders is not what the Founders gave us the Constitution for.” Paul will be attacked by Republicans and Democrats alike as being anti-American for attacking a president so recently after a terrorist attack, to which Paul responds, “If I’m anti-American, than the United States is in a hell of a shape.”

Event Date: 3-10-1993
Event Description: The PKK, the Kurdish Worker’s Party, officially disbands. In the wake of the 2/28/1993 terrorist attack, the PKK feared that its own terrorist activities could result in a strike from the United States, one which would make the air strikes of the 1970s appear like a game of tag. PKK members join several leftist parties, with most joining the Kurdish Labor Party, leading the party in a strong left winged direction.

Event Date: 3-20-1993
Event Description: Facing complete obliteration from the United States, the Taliban regime in Afghanistan offers the United States government the mastermind behind the 2/28 attacks: radical Islamic cleric Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Mohammed, a Kuwaiti resident, had recently slipped into Afghanistan to escape the Kuwaiti police who had issued a warrant for his arrest on March 1st, 1993. Taliban leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the unofficial leader of the regime, ordered the arrest of Mohammed as soon as he discovered him back in the country. In return for Mohammed, Hekmatyar wants the assurance that his government will stay in tact. Secretary of State Cohen advises President Jackson to accept the offer. “This is our best chance to get the man responsible for so many deaths,” Secretary Cohen tells President Jackson, “If we don’t take Mohammed now, he will most likely escape into the mountains of Afghanistan, where not even God himself could find him.” The idealistic President Jackson is not sure. “I wanted to bring freedom to the people of Afghanistan,” President Jackson tells Cohen, “How can I be at the doorstep of the aggressor of liberty, and let him stay in power?” “Because that’s not why we are in Afghanistan,” Secretary Cohen tells the president, “We’re there to get the people who ordered an attack which killed 500 Americans and would kill more if given the chance.” After some coercion from Cohen and his Undersecretary of State, Richard Holbrooke, President Jackson agrees to the deal. “I fear that history will say I made a deal with the Devil,” President Jackson tells Cohen as they leave the meeting. “History also isn’t kind to those presidents who create quagmires,” Secretary Cohen tells the weary president.

Event Date: 3-25-1993
Event Description: Secretary of Defense Powell outlines Operation Roaring Thunder, which the attack on Al-Qaeda training camps and strongholds in Afghanistan is now called. The nations of Iran, Turkey and India have offered air space for American bombers, an offer which Secretary Powell has taken them up on. Air Force Commander Richard Myers will order strikes on several targets on interest in Afghanistan. “If all goes well we won’t even need to send in a single solider,” Secretary Powell tells President Jackson. “Good,” President Jackson responds, “I don’t want a prolonged war. I have other things I want to accomplish.” Powell agrees with the president about a quick war, and the president has every confidence that Powell can manage a quick, efficient military intervention.   

Event Date: 4-01-1993
Event Description: The first U.S. bombing strikes hit city of Jalalabad, a hub for Al-Qaeda terrorist training. The strike is effective, killing more than 300 Al-Qaeda operatives and doing minimal damage to the city. “The strikes of the American aggressor must be avenged,” Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri tells his followers from the Sudan via Al-Jazeera television, “All Islamic peoples must begin the final Jihad against the Yankee mongrel infidels!” The Taliban regime in Afghanistan does not respond in kind with the same anger, after all, its leaders are aiding the Americans.

Event Date: 4-08-1993
Event Description: The nations of the United Kingdom, France, Canada, Australia and Kuwait send troops to aide their ally America in the hunt for terrorists. “We proudly stand with our friend and neighbor,” Canadian Prime Minister Kim Campbell declares in front of the Canadian Parliament, “Their safety and security is as important as our own.” Prime Minister Campbell wins a political victory as her rival, Liberal leaden Jean Chrétien, is forced to vote for the resolution sending troops to Afghanistan.

Event Date: 4-15-1993
Event Description: The U.S. air force pummels the outskirts of the city of Kandahar, a major military center for Al-Qaeda. The attack is successful, as several training camps are destroyed. It will later be discovered that a higher up in the terrorist network, Mullah Omar, was killed by a raid from Canadian jet fighters.

Event Date: 4-19-1993
Event Descriptions: Officers from the Office of the Attorney General of Texas arrest David Koresh and two others for income tax evasion. Koresh is operating a compound in Waco, Texas, which many see as a danger to children and the community as a whole. Koresh will be found guilty and imprisoned for two years, but the compound will still stand. The Jackson Administration has avoided a dreaded stand-off with Koresh and his followers.   

Event Date: 4-22-1993
Event Description: The National Holocaust Museum is dedicated in Washington, D.C. The event is attended by President Jackson, Vice-President Clinton, the Cabinet formers Presidents Jack Kemp, George H.W. Bush, Richard Nixon and Joseph Kennedy, retired newsman Ronald Reagan, former German Chancellor Hans Scholl and many other dignitaries. The museum remembers the more than 25 million people murdered by the Nazi Regime from 1933-1950. “May this constant memorial to the innocent,” President Jackson declares in the commencement address, “Be a constant reminder that inaction in a time of murder is as terrible a crime as the murder itself.”

Event Date: 4-30-1993
Event Description: With aid from the Pakistani government, American and Afghan forces capture Khalid Sheik Muhammad and 100 followers of his radical doctrine inside a fortified cave on the Pakistani-Afghan border. The raid on this cave is quite important for the war effort, as it contains plans documenting the exact movements of Al-Qaeda forces not just in Afghanistan, but in Pakistan and Egypt as well.

[PBrunsel]

Event Date: 5-01-1993
Event Description: “Ladies and gentlemen,” Secretary of State Cohen tells the world in a press conference, “They got him.” The secretary is, of course, referencing yesterday’s apprehension of Khalid Sheik Muhammad in the Torah Borra Mountains. President Jackson believes that the war is now over, but Secretary Cohen warns him that immediate withdrawal from the nation could destabilize the region. “You can’t just immediately pull a needle from your foot,” Secretary Cohen warns the president, “That could cause worse bleeding.” President Jackson understands what Cohen means, but begins requesting slight troop withdrawals from Afghanistan to begin in November. Secretary of Defense Powell complies with this request.

Event Date: 5-09-1993
Event Description: Riding high with a 93% approval rating due to success in the short fought Afghan War, President Jackson introduces a comprehensive legislative package for Congress, complete with the most progressive social and economic laws in American history. “The president wants socialized heath care, a bloated student loan program and unneeded increases in alternative energy and Medicare funding,” House Minority Leader Newt Gingrich says with exasperation, “On top of that, he’s also taking away the tax cuts which have sustained our economy. Is it no wonder why my side sees Jackson as a near socialist?” Despite Gingrich’s comments, the Republican controlled Congress has every intention of supporting all these new reforms. “It’s time to cut the chains of Kennedy-Kemp,” Speaker of the House Tom Foley declares, “And embrace a future where the American people, not millionaires, control the government.”

Event Date: 5-21-1993
Event Description: President Jackson signs the Rangel Tax Act, which repeals the Kennedy-Kemp tax cuts of 1981, 1984, 1985 and 1987. While the Democrats mounted a series opposition movement against this bill, Congressman Charlie Rangel’s law was easily passed by the Republican dominated House of Representatives. The Senate also easily passed the bill, albeit by a narrower margin.

Event Date: 6-03-1993
Event Description: “Homage to Catalonia” is released to theatres, amongst much critical acclaim. Based off the classic memoir of George Orwell about the Republican side of the Spanish Civil War, the role of the British newspaperman turned revolutionary Orwell is John C. “Johnny” Depp, a 30-year old actor known for his love of the grim and grotesque. His portrayal of Orwell is lauded by Ronald Reagan, who covered the Spanish Civil War, as, “An actor who really captured both the hope and desperation of the Republican army.”

Event Date: 6-05-1993
Event Description: The Supreme Court rules in Minnesota v. Dickerson that police friskings are not search warrants in themselves. Police frisks must have, in the words of Justice Clarence Thomas, “Have a specific purpose and thing to find, or the rights of the citizen are worth nothing.” While law enforcement officials’ attacks this decision as dangerous, the American Civil Liberties Union applauds, “This defense of the Constitution by a Supreme Court which rarely extends such courtesies.”

Event Date: 6-11-1993
Event Description: President Jackson issues an executive order allowing gays to openly serve in the military. “I have long believed that you do not need to be straight to be in the army,” President Jackson tells the press, “You just need to be able to shoot straight.” Despite the vicious attacks from Democrats and some Republicans, President Jackson finds unlikely allies in former NBC radio star Ronald Reagan and former Senator and 1964 Democratic Presidential nominee Barry Goldwater, who defend the decision as both a smart move for the military and civil rights. When the Reverend Pat Robertson accuses Reagan and Goldwater of being liberals on the 700 Club, Barry tells his friend Ronald, “The Democratic Party must be in one heck of a condition if we’re liberals!”

Event Date: 6-24-1993
Event Description: President Reginald Jackson appoints constitutional scholar and former Harvard Law School professor Kathleen Sullivan to the Supreme Court, to succeed the retiring Justice Harry Blackmun, a Bush appointee. Professor Sullivan will be just 39 when the Court reconvenes in October, making her the youngest Justice in over 150 years, younger even then Oliver Wendell Holmes or William Douglas when they appointed to the High Court. Democrats have a great deal to say about this nomination. ”She is too young and inexperienced,” Senator Jesse Helms tells the press, “Ms. Sullivan is just Jackson’s way of pandering to women because of his refusal to name any to high posts in his cabinet, even after promising it during the sham 1992 campaign.” Vice-President Clinton, a friend of Professor Sullivan, defends the nomination as, “A fresh start for American justice.” “Yeah,” Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott responds, “A fresh start for Red Chinese justice perhaps.”

Event Date: 7-09-1993
Event Description: The Senate confirms Kathleen Sullivan as the next Supreme Court justice, but the vote was very narrow. Democrats and some Republicans unite against the nomination. “I couldn’t vote for a woman with such a liberal record,” Senator Jim Exxon (Republican of Nebraska) confines to the press, “I certainly hope there is no hard feeling with the president.” While President Jackson doesn’t seem to mind, Chief of Staff Nutter orders Exxon along with three other Republicans senators to be blacklisted from the White House.

Event Date: 7-12-1993
Event Description: President Jackson meets with Senator Patrick Leahey (Republican of Vermont), asking him to author and introduce Jackson’s national health care initiative. “Why me, Mr. President?” Senator Leahey asks, “I don’t have the needed flash to charm such a bill through the Senate.” “No, Pat,” President Jackson reciprocates, “You have something even better: experience. You know what every senator needs or wants, and that is a powerful weapon in passing any bill.” Senator Leahey aggress to undertake this massive endeavor, to the approval of the president.

Event Date: 7-25-1993
Event Description: The first major withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan is approved of by Secretary of Defense Powell, beginning the final acts of the incursion into Afghanistan. Though only 10,000 American troops are stationed in Afghanistan, Secretary Cohen still wants the withdrawal at a minimum. There is outrage on both the left and the right over these withdrawals. “I thought that we were supposed to bring about a ‘new birth of freedom’ in Afghanistan?” Rush Limbaugh sarcastically ask his listeners,  “Where is it, Reggie? Why is the Taliban still stoning gays, making women put on those stupid drapes and blocking TV shows? I guess we know what the Republican brand of freedom is.” Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (Republican of Georgia) blasts President Jackson as, “A man who cuts and runs while thousands of women mourn for freedom.” 

[PBrunsel]

Event Date: 8-01-1993
Event Description: Khalid Sheik Muhammad arrives in the United States under heavy guard. He and six accomplices will be tried for mass murder and international terrorism by the American judicial system. To the outrage of many Americans, Attorney General Edward Brooke insists that they be given the right to an attorney and a trial by jury. “If we take away the rights of the American court system,” Attorney General Brooke states, “Then these terrorists have already defeated and ruined us.”

Event Date: 8-03-1993
Event Description: Anti-government activist and former marine Timothy McVeigh, seeing how the government handled the Ruby Ridge and Waco incidents with respect and honor, begins to focus less on a plot to overthrow the government, and more on a book about a man such as himself. He begins writing the novel “A Ghost in the Shell.” The novel tells the story of Iraq War veteran Jack M. Shell, a former marine colonel who saw both his brother and best friend die in the battle for Baghdad. After he returns to Plano, Texas, Colonel Shell begins to formulate plans to overthrow the government he now hates. The novel includes several drunken and depression induced fantasies by Shell. They involve the bombing of a federal building in Dallas, a mortar attack on FBI Headquarters, a nuclear assault on Washington, D.C. and Shell himself assassinating the President of the United States. In the end, however, the novel is anti-climactic, as Shell and the followers he attracts never begin their revolution. “He’s just like the others,” Detective Wayne Gray, who is the novel’s antagonist, tells the Plano Police Department, “Just another war veteran, looking for a hobby.” The novel will be a best seller and top the New York Times fiction list in December 1994.

Event Date: 8-10-1993
Event Description: The Senate passes the Metzenbaum Aeronautics Act of 1993, which sets aside funds to begin the task of putting a man on Mars. Introduced by Senator Howard Metzenbaum (Republican of Ohio), this act is applauded by the White House as the greatest achievement for space exploration since the creation of NASA. Many Democrats have a different opinion. “I agree we should put a man on Mars,” folksy Senator Lloyd Bentsen (Democrat of Texas) quips, “As long as that man is Howard Metzenbaum.”

Event Date: 9-03-1993
Event Description: The first Jackson Budget is debated in the House of Representatives, with Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi (Republican of California) going head-to-head with Congressman John Boehner (Democrat of Ohio). While Pelosi argues that the elimination of the Kemp Tax Cuts will more than fund increased government housing, works’ projects, job training and other such liberal programs, Boehner is not so sure. “When I hear the Congresswoman talk,” Boehner tells the chamber, “I hear ‘ching, ching’ and nothing else.” As is becoming habit, the Republican controlled Congress will pass the budget, but there is no consensus amongst both parties over what is in it. “This is the USSA, boys,” bombastic Senator Bob Smith (Democrat of New Hampshire) tells Tim Russert on Meet the Press, “Our dear leader Reggie Jackson just keeps taking and taking from the American people’s pocketbooks. I can only hope that his utopian nation collapses as much as that last utopia, the Soviet Union.”

Event Date: 9-18-1993
Event Description: A bomb blast kills 210 people and injures more than 1,200 souls in a terrorist attack on a train station in Toronto, Canada. Prime Minister Campbell travels to the attack site herself, overseeing rescue efforts and embracing victims and rescue workers alike. The attack will be traced to the Al-Qaeda terrorist network, which now relies on small cells in several nations across the globe to execute terror attacks. “Tonight freedom was once again attacked by a faceless coward,” President Jackson tells the nation in a live address from the Oval Office, “And with the aid of world security forces and our own American love of liberty, freedom will be protected.”

Event Date: 9-22-1993
Event Description: Congressman Phil English (Democrat of Pennsylvania) and Senator Russ Feingold (Republican of Wisconsin) introduce the bipartisan Protect America Act. Though keeping in the realms of the Constitution, this act increases the ability of law enforcement to interrogate and investigate suspected terrorists. “We need to be able to protect our liberties as well as ourselves,” Senator Feingold tells the press. The bill loosens restrictions on obtaining a search warrant as well as calling on the world community to condemn terrorism and secure their national airports and seaports. “The USA can not fight terrorism alone,” Vice-President Clinton tells the Council on Foreign Relations, “But with the help of our allies, no terrorist sect can stand up to us.” The Protect America Act will pass almost unanimously in both houses, and be signed into law by the president in less than a week.

Event Date: 10-19-1993
Event Description: In a major defeat for extremist Islam, Benazir Bhutto becomes the first elected woman to lead a Muslim state, as president of Pakistan. While President Jackson celebrates this as, “A victory for sanity and humanity in Pakistan,” many in the nation are already planning a coup against the incoming president. “I do not see how the Islamic Republic of Pakistan can take the humiliation and degradation,” Lieutenant General Pervez Musharraf writes to a conservative Pakistani publication, “As the inauguration of Benazir Bhutto as president.”

Event Date: 10-21-1993
Event Description: In a speech in front of a Minneapolis laboratory researching hydrogen power cells, President Jackson calls for Congress to allocate $30 billion for, “The research of essential, needed alternative energy sources.” “This is just more talk,” Rush Limbaugh tells his audience, “Nixon, Bush, Kemp and now Jackson all want to get us off our ‘addiction to oil.’ Well, nothings going to happen, nothing ever will.” President Jackson will make sure this is not the case, by immediately beginning a draft of a clean alternative energy bill for the 1994 Congressional session.

Event Date: 10-25-1993
Event Description: In the Canadian Federal Elections, Prime Minister Kim Campbell’s Progressive Conservative Party is swept out of power, despite attempts to use the recent terror bombing in Toronto to win votes. Liberal Jean Chrétien wins a massive victory, while dispelling the Progressive Conservatives to a mere 12 seats in Parliament. This defeat is caused by the failing economy of Canada as well as numerous scandals in both the government and the military. “In Canada at least,” Roll Call’s Morton Kondracke writes, “The politics of terror doesn’t seem to work very well. That is the understatement of the political history now that I think about it.”

Event Date:  11-05-1993
Event Description: Former Virginia Attorney General Douglas Wilder, the Republican nominee, is elected the first African-American governor in the history of the Old Dominion State. He defeats the Democratic nominee, Congressman George Allen. Congressman Allen was seen by many Democrats as a potential presidential contender, but like so many would-be presidents, his dreams have been stalled or, most likely, completely burned out.

Event Date: 11-10-1993
Event Description: New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, a Republican, declares his candidacy for U.S. Senate in 1994. Retiring Senator James Hastings (Republican of New York), immediately endorses the campaign of, “The Dirty Harry of Manhattan.” The Democratic Party is poised to nominate 67-year old former Secretary of State Daniel Patrick Moynihan in what political junkies are calling, “A clash of the Empire State titans.”

Event Date: 11-29-1993
Event Description: Former President Jack Kemp signs a deal to host “Great Moments in Sports History” on the Biography Channel. “It’s funny,” Kemp tells Larry King later this week, “I serve six terms in Congress, two years as Vice-President and ten years as president, and everyone still wants to talk sports with me.” “Be glad,” King tells the former president, “At least no one is calling you a ‘politician.’” “Or worse,” Kemp interjects, “A ‘journalist.’” King bursts into laughter, showing that despite the bitter last years of Kemp’s ten years in the Oval Office, he never lost the charm that got him there.

Event Date: 12-12-1993
Event Description: In its last motion before it recesses for the holidays, the U.S. Senate ratifies the World Agreement of Human Rights. This outlaws the usage of all forms of torture or coercion for reasons of information or espionage among other things. “In a time of terror,” Senator Strom Thurmond (Democrat of South Carolina) tells his colleagues, “We should not throw out any tools which could be sued to save American lives.” “I would rather save the American ideal of human rights,” Senator Kent Conrad (Republican of North Dakota) interjects, “As well as American lives.”

Event Date: 12-31-1993
Event Description: On the last day of the year, President Jackson signs an executive order outlawing all gender discriminatory practices in federal offices in Washington, D.C. No longer can government employers pay female workers less than male workers if they have the same jobs or take gender into account while issuing promotions. “He’s turned everything else on its heads this year,” one federal employee complains, “Why shouldn’t the president take the last day of the year to do it some more?”

[Captain Chaos]

PBrunsel,

That picture looks like Alex Rodriguez, not Reggie Jackson.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Another great update; keep it up

[War on Want]

PBrunsel,

That picture looks like Alex Rodriguez, not Reggie Jackson.

No that is A-Rod for sure.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

PBrunsel,

That picture looks like Alex Rodriguez, not Reggie Jackson.

No that is A-Rod for sure.

That's what I though.  Why is A-Rod President?

[PBrunsel]

Sirs,

I could not find a decent picture of Reggie Jackson out of his baseball garb, so I took a picture of Alex Rodriguez. Judging by a 1992 baseball card, Rodriguex looked a good deal like Jackson at one point. In the end I didn't want to post no picture, so I took one that wasn't really Jackson. My apologies.

Its just a picture and I can remove it if you feel it's ruining the story.

[Lief 🗽]

Well, as you can probably infer from my political compass score, I'm loving President Reggie. Is President Jackson the first President since Taft to have a mustache or is he unfortunately clean shaven in your timeline?

[PBrunsel]

Well, as you can probably infer from my political compass score, I'm loving President Reggie. Is President Jackson the first President since Taft to have a mustache or is he unfortunately clean shaven in your timeline?

Lief,

In 1993 he is clean shaven, but he will grow a mustache. If I give him a second term, which I do not know yet, his second term picture will be the mustached Reggie we've come to know and love.

[War on Want]

I really like Jackson in this timeline. I think he even beats Dewey for his ideals.

[Captain Chaos]

I googled pictures of Reggie Jackson. I found a few of Reggie wearing street clothes. Just click the following:

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[MasterJedi]

Can't believe I missed this yesterday, anyways great update!!

[HappyWarrior]

Who are the current Senators and Governor of Maryland?  Also whats happened with Al Gore?

Updated classifications for me

Great:Hoover, JP Kennedy, Hull, Kemp

Mediocre:Nixon, MacArthur, Dewey, Bush

Failures: MacFarland, Cox, Ashbrook

I don't think RFK can be classified due to the tarnish of the scandals in his administration as well as the shortness of his term in office.

[PBrunsel]

Event Date: 1-05-1994
Event Description: Senator Patrick Leahey (Republican of Vermont) and Congressman Rob Andrews (Republican of New Jersey) introduce the Health Care Reform Act of 1994. The bill will create a form of government health care, but in a very limited sense when compared to such systems in Europe. Working closely with Kemp Administration Surgeon General C. Everett Coop, Leahey and Andrews crafted a bill they hope can pass the Congress and help as many people as possible. The act gives a form of Medicaid to the more than 70% of Americans not previously covered by Medicaid (for poor people) or Medicare (ages 65 and up). To appease conservatives, the act gives all Americans affected by the law the option of opting out and receiving the money spent as a tax rebate. “It’s like my grandmother’s nightshirt,” President Jackson tells the two legislators, “It covers everything from head to foot.” Despite this fact, both the left and the right attack the bill. While Rush Limbaugh calls the bill, “A very Red Herring,” Congresswoman Maxine Waters (Republican of California), a fire breathing liberal by her definition, attacks the Health Care Reform Act as, “A health bare act,” since it covers only about 1/3rd of Americans. Despite these attacks, President Jackson gives the bill his unconditional support. “We must begin somewhere,” President Jackson tells the nation in a live address from the Oval Office, “Or we will get nowhere.”

Event Date: 1-11-1994
Event Description: Senator Al Gore (Democrat of Tennessee) introduces the Information Literacy Act of 1994, introducing the U.S. government to the internet. President Jackson applauds this act, as does Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott. “I ain’t the type of man who embraces new gizmos,” Lott tells his colleagues, “But when the boy of Senator Albert Gore says it’s a good thing, then I will believe him.” Gore outlines how embracing the internet can save time and money, cutting the beaurocracy in Washington nearly in half. Though this is not fulfilled, the bill will easily pass. Through the present day, Senator Gore will take some responsibility for the invention of the internet since he brought it to the U.S. government.

Event Date: 1-30-1994
Event Description: For the fourth consecutive time, the Buffalo Bills are defeated in the Super Bowl, this time by the Dallas Cowboys. Former President Kemp, a former Buffalo Bill, calls the game, “The biggest disaster since that election Mr. McCain was in.” Former Vice-President McCain, who attended the game, laughs when he is told about the comments.”

Event Date: 2-09-1994
Event Description: Colombia University releases its report on listing the presidents. 300 historians, ranging from libertarian to socialist leanings, formulate the list. The great presidents are George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Theodore Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover and Cordell Hull. Near great presidents include John Adams, James Polk, Chester Arthur, Douglas MacArthur, Joseph P. Kennedy, Junior and Jack Kemp, who many felt shouldn’t be judged. Presidents Thomas Dewey, Richard Nixon, John Ashbrook and George H.W. Bush are named “average”, while Presidents James Cox and Ernest MacFarland are named “below average.” There are only two “failure”, Presidents Ulysses Grant and Robert Kennedy. Looking at the list from his cell at the Michigan City Federal Penitentiary, Bobby Kennedy tells a guard, “Genius is never understood in its own time.”

Event Date: 2-20-1994
Event Description: In Russian Duma elections, the Populist Party takes control of the governing body by landslide proportions. They rise from having a mere 45-seat minority to 212 seats, controlling 1/3rd of the multi-party legislative organization. The right-winged National Party keeps its status as the official opposition party by retaining the second most seats in the Duma. Under the leadership of unpopular President Viktor Chernomyrdin, the Social Democrats collapse from holding a majority of seats to just 28. It appears nearly certain that Moscow Mayor Boris Yeltsin, the leader of the Populist Party, will win the April 1995 presidential election. There is also a new party entering the Duma: the Putinist Party led by its sole Duma member, 29-year old Dmitry Medvedev. Medvedev was the legal counsel for the late Vladimir Putin after his first Russian coup. The Putinist Party espouses a want for a strong national executive leader and more military control of civilian life. This party is looked upon with both contempt and fear by the Russian Government.

Event Date: 2-27-1994
Event Description: President Jackson announces that all United States forces will be officially withdrawn from Afghanistan by December 1994. “America triumphed in its battle with terrorism,” President Jackson tells the nation from the Oval Office, “Our armed forces and our unity have shown the forces of tyranny and terror that they will never triumph.” Despite the soaring rhetoric, the Taliban Regime in Afghanistan still dominates the mountainous region with an iron fisted rule.

Event Date: 3-09-1994
Event Description: The House of Representatives passes the Health Care Reform Act of 1994 in a partisan vote. Nearly every Republican votes for it, spare Congressman Richard Swett (Republican of New Hampshire), and nearly every Democrat voting against it, with a mere three voting for it. “This 103rd Congress is doing more to polarize this nation,” House Minority Leader Newt Gingrich tells the Associated Press, “Then anything Presidents Ashbrook, Kennedy or Kemp have ever done.” Debate will begin in the Senate over the bill in April, with Senator Bob Smith (Democrat of New Hampshire) swearing, “The father of all filibusters.”

Event Date: 3-12-1994
Event Description: Vice-President William Clinton announces his engagement with his long time girlfriend Karen Kahre, a former Miss California. This quiets complaints from the Reverend Pat Robertson who routinely complained about the Vice-President, “Living in sin in the Naval Observatory.” Reverend Robertson offers congratulations and good luck wishes to Vice-President Clinton on his show the 700 Club, to which the newly engaged Ms. Kahre sends her thanks. “I never thought I’d see the day,” comedian Jay Leno jokes on his show, “Where Bill Clinton and Pat Robertson would exchange nice words. Maybe the reverend should ask his friend God if he’s either planning on freezing hell or releasing a new breed of pigs.”

Event Date: 3-18-1994
Event Description: Chicago attorney and 1986 U.S. Senate nominee Hillary Rodham wins the Democratic nomination for Governor of Illinois, defeating Attorney General Roland Burris and Congresswoman Dawn Clark Netsch. Rodham will face off against incumbent Republican Governor Jim Edgar in November.

Event Date: 3-21-1994
Event Description: The Academy Awards gives the title of Best Film to “Schindler’s List” and Best Actor to Liam Neeson, the Irish-born actor who portrayed Nazi businessman turned martyred Jewish hero Oskar Schindler. Jonathan Depp is nominated for Best Actor for his portrayal of George Orwell in “Homage to Catalonia”, but falls short of the award. Depp is honored by awards host Billy Crystal, who calls him, “The man with the brightest future in Hollywood.”

[PBrunsel]

Event Date: 4-03-1994
Event Description: Debate begins in the Senate over the Health Care Reform Act of 1994, and it is bitter to put it kindly. While Senator Patrick Leahey, the bill’s author, tries to convince his Democratic companions that the bill can be paid for and offers enough options for Americans who do not want the government health care, Senator Bob Smith refuses to listen to these arguments. “Government health care is a bad idea,” Senator Smith tells his colleagues, “It is unfunded, unneeded and unfounded, all together a very bad un.” “Senator Smith is a very bad un,” Vice-President Clinton says, a little too loudly. Senate Majority Leader Dole and Senate Minority Leader Lott agree to oppose any filibusters over the bill, but Lott refuses to support the idea himself. After more than two weeks of debate and compromise, the bill passes by a very narrow margin. “Jackson’s got his way,” Rush Limbaugh tells his listeners, “Now he and his Republicans can have THEIR way with our money and health.” President Jackson signs the Health Care Reform Act of 1994 into law, declaring as he signs it, “I think people feel better already.”  

Event Date: 4-05-1994
Event Description: Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundi President Cyprien Ntaryamira die when a missile shoots down their jet near Kigali, Rwanda. As radical, anti-Tutsi Hutu leaders, such as General Bernard Ntuyahaga, begin to call for revenge on the Tutsi “cockroaches” that “killed” President Habyarimana, President Jackson calls for understanding and action in Rwanda. “We must not stand back and allow a people to be wiped away in mass genocide,” President Jackson tells the world from the Oval Office, “We must remember the horrors of the Holocaust and dedicate ourselves to never allowing such a crime against humanity to occur again. We must wipe the tears of Rwanda.”

Event Date: 4-06-1994
Event Description: The world responds to President Jackson’s “Tears of Rwanda” speech. U.K. Prime Minister John Major, Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, French President Jacques Chirac and the African Union all agree to send soldiers to defend the Tutsi tribe in Rwanda. Secretary of State William Cohen tells President Jackson that Rwanda is not an ideal battleground, in which President Jackson responds, “We’re not going there to fight battles, we’re going there to protect people.” “I don’t think the Hutus and General Ntuyahaga will see it that way,” Secretary Cohen answers, “We could be in for quite a long stay in Rwanda.”

Event Date: 4-09-1994
Event Description: The first dispatch of American, British and Canadian forces enters Rwanda from the Western friendly nation of Uganda. “We come not as invaders,” President Jackson tells the world, “But as protectors.” The 55,000 strong Allied Humanitarian Force, led by American Lieutenant Colonel David Petraeus and Canadian Colonel Roméo Dallaire, arrives outside of Kigali, the war torn capital of Rwanda. While the Rwandan Army and Hutu leaders call for, “unrelenting war against the mongrel invaders,” the Tutsi led Rwandan Patriot Front welcomes the new army as an ally. “We’ve gotten into Rwanda, with flowers and chocolates,” Lieutenant Colonel Petraeus tells Secretary of Defense Powell that night in a conference call, “I can’t tell you if it will stay that way.”

Event Date: 4-12-1994
Event Description: After two days of building up defenses in Tutsi neighborhoods around and in Kigali, the Rwandan Army attacks with full force against Allied central command, established at the Hôtel des Mille Collines. While Petraeus’s forces hold out at the hotel, the attack begins a week of nearly constant urban warfare in the city. The Allied Humanitarian Force, which was not expecting a full scale urban war, fortifies its positions around Tutsi neighborhoods. While many in the United States attack President Jackson for, as House Minority Leader Newt Gingrich declares, “Unconstitutionally and irresponsibly putting American boys in harms way, especially in a war that should be fought by Rwandan boys in a Rwandan civil war”, and even some Republicans, such as Senator George W. Bush, criticize the Rwandan intervention as a tactical blunder, President Jackson stands firm in his decision. “Twenty years from now,” President Jackson tells the press at a televised press conference, “I do not want historians to ask, ‘Who the hell cared about Rwanda?’ As the great power in the world, it is our duty to stop the butchering of the innocent.”

Event Date: 4-21-1994
Event Description: With more than 7,000 dead and injured soldiers, amongst that number 1,500 Americans, Lieutenant Colonel David Petraeus reports that major fighting in Kigali has began to cease, with the Allied Humanitarian Force claiming victory over the Rwandan Army. The International Red Cross confirms Petraeus’s statement, as it concludes that more Hutu Rwandan soldiers have been killed than Tutsi civilians. Paul Kagame, the leader of the Rwandan Patriotic Front, tells his organization, “We have won, genocide has been prevented and good has triumphed.” The Rwandan Genocide has been prevented.

Event Date: 4-22-1994
Event Description: Former President Richard Nixon dies at his home in Los Angeles, California. The man who led the United States during the Russo-Chinese War is hailed by former President Gorbachev as, “One of the greatest fighters for freedom the world has ever known.” Others are not so kind. “He’s dead,” Bob Woodward comments, “I’m glad of it.” Nixon’s funeral will be attended by more than 5,000 (along with the more than three million who watch the funeral on live television) as he is laid to rest at his presidential library in Yorba Linda, California. G. Gordon Liddy, a Nixon strongman and now radio host, salutes Nixon’s coffin as it is laid in the ground.      

Event Date: 5-10-1994
Event Description: Paul Kagame, with the support of most of the Rwandan people and the Allied Humanitarian Force, takes office as the new President of Rwanda. Kagame does not give a soaring inaugural address, but a down to earth narration of the many problems facing Rwanda. Though, he ends the speech with a note of hope, “Such problems are not solved in one day but there is a great step toward peace and security in the region.” To try to maintain peace and security in the region, the Allied Humanitarian Force will have to stay in the Kigali region, including 12,000 American troops. “We are no longer the USA of Washington and Jefferson,” Senator Dan Quayle (Democrat of Indiana) declares before the Senate, “We are Reggie Jackson’s America, a nation which sends troops into every other nation and keeps them there to prop up an unelected government.” Gallup Polling shows that 44% of Americans stand with Senator Quayle on the issue of, as Quayle calls it, “Nation building.”

Event Date: 5-12-1994
Event Description: Taking the nation’s eyes off of Rwanda and foreign policy, Congressman Bill Richardson (Republican of New Mexico) introduces the Energy Independence Act of 1994, the most sweeping energy reform act in American history. Backed by the Jackson Administration, the bill sets aside $30 billion over the next 10-years to study hydrogen, solar, nuclear, ethanol, biodeisel and clean coal technologies as well as finding ways to adapt them to everyday American life. “I can’t say I like the price tag,” Congressman Duncan Hunter (Democrat of California) tells the Associated Press, “But I do like the intentions of Congressman Richardson’s idea.” Hunter, as the ranking Democrat on the House Energy Committee, will vote for the bill. Though Richardson’s energy act easily passes in the House of Representatives, there will be a fight in the Senate.

Event Date: 5-20-1994
Event Description: “President Jackson just wants to raise taxes again,” Senator Quayle tells his colleagues as debate begins on the Energy Independence Act of 1994, sponsored in the Senate by Senator Dianne Feinstein (Republican of California. Democrats contend, as Quayle did, that this bill is another big government program pushed by the president who took away tax cuts and replaced them with spending increases. “Even I’m becoming too poor to live in Reggie Jackson’s America!” multimillionaire Senator Phil Gramm (Democrat of Texas), “Which is saying something.” The problem of the Democratic strategy against the energy act is that they never attack the bill itself. The bill will narrowly pass in the Senate, with President Jackson signing the bill the next day.
 
Event Date: 6-03-1994
Event Description: Secretary of Commerce Ralph Nader issues thirteen federal lawsuits against Exxon-Mobile, Halliburton and three other major U.S. based oil companies, suing them for, among other things, stock manipulation and violation of the 1971 Environmental Standards Act. “This is preposterous,” former Congressman and Halliburton CEO Richard Cheney tells the press, “Mr. Nader is just looking for trouble, something he’s very good at.” Secretary Nader, however, is quite serious about the lawsuits and begins finding U.S. attorneys to prosecute the oil giants. “These oil companies need to realize that their time in the sun is over,” Secretary Nader declares, “Kennedy and Kemp are gone, and a new sheriff is in town!”

[PBrunsel]

Event Date: 6-06-1994
Event Description: Hutu partisans launch an unexpected offensive against the Allied Humanitarian Force in the Tutsi region of Kigali, Rwanda. The attack goes on for ten hours, with Lieutenant Colonel Petraeus himself being injured in the struggle.  The colonel is amongst the 5,300 injured in the battle, but luckily not counted as one of the 1,500 Allied soldiers killed in the strike. The Hutu lose far more, more than 10,000 killed or injured, but the media spins the attack as an American defeat. “Perhaps we need to evaluate our presence in Africa?” CBS Evening News Anchorman Dan Rather ask his audience, “It may end up being an oozing sore on the other wise sterling American foreign reputation.”

Event Date: 6-30-1994
Event Description: Congressman Bob Barr (Democrat of Georgia) asks Congress to investigate the business dealings of Vice-President William Clinton. “It seems our illustrious Vice-President has made deals with Chinese officials,” Congressman Barr tells his colleagues, “To help fund the construction of real estate in Bakersfield, California, the Vice-President’s adopted hometown.” The area of Bakersfield where this construction took place was in the wealthy residential and commercial area of town, a place named Whitewater. Barr insists that Whitewater is a serious matter, and it could lead to revelations of corruption in the White House itself. Speaker Tom Foley (Republican of Washington) announces there will be no investigation, and calls Barr's charges "ridiculous." “Don’t worry Bob,” House Minority Leader Newt Gingrich tells the Georgian congressman, “We’ll get the Veep sooner or later.”

Event Date: 7-04-1994
Event Description: After suffering a massive stroke the day before, former President Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Junior, dies at the age of 79 at the Kennedy Compound in Hyannisport, Massachusetts. Having outlives his late wife Evelyn by more than ten years, the dying presidents last words are, “I know I’m going where Evelyn is.” President Kennedy becomes the fourth president to die on Indendence Day, joining John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe. The greatest air hero of the Japanese-American War, Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Junior, is mourned the world over and praised as a, “Hero of freedom,” by President Jackson.

Event Date: 7-10-1994
Event Description: Secretary of State William Cohen begins a dialogue between the Kurdish Republic and Turkey, who have been enemies and in an official state of war since 1985. With a new democratically elected, pro-Western leader of Turkey, President Süleyman Demirel, Secretary Cohen feels a treaty of peace and understanding can be made between the two nations. 

Event Date: 8-02-1994
Event Description: In one of the Jackson Administrations first political defeats, the Dorgan Monetary Act, introduced by Senator Bryan Dorgan (Republican of North Dakota), is defeated by bipartisan decision. The act would have ended the gold standard for American currency, but even many Republicans opposed this idea. “The economics indicators show that this economy is already on the brink of recession,” Senator James Jeffords (Republican of Vermont) tells his colleagues as he votes against the act, “Changing our currency market will only lead to a crash that will make the Panic of 1929 look like a dress rehearsal what would be the Depression of 1995.”

Event Date: 8-05-1994
Event Description: In a White House ceremony, Vice-President William Jefferson Clinton and Karen Kahre are married by Capitol Chaplain Homer Wilson. President Jackson along with the cabinet attends a ceremony which is, as Tom Brokaw quips, “Open only to the immediate country.” The more than 15,000 person strong wedding attendance makes it one of the most open days in the history of the White House, with the exception on the annual Easter Egg Roll. While the ceremony is begin held and celebrated, House Minority Leader Newt Gingrich, who was not invited, hires Democratic trickster Roger Stone to investigate Clinton’s dealings with the Chinese and Whitewater construction.

Event Date: 8-11-1994
Event Description: Exxon-Mobile, Halliburton, Lone Star Petroleum and two other major American oil companies are fined more than $50 million by a federal court for violation of the Environmental Standards Act, with Exxon-Mobile having to pay an additional $15 million for the spill of the Exxon Valdez in 1989. Secretary of Commerce Ralph Nader, upon hearing of this victory, tells the press, “That’s just the beginning, big oil, big tobacco, big banking and big Wall Street are all going down under my watch!”

Event Date: 8-15-1994
Event Description: Wall Street has one of its worst days in years, with the Dow Jones Industrial collapsing more than 700-points. Economists conclude that this major dip was caused by the court ruling against several oil companies and Secretary of Commerce Nader’s comments following the decision. “In a market which is still stinging from the repeal of the Kemp Tax Cuts,” economist Ben Stein writes in the Wall Street Journal, “Any saber rattling from an old leftist like Nader will further harm confidence in the market.”

[PBrunsel]

Event Date: 9-03-1994
Event Description: In an attempt to find a diplomatic triumph to offset his nation’s collapsing economy, Russian President Viktor Chernomyrdin and Chinese President Chen Shui-bian agree to de-target their nuclear weapons against each other. This is a major agreement between the two world powers, who have distrusted each other since before the devastating Russo-Chinese War.

Event Date: 9-09-1994
Event Description: In an interview with the Washington Post, former Vice-President John McCain disavows any interest in seeking the presidency in 1996. “I had my chance at the White House, and I couldn’t make it,” McCain tells the paper, “I can see no reason why I would be any stronger against President Jackson in 1996 then I was in 1992.” McCain also turned down the offer to be the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate this year or his party’s candidate for Governor of Arizona.

Event Date: 9-19-1994
Event Description: Further adding to his persona as a “nation builder”, President Jackson dispatches troops to Haiti to install the democratically elected Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power. A small force of 500 marines, along with former Vice-President James Carter to serve as mediator, force Haitian dictator Émile Jonassaint to step down in favor of the popularly elected Aristide. “Once again,” Senator Quayle tells a Lincoln Day dinner in Fort Wayne, Indiana, “We see President Jackson as a man who uses the military as a tool to prop up new regimes and leaders.”

Event Date: 9-20-1994
Event Description: President Jackson signs the Assault Weapons Ban, which overrules a previous bill allowing the manufacture of assault weapons signed by President Kemp. “No man’s guns are safe,” Rush Limbaugh tells his listeners, “When Jackson is in power it appears.”

Event Date: 10-05-1994
Event Description: The Kurdish-Turkish Peace Accord is signed in Istanbul, Turkey, under the watchful eye of Secretary of State William Cohen. The agreement formally ends the state of war that has existed between the nations since 1985. “I have never seen such a time of fortune in world geo-politics,” former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger tells the National Review, “China and Russia are at peace, Rwanda has been secured and the Middle East seems to be at peace, at least on the surface.” President Jackson can put another feather in his cap for the 1994 Midterm elections, but with the economy beginning to show signs of a slowdown, foreign policy victories may not be enough to win the day.

Event Date: 10-10-1994
Event Description: House Minority Leader Newt Gingrich along with nearly every Democratic member of Congress sign “The Contract with America.” This contract promises that if the Democratic Party is given control of Congress in 1995, it will oppose, “The taxation, regulation and activism of the Jackson Administration.” President Jackson, in a speech before the Washington, D.C. Young Republicans, calls this contract, “’The Contract with Big Business’,” and says Gingrich’s real goal is, “To turn the clock back to the days of Cordell Hull, when business was unchecked, creationism was taught in schools and women ‘did what they were told.’” Reactions to the president’s comments are mixed, with Senator Dan Quayle calling them, “Juvenile and beneath the office, something Malcolm Little would say,” to Little himself applauding the president for, “Finally getting the nerve to call a fascist and fascist.”

Event Date: 10-18-1994
Event Description: Oliver Stone’s “Nixon” is released in theatres to mixed reviews. The gifted Anthony Hopkins portraying President Nixon, the film is attacked by Nixon partisans as being too negative, but by anti-Nixononians as being a fluff job. The story revolves around the entire life of Richard Nixon. The film focuses on every aspect of Nixon’s career, from his time as a prosecutor, the man who “took down Alger Hiss” in court, his Senate career, the 1964 election against Barry Goldwater (portrayed by Clint Eastwood), and his presidency. Stone’s evaluation of Nixon’s presidency is that it was a generally successful presidency, but marked by shadowy back room dealings and cloak and dagger politics. “It’s kind of low,” G. Gordon Liddy declares on his radio program, “That Stone would release this film after the man died so that he couldn’t challenge the lies told in this film.” Liddy may also be upset that Stone selected actor and professional wrestler Jesse Ventura to play the part of G. Gordon Liddy.

Event Date: 10-27-1994
Event Description: President Reginald Jackson and First Lady Juanita Jackson travel to Jackson, Mississippi, to oversee relief work being done after this year’s more than usually destructive hurricane season. As the First Family travels in a motorcade out of the city to visit Republican Party leaders in Atlanta, Georgia, their limousine is shot five times by a would-be assassin. While the Jackson’s are not harmed by the assassination attempt, a man hunt begins throughout the city of Jackson to find the failed murderer.      

Event Date: 10-29-1994
Event Description: White supremacist Byron De La Beckwith, a 53-year old former Klansman, is arrested for firing five shots at the presidential motorcade as it rode through Jackson, Mississippi. De La Beckwith will argue before the court that he was justified in his actions as he was told by God to kill, “The pretender to the presidency, the false Reverend Jackson.” De La Beckwith will be sentenced to 40-years in prison for the attempted murder of President Jackson and his wife.

Event Date: 11-05-1994
Event Description: A letter by Ronald Reagan to the nation announces that he has Alzheimer's disease. The man who was the Voice of the Nation from 1936-1986 and the anchorman for the NBC Nightly News candidly tells the nation that he is, “One of the millions of Americans who will suffer from the memory robbing disorder known as Alzheimer’s disease.” After telling the country how upset he is that he will become a burden on his family, he ends his letter with a note of hope. “I now will enter the twilight of my life, but I know for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead.”

Event Date: 11-07-1994
Event Description: In another trial of a murderer, the Federal Court of New York City finds Khalid Sheik Muhammad and five of his associates guilty of international terrorism and murder of more than 500 innocent souls. Though fearing the creation of martyrs, the jury sentences the terrorists to life imprisonment and hard labor at a federal penitentiary. “We will one day be free of your infidel chains,” Muhammad tells the court after the sentencing, “That is all that needs to be said.” The Jackson Administration touts this verdict as a victory for freedom loving people the world over. “Terrorism was defeated today,” President Jackson tells the American people in a live address from the Oval Office, “Not by brutality, but by order.” Democratic politicians accuse the president o selling out the murdered at the World Trade Center. “Why aren’t these monsters heading towards the electric chair?” Rush Limbaugh demands, “They are going to be cared for on our taxpayer’s dime all because Reggie Jackson doesn’t believe in the justified death penalty. How shameful.” Most Americans side with Limbaugh on this point, as does New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate. “They should be hung by a sour apple tree,” the mayor tells supporters at a Albany, New York, campaign stop."