1968 is a terrible, terrible year. Hundreds of thousands of home-grown American soldiers are being sent to the jungles of Vietnam. The assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in April and the riots that followed, fresh in the minds of many, paints a less-than-rosy picture of the unity of the country. The elections this year will be characterized by these problems, and Lyndon Johnson’s juggernaut of a Democratic Party, borne by the fearsome liberal spirit Hubert H. Humphrey, and the odious segregationist campaign of George Wallace, clash furiously against the Republicans, who have settled on one man...
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I would like to give thanks to neo/Intenew and Massachusetts for Stockdale/Stockdale for TCT, who generously agreed to playtest the mod for me. I appreciated their feedback greatly, and I can see why they're good collaborators many modders would want to work with.
For sources, I relied mainly on Smith and Persico, the two books I've linked in this section. I recognize that both of them have their own unique provenances - Persico, for example, was a speechwriter for Rockefeller. I've tried to take these provenances into account. I also used, especially for the running mates, general Internet sources, such as news articles or papers written by the candidates themselves.
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","color_hex":"#b73939","secondary_color_hex":null,"is_active":1,"image_url":"https://i.imgur.com/ukM3ZvM.png","electoral_victory_message":"lol","electoral_loss_message":"lol","no_electoral_majority_message":"lol","description_as_running_mate":null,"candidate_score":1,"running_mate":false,"scrollable":false}},{"model":"campaign_trail.candidate","pk":24,"fields":{"first_name":"Hubert H.","last_name":"Humphrey","election":4,"party":"Democratic","state":"Minnesota","priority":1,"description":"lmao","color_hex":"#226386","secondary_color_hex":null,"is_active":0,"image_url":"","electoral_victory_message":"lol","electoral_loss_message":"lol","no_electoral_majority_message":"lol","description_as_running_mate":null,"candidate_score":1,"running_mate":false,"scrollable":false}},{"model":"campaign_trail.candidate","pk":25,"fields":{"first_name":"George C.","last_name":"Wallace","election":4,"party":"American Independent","state":"Alabama","priority":1,"description":"lmao","color_hex":"#886087","secondary_color_hex":null,"is_active":0,"image_url":"","electoral_victory_message":"lol","electoral_loss_message":"lol","no_electoral_majority_message":"lol","description_as_running_mate":null,"candidate_score":1,"running_mate":false,"scrollable":false}},{"model":"campaign_trail.candidate","pk":1003,"fields":{"first_name":"Charles H.","last_name":"Percy","election":4,"party":"Republican","state":"Illinois","priority":1,"description":"lmao","color_hex":"#0000ff","secondary_color_hex":null,"is_active":0,"image_url":"https://i.imgur.com/YNRL9jV.png","electoral_victory_message":"lol","electoral_loss_message":"lol","no_electoral_majority_message":"lol","description_as_running_mate":"You’ve got the nomination, Nelson. George Hinman comes in, ready to show you the results of his weeks-long search for a running mate. His first choice? Chuck Percy, the Illinois Senator. He was there in 1960 during your deliberations with Nixon. Hell, he was with you in the Special Studies Project, back when he was the president of Bell & Howell.
Hinman places his trust in him, it seems - and so do you. What'll he bring to the table? Well, he's a pragmatic newcomer to the Senate, a potent counterbalance to the Goldwater side of the party, Hinman says. 1964? Nothing but an aberration, and you'll show them. He's popular, the hottest political article in the Republican Party
. A moderate, Midwestern, popular Republican. What more could you ask for?
Hinman says you might want someone who’s good at speaking, better at appealing to Middle America. He says you might like what else he has in mind, and suggests Maryland Governor Spiro Agnew. You know the man - you remember what he told you last year, when you were talking to McGeorge Bundy - to review your ties to the left, something about supporting the near-anarchists. Nevermind that, though. Ted, he's a good man, Hinman says. He wanted you to run since New Hampshire. When you announced you were running in March, he already had everything planned - a crew from the Baltimore Sun right in his own office in Annapolis, where they celebrated with champagne and whatnot. He's your most fanatic and loyal supporter.
You ask for what he'll do. Well, Hinman says, he'll do all he's done for you, and more. He's a moderate, too, and a Greek-American. A great speaker. You won't find anyone else as good as riling up the crowds as he is.
","candidate_score":1,"running_mate":true,"scrollable":false,"partner":"0"}},{"model":"campaign_trail.candidate","pk":1005,"fields":{"first_name":"Claude R.","last_name":"Kirk","election":4,"party":"Republican","state":"Florida","priority":1,"description":"g","color_hex":"#0000ff","secondary_color_hex":null,"is_active":0,"image_url":"https://i.imgur.com/6WmfYwx.png","electoral_victory_message":"lol","electoral_loss_message":"lol","no_electoral_majority_message":"lol","description_as_running_mate":"What about Governor Kirk, Hinman asks? He’s been eyeing the second spot for some time now - ever since he improbably endorsed you while Clif White was gathering Floridian votes for Reagan - he’s how you stopped Nixon in the first place. He’s of Southern stock, opposed to busing - could make us more competitive there, against Wallace. He’d make a good balancing partner, Hinman suggests, mend some fences with the conservatives, the Nixonites, the Reaganites, though Nixon’s probably gonna throw a fit. Show you as the real conservative you are, yeah. He’s a tough man, the best we can get.
And don’t forget, says Hinman, that he’s been loyal to the campaign, and that sort of dedication, even based on pure desire to be running-mate - we could use that.
","candidate_score":1,"running_mate":true,"scrollable":false,"partner":"0"}},{"model":"campaign_trail.candidate","pk":1006,"fields":{"first_name":"Ronald W.","last_name":"Reagan","election":4,"party":"Republican","state":"California","priority":1,"description":"g","color_hex":"#0000ff","secondary_color_hex":null,"is_active":0,"image_url":"https://i.imgur.com/o2yjCV4.png","electoral_victory_message":"lol","electoral_loss_message":"lol","no_electoral_majority_message":"lol","description_as_running_mate":"Governor Reagan’s done it - you’ve stopped Nixon. No amount of vote-grabbing from Thurmond, trying to secure Florida’s crucial 34 votes, could have saved him, it seems. And now you see in him a potential partner - he’s retracted the statement about you being a divisive force
within the party. You’re not too different, are you? Both Republicans, a Gallup poll showing Rockefeller-Reagan would beat Johnson-Humphrey 57-to-43 percent. When he gets engaged with the realities of being a governor, you don’t think he’s an extremist. He’s got good oratorical talents, too.
Hinman cautions you against this, pointing to the incident at New Orleans. He’ll never accept this position, especially not under you - there’s no practical means. But if you’ve made up your mind, maybe you could walk out of the convention with him as a running mate?
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They could throw me out. But I wasn’t going to walk out…- Nelson A. Rockefeller","Rocky, Rocky, give us your answer true, / Is the White House really the place for you?","
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