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  1. The Decade of Fritz (A Timeline of the Presidency of Walter F. Mondale, 1980-1989)
    Threadmarks: The Vice President and the Steel Magnolia (1983 and 1984)

    President Mondale’s re-election campaign began soon after the 1982 midterms ended. Mondale began raising money for his re-election campaign only a few months into his presidency in 1981. There were consistent questions from members of the press if Mondale intended to keep Vice President Lloyd...

  2. The Decade of Fritz (A Timeline of the Presidency of Walter F. Mondale, 1980-1989)
    Threadmarks: The Grand Ol' Party (1983 and 1984) (Part 2)

    At the first Republican primary debate in Des Moine, Iowa in January of 1984, Congressman Phil Crane spent most of the debate attacking Senator Bush for not being conservative enough in his policy positions and with his voting record in the Senate. General Haig tried to use his foreign policy...

  3. The Decade of Fritz (A Timeline of the Presidency of Walter F. Mondale, 1980-1989)
    Threadmarks: The Grand Ol' Party (1983 and 1984) (Part 1)

    On November 17, 1982, just 15 days after the midterm elections, Congressman Phil Crane from Illinois was the first Republican to announce his candidacy for President of the United States in 1984. Just a few weeks later in early December, four-star general and President Nixon’s last Chief of...

  4. The Decade of Fritz (A Timeline of the Presidency of Walter F. Mondale, 1980-1989)

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  5. The Decade of Fritz (A Timeline of the Presidency of Walter F. Mondale, 1980-1989)
    Threadmarks: Allies and Apartheid (1983 and 1984)

    The issue of whether to divest from South Africa because of apartheid continued to divide the western world in the early 1980s. Activism grew in the United States and in Europe over the issue of apartheid in South Africa with many young people, civil rights groups, and older peace activists...

  6. The Decade of Fritz (A Timeline of the Presidency of Walter F. Mondale, 1980-1989)
    Threadmarks: Old Soviet Leaders and the First Family (1983 and 1984)

    The news of the Soviet Union shooting down a South Korean commercial airplane shocked Mondale. Mondale returned to the White House for an emergency meeting with his national security advisors. In the days after the shooting down of the Korean airplane, the Soviet Union first refused to...

  7. The Decade of Fritz (A Timeline of the Presidency of Walter F. Mondale, 1980-1989)
    Threadmarks: Problems with the Soviets (1982 and 1983)

    After Yuri Andropov became the leader of the Soviet Union in November of 1982, the Mondale administration privately hoped that the new leadership would be more willing to implement needed changes in the Soviet Union and be open to discussing a reduction of nuclear weapons. The U.S. and Soviet...

  8. Humphrey 1968 = Democrat Domination?

    One thing I think is important to remember is 1970s Ronald Reagan is different from 1980s Ronald Reagan. 1972 is less than 10 years removed from Barry Goldwater's brand of extreme conservatism (that Reagan was aligned with) and Goldwater's subsequent landslide loss to LBJ. There is still a large...

  9. The Decade of Fritz (A Timeline of the Presidency of Walter F. Mondale, 1980-1989)
    Threadmarks: Mondale's Red Wave (The 1982 Midterm Elections)

    As the 1982 midterm elections approached, the Republican Party was energized framing much of their campaign as a rebuke to Mondale and his policies. Edwin Meese who had served as Ronald Reagan’s campaign chief of staff in 1980, had been elected the chairman of the Republican National Committee...

  10. The Decade of Fritz (A Timeline of the Presidency of Walter F. Mondale, 1980-1989)
    Threadmarks: Mondale and Civil Rights, The GOP Look To 1984 (1981 and 1982)

    Civil Rights had always been an important issue to Walter Mondale, going all the way back to his days working as a staffer on Hubert Humphrey’s first senate campaign in 1948. Mondale early on in his presidency advocated for affirmative action programs and appointed many blacks, Hispanics, and...

  11. WI: 2000 election goes to the House, Bush elected President, Lieberman as VP

    I agree. This is the most likely scenario. I can see the vice-presidency reverting back to the way it was back in the Nixon and Ford years. Agnew was not part of Nixon's inner-circle and I could see Bush and Lieberman having a similar relationship. Before the 9/11 attacks the big issue of...

  12. The Decade of Fritz (A Timeline of the Presidency of Walter F. Mondale, 1980-1989)

    The Kennedy-Dingell Universal Health Insurance Act of 1982 U.S. Senate Roll Call Vote: Yays 53, Nays 47 Alabama Howell Heflin (D) Yay Jim Folsom, Jr. (D) Yay Alaska Ted Stevens (R) (Minority Whip) Nay Frank Murkowski (R) Nay Arizona Dennis DeConcini (D) Yay Bill Schulz (D) Yay Arkansas David...

  13. The Decade of Fritz (A Timeline of the Presidency of Walter F. Mondale, 1980-1989)
    Threadmarks: Health Care Reform Ends Mondale's Honeymoon (1981 and 1982)

    In 1981 the Democrats had huge majorities in both chambers of congress after the 1980 election. 283 Democrats in the House of Representatives and 58 Democrats in the U.S. Senate (with conservative independent Senator Harry Byrd, Jr. caucusing with the Democrats). Senator Ted Kennedy began...

  14. WI: Reagan is diagnosed with cancer in 1984

    In the summer of 1985 Ronald Reagan was diagnosed with colorectal cancer and had to have surgery to remove it. But what if Reagan's cancer develops a year earlier and is a more serious condition which requires him to have to undergo chemotherapy for a period of time? Let's say the cancer is...

  15. The Decade of Fritz (A Timeline of the Presidency of Walter F. Mondale, 1980-1989)
    Threadmarks: The First Lady and the Iron Lady (1981)

    (First Lady Joan Mondale) Joan Mondale was thrusted into the position of First Lady of the United States after Carter’s assassination. She wanted as first lady to continue the advocacy that Rosalynn Carter started with advocating for more mental health care services and promoting the importance...

  16. The Decade of Fritz (A Timeline of the Presidency of Walter F. Mondale, 1980-1989)
    Threadmarks: Summit Dreams and Justice for Jimmy (1981)

    On the foreign policy front, President Mondale was eager to re-start arms reduction talks with the Soviet Union. In the spring of 1981, the White House and the Kremlin were in early talks to schedule a summit between Mondale and General Secretary Lenoid Brezhnev. There was an agreement made...

  17. The Decade of Fritz (A Timeline of the Presidency of Walter F. Mondale, 1980-1989)
    Threadmarks: A Historic SCOTUS nominee and a Bad Economy (1981)

    Also in the summer of 1981, Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart announced that he was retiring from the court to spend more time with his family while he was still in good health. Mondale made it clear to his inner circle that he believed it was time to nominate a woman to the court. He knew...

  18. Foreign Policy of a John Kerry Administration

    I think his picks for Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense would have been longtime diplomat from the Carter and Clinton administrations Richard Holbrooke at State. And former chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee Sam Nunn at Defense. The lame duck months of the Bush presidency...

  19. Impact on American Politics if Reagan lost in 1984?

    A sooner end to apartheid in South Africa almost certainly.

  20. WI Dan Rather killed by Donald Nash?

    As for replacements for Rather the top contender at that time was Bob Schieffer since he had been the weekend anchor for years going back to the Cronkite era. Harry Reasoner was back at CBS at this point doing 60 Mintues and might have been a possibility, but his time as co-anchor at ABC with...
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