Out of the Blue: A President Reagan in '68 TL

[Historico]

[COLOR="RED"]Blessed are the Caregivers[/COLOR]: The 2nd Term of Maureen Elizabeth Reagan

   On a snow covered day, the recently turned 56 year old 42nd President of the United States of America…Maureen E. Reagan was sworn in by Chief Justice Mario Cuomo for a second term. Despite subzero temperatures, Maureen ushered one of the strongest speeches of her career as she emphasized her stirring legislative achievements of her first term. She also promised to continue her Idealist foreign Policy, as well as increased streamlining of the federal government. The most touching and memorable moment of Maureen’s last Inaugural address came when spoke of the struggles of her Alzheimer-stricken father, “And to our wonderful former first lady and my step-mother Nancy, I blow a kiss to thee because there is a special place in heaven for caregivers. I hope to someday with that same blessing spread love and good will for not only to our nation but for everyone across the planet.” President Reagan’s second administration in actuality; saw a major cosmetic makeover, due to the retirement of several members from her first cabinet.

Secretary of State: Richard G. “Dick” Lugar
Secretary of Treasury: Barbara Hackman Franklin
Secretary of Defense: William S. Cohen
Attorney General: William P. Barr
Secretary of Interior: Ben Nighthorse Campbell
National Security Advisor: Madeline Albright
Secretary of Commerce: Elaine Chao
Secretary of Labor:  Robert “Bob” Martinez
Secretary of Agriculture: Dirk A. Kempthorne
Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare: Lamar Alexander
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development: Jack Kemp
Secretary of Energy: William Reiley
Secretary of Veteran’s Affairs: Jesse Brown
Secretary of Transportation: Peter V. Ueberroth

   In examination President Maureen Reagan 2nd administration one would only have to look back to a commencement address given in 1995 at her father’s Alma Mater Eureka College in which she said “When you get to the top, stay there and make sure other women join you!” The nation’s first female President took her own statement to heart, as women were given more powerful roles in her administration. To replace the well respected former Secretary of Treasury Arthur Laffer, after forever aligning the Reagan Presidency with Supply Side-Economics, decided to return back to the Private sector for the rest of the decade. After looking at numerous candidates for the vacant position President Reagan decided on CEO Barbara Hackman Franklin of investment consulting firm Barbara Franklin Enterprises as the nation’s 1st Female Treasury Secretary. Her work in foreign markets, especially that China became increasingly visible during her role in the sanctions imposed on the Communist nation during the Bradley Administration. Although many Democrats were staunchly against such a Pro-Globalization pick, such as Senator Dianne Feinstein of California whom said, “If American’s want to blame someone for the reasons why so many of their jobs are being shipped overseas…Ms. Franklin would be the lady to point the finger at.” Yet, with the GOP still holding a surmounting majority in the Senate and no illegalities being found…Barbara H. Franklin was confirmed by the senate on a 80-20 margin. Another high level pick was for the replacement of the 73 year old former Vice-Admiral and Defense Secretary James B. Stockdale. Under the advice of Vice-President Warner and Secretary Lugar, Maureen tapped the highly popular former Senator William Cohen of Maine. Ironically, the recently retired Cohen initially declined the offer in December of 1992 to join the Reagan Cabinet, largely due to a desire to see through his final term in the Senate and now looked forward to one last hurrah on the arena of Foreign affairs.  Due to his Bipartisan approach to reaching across the isle, William S. Cohen was almost unanimously confirmed by his former Senate colleagues.


Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen of Maine

   In the first months of Reagan’s second term in her replacements of several less visible members of her cabinet, it was apparent that Maureen attempted to extract concessions from the Social Conservatives of her party. That would largely be seen her for her picks for Attorney General and Secretary of Agriculture. Both Janet Reno and George W. Bush (Largely in anticipation to fill in for his father’s retirement from the Senate) had been courted by draft movements in the respective home states to run in the Midterm elections of 1998. Maureen nominated Conservative Boy Wonder…The 46 year old William P. Barr Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Barr’s strong belief in Presidential Power and harsh Prison sentences for habitual offenders endeared him further to the right, and despite Democratic efforts was quickly confirmed. The 42nd President slight shift to the right was also seen by her nomination of newly minted Senator Dirk Kempthorne of Idaho as Agriculture Secretary. A staunch fiscal conservative, Kempthorne accepted the nod largely because he felt he would gain more national prominence to Americans as a Cabinet member in a popular administration rather as a just being another Senator from the Gem state.


   However, Maureen placation to the Conservative wing of her party did not hinder the continued trend of inclusive and bipartisan administrations. To replace the retiring former Senator Paul Laxalt of Nevada at Interior Secretary, President Reagan tapped moderate-to-conservative Democrat Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell of Colorado. The first Native American to be appointed to the position, Campbell’s record of rolling back the tide of overzealous Environmentalism in the West made him a prime candidate. In replacement of the outgoing Reform Party Commerce Secretary Lowell Weicker of Connecticut, President Reagan chose United Way of America CEO and Heritage Foundation Fellow, Elaine Chao as the first Asian Pacific American to be the guiding light in the Reagan administration’s push for globalization. Lastly to replace her dear elderly friend in March Fong Fu at Transportation Secretary, President Reagan nominated Reform Party architect Peter Ueberroth of California. Still highly popular for bringing the Olympic Games to Maureen’s home state in 1984, the former MLB Chairman was happy to get back into the Public eye in hopes to further his chances in California state politics in the ensuing years.


Reform Party Co-Founder and Secretary of Transportation Pete Ueberroth

   With everything mostly quiet in the world in terms of foreign policy, President Reagan focused much of her energy in the first two years of her final term in office on Domestic issues. At the State of the Union address, Maureen unveiled several pieces of legislation under her continued mantra of a “Future For America” plan that she wanted to get passed before the 1998 Midterm elections. These new points added to the plan would be; Immigration Reform, Repeal of the Full-Employment Act, dissolution of the IRS, a Whistleblower Protection Act, Public Internet Usage across America and CAFTA. What wasn’t noticeably included in her plans was an endorsement of the Defense of Marriage Act which, the President had still remained increasingly mull about her opinion of it. Personally, Maureen felt as if the issue of Gay Marriage was a State issue, in which the Federal Government had no business regulating. Yet she also knew that it was an extremely volatile issue for members in both parties, and simply put President Reagan wanted to continue to cement her legacy as an “undoctrinate conservative” Presidency.

   The easiest portion of Maureen’s agenda was that of the economy, as although Unemployment in January of ’97 was at an all time low of 2%. Reports from the Fed showed that economic growth and innovation was almost nonexistent and that the dollar had began to falter against the Euro and the Yen. This meant that although large government agencies had insured American’s a job under the Full Employment Act of 1983, many American’s felt as if their was no incentive to venture into the risky world of the private sector. After almost 15 years of loss of competition against the Government, Financial Institutions begged the Republican controlled Congress and the Reagan Administration to roll back the regulations which were strangling the economy of the 1990’s. Luckily, Wall Street had a close ally in Monetarist Libertarian Republican Alan Greenspan at FED Chairman, whose knowledge of the American Economic system was a Professor to even seventy year old Senators. Greenspan worked with Treasury Secretary Barbara Franklin, Commerce Secretary Elaine Chao, and HUD Secretary Jack Kemp to design the best approach to help jumpstart the economy. That approach was taken by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Phil Gramm of Texas and introduced as The Gramm-Leach-Bailey Act(GLBA) or Financial Services Modernization Act of 1997. The GLBA was divided into two key sections, one was a repeal of the Depression area Glass-Stegall Act of 1933 which would free up the market for securities, insurance and banking companies. The second portion of the act was a full repeal of the Full-Employment Act of 1983, which was targeted by major cuts to the burlesque Triumvirate era Domestic Programs. After a rigorous Debate through congress, the GLBA was passed on a party line at 60 to 37 margins and was signed into lay by President Reagan on May 2nd 1997.


Senator Phil Gramm of Texas and Senator John McCain in support of the GLBA

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   As Congress recessed for summer, President Reagan and her administration furiously worked to try to design a sweeping bill for Immigration Reform. Largely due to sensitivity of the Immigration issue, the Democratic Administration’s of Kennedy, Finch, and Bradley pushed any serious change to US Immigration policy put on the back burner. Yet as public debate over increased waves of immigration across the porous US-Mexican Border due to the passage of NAFTA, many in both parties felt as if something had to be done to mitigate the issue. Maureen’s initial vision chiefly designed by Secretaries Martinez, Campbell and Chao in the first quarter of 1997…was to make it illegal to knowingly hire/recruit immigrants without the proper paper work, required employers to report their employees' citizenship status, and granted amnesty to illegal immigrants whom entered the United States before January 1, 1993 and whom made no attempt to move back to their native country. The Act also granted a path towards legalization to certain agricultural seasonal workers and immigrants who had been continuously and illegally present in the United States since January 1, 1993

When Congress reconvened in August, Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona and the “Lioness of the Senate” Shirley Chisholm of New York introduced the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1997 to debate. The “Fair and Balanced” Measure was highly praised by Liberal Democrats, and Moderate Republicans, yet Conservatives within Reagan’s own parties were adamantly opposed to the IRCA. Newly elected Speaker of the House (Dick Cheney served as Speaker since the GOP took over the House in 1990, but stepped aside in February of ’97 due to Health Issues) Gary Bauer of Kentucky declared that the bill did not go far enough to punish those who entered the US illegally. Under Speaker Bauer’s watch, House Republicans designed an opposition Bill which called for a rapid militarization of the INS for automatic deportation for any Illegal Immigrant found in the US, as well as a multi-million dollar Wall to be built along the United States’ Southern Border. Although this bill was laughed off by the President, it was supported by ancient Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina. For almost an entire month, he and a group of Republicans talk non-stop, trying to defeat the Bill.  They fail, and on December 5th, the Senate votes 60-40 for cloture; on December 13th, it votes 54-43 to pass the Bill. Due to the narrow GOP holding of the House, a coalition of Democrats and Reform Party Representatives pass the bill on a relatively strong margin. Surrounded by Hispanic Civil rights Activists, as well as Senator’s McCain, Chisholm and Vice President Warner…President Maureen Reagan signs the IRCA into Law Christmas Day, 1997.


Senator Shirley Chisholm of New York, The Lioness of the Senate

The next major policy proposal on the Reagan administration’s agenda was that of Social Security reform. In her 1998 State of the Union address, Maureen unveiled a plan “that would save a system headed straight for bankruptcy, and ensure our children and grandchildren the same reward that we and out parents shared.” The broad proposal called for a semi-privatization of the institution, in which after a phase-in period, workers currently less than 55 years old would have the option to set aside four percentage points of their payroll taxes in individual accounts that could be invested in the private sector, in "a conservative mix of bonds and stock funds". Workers making such a choice might receive larger or smaller benefits than if they had not done so depending on the performance of the investments they selected. A bipartisan Congressional Committee lasted for the next three months, in which unveiled a major issue in which the President’s proposal’s in that it did not address the projected shortfalls in Social Security. During the summer recess, President Reagan spent much of the summer campaigning across the country for Social Security Reform. Yet an aggressive Anti-Reform Campaign was launched by the AARP and AFL-CIO which incited many angry town hall meetings across America, usually from those who were uniformed about the extent of the Reform and felt as if any attempt reform would cancel their chances to cash in to the system. Gallup Polls during July showed that only about 43% of American’s supported their President on the measure. However, Speaker Bauer pushed through Social Security Reform Act of 1998 in August, and after weeks of debate a coalition of a united Democratic Front and Reform Party Representatives(Mainly due to it not going farther enough to address it’s long term funding problems) defeated the SSR on a narrow margin. Due to her own visibility and support for the SSRA, Maureen Reagan’s approval ratings dropped down below 50% for the first time in her Presidency as it stood at 46% in December of ’98.


Graph used by Congressional Democrats to showcase the Problems of the SSRA of 1998

Defeated on her push for Social Security Reform, Maureen Reagan understood that growing power of the Social Conservative wing within her own party and the newfound strength of the Liberal wing of the Democratic Party it would make it much harder for the President to push through her Moderate Domestic Agenda. In 1998 Reagan turned to the Lugar Doctrine in order to shape a lasting legacy in the World. This would mainly be seen in President Reagan’s passage of an executive order in June of 1998 to authorize “Regime Change” in Iraq due to fears that Saddam Hussein was attempting to secure nuclear weapons. In order to stop Hussein’s capability to use the weapons, the United States issued a weeklong campaign to bomb Anti-Air installations under Operation Scorpion in October, 1998. Yet, while having to deal with the unslain dragon from the previous Bradley Administration…Maureen Reagan continued to face against her administration’s signature battle against Terrorism both at home and abroad. On August 7th 1998, a bomb was set off at the Kenyan US Embassy in Narobi in which 212 people were killed including twelve Americans. Once it was verified that the attacks were made by members of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, with strong ties to that of Al-Qaeda…the Afghanistan Terrorist organization. A day after the bombing, President Reagan announced in a televised address, that she would be giving the green light to Operation Iron Fist. Iron Fist largely comprised of Cruise Missile Strikes to Terrorist-affiliated sites in Sudan, Egypt, and Afghanistan. However, the Operation failed to bring in the man responsible for the deaths…Osama Bin Laden as he escaped into the mountainous region of Northern Pakistan. President Reagan’s failure in capture of Bin Laden inturn was used by Democrats as a major campaign issue in the 1998 Midterm elections.


The Aftermath of US Embassy Attack in Nairobi, Kenya...A taste of things to come?

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Come on, Historico!

[Vosem]

Can't you at least give us the '98 congressional results?

And as for 2000...I don't think Republicans will nominate Warner, he's too old...Bush lost his father's Senate seat in 1996...perhaps Rick Santorum? John McCain is another possibility...Phil Gramm? Sam Brownback?

On the Democratic side...Bill Clinton? Al Gore? Bob Kerrey? Joe Lieberman? Jesse Jackson? Paul Wellstone? Bill Bradley?

As for the Reformers...I think they'll stay a competitive party...Ventura? Groark, again? Senator Barkley? They should not go with Mal Herbert, that would ruin them...perhaps Secretary Ueberroth?

And as always...please, sir, I want some more.

[Historico]

The 1998 US Congressional/Gubernatorial Elections

   Despite the relative popularity of the President herself and the revived economy, the ’98 midterms showed that the American People did not hold those same feelings for those within her party. With 1996 Democratic Presidential Nominee Ann Richards’ unique electoral strategy, The Democrats had finally been able to come up with a strong message to counter that in the Grand Old Party. As by the fall of ’98 many American’s had felt the brunt of Reagan’s “trickle-down” economics as a large result of the President’s streamlining of the Federal Government caused many American’s to loose job’s they had for over a decade. Running on a platform of Jobs, Anti-NAFTA and stronger American efforts against Islamic terrorism…The Democrats were able to pick up a net gain of 8 seats, pushing them to a 51 to 45 to 3 majority. Those Pickups include Bill Clinton in Arkansas ( no Net gain due to Bumpers’ retirement), Julian Bond in Georgia, Evan Bayh in Indiana, Scotty Blaester in Kentucky, Chuck Schumer in New York, John Edwards in North Carolina, Jay Nixon in Missouri and Patty Murary in Washington. However, Democratic Successes did not trickle down to the House level, as Speaker Gary Bauer was able to narrowly keep his majority. As the 106th Congress entered the capitol in the last year of the millennium, The 74 year old George H.W “Poppy” Bush of Texas passed down the title of Senate Majority Leader he had served for eight years to Senator Barbara Mikulski of Maryland.

   In the Gubernatorial elections, it proved to be a very good year to be an incumbent as members from all three parties were able to secure the hold on Governor’s mansions across the country. Holds to the office of Governor included Fife Symington in Arizona, Angus King in Maine, John Engler in Michigan, Dan Barkley in Minnesota, Jeanne Shaheen in New Hampshire, George Pataki in New York,  Tom Ridge in Pennsylvania and Howard Dean in Vermont. Both Democrats and Republicans almost split their victories evenly; Democrats include Don Seigelman in Alabama, Gray Davis in California, Gail Schoetller in Colorado, Glenn Rashod in Illinois, Tom Vilsak in Iowa, Lee Fisher in Ohio, and Jim Hodges in South Carolina. Republican Pick ups were the following; John E. “Jeb” Bush in Florida, Linda Lingle In Hawaii, Ellen Sauerbrey in Maryland, Paul Callucci in Massachusetts, Mike Johanns in Nebraska, Kenny Guinn in Nevada, and Lincoln Almond in Rhode Island.

   However, one of the more exciting aspects of the ’98 Midterm elections was its history making ramifications. Hispanic American’s watched closely on three hotly contested races in California, New Mexico and Texas which all featured high profile Hispanic Gubernatorial nominees. In the Golden State…Speaker of the California State Assembly Cruz Bustamante, after declining an offer to run as Lieutenant Governor with Gray Davis, won his party nomination for Alan Cranston’s old seat and fought it out against incumbent Senator Bruce Herschensoln. Bruce was a vocal critic of President Reagan’s policies and his stance as an ardent Conservative made Senator Herschensoln unpalatable to voters of a state that was growing leftward by the day. Speaker Bustamante defeated the incumbent Senator on a 55 to 43% margin of victory. In New Mexico, Albuquerque Mayor Martin Joseph Chavez trounced Reform Party Incumbent Governor Mondragon in a split race against the more libertarian-minded Republican Nominee Gary E. Johnson. Many pundits believe that Chavez was able to pull of the victory because he was able to successfully portray himself as a Centrist between the leftist Mondragon and Paleoconservative Johnson to win the Race on a 45% of the vote, while Mondragon and Johnson both held 30%. Republican State Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales, of Texas emerged from a squeaker against Democrat Texas Comptroller John Sharp. The State AG held the backing of Poppy Bush’s supporters and was a close personal friend of his son form Reagan Agriculture Secretary George W. Bush. John Sharp on the other hand effectively inherited the political machine of two term Governor Ann Richards, however this connection to the former Democratic Nominee proved not be as helpful as it might have four years earlier. Gonzales and his campaign manager Karl Rove were able to pain him as running for “The Liberal Granny’s Third Term. Since the Reform Party did not put up a gubernatorial candidate in Texas that year, the two way race was largely left up to the voters, and AG Alberto Gonzales was able to pull of a incredibly narrow 51% victory over Comptroller John Sharp’s 49%. In analysis o the race afterwards, Many pundits believed that the Bradley effect came into play in the Lone Star State as most polls had Gonzales up by Seven to Eight points going into November.

Cruz Bustamante of California, The first Latino Senator in over 30 years

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Excellent TL!

[Bo]

Good TL. I really enjoyed reading it.

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Nice to see this back.

[Historico]

Thanks guys for the Reply...I may try to get a quick update out on the twilight of Maureen's Presidency before Spring Break is out...Which well give me some free time to work on my glorious plans for the 2000 Election..lol

[Historico]

Ok here's my latest installment, thanks to this site, from which I borrowed heavily about Maureen's condition... http://www.meredy.com/janewyman/maureen.htm

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[COLOR="RED"]Blessed are the Caregivers[/COLOR]: Part 2[/B]


   Maureen Elizabeth Reagan entered the final two years of her Presidency with a an approval rating of around 45% percent due to her perceived unfocused foreign policy doctrine. She also understood that any major domestic achievement would be limited, by a divided Congress with the Progressive Senate Majority Leader Barbara Mikulski and Conservative Speaker of the House Gary Bauer of Kentucky in charge of the 106th Congress. Evenstill as her father battled with the onset of Alzheimer’s disease, The 42nd President of the United States would look for measures that she could enact without much congressional delay.

   However, despite newfound exuberance in the economy due to a renewed Private sector, and a relatively peaceful time in the post-Cold War era in the globe…The last year of the millennium would be marked with tragedy for not only the nation but on a personal basis as well. On February 4th 1999, an Unarmed West African immigrant named Amadou Dialoo was killed by NYPD on a unrelated stakeout. Much like the Rodney King incident seven years earlier, the shooting exploded an already tense race related community since Mayor Rudy Giluanni defeat of David Dinkins in the 1993 election. Riots consumed the city, for almost two days; million’s of dollars of public property was destroyed and looted, as well as numerous deaths. Governor George Pataki of New York did not hesitate to call the President for National Guard reinforcements. President Reagan remembered full well that President Bradley’s late response in the 1992 Riots, was one of the biggest factors to the Democratic defeat of that year  After the troops were called in, order was quickly reestablished in the primarily black neighborhoods where the riots were taking place. Yet, the general feeling within the American Public was that the NYC riots were a relatively isolated and that Maureen’s response to those riots was seen as quite unnecessary and heavy-handed. Expected as much, the NYC Riots would turn many minorities against the President, which caused her approval ratings to drop to 40% by March.

The NYC Riot in the aftermath of the Dialoo shooting


   In March of 1999, President Reagan signed one of the few measures that won bipartisan support in the split 106th Congress was the Sexual Offender Act of 1999 or known as “Dawnie’s Law”. The law was named after Dawn Rosenberg, who was kidnapped, raped, and murdered by a violent repeated Sex offender during Christmas of 1998. Dawnie’s Law requires persons convicted of sex crimes against children to notify local law enforcement of any change of address or employment after release from custody (prison or psychiatric facility). The notification requirement may be imposed for a fixed period of time - usually at least ten years - or permanently. In the signing ceremony surrounded by Dawnie’s relatives, President Reagan said “I can not even begin to imagine the pain that you feel, but I can offer you solace in that no other families will have to feel this way again.”

A month later, on April 20th Two Littedon Colorado Teenagers opened fire on their teachers and classmates in their high school, resulting in the deaths of 36 other students and four teachers. Although the students responsible for the shooting took their own life, many wanted a scapegoat for what the felt was the depravity of a “lost generation” and blamed anything from anti-depressesants, internet usage, violent video games and Goth culture. One of the most stringent responses to the Columbine High School Massacre was the passage of the Allard-Feinstein Act of 1999. The Bill was introduced by Senators Wayne Allard (R-CO) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), and was brought to debate by May 10th. The Act would ban shipment, transport, ownership and use of guns or ammunition by individuals convicted of misdemeanor or felony domestic violence, or who is under a restraining (protection) order for domestic abuse, along with individuals with documented mental illnesses. The Act would also make it unlawful to knowingly sell or give a firearm or ammunition to such person.

The Evacuation of Students and Teachers during the Columbine High School Massacre

     The Allard-Feinstein Act was strongly supported by all of the Reform Partiers, moderate-to-liberal Democrats/Republicans, and even President Reagan, the Act hits a major snag in the Senate, where it faces strong opposition from Southerners the likes of Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott (R-MS), Strom Thurmond (R-SC), and former Presidential candidate Al Gore (D-TN), who argue against not only the constitutionality of the legislation, but also of its effectiveness. During the summer recess of the NRA launched a viral ad-campaign lambasting the Allard-Feinstein Act as an infringement on American’s 2nd Amendment rights. Their major spokesman was NRA President Charlton Heston who campaigned across the country running against AFA. At a rally in Charlotte, North Carolina in August, Heston made one of the most memorable quotes of his career when he said “So, as we set out this year to defeat the divisive forces that would take freedom away, I want to say those fighting words for everyone within the sound of my voice to hear and to heed, and especially for you, Miss Feinstein, from my cold, dead hands!” In the fall, the highlight of the debate was a filibuster by Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL), which lasted for 19 hours, 45 minutes, and 28 seconds, during which Senator Sessions reads the Declaration of Independence, The Articles of Confederation, the US Constitution, the Alabama State Constitution, and every Inaugural Address from Washington to Andrew Jackson. On September 14th, the Senate broke the filibuster, 64-36, and passes the Act on September 25th, 58-42; it passes the House easily on October 9th with a coalition of Democrats and Reform Partiers, and is signed by the President on October 12th.

NRA President Charlton Heston campaigning against the Allard-Feinstein Act


   With the major policy debate of the year ended, President Reagan could focus on another pressing issue…her health. In the spring of 1997, Maureen discovered a large, pigmented mole on the back of one of her thighs. After extensive testing it was revealed that the lesion was in-fact the skin cancer Melanoma, and unbeknownst to the American Public, she underwent a grueling year of therapy with intravenous interferon, a naturally occurring protein that helps the body fight viral infections and some cancers. The side effects were so severe that she held an extremely light work schedule and very few public appearances. However, after treatment in the summer of 1998, doctors determined that the disease was in remission and that she was able to handle most of her duties as President of the United States. Yet during Halloween 1999, President Reagan had to undergo emergency surgery at GW Hospital, where doctors discovered that the disease had spread; they removed lymph nodes from her knee to her groin and were planning additional treatment. In response to the news, President Maureen Reagan met with all of the members of her cabinet to discuss whether or not to invoke the 25th Amendment. Almost all the members felt as if, if the treatment of the Melanoma was aggressive as the doctors had reported it so, that there would be know way she could actively perform the duties of the Presidency.

   On December 8th 1999 in an evening televised address to the nation, The 42nd President of the United States revealed her bout with Skin Cancer, a secret which was so meticulously hidden from the American people for the previous two years. After discussing her proudest achievements and solemn failures, President Reagan said “Therefore, I shall resign the Presidency effective noon tomorrow. Vice President Warner will be sworn in as this nation 43rd President at that hour in the Oval Office.” The news shocked most Americans like a nuclear bomb, who were unaware that their President had been battling cancer for so long. Although some were angry that the President would keep such critical medical information away from the Public, many Americans rallied behind their President and thanked her for not putting the country on hiatus while she continued her treatment. As Maureen said, she resigned the office of President of the United States at 12 o’clock sharp August 9th 1999 and looked onward as Chief Justice Mario Cuomo swore in the highly respected 72 year old John William Warner of Virginia as the nation 43rd President of the United States.

John William Warner of Virginia, The 43rd President of the United States of America

After her Resignation, President Reagan saw her approval ratings skyrocket the 75% in which they remain today. Later in December, she was admitted to Mercy San Juan Hospital in Carmichael for colon surgery that she had put off to smooth over the succession process to President John Warner. In surgery, doctors found a cancerous tumor the size of a Ping-Pong ball on the right side of her pubic bone. Physicians decided at that time to try an aggressive program to tame the disease. She was admitted to the John Wayne Cancer Institute on January 11th 2001 and began the first 21-day cycle of treatment. Doctors expected to carry out about six cycles, in which she would carry the hopes and prayers of all Americans to help lift her spirits.

Maureen Reagan giving a speech in California for Alzheimer Awareness in 2000 after resigning the Presidency

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JOHN WARNER AS PRESIDENT? I approve.

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JOHN WARNER AS PRESIDENT? I approve.

[Historia Crux]

Wonderful to see this fine TL purring like a kitten again!

[Historico]

Thanks for the Replies guy's, expect the next installment on the Warner Presidency up either by tonight or tommorow and hopefully the 2000 US Presidential election by Sunday!!!

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Ha! Great to see it back

And I approve President Warner too

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Any chance that this will continue?

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Thanks for the Replies guy's, expect the next installment on the Warner Presidency up either by tonight or tommorow and hopefully the 2000 US Presidential election by Sunday!!!

Hah!!

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I'm so pissed it wasn't continued

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I'm so pissed it wasn't continued

I know.

Even though I wasn't on the forum when it was going on, I was a reader and I always wanted to see it continued.

[Historia Crux]

I'm so pissed it wasn't continued

I know.

Even though I wasn't on the forum when it was going on, I was a reader and I always wanted to see it continued.

Me too. What even happened to Historico anyway?

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I'm so pissed it wasn't continued

I know.

Even though I wasn't on the forum when it was going on, I was a reader and I always wanted to see it continued.

Me too. What even happened to Historico anyway?

Whatever happened to your Perot TL, Andy?

[Historia Crux]

I'm so pissed it wasn't continued

I know.

Even though I wasn't on the forum when it was going on, I was a reader and I always wanted to see it continued.

Me too. What even happened to Historico anyway?

Whatever happened to your Perot TL, Andy?

It's on ice, mostly because my RL has been too hectic. Although I've thought about running with it for a while and taking a break from "Forever Mankind".