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Editor says, what if Walter Mondale had been elected President in 1980? muses Robbie Taylor. Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s).
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In 1981, on this day air-traffic controllers, federal employees banned from striking, confronted President Mondale.
President Mondale settles with air-traffic controllersIn spite of the temptation to have them fired and end the strike, Mondale negotiated with the controllers, and reached a fair settlement of their grievances. Labor was forever after grateful to Mondale, but the move enraged conservatives who declared that Mondale was in the pocket of big unions.
Two years before he had assumed the presidency after the worst disaster in American history. The wind currents from three-mile island swept the eastern seaboard and the radiation even reached Washington DC, where dozens of members of Congress were killed, as well as President Carter. Despite low expectations, he emerged as one of America's greatest presidents.
Entry posted by Alternate Historian Robbie Taylor
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Permalinks: Post, Day. Browse Thread: Politicians Source: Wikipedia Labels: Walter Mondale, Ronald Reagan, Presidency, 1980 Presidential Election, Election. Editor says, please don't forget Robbie's birthday present this month - a 99 cent sale on all my books! Pick up one at your favorite online outlet: Barnes & Noble (Nook), Amazon (Kindle) and Smashwords (Any ereader).
~ Could you give us your books' names? "Hope"
~ Impossible on the simple front that TMI _couldn't have_ released clouds of lethal radiation. The safety measures there worked.
~ Jackie, the books are Warp (originated in TIAH), Before/After, Hope and 3rd M
~ Lucky to have a benevolent dictator. In such strife, we could even see rebellion.
~ Re Eric Oppen: Well, "worked" is a relative term in this instyance, but it's hardly likely that "dozens of members of Conggress" and President Carter would all have died even if there had been a massive release of radioactive contaminants into the atmosphere--if only becauswe they'd have been quickly evacuated. In any event, even Chernobyl only killed at most a few hundred people directly, and that includes workers sent into the actual site with inadequate protection--although there are claims of a sharp spike in longer-term illnesses. Mondale wouldn't get to be president this way.
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