Fear and Loathing '68 (1960s Political RP, OOC)

by **The Sarangtus Lands** » Thu Jun 23, 2022 4:01 pm

Another U.S. 1960s Politics RP is exposed to light! This RP is the spiritual successor to HOTB, which existed at one point.

Fear and Loathing '68

Acid! (IC) • Abortion! (Congress) • Amnesty! (Discord)

Current Date: February 1968

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By the way, in terms of referring to IRL politicians, they have different names in this RP, however everything else, unless otherwise noted, remains the same, including their appearance. Here is the list of names. If you are interacting with a politician not on this list, feel free to make up the name on your own:

by **The Sarangtus Lands** » Thu Jun 23, 2022 4:02 pm

Character Roster:

Executive Branch:

Legislative Branch:

Governors and Mayors:

Non-Officeholders and Minor Officeholders:

by **Dentali** » Thu Jun 23, 2022 4:05 pm

by **Newne Carriebean7** » Thu Jun 23, 2022 4:07 pm

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by **Sao Nova Europa** » Thu Jun 23, 2022 4:07 pm

Tag.

Have reserved a char that is based partly on Patton, Omar Bradley, MacArthur (Occupation of Japan and Korean War), Matthew Ridgway and Ike's Secretary of State John Dulles.

Feel free everyone to come to our friendly Discord to discuss about your possible applications. We would love to have you join us.

From my draft app:

by **Louisianan** » Thu Jun 23, 2022 4:33 pm

by **Lavan Tiri** » Thu Jun 23, 2022 4:39 pm

The only thing I fear and loathe is Louie.

by **Louisianan** » Fri Jun 24, 2022 10:47 am

Lavan Tiri wrote:The only thing I fear and loathe is Louie.

I'm just a sweet little old thang! Heart of gold that's full of desire!

by **Sao Nova Europa** » Fri Jun 24, 2022 11:07 am

Character Application and Information Sheet

NS Nation Name: Sao Nova Europa
Character Name: Jonathan Jackson
Character Gender: Male
Character Age: 72
Character Date of Birth: March 3, 1895
Character Position/Role/Job:

Commanding Officer, I Armored Corps (September 12, 1942 – March 5, 1943)
Commanding Officer (temporary), II Corps (March 5, 1943 to April 16, 1943)
Commanding Officer, I Armored Corps (April 16, 1943 to July 9, 1943)
Commanding Officer, 7th Army (July 9, 1943 – September 9, 1943)
Commanding General, Field Forces European Theater (September 9, 1943 – March 6, 1944)
Commanding General, First Army (March 6, 1944 – August 1, 1944)
Commanding General, 12th Army Group (August 1, 1944 – 12 May 1945)
Commander in Chief U.S. Army Forces Pacific (29 May 1945 - 29 August 1945)
Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers in Japan (29 August 1945 - 11 April 1951)
Commander of the United Nations Command (7 July 1950 - 11 April 1951)
Secretary of State (January 26, 1953 – January 20, 1961)
Governor of South Dakota (January 3, 1963 – January 5, 1967)

Battles/Wars:
North African campaign
Allied invasion of Sicily
Normandy landings
Allied advance from Paris to the Rhine
Battle of Hürtgen Forest
Allied invasion of Germany
Borneo Campaign
Korean War

Character Country/State of Birth: South Dakota
Character State of Residence: South Dakota
Character Party Affiliation: Republican Party
Faceclaim: Charles de Gaulle
Main Strengths:

War Hero – Jonathan Jackson is a celebrated war hero. He commanded the largest group of American soldiers to ever serve under one field commander. He led American troops in North Africa, Sicily, France, Germany, Borneo and Korea with great success. At the home front, he managed get tons of publicity thanks to his connections to the US press (his brother was a journalist), his ‘Mad Jack’ persona (which he carefully and calculatedly cultivated) and his military victories. As a result, he is highly respected even by political opponents.

Charismatic speaker – Jonathan Jackson is a charismatic speaker who can get crowds fired up. His speeches used to inspire the troops under his command, and now inspire the voters.

Secretary of State – As Secretary of State of the Davis administration, Jackson got a reputation of a hardline anti-communist and became a hero to war hawks in both major parties.

Main Weaknesses:

Old age – At 72 (turning 73 this March), Jackson will be one of the oldest men to be seeking the office of President. Some argue that America needs a President who is young and vigorous, not an old man. Jackson will have to persuade them otherwise.

Mad Jack – While his ‘Mad Jack’ persona has made him famous with the public, it also sparks fears about how he would handle foreign policy. As Commander of UN Forces in Korea he had advocated for expanding the war into China and as Secretary of State he practiced brinkmanship.

Conservative – Jackson belongs to the conservative wing of the GOP, and after the disaster of 1964 there are reasonable fears about nominating another conservative. Jackson will have to persuade them that he can smooth the edges and present a more moderate face.

Biography:

Early Life

Jonathan Jackson was born in Pierre, South Dakota on March 3, 1895. He was the oldest of four brothers. His father, Henry, was a retired U.S. Army captain while his mother, Martha, was a housewife who had inherited her family’s farms in South Dakota. Jonathan was a reserved child, but gifted in history and mathematics. As a young kid, he would read Greek and Roman classics (in English translations), having an unusual interest in the ancient authors for someone of his age. He especially admired Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar, whom he hoped to emulate one day.

His father was a faithful Christian and his uncle – Alexander – was a Presbyterian minister. As such, Jackson’s upbringing was religious and conservative. Jackson grew up to be a deeply devoted Christian, which later on in his life made him hate “godless Marxism” with a passion. He would attend the local Presbyterian Church with his family every Sunday, and he served as an altar boy: this helped him overcome his shyness. His uncle Alexander taught him how to give captivating speeches. He also instilled to him his love for sports, especially baseball. Jackson would consider Alexander a “second father”.

He graduated in 1912 from high school and applied to United States Military Academy at West Point because he thought that would please his father (who was a West Point graduate). As a cadet, he showed great promise due to both his intelligence and physical prowess. He was a baseball star and often played on semi-pro teams for no remuneration. He was considered one of the most outstanding college players in the nation during his junior and senior seasons at West Point, noted as both a power hitter and an outfielder, with one of the best arms in his day. He rejected multiple offers to play professional baseball, choosing to pursue his Army career. He graduated first in his class in 1916, with an academic score of 2424.12 merits out of a possible 2470.00 or 98.14.

Jackson was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the Infantry Branch of the United States Army and was first assigned to the 14th Infantry Regiment on the Mexico–United States border, defending it from incursions due to the Mexican civil war. During that time Jackson set out to verify a report that a number of rogue Mexican locomotives had crossed the border.

He and his party fell victims of an ambush by five gunmen. Then they were attacked first by fifteen horsemen, and then by another three horsemen. Jackson shot many of them while remaining unharmed, the attacker's bullets simply grazing his clothes. Because of his heroism in action, he was awarded a Medal of Honor. It was due to this enterprise that someone dubbed him "Mad Jackson", soon shortened to "Mad Jack". There is still disagreement over whom first use this phrase, but it soon spread. Jackson accepted the moniker and even joked about it from time to time.

When the United States entered World War I in April 1917, Jackson was promoted to captain and sent to guard the Butte, Montana copper mines, considered of strategic importance. Jackson, who was assigned to command the second battalion of the 14th Infantry, joined the 19th Division in August 1918, which was scheduled for European deployment, but the influenza pandemic and the armistice with Germany on November 11, 1918, that fall intervened.

During the difficult period between the wars, Jackson taught and studied. From September 1919 until September 1920, Jackson served as assistant professor of military science at South Dakota State College (now University) in Brookings, South Dakota. From 1920 to 1924, Jackson taught mathematics at West Point. He was one of the most popular professors with the students as a result of his witty lectures and friendly attitude.

During this time, Jackson became romantically involved with socialite and multi-millionaire heiress Louise Cromwell Brooks. He met her at a social event, and charmed her with his humor and innate charisma. They were married on 14 February 1922. They would go on to have two daughters and one son, Michael Jackson.

Jackson was promoted to major in 1924 and took the advanced infantry course at Fort Benning, Georgia. He was then assigned to a battalion command in Hawaii, which shaped his signature command style. He was adamant that commanders must develop an instinctive feel for terrain as an essential underpinning of infantry tactics, and he used both maps and three-dimensional sand tables both for his own education as well as the instruction of his subordinate commanders. After brief duty in Hawaii, Jackson was selected to study at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas in 1928–29. Upon graduating, he served as an instructor in tactics at the U.S. Army Infantry School.

From 1929, Jackson taught again at West Point. His critical approach was to teach young officers self-reliance in making their tactical decisions, so that they did not depend on excessively detailed instructions from superior officers. He studied at the U.S. Army War College in 1934. Jackson was promoted to lieutenant colonel on June 26, 1936 and worked at the War Department; after 1938 he was directly reporting to U.S. Army Chief of Staff Marshall. Jackson's main occupation was to summarize and report on various papers of interest to the Army. After a week of getting such summaries, it troubled Marshall that no one had disagreed with any of the papers’ recommendations or offered any contradicting viewpoints for him to consider. Soon after, Jackson disagreed with a course of action Marshall himself had decided. Marshall responded, “Now that is what I want. Unless I hear all the arguments against an action, I am not sure whether I am right or not.” Jackson grasped what Marshall needed and fulfilled his demand for critical analysis.

During that time, he read the 1936 English translation by Jonathan Cape of economist Ludwig von Mises' book "Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis". Jackson was of conservative temperament and already a committed anti-communist, but this book gave him a deep belief in the superiority of the capitalist system and the futility of socialism.

On February 20, 1941, Jackson was promoted to the (wartime) temporary rank of brigadier general (bypassing the rank of colonel). This rank was made permanent by the Army in September 1943. The temporary rank was conferred to allow him to command the U.S. Army Infantry School at Fort Benning, Georgia. Almost a year later, on February 15, 1942, over two months after the American entry into World War II, Jackson was made a temporary major general (a rank made permanent in September 1944) and soon took command of the 82nd Infantry Division. Jackson oversaw the division's transformation into the first American airborne division and took parachute training. In August the division was re-designated as the 82nd Airborne Division and Jackson relinquished command to Major General Matthew Ridgway, who had been his assistant division commander (ADC).

North Africa

Under Lieutenant General Henry Davis, the Supreme Allied Commander, Jackson was assigned to help plan the Allied invasion of French North Africa as part of Operation Torch in the summer of 1942. Jackson commanded the Western Task Force, consisting of 33,000 men in 100 ships, in landings centered on Casablanca, Morocco. The landings, which took place on November 8, 1942, were opposed by Vichy French forces, but Jackson’s men quickly gained a beachhead and pushed through fierce resistance.

Casablanca fell on November 11 and Jackson negotiated an armistice with French General Charles Noguès. The Sultan of Morocco was so impressed that he presented Jackson with the Order of Ouissam Alaouite, with the citation "Les Lions dans leurs tanières tremblent en le voyant approcher" (“The lions in their dens tremble at his approach”). Jackson oversaw the conversion of Casablanca into a military port and hosted the Casablanca Conference in January 1943. He was also one of the first commanders to integrate black and white soldiers into the same rifle companies.

On March 6, 1943, following the defeat of the U.S. II Corps by the German Afrika Korps, commanded by Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel, at the Battle of Kasserine Pass, Jackson replaced Major General Lloyd Fredendall as Commanding General of the II Corps and was promoted to lieutenant general. With orders to take the battered and demoralized formation into action in 10 days' time, Jackson immediately introduced sweeping changes, ordering all soldiers to wear clean, pressed and complete uniforms, establishing rigorous schedules, and requiring strict adherence to military protocol. He continuously moved throughout the command talking with men, seeking to shape them into effective soldiers. He pushed them hard, and sought to reward them well for their accomplishments.

Jackson’s training was effective, and on March 17, the U.S. 1st Infantry Division took Gafsa, winning the Battle of El Guettar, and pushing a German and Italian armored force back twice. It was the first battle in which U.S. forces were able to defeat the experienced German tank units. More important, his attack had forced von Arnim – the German commander – to commit two-thirds of his mobile reserve to his western front on the eve of Montgomery’s offensive. Davis visited Jackson to tell him he was pleased with his progress.

In the meantime, Jackson continued pushing east. On March 21, Major General Orlando Ward’s 1st Armored Division captured Sened Station, the halfway mark between Gafsa and Maknassy. On April 5, though, Jackson removed Ward after his lackluster performance at Maknassy against numerically inferior German forces. Advancing on Gabès, Jackson’s corps pressured the Mareth Line. During this time, he reported to British General Sir Harold Alexander, commander of the 18th Army Group, and came into conflict with Air Vice Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham about the lack of close air support being provided for his troops.

Sicily

Jackson relinquished command of II Corps and was assigned to help plan Operation Husky, the Allied invasion of Sicily. In letters to his wife, Jackson would mention that the time of destiny had arrived for him. He would also compare himself to Napoleon, Caesar, Hannibal and Alexander the Great as a military commander. Jackson had a deep belief that his destiny was to become the greatest American commander in history.

For the invasion of Sicily, Jackson would command the Seventh United States Army, dubbed the Western Task Force, in landings at Gela, Scoglitti and Licata to support landings by General Sir Bernard Montgomery's British Eighth Army. His force of 90,000 landed before dawn on D-Day, July 10, 1943, on beaches near the town of Licata. The armada was hampered by wind and weather, but despite this the three U.S. infantry divisions involved, the 3rd, 1st, and 45th, secured their respective beaches. They then repulsed counterattacks at Gela, where Jackson personally led his troops against German reinforcements from the Hermann Göring Division.

Initially ordered to protect the British forces' left flank, Jackson was granted permission by Alexander to take Palermo after Montgomery's forces became bogged down on the road to Messina. As part of a provisional corps under Major General Geoffrey Keyes, the 3rd Infantry Division under Major General Lucian Truscott covered 100 miles (160 km) in 72 hours, arriving at Palermo on July 21. Jackson then set his sights on Messina. He sought an amphibious assault, but it was delayed by lack of landing craft, and his troops did not land at Santo Stefano until August 8, by which time the Germans and Italians had already evacuated the bulk of their troops to mainland Italy. He ordered more landings on August 10 by the 3rd Infantry Division, which took heavy casualties but pushed the German forces back, and hastened the advance on Messina. A third landing was completed on August 16, and by 22:00 that day Messina fell to his forces.

By the end of the battle, the 200,000-man Seventh Army had suffered 7,500 casualties, and killed or captured 113,000 Axis troops and destroyed 3,500 vehicles. Still, 40,000 German and 70,000 Italian troops escaped to Italy with 10,000 vehicles. Jackson had displayed remarkable political savvy in his race to Palermo and had redeemed the honor of the US Army in the face of lingering British condescension. Despite accusations of self-serving behavior, his successes – which Jackson carefully promoted thanks to one of his brothers being a journalist – had made him a public icon domestically and an American war hero, and put him in the premier position for further major commands in the forthcoming European campaign.

Normandy landings

In October 1943 Jackson moved to London as commander in chief of the American ground forces preparing to invade France in 1944. Jackson realized that Davis had to represent the Allied view in his decision-making, not the American view. Nevertheless, he felt that Davis caved into British pressures too easily in order to maintain harmony. He thus increasingly began to view himself as the main advocate for the American point of view on major operational decisions.

Jackson had bad chemistry with General Sir Bernard Montgomery. Montgomery’s approach struck Jackson as too rigid and not taking sufficient account of the changes in the offensive–defensive balance and the change in tempo made possible by the use of combined-arms warfare and tanks. Jackson believed that modern warfare required a greater willingness to deal with the inherent uncertainties of the battlefield by being willing to improvise and adapt to new circumstances.

For D-Day, Jackson was chosen to command the US First Army which, alongside the British Second Army commanded by Lieutenant-General Miles Dempsey, made up the 21st Army Group commanded by General Montgomery. Jackson’s D-Day forces consisted of Collins’ VII Corps to the right on Utah Beach, spearheaded by the 4th Division, and Gerow’s V Corps on Omaha Beach, spearheaded by regimental combat teams from the 1st and 29th Divisions.

The airborne landings on the night of June 5–6 were a glorious shambles. Both the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions were scattered all over the Cotentin Peninsula and few units captured their objectives on time. Nevertheless, both divisions were blessed by a deep reservoir of self-motivated young warriors who set out as best they could to carry out their missions deep behind German lines. As a result, Germans defenses behind Utah Beach began to disintegrate in confusion and chaos.

The landings by the 4th Division at Utah Beach proceeded like clockwork except that the spearhead regimental combat team landed a distance away from the intended sector. This was all for the better as the landing sector included a much weaker German strongpoint than the planned beachhead, and this particular strongpoint had been neutralized by the pre-invasion bombardment. The 4th Division was off the beach and moving across the flooded farm fields by late morning.

Omaha Beach was a disaster. There was a serious misunderstanding between Jackson’s First US Army and the Eighth Air Force heavy bomber force. Jackson was under the impression that the heavy bombers would bomb parallel to the beach and saturate the defenses, not only knocking out much of the defensive fieldworks, but also cratering the beach to give the landing troops some cover. The US Army Air Force received conflicting demands from the Army, some elements wanting a cratered beach and others wanting the use of small bombs to avoid cratering since the beach would be needed for logistics purposes in the follow-on waves.

The resulting bombardment was a complete waste. In spite of the shortcomings of the bombardment, the real problem was the nature of the German defenses at Omaha Beach. Omaha Beach was a narrow beach overlooked by high bluffs. The initial landings on Omaha Beach aimed straight into the two strongest German strongpoints at Colleville and Vierville, and not surprisingly, faced a horrific firestorm of small arms, mortars, and field guns. It was far closer in intensity to a World War I battlefield. On the east side at the Colleville draw, the experienced 16th Infantry, 1st Division, took serious casualties, but its young NCOs and junior officers quickly and efficiently began leading small parties off the beach and up over the bluffs. The green 116th Infantry of the 29th Division took appalling casualties and was slower to move off the beach. The follow-on waves were stymied by large sections of anticraft obstacles still lurking in the waters off the beach that engineers had failed to clear due to their decimation in the early waves. Young navy and coast guard captains finally ignored the obstacles and headed to shore anyway. By late morning, a steady stream of LCIs (Landing Craft Infantry) were shuttling back and forth from the transports off-shore to the beach.

On June 10, 1944, four days after the initial Normandy landings, General Jackson and his staff debarked to establish a headquarters ashore. Jackson’s immediate task in the week after D-Day was to link up Omaha and Utah Beaches. The First US Army was assigned to take Cherbourg. The main assault on Cherbourg began on the evening of June 19. The initial attacks made steady progress as the German units tended to withdraw after first contact. By June 20, VIII Corps had reached the Cap de la Hague Peninsula and encountered the German main line of resistance. The final attack on Cherbourg on June 22 was preceded by an intense air preparation conducted by IX Tactical Air Command. By June 24, the German defenses began to crumble and breaches were made in the final layer of outer fortifications, providing access to the city itself. Two more days were spent eliminating outlying forts in the harbor, mainly by air attack and tank gunfire; a total of 6,000 prisoners were captured.

During July, Jackson planned Operation Cobra, the beginning of the breakout from the Normandy beachhead. Operation Cobra called for the use of strategic bombers using huge bomb loads to attack German defensive lines. The key concept here was extreme concentration – of firepower, assault troops, and armour – to open a narrow gap through which the tanks could pass into the open country beyond. “First we must pick a soft point in the enemy’s line,” Jackson explained, “next concentrate our forces against it. Then, after smashing through with a blow that would crush his front-line defences, we spill our mechanised columns through that gap before the enemy could recover his senses.”

After several postponements due to weather, the operation began on July 25, 1944, with a short, very intensive bombardment with lighter explosives, designed so as not to create more rubble and craters that would slow Allied progress. The bombing was successful in knocking out the enemy communication system, rendering German troops confused and ineffective, and opened the way for the ground offensive by attacking infantry. Jackson sent in three infantry divisions—the 9th, 4th and 30th—to move in close behind the bombing. The infantry succeeded in cracking the German defenses, opening the way for advances by armored forces to sweep around the German lines.

As the build-up continued in Normandy, the Third Army was formed under Patton while General Hodges succeeded Jackson in command of the First Army; together, they made up Jackson’s new command, the 12th Army Group. By August, the 12th Army Group had swollen to over 900,000 men and ultimately consisted of four field armies. It was the largest group of American soldiers to ever serve under one field commander.

Operation Lüttich and the Falaise Pocket

During 7–13 August 1944, the Germans launched Operation Lüttich, a counterattack against U.S. positions near Mortain, in northwestern France. SS Panzer troops attacked the positions of the American 30th Infantry Division east of Mortain shortly after midnight, and the Germans achieved temporary surprise. They briefly captured Mortain but were unable to breach the lines of the 30th Division, as the 2nd Battalion of the 120th Infantry Regiment commanded Hill 314, the dominant feature around Mortain. Although cut off, they were supplied by parachute drops. Of the 700 men who defended the position until 12 August, over 300 were killed or wounded.

To the north, the 2nd Panzer Division attacked several hours later, aiming south-west toward Avranches. It managed to penetrate several miles into the American lines, before being stopped by the 35th Infantry Division and a combat command of the 3rd Armored Division only 2 mi (3.2 km) short of Avranches. By noon of 7 August, the early morning fog had dispersed, and large numbers of Allied aircraft appeared over the battlefield. With the advance knowledge of the attack provided by Ultra, the U.S. 9th Air Force had been reinforced by the RAF Second Tactical Air Force.

The Allies inflicted severe losses on the attacking troops, eventually destroying most of the German tanks involved in the attack. Jackson sent two armoured combat commands against the German southern (left) flank. On 8 August, one of these (from the U.S. 2nd Armored Division) was attacking the rear of the two SS Panzer Divisions. Although fighting would continue around Mortain for several more days, there was no further prospect of any German success. As the U.S. First Army counter-attacked German units near Mortain, units of Patton's 3rd Army were advancing unchecked through the open country to the south of the German armies, and had taken Le Mans on 8 August. By 13 August, the offensive had fully halted, with German forces being driven out of Mortain. The Germans had lost 120 tanks and assault guns to Allied counter-attacks and air strikes, more than two-thirds of their committed total.

Hitler's refusal to allow his army to flee the rapidly advancing Allied pincer movement created an opportunity to trap an entire German Army Group in northern France. After the German defeat at Mortain, Jackson’s Army Group and XV Corps became the southern pincer in forming the Falaise Pocket, trapping the German Seventh Army and Fifth Panzer Army in Normandy. The northern pincer was formed of Canadian forces, part of British General Sir Bernard Montgomery's 21st Army Group.

On August 13, concerned that American troops would clash with Canadian forces advancing from the north-west, Jackson overrode Patton's orders for a further push north towards Falaise, while ordering XV Corps to "concentrate for operations in another direction". Any American troops in the vicinity of Argentan were ordered to withdraw. This order halted the southern pincer movement of General Haislip's XV Corps. Though Patton protested the order, he obeyed it, leaving an exit—a "trap with a gap"—for the remaining German forces.

Around 20,000–50,000 German troops (leaving almost all of their heavy material) escaped through the gap, avoiding encirclement and almost certain destruction. They would be reorganized and rearmed in time to slow the Allied advance into the Netherlands and Germany. Jackson had incorrectly assumed - based on Ultra decoding transcripts - that most of the Germans had already escaped encirclement, and he feared a German counterattack as well as possible friendly fire casualties. Though admitting that a mistake had been made, Jackson placed the blame on General Montgomery for moving the British and Commonwealth troops too slowly.

Advance to the Rhine

By the end of August, all of Brittany except for the fortified areas of Brest, Lorient, Saint-Nazaire and the Quiberon peninsula were cleared. The US First Army advanced rapidly through northern France and Belgium. It helped to liberate Paris on August 25. During the Battle of the Mons Pocket (31 August – 5 September 1944), the Allies encircled approximately 70,000 Germans near Mons in Belgium, and took around 25,000 prisoners. The German forces also lost large quantities of equipment, including 40 armored fighting vehicles, 100 half-tracks, 120 artillery guns, 100 antitank and antiaircraft guns and almost 2000 vehicles. The Americans suffered few casualties. The 3rd Armored Division lost 57 men killed, and the 1st Infantry Division had 32 killed and 93 wounded. Losses of equipment were also light, and included two tanks, a tank destroyer and 20 other vehicles. The number of Germans captured in the Mons pocket was the second highest of any engagement during the 1944 campaign in the west.

The American forces reached the "Siegfried Line" or "Westwall" in late September. The success of the advance had taken the Allied high command by surprise. They had expected the German Wehrmacht to make stands on the natural defensive lines provided by the French rivers, and had not prepared the logistics for the much deeper advance of the Allied armies, so fuel ran short. Jackson favored an advance into the Saarland, or possibly a two-thrust assault on both the Saarland and the Ruhr Area. Montgomery argued for a narrow thrust across the Lower Rhine, preferably with all Allied ground forces under his personal command as they had been in the early months of the Normandy campaign, into the open country beyond and then to the northern flank into the Ruhr, thus avoiding the Siegfried Line. Although Montgomery was not permitted to launch an offensive on the scale he had wanted, George Marshall and Hap Arnold were eager to use the First Allied Airborne Army to cross the Rhine, so Davis agreed to Operation Market Garden. Jackson opposed the operation, and bitterly protested to Davis the priority of supplies given to Montgomery, but Davis, mindful of British public opinion regarding damage from V-1 missile launches in the north, refused to make any changes.

Jackson’s Army Group now covered a very wide front in hilly country, from the Netherlands to Lorraine. Despite having the largest concentration of Allied army forces, Jackson faced difficulties in prosecuting a successful broad-front offensive in difficult country with a skilled enemy. General Jackson and his First Army commander, General Courtney Hodges, eventually decided to attack through a corridor known as the Aachen Gap towards the German township of Schmidt. The only nearby military objectives were the Roer River flood control dams. Jackson and Hodges' original objective may have been to outflank German forces. After the war, Jackson would cite the Roer dams as the objective: since the Germans held the dams, they could also unleash millions of gallons of water into the path of advance. The campaign's confused objectives combined with poor intelligence resulted in the costly series of battles known as the Battle of Hurtgen Forest (19 September to 16 December 1944), which cost some 33,000 American casualties. At the end of the fighting in the Hurtgen, German forces remained in control of the Roer dams. Further south, Patton's Third Army was faced with last priority for supplies, gasoline and ammunition. As a result, the Third Army lost momentum as German resistance stiffened around the extensive defenses surrounding the city of Metz. While Jackson focused on these two campaigns, the Germans were in the process of assembling troops and materiel for a surprise winter offensive.

Jackson’s command took the initial brunt of what would become the Battle of the Bulge (16 December 1944 – 25 January 1945). For logistical and command reasons, General Davis decided to place Jackson’s First and Ninth Armies under the temporary command of Field Marshal Montgomery's 21st Army Group on the northern flank of the Bulge. Jackson was incensed, and began shouting at Davis: "By God, Pike, I cannot be responsible to the American people if you do this. I resign." Davis turned red, took a breath and replied evenly "Jack, I—not you—am responsible to the American people. Your resignation therefore means absolutely nothing." Jackson paused, made one more protest, then fell silent as Davis concluded "Well, Jack, those are my orders."

Jackson's failures and disappointments led him to momentarily believe that his star was no longer shining. In letters to his wife, he expressed his frustrations and fears he would be regarded as a military failure. But Jackson eventually managed to put behind him his doubts. He would soon go on to lead his army to one of the greatest victories the Allies achieved in the Western Theater.

German Campaign

The first phase of the Anglo-American offensive began on February 8 with two operations aimed at closing on the Rhine in the northern sector. Operation Veritable was Montgomery’s effort to push the 21st Army Group through the Reichswald and into position on the west bank of the Rhine for a major river-crossing operation. Operation Grenade was a supporting effort by the Ninth US Army to finally clear the Roer River and as a prelude to future operations along the Rhine.

Jackson was not content to let First US Army sit idle through the month, and by late February he convinced Eisenhower to permit First US Army to assist Operation Grenade with a simultaneous crossing of the Roer on February 23 to protect the advance’s southern flank. Jackson used an advantage gained in March to break the German defenses and cross the Rhine into the industrial heartland of the Ruhr: aggressive pursuit of the disintegrating German troops by the 9th Armored Division had resulted in the capture of a bridge across the Rhine River at Remagen. Jackson quickly exploited the crossing, forming the southern arm of an enormous pincer movement encircling the German forces in the Ruhr from the north and south. Within the Ruhr pocket some 370,000 German soldiers, 14 divisions of Army Group B and two corps from the First Parachute Army, altogether the remnants of 19 divisions, and millions of civilians were trapped in cities heavily damaged by Allied bombings.

On 10 April the U.S. Ninth Army captured Essen. On 14 April the U.S. First and Ninth armies linked up on the Ruhr river at Hattingen and split the pocket in two; the smaller, eastern part surrendered the next day. The German 15th Army under Gustav-Adolf von Zangen capitulated on 14 April, having lost all control over its subordinate formations. Over 300,000 prisoners were taken. American forces then met up with the Soviet forces near the Elbe River in mid-April. By V-E Day, the 12th Army Group was a force of four armies (First, Third, Ninth, and Fifteenth) that numbered over 1.3 million men.

The crossing of the Rhine, the encirclement and reduction of the Ruhr, and the sweep to the Elbe–Mulde line all established the final campaign on the Western Front as a showcase for Western Allied superiority over the Germans in maneuver warfare. Drawing on the experience gained during the campaign in Normandy and the Allied advance from Paris to the Rhine, Jackson demonstrated his capability of absorbing the lessons of the past. By attaching mechanized infantry units to armored divisions, he created a hybrid of strength and mobility that served him well in the pursuit of warfare through Germany. Key to the effort was the logistical support that kept these forces fueled, and the determination to maintain the forward momentum at all costs. These mobile forces made great thrusts to isolate pockets of German troops, which were mopped up by additional infantry following close behind.

Jackson's ability to deploy huge armies across enormous battlefields, his careful mastery of logistics and his role in the American breakout in Normandy and the movements of American armies across the Rhine have led to him being evaluated as a competent general, despite the occasional mistakes. His holistic grasp of the conflict plane helped him identify risks and opportunities to inform calculated, objective decisions. He had an uncanny ability to hold all the variables of an impending battle in his head, such as his artillery’s strength, the Allied close air support he could expect, his divisions’ fighting capability, and his commanders’ leadership aptitudes. He could also conceptualize an opposing force’s ability to fight, along with its battlefield disposition. Above all, Jackson thought critically in stressful situations, even after setbacks. He quickly fixed his mistakes and reengaged, to lead a brilliant campaign from Normandy’s beaches to Germany’s Elbe River. Such tenacity and resilience despite failure reinforced his leadership excellence.

Jackson cultivated a flashy, distinctive image during the campaign in the belief that this would inspire his troops. His jeep bore oversized rank placards on the front and back, as well as a klaxon horn which would loudly announce his approach from afar. He also developed an ability to deliver charismatic speeches. Jackson had a habit of peremptorily relieving senior commanders who he felt were too independent, or whose command style did not agree with his own. When required, Jackson could be a hard disciplinarian; he recommended the death sentence for several soldiers while he served as the commander of the First Army. All these contributed to making him a celebrity in the home front.

Gaijin Shogun

Korean War

On 25 June 1950, North Korea invaded South Korea, starting the Korean War. The United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 82, which authorized a United Nations Command (UNC) force to assist South Korea. Jackson became commander-in-chief of the UNC, while remaining SCAP in Japan and Commander-in-Chief, Far East. His units were forced to fall back to the Pusan Perimeter, but by the end of August, the crisis subsided. North Korean attacks on the perimeter had tapered off.

In September, despite lingering concerns from superiors (because Inchon's natural and artificial defenses were formidable), Jackson pulled off a successful landing at Inchon, deep behind North Korean lines. Launched with naval and close air support, the landing outflanked the North Koreans, recaptured Seoul (25 September) and forced them to retreat northward in disarray. Most military scholars consider the battle one of the most decisive military operations in modern warfare. Commentators described the Inchon operation as "an example of brilliant generalship and military genius." This was an image which was cultivated by Jackson himself through his connections with the American press.

Visiting the battlefield on 17 September, Jackson surveyed six T-34 tanks that had been knocked out by Marines, ignoring sniper fire around him, except to note that the North Korean marksmen were poorly trained. This story circulated widely in the US press and further enhanced Jackson’s public persona as “Mad Jack”.

By 1 October 1950, the UN Command repelled the KPA northwards past the 38th Parallel; the ROK advanced after them, into North Korea. Six days later, on 7 October, with UN authorization, the UN Command forces followed the ROK forces northwards. The Eighth US Army drove up western Korea and captured Pyongyang on 19 October 1950. The 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team made their first of two combat jumps during the Korean War on 20 October 1950 at Sunchon and Sukchon. The mission was to cut the road north going to China, preventing North Korean leaders from escaping from Pyongyang; and to rescue US prisoners of war.

At month's end, UN forces held 135,000 KPA prisoners of war. As they neared the Sino-Korean border, the UN forces in the west were divided from those in the east by 80–161 km (50–100 mi) of mountainous terrain. In addition to the 135,000 captured, the KPA had also suffered some 200,000 men killed or wounded for a total of 335,000 casualties since the end of June 1950, and had lost 313 tanks (mostly T-34/85 models). A mere 25,000 KPA regulars retreated across the 38th Parallel, as their military had entirely collapsed. The UN forces on the peninsula numbered 229,722 combat troops (including 125,126 Americans and 82,786 South Koreans), 119,559 rear area troops, and 36,667 US Air Force personnel.

Taking advantage of the UN Command's strategic momentum against the communists, Jackson believed it necessary to extend the Korean War into China to destroy depots supplying the North Korean war effort. President Carry S. Hammond disagreed, and ordered caution at the Sino-Korean border. The rapid UN advance, however, was stopped by Chinese intervention. The Battle of Unsan in late October demonstrated the presence of Chinese soldiers in Korea and rendered significant losses to the UN troops. In 25 November 1950, Walker's Eighth Army was attacked by the Chinese Army and soon the UN forces were in retreat. Seoul fell in January 1951.

The UN forces retreated, as Jackson said, “as a fighting army, not as a running mob.” They brought with them all their equipment and, most important, their pride. They settled into elaborate defenses and waited for the Chinese to try again. The battered Communists chose to regroup. Jackson reorganized the UN army and launched a counteroffensive. The goal was the Han River, which would make the enemy’s grip on Seoul untenable. The offensive was a series of carefully planned advances to designated “phase lines,” beyond each of which no one advanced until every assigned unit reached it. Jackson stressed the importance of having good coordination, inflicting maximum punishment, and keeping major units intact.

Jackson inflicted heavy casualties on the Chinese, recaptured Seoul in March 1951 – a symbolic defeat of tremendous proportions to the Communists’ political ambitions –, and pushed on to the 38th Parallel. With the improved military situation, Hammond now saw the opportunity to offer a negotiated peace but, on 24 March, Jackson called upon China to admit that it had been defeated, simultaneously challenging both the Chinese and his own superiors. Hammond's proposed announcement was shelved. Jackson was contentiously removed from command by the President on 11 April 1951, after he again publicly stated his disagreement with the administration.

Polls showed that a majority of Americans disagreed with this decision. The majority of South Koreans also consider Jackson to be a hero who saved their country. The city of Inchon erected a statue of Jackson in 1957, which is considered a symbol of patriotism.

Secretary of State

Governor of South Dakota

After the end of his tenure as Secretary of State, Jackson pursued politics in his native South Dakota. He campaigned in 1962 for the office of Governor as a conservative Republican. His status as war hero and Secretary of State meant that he was easily elected, beating Ralph Herseth by 31,000 votes. He was comfortably reelected in 1964 for a second term.

In his two-term Governorship (January 3, 1963 - January 5, 1967) he cut the property tax and the state sales tax, though he failed to reduce by much state spending as he was stifled by opponents in the state legislature. He also focused on crackdowns on drug users and dealers, touting a tough ‘law and order’ agenda. He managed to improve the state's reservoir system, enact a worker training program to attract new industry to South Dakota and successfully overhauled the organization of the state government by creating a cabinet system.

Although some of his initiatives had the support of liberal legislators, his relationship with his political opponents soon worsened and he made liberal use of his veto powers to block a fair number of progressive bills that would increase government spending, to the point he was nicknamed “Mr. Veto”. During the 1964 elections, he had supported Thomas Silvermilk’s campaign, which earned him further credentials in the conservative camp of the GOP.

Nearing the end of his tenure as Governor, he dedicated himself to writing his memoirs. He wanted to revive interest in his WWII career and to defend himself from Democratic-leaning authors who smeared his conduct during the Korean War to justify his removal by Hammond. “A Soldier’s Story” was published in 1966 and instantly became a sensation with the public. Jackson himself, as he had no interest in pursuing a third term as Governor, engaged in a book tour in which he visited several states, gave a number of interviews and spoke with veterans. In 1967 the memoirs were adapted to the big screen (“General Jackson”), with Marlon Brando acting the role of the General during the Korean War. The movie focused on his contentious relationship with President Hammond.

This led to renewed public interest in Jackson’s military career, which spurred Jackson to seek a higher office. Behind the scenes, he began working towards a presidential campaign for the 1968 elections. Unlike in 1964, he believed that this time the environment was favorable for the Republicans and the GOP nominee could go on to win the presidency. He thus would appear more frequently on TV and radio shows, would give more interviews and would talk with Republican politicians (both Congressmen and various Governors) – meeting old friends who had worked with him in the Davis administration and mending ties with moderate Republicans to assure them he would be a unity candidate –, preparing the scene for his eventual campaign. He would also author and publish (in 1967) a second book: “Facing the Red Menace”, a memoir of his time as Secretary of State.

Jackson announced his candidacy for president on November 30, 1967. “The silent majority shall be silent no more,” he said. “The law-abiding, tax-paying, peaceful, patriotic citizens of this grand nation for too long have been ignored by a decadent establishment that prioritizes rioters, criminals, drug-addicts, extremists and those who hate America and love the Vietcong. No more! I aim to represent the silent majority that wishes for law and order, an end to rioting and violence, victory in Vietnam, good governance that serves the common folk and not DC bureaucrats, and social peace. Together, we can make America great again!”

Now Jackson aims to take the White House. His platform includes restoring law and order, cracking down on protests and violence, launching a war against drugs, promoting traditional morality in the educational system, cutting taxes and government regulations, reducing government spending and winning the war in Vietnam. At the same time, he has been attempting to smooth his image in fear that his more conservative positions – especially on economics – might scare away moderate voters.

Other Info:

Jackson is a widower, his wife Louise Cromwell Brooks having died in 1965. He has two daughters and one son, Michael Jackson. One of his brothers was a prominent journalist (but is retired now). He owns three cats and is a known advocate of animal welfare.

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by **Newne Carriebean7** » Fri Jun 24, 2022 4:19 pm

NS Nation Name: Newne Carriebean7
Character Name: Abraham S. Simpson
Character Gender: A MAN
Character Age: 61
Character Height: 6'4
Character Weight: 195 pounds
Character Position/Role/Job:
Mayor of Springfield, Massachusetts
(February 12, 1937 - January 1, 1939)
(January 25, 1942 - December 30, 1945)
Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from the 45th District
(January 4, 1946 - January 8, 1959)
19th State Auditor of Massachusetts
(January 15, 1959 - November 8, 1962)
United States Senator from Massachusetts
(since November 7, 1962)
Appearance: Barry Goldwater
Character State of Origin: Massachusetts
Character State of Residence: Massachusetts
Character Party Affiliation: Democratic
Main Strengths:

Die-hard FDR Fanboy: One of President FDR's biggest supporters, admirers and (self-proclaimed) best friends, Simpson practically gushes over the good that FDR has done for Massachusetts and country-wide. This can whip up support from the large portions of the country that still hold favorable views of Roosevelt, provided he can play his cards right on this issue...

Steady-handed Legislature: Simpson, in all his years of public service, has been a "man of the people", at least according to him. Instead of gimmicky showmanship, he proves his worth to those that cast ballots for him with hard-work. The man has proposed hundreds of bills between his service in the Massachusetts House and the United States Senate, with more notoriety being granted of the old man from his advocacy for Civil Rights in the United States, much to the Dixiecrats chagrin.

A Poet, this man is!: His alma mater being a university, Simpson can produce one hell of a speech to rally up any crowd he so wishes to. Although normally the skills reserved for dictators and tin-pot military men that need the public's backing should they wish to stay in power, Simpson directs the energy in his speeches to populist calls for his programs, add a pinch of FDR loving praise and a hint of communist-boogeyman, and you've got your qunit-essential Simpson speech.

Main Weaknesses:

Blonde Boss Hauntings: Although he's sworn off the political machines of the state, his long-time connections with them have led to skepticism on those on the hard-left wing of the Democratic Party. Any mention of Boss Curley is sure to drive a slew of sharp and unexpected denials of back-room dealings from his campaign, which only seem to raise even more eye-brows if Simpson is as "Squeaky-Clean" as he proclaims to be.

Self-proclaimed "Jeff Davis's Worst enemy": The sheer animosity between him and the Southern Dixiecrats is so great that there are murmured rumors flying around in the south and Washington D.C. that if Simpson was to run for President on a liberal platform, he would stir up the hornet's nest that reside in Mississippi, Alabama and the other Deep Southern states. Already there is the strong possibility that many of these voters, who had been reliant Roosevelt backers and life-long Democrats, would be up for grabs in the first time in well over a century.

Dismissed, Soldier!: Simpson's family is not a military one. His grandfather, Quincy Arnold Simpson (1838-1899), avoided service in the American Civil War, until being forcibly drafted thanks to Conscription in the Union. At his first major engagement he fled under the heat of battle, and was derided as a coward by his family and community for years after-wards. This has left a bad-taste in his son's mouth ,the elder Benjamin Fullard, who came out swinging for the anti-interventionist platform of William Jennings Bryan, only to see him lose three times. Simpson himself, while selling to military men and veterans from his gunstore, cannot boast of a proud military lineage like other candidates...

Biography:
Born February 15, 1906 to Elaine Jensen Hugh-hess (1878-1931) and Benjamin Fullard Simpson (1877-1946), his early years were comprised of a tight-nit collection of friends he would spend many a long nights with. His development was seen to be slower than other kids, as he learnt his A's B's and Z's at an older age than one might normally learn. The elder Simpson served as the town black-smith, preacher, keeper of the peace and constable and deputy all in one. Well respected in his community, the old man looked to his son as his potential heir.

In 1925, Simpson decided to attempt to strike it out. Lured by the shining lights of Boston, he quickly became associated with the Irish-American boss of the city, one James Curley. Simpson proved his loyalty to the Democratic party (but more-so to the Curley political machine) by whipping together votes, passing out flyers and promoting Curley throughout the state during the Boss's run for Governor of Massachusetts. Unfortunately, Curley lost the race to Republican Alvan T. Fuller by a narrow margin. Disappointed in this, Simpson to this day has alleged "cheating, no good horse-thevin' and bribery by the damned General Operations Posse."

Following this defeat, Simpson, while attempting to pay his fees in order to get into the International YMCA Colledge, found out one day that all costs had been paid for my an "anyonomus good Samaritan who just wants to see a youth succeed". While Simpson has never found out who paid for his tuition, he had a feeling his old political friend came through to him. Graduating from the YMCA in 1933, he decided to open up a local gun-store in down-town Springfield called "Abraham's Armory". There he bought cheap fire-arms from all throughout the state and sold them at margins to induce a profit.

Unfortunately, with the ongoing Depression and dry-well of consumers wanting to purchase fire-arms (a-part from neer-doo-gooder gangsters, one-time petty thieves and the local constable), he was forced into bankruptcy in less than two years. While accepting much of the responsibility for the failure was up to "shit timing", he had a hunch that opponents of Curley saw to it that his buisness was run down, as revenge for being an ally of the corrupt politician.

In 1936, when Curley decided to mount another state-wide bid, Simpson opted to try his hand at managing his native Springfield, Massachusetts in a mayoral bid. Although inexperienced and nervous in public speaking, he managed to ease himself into public appearances over town by promoting free food and having a beagle by his side on all appearances whilst on the campaign trail. His policies for the town were to build a reservoir for clean drinking water and to become the most "Patriotic-Town in America".

His opponent, Jean-French-Dulles, charged that he was in-deep with corrupt officials, and demanded that if Simpson win he would resign immediately. Simpson trumped up allegations that his opponent was involved in a hit and run a few years prior, along with being known as a murderer. Although taken at face-value at first, Jean-French's strong denial and bitter counter-attacks of corruption with Curley made people dislike Simpson. At the last-minute, Simpson pushed through thanks to a slew of progressive sounding reforms and campaign promises such as increased conservation for the city's parks and to bulldoze down several blight-causing slums, all while increasing taxes on the most wealthy residents within the city. In the end, these faint-calls to left-wing populism managed to eek out a victory.

Ironically, on the same ballot that Simpson was elected Mayor, voters rejected Curley again as Governor of Massachusetts, in spite of President FDR's landslide victory that November against Alf "Where is he" Landon. While serving as Mayor he made education a personal issue of his, and he managed to convince the rest of the members of the city council to approve funds for a New Elementary School. However, his plan to increase taxes on the most wealthy residents of Springfield in order to fund the school caused a mass revolt at the next town meeting that was called to address it. Many residents called it "flat out socialism". Not helping things was his absence at the meeting, which resulted in an empty chair being the source of the towns-folks anger, who decided to vote Simpson out in 1938 by a margin of 10,056 to just 5,956.

He spent the next two years in the political wilderness, scrounging for a plan to return to political power, at least in his small hometown. It was also during this brief interlude that he began to court the daughter of a Chicagoan industrialist that had business interests in Springfield. Mr. Simpson and Miss Mona A. Arthur were wed on the 14 of February 1939.

Now fully equipped with a loveless marriage, Abraham decided to try and get his old job back in the 1941 Springfield Mayoral election, calling upon the political muscle and pamphlet expertise of political boss Curley, who decided to follow through with the favor of his old friend. Curley engineered a sabotage campaign in the GOP's primary, meddling in it enough to allow firebrand preacher August K. Killorey to upset more moderate Republican Henry Doug Walkerson. Killorey's campaign was run on a shoe-string budget, and the elderly preacher spent far more time in his own chapel than out on the campaign trail, resulting in a large scale advertising bombardment from Abraham (boosted with some muscle from Curley's men). This effort handed the Mayor-ship back to Abraham on a silver platter victory of 10,045 to a mere 1,197 for his opponent.

Now back in the seats of power in Springfield, Abraham Simpson took the American Entrance to World War II with enthusiasm for his small town, though privately he was furious at getting involved in another war. On December 9, 1941 he held the first annual "American Victory Parade" promoting the United States, encouraging men to go enlist in the armed forces and for women to walk to the Springfield Armory and make weapons. He also oversaw inter-state investment into the city of Springfield's Firearms factory, which expanded to include over 3,000 workers and by 1944 was pumping out over a thousand weapons of all types per day.

In 1944, Simpson decided to embark on larger ambitions, and so bid a tear-ful farewell to Springfield, Massachusetts. That year, he ran as a "Defender of Democracy and FDR" for Massachusetts's state House of Representatives, which he was elected narrowly following the retirement of the long-time incumbent for the state's 45th District.

While in the Massachusetts state Legislature, he promoted investments in the state's firearms industry (and his district, as a coincidence). While the political juggernaut power of the Massachusetts's political bosses was no longer in it's hey-day, it's fragmented remnants of a political machine was enough to keep checks rolling into his campaign coffers enough to prevent any major political upsets for Simpson. Reappropriating his own rhetoric for FDR, he painted the ongoing Cold War as one between "the Shining light of Liberalism and the Darkness of so-called state's rights and socialism".

In 1958, Simpson announced that he would not run for re-election to his house seat, instead focusing on an attempt to run for the state-wide office of State Auditor. Popular in his district, he embarked on his first major state-wide campaign, going door to door (and paying lots of volunteers nickels on the dollar to do that for him). His major proposal was a full-scale audit of every single "rock, bug and cent we've spent. I wanna make sure our checkbook is in order."

Although the state-wide audit did take a couple months before it finalized, Simpson released his results to the public, which showed the state having a 3 million dollar deficit, including a large number of reports that the incumbent Governor of Massachusetts was taking money directly from the State Treasurer's office (without the permission or knowledge of Simpson from these actions) along with paying reporters to remain hush on any possible scandal. The resulting outrage by individual Massachusettsans flooded the governor's office with death threats, and forced the incumbent Governor's resignation. Now seen as a hero by the large masses, Simpson decided instead of running for re-election to his Auditor position, ran in the 1962 Massachusetts Senate election that had opened up thanks to the resignation of incumbent U.S Senator (Not-Kennedy).

Still held in high-regard by the general public for his actions in uncovering corruption in the state government, Simpson was elected to the United States Senate in an unexpectedly close special election, managing to hold the seat for the Democratic Party by a margin of 52.7% to 47.1%.

Now in Washington D.C, Simpson has dove head-first into legislative busy-ness, crafting dozens of bills on environmental protections, expansions of New Deal polices currently on the books and staunchly anti-communist legislation. Although he followed the McCarthy hearings from a local radio store, he came to the opinion that what they were doing was morally bankrupt. While no friend of left-leaning socialists, he wasn't about to whistle Dixie either. During his time in the Senate he has infuriated Southern politicians in fierce debates in defense of the black man and his rights, even going so far as to advance numerous Civil Rights Laws in the U.S's Upper chamber of government, with his most notable contribution being helping in crafting the Civil Rights Act of 1964. While he did not write the entire bill out himself, nor was the first person to come up with the idea, he attempted to shepherd the bill through the Senate Committees, working with (Not-LBJ) in a successful attempt to end the Southern Filibuster of such a piece of legislation.

Now with the wind at his back following an easy shellacking of Massachusetts Republican's nominee in the 1964 Senate election (undoubtedly helped out by the, in Simpson's own words "right-wing fascist" the GOP chose as their candidate), he's now got two full years until his most recent Senate term is up, and he has had an eye for the White House. Already he's begun to put a campaign team together for a Nationwide crusade in his mind.. "For Liberalism or Barbarism" While he hasn't announced publicly a run, internal campaign data has proven himself a possible contender for liberalism in the United States, provided everything goes his way in the next year, He can find himself being sworn in on January 20th...

However, as the old saying goes, "No Plan Survives First Contact with the Enemy"...

Other Info: Married to Mona A. Arthur since 1939. Has no children.

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by **Louisianan** » Fri Jun 24, 2022 5:27 pm

NS Nation Name: Louisianan
Character Name: Betty-Anne Lindquist
Character Gender: Female
Character Age: 44
Character Height: 5 ft 4
Character Weight: 112 lbs

Character State of Origin: Ohio
Character State of Residence: Ohio
Character Party Affiliation: Republican
Main Strengths: Popular Conservative Author dubbed "Queen of Modern Conservatism", Has Establishment Support, National Security Expert
Main Weaknesses: Pro-Segregation, Anti-Feminist, War Hawk, Russian Background

Betty-Anne Lindquist (nee Slaton) was born in 1924 to Stefan and Ida Yannorski who changed their names to Slaton (the name of the Captain of the ship that they rode) when they immigrated into the US in 1922. Ida was a very successful dance teacher, and Stefan was a piano tutor. Betty was an only child. The family were extremely religious Catholics, immigrating to the US for religious freedom, and used their money to keep Betty in an All-Girls School for Catholics and other middle class European stock.

Betty-Anne and her family were in a short-lived travelling show throughout the Great Depression where she and her mother danced to her father's piano tunes. After the show ended, Stefan Slaton kept the family above water by becoming a Classical Musician that travelled from city to city, inspiring musicians like Liberace and more.

After thriving in school, she decided that she would go to college at Oberlin College, a private school in 1940. She would do legal professions and studies and would obtain a Bachelors degree after four years. After this, she re-enrolled to get a masters degree in liberal arts and then again for government. She graduated towards the bottom of her class each time. During this time she met her future husband Orville Lindquist. She would go on to marry him in 1946.

After marrying Orville, a rather successful lawyer by this time, Betty-Anne grew envious of his success. He was doing everything she wanted to do but couldn't do because she was a woman. She began reading his law books and having him explain meanings to her, and eventually she got into the politics behind these laws. She became secretaries for many Republican politicians who convinced her to use her 'intelligence' to help the AEI. She began researching for the AEI for many years and helped multiple campaigns in the future, advising them monetarily and even to the extent of National Security wise. (Most notably Not-Goldwater)

By 1954, Betty-Anne had made a name for herself by co-authoring multiple books on Law, and authoring multiple books on Conservatism and National Security, "The Constructive Conservative", a book she wrote, would become a best-seller during the Not-Eisenhower administration. She would go on to write many more books and the New York Times dubbed her as the "Queen of Modern Conservatism". She would push far-right values and beliefs onto the more liberal side of the party, and more extreme politicians vowed support to her campaign in 1956 for the Ohio US House of Representatives Election for the 11th District. She won the election. In her first term from 1956 to 1958, Betty established herself as somewhat of a thorn in the side of moderate Republicans and tried her hardest to push the party further right to the chagrin of (Not-Eisenhower). She refused to vote for the Civil Rights Act. She would go on lose reelection. Later, after leading an army of Republicans against (Not-Nixon), she ran again and won her seat back in 1962 until she left it again in 1965 to run for Ohio's At-Large District which she won. In her time in her second House term, she worked directly against all of (Not-Kennedy's) initiatives. She promised that if he authorized the Bay of Pigs invasion, that he would lose reelection. She had always thought a direct war with the USSR and a full invasion of Cuba would have been best. Creating a third world war would've been her choice. Sure enough, the invasion failed and refused to go to (Not-Kennedy's) service after his assassination. She would go on to OUTWARDLY object to the CRA of 1964 as she said it would lead to nothing but race riots everywhere. At the beginning of 1964, she wrote "A Promise, Not A Threat" which would be distributed by (Not-Barry Goldwater's) campaign. She took his loss very personally. She would spend her time as the At Large Representative of Ohio promoting ultra-conservative values.

The seat was eliminated in 1967, and Betty se her eyes on the Senate in 1968.

Other Info: During WWII while Betty was in college, she would travel and work part time as a Ballistics Technician at Ammunition Plants. She has three children, Edith, Marjorie, and a son Henry. Her parent's Russian background was kept hidden for years, and she still keeps it quiet as an Anti-Communist War Hawk. She supports War in Vietnam, she supports states rights, she denounces Rockefeller Republicans calling them Commie's of the North East. She claims they are corrupt, and would probably be 5 Star Generals of the Swiss Army during the great wars.

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by **Louisianan** » Fri Jun 24, 2022 5:31 pm

NS Nation Name: Louis
Character Name: Hubert Langlanais Broussard
Character Gender: Male
Character Age: 68
Character Height: 6 ft 7
Character Weight: 243
Character Position/Role/Job:

Character State of Origin: Mississippi
Character State of Residence: Louisiana
Character Party Affiliation: Democrat
Main Strengths: Populist, Popular with Segregationists, Critical of some of FDR's Policies, Critical of Current Administration
Main Weaknesses: Open member of the KKK, silver spoon background, History of Voter Intimidation

Hubert Broussard was born on September 4, 1900 and he was the son of a 78 year old former slave owner. He was raised at his fathers plantation in Mississippi. His father also owned a Newspaper in his second home town of Lafayette, Louisiana, and he moved Hubert and his mother all the way there in 1919.

Once back in Louisiana, Hubert's father began running the Newspaper, and made its business thrive. Hubert graduated school and went to college to study law, and in 1924, his father passed away, leaving the newspaper to him as well as the plantation that was full of sharecroppers.

In 1922, while Hubert was in college in Mississippi, he was invited to a Ku Klux Klan meeting at his grandfathers farm, and ever since, he has been a member. After graduating college, Hubert became a successful Lawyer, opening a practice in the Newspaper Building. Eventually, during the great depression, Hubert began focusing on defending everyday citizens and workers against big corparations, similar to his idol, Huey Long.

Eventually, Hubert decided to run for Mayor of Lafayette because a colored man was also running in the election as the incumbent had died in office and the colored man was trying to make a point. During the election, Huberts opponent suddenly went missing and was found three weeks later in the Intracoastal Canal, there was never any evidence against Hubert, and no charges were filed.

In his term as mayor, he successfully built roads and bridges in the parish as Mayor-President, he helped get running water to the rural areas of the parish, and he suceeded in barring african americans from voting by segregating polling locations in which the african americans voted for gag candidates while the real candidates were voted for in the white polling locations.

After serving dutifully in his office as mayor, Hubert decided to run for US Representative, and after doing so, he won by slim margins, but as he continued to serve in the Congress, the more popular he became. He was a workhorse when it came to the rights of the poor men, regardless of race. Yet, he is a very outspoken activist of White Supremacy and states rights.

Other Info: After showing his worth in the KKK as well as showing his worth in Congress, he became the Exalted Cyclops in the KKK in that same year. In 1959, Hubert led a violent counter-protest in response to the NNRC's protest in New Orleans after the gruesome lynching of Gary Guidry which resulted in the death of a protestor. Hubert wrote and sponsored the Moo Moo Yummy Act, the Negro Relocation Act and the Phyletic Perception bill which would have not only legalized, but encouraged racial discrimination in legal proceedings. None of these bills would be signed into law.

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by **Louisianan** » Fri Jun 24, 2022 5:37 pm

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NS Nation Name: Louisianan
Character Name: Betty-Anne Lindquist
Character Gender: Female
Character Age: 44
Character Height: 5 ft 4
Character Weight: 112 lbs
Ballistics Gunner and Technician at Green River Arsenal (1942-1944) Conservative Author (1952-Present) US Representative of Ohio's 11th Congressional District (1957-1959) (1962-1965) US Representative of Ohio's At-Large Congressional District (1965-1967) Candidate for Ohio US Senate Seat

Character State of Origin: Ohio
Character State of Residence: Ohio
Character Party Affiliation: Republican
Main Strengths: Popular Conservative Author dubbed "Queen of Modern Conservatism", Has Establishment Support, National Security Expert
Main Weaknesses: Pro-Segregation, Anti-Feminist, War Hawk, Russian Background
Betty-Anne Lindquist (nee Slaton) was born in 1924 to Stefan and Ida Yannorski who changed their names to Slaton (the name of the Captain of the ship that they rode) when they immigrated into the US in 1922. Ida was a very successful dance teacher, and Stefan was a piano tutor. Betty was an only child. The family were extremely religious Catholics, immigrating to the US for religious freedom, and used their money to keep Betty in an All-Girls School for Catholics and other middle class European stock.

Betty-Anne and her family were in a short-lived travelling show throughout the Great Depression where she and her mother danced to her father's piano tunes. After the show ended, Stefan Slaton kept the family above water by becoming a Classical Musician that travelled from city to city, inspiring musicians like Liberace and more.

After thriving in school, she decided that she would go to college at Oberlin College, a private school in 1940. She would do legal professions and studies and would obtain a Bachelors degree after four years. After this, she re-enrolled to get a masters degree in liberal arts and then again for government. She graduated towards the bottom of her class each time. During this time she met her future husband Orville Lindquist. She would go on to marry him in 1946.

After marrying Orville, a rather successful lawyer by this time, Betty-Anne grew envious of his success. He was doing everything she wanted to do but couldn't do because she was a woman. She began reading his law books and having him explain meanings to her, and eventually she got into the politics behind these laws. She became secretaries for many Republican politicians who convinced her to use her 'intelligence' to help the AEI. She began researching for the AEI for many years and helped multiple campaigns in the future, advising them monetarily and even to the extent of National Security wise. (Most notably Not-Goldwater)

By 1954, Betty-Anne had made a name for herself by co-authoring multiple books on Law, and authoring multiple books on Conservatism and National Security, "The Constructive Conservative", a book she wrote, would become a best-seller during the Not-Eisenhower administration. She would go on to write many more books and the New York Times dubbed her as the "Queen of Modern Conservatism". She would push far-right values and beliefs onto the more liberal side of the party, and more extreme politicians vowed support to her campaign in 1956 for the Ohio US House of Representatives Election for the 11th District. She won the election. In her first term from 1956 to 1958, Betty established herself as somewhat of a thorn in the side of moderate Republicans and tried her hardest to push the party further right to the chagrin of (Not-Eisenhower). She refused to vote for the Civil Rights Act. She would go on lose reelection. Later, after leading an army of Republicans against (Not-Nixon), she ran again and won her seat back in 1962 until she left it again in 1965 to run for Ohio's At-Large District which she won. In her time in her second House term, she worked directly against all of (Not-Kennedy's) initiatives. She promised that if he authorized the Bay of Pigs invasion, that he would lose reelection. She had always thought a direct war with the USSR and a full invasion of Cuba would have been best. Creating a third world war would've been her choice. Sure enough, the invasion failed and refused to go to (Not-Kennedy's) service after his assassination. She would go on to OUTWARDLY object to the CRA of 1964 as she said it would lead to nothing but race riots everywhere. At the beginning of 1964, she wrote "A Promise, Not A Threat" which would be distributed by (Not-Barry Goldwater's) campaign. She took his loss very personally. She would spend her time as the At Large Representative of Ohio promoting ultra-conservative values.

The seat was eliminated in 1967, and Betty se her eyes on the Senate in 1968.

Other Info: During WWII while Betty was in college, she would travel and work part time as a Ballistics Technician at Ammunition Plants. She has three children, Edith, Marjorie, and a son Henry. Her parent's Russian background was kept hidden for years, and she still keeps it quiet as an Anti-Communist War Hawk. She supports War in Vietnam, she supports states rights, she denounces Rockefeller Republicans calling them Commie's of the North East. She claims they are corrupt, and would probably be 5 Star Generals of the Swiss Army during the great wars.

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Not-Phyllis Schlafly (who can actually win an election) has arrived

by **Guagolandum** » Fri Jun 24, 2022 11:51 pm

NS Nation Name: Guagolandum
Character Name: Michael (Mikhail) Vasilovich
Character Gender: Male
Character Age: 29 (Born April 21, 1939)

Character Roles and Jobs:
Republican Party member (1965-)
House of Representatives member for Wyoming (1966-)
Secretly Agent of the KGB (1963-)
Secretly Red Army soldier (1956-1962)

Appearance: Valery Sablin
Character State of Origin: Grodno, Belarusian SSR, Soviet Union
Character State of Residence: Wyoming, but resides in the D. of Columbia for work reasons
Character Party Affiliation: Republican (left-wing faction)
Main Strengths: Unnoticeable Spy, Encrypted Communications, Possesses a Radio Station
Main Weaknesses: Seen as Too Soft, Underprotected Radio Station and Frequency, Oratory To Be Improved

NS Nation Name: Guagolandum
Character Name: Leon Hryhorenko
Character Gender: Male
Character Age: 50 (Born February 2, 1918)

Character Position/Role/Job:
Ambassador of the Soviet Union to the United States (1961-)
Agent of the KGB (1954-1956)
Agent of the NKVD (1947-1954)
Red Army Soldier (1939-1945)

Appearance: Lavrenti Beria
Character State of Origin: Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Character State of Residence: Washington D. C., United States of America
Character Party Affiliation: Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1936-)

by **Newne Carriebean7** » Sat Jun 25, 2022 8:35 am

NS Nation Name: Newne Carriebean7
Character Name: Ellison "Doc" Smith
Character Gender: Old Grandpa
Character Age: 71
Character Height: 6'2
Character Weight: 157 pounds
Character Position/Role/Job:
Candidate for the Republican nomination for the Alaskan Territory's At-Large Congressional District in 1930
16th Mayor of Anchorage (April 10, 1944 - April 9,1950)
Proprietor of Doc's Pharmacy (1940-1944) (1950-present)
Republican candidate for the U.S Senate election for Alaska (2nd Position) in 1959
Member of the U.S House of Representatives for Alaska's At-Large Congressional District
(January 3, 1963 - present)
Appearance: Richard E. Byrd
Character State of Origin: South Carolina
Character State of Residence: Alaska
Character Party Affiliation: Republican
Main Strengths: Good work ethic, Love of Alaska, General folksy personality, hatred of communism, good business sense, World War I veteran

Main Weaknesses: Old, His southern side can be abrasive, can be a bit too friendly with people, pushy and loud mouthed when enraged

Biography:Born December 16, 1897 to Anne Stromberg (1868-1902) and Felix Jager (1862-1945), Smith's early years were a blur of very 'questionable' parenting techniques. These included locking him in his room for hours following him saying a curse word he heard when his neighbors were attempting to fix a tractor. Felix worked as a skilled carpenter, the skill he had learned at the feet of his dad, and whom he had hoped to pass the toolbelt down to his son. Upon his son reaching his 1st birthday, Jager volunteered for the Spanish-American War, coming back a few months later to then move the family to Alaska, where he fell in love with it.

Around the same time, Felix made investments into real-estate and various Gold mines. While the real-estate investments proved to be profitable with the mass influx of people following the mass rush for gold up in the Yukon, Felix could not find much else to turn a profit in Alaska upon the depletion of gold in the area. Refusing to fold up, the family struggled in the town of Dawson City for a long period after-wards in the Alaskan Territory. Smith even suffered from a bout of Canadian Black Leg (Scurvy). Although his parents were ardent democrats until their death, Smith began to question the policies of the more liberal-leaning Democrats.

Around this time Smith finished up a degree in business, although his credentials from the institution were second rate owing to his refusal to go out of state for education. Following the outbreak of World War I, he volunteered for the U.S Air Force, having a fascination with propeller driven aircraft. Unfortunately the Air Force rejected him owing to a mismanagement of paper work, but he was accepted into another branch of the Military. Upon his deployment overseas he served during the Belleau-Wood Offensive, personally firing a pistol at any shape he saw in a panic. This earned him the moniker "Doc" Smith, as he always said to what he thought were friends "Duck!" that morphed and was butchered into a fast paced "Doc." for brevity's sake in his attempts to save the lives of his fellow Americans.

Following Smith's war-time service, a few war friends approached him into opening a pharmacy. Although he was a little hesitant, he opted to give it a shot. The Pharmacy, called Anne's after his mother, suffered from poor sales and general mismanagement, though he was able to keep the store above water with little debt from when he opened it in 1919 to when he decided to retire and close it down in 1930. A few months afterwards Smith decided to try and apply for the University of Berkley in California to continue studies in business, but he was rejected twice. After being rejected, he decided to throw his hat into the ring for the Republican primary for the Alaskan Territory's At-Large Congressional district, but was defeated by James Wickersham, who went on to win the general election in 1930.

Deciding to go back to plan B, he gathered up enough money to open a much smaller and more compact pharmacy, named Doc's in Dawson City. This pharmacy proved to fare better for longer than even he had been expecting, being in business since 1940. Sensing a chance to restart his failed political career, He ran for and won the Mayor ship of Anchorage in 1944, beating Bill Stolt's re-election bid.

During his term as Mayor he emphasized healthcare and made sanitation a pet-issue of his. He tried to work with the city council to agree to suitable wages in order to pay the sanitation crew, but was unable to come up with an acceptable compromise, resulting in the walking off of at least a hundred workers. In response, Smith personally got out there and began to clean up the streets, earning a small amount of publicity as 'the one man army' of the city in local papers. The Council and workers were eventually able to broker a compromise deal in 1945.

Riding the back of his popularity with the general populace, he was re-elected to a second term by a wide margin in 1947. Smith also ordered the construction of ramps for most handicapped people and the elderly, growing concerned at the number of slips during the winter months of the town. However, his terms were not met with unlimited success, as the city council rejected multiple attempts at him to try and build a new hospital over the older structure that was falling into disrepair. He decided that fixing up the structure would have been better than paying for a new hospital in the end, a sentiment many local residents agreed with.

Term-limited from running again as Mayor, Smith returned to his pharmacy full-time in 1950, where he sat complacent in managing his business. However, rapid developments within Alaska, including it's statehood open up new doors for the old man. Although politically rusty, he still enjoys a loving base of followers from his mayoral tenure, and the allure of a more sophisticated halls of power, such as the massive bicep that is the American legislative branch, draws his eyes towards something even greater than the old man himself, a chance to serve not just the people of his city, but a chance to serve everyone in his beloved, beloved Alaska.

When Alaska was granted statehood by President (Henry Davis) in 1958 , Doc was thrilled, and immediately began to phone around hoping to build up support and finances for a state-wide campaign for the open Senate seat. Doc ran as an "original, true-blue Alaskan" and kept barbs at his opponent to a minimum, with passing refences to his "true Alaskanitivy" in contrast to his Democratic opposition. Doc Smith traversed all throughout the state, exhausting himself. By contrast, his opponent decided to rest up and make sure he won the now televised Alaskan Senatorial Debate. When Alaskan voters watched or heard the two men debate, those that watched on the television were sold on the idea of the Democrat winning. Those listening to the radio, were split more in favor of Doc, though had to admit that the Alaskan Democrat sounded more refreshed in contrast to the tiresome sounding words and voice that Doc had been spitting out. When it came time for the race, Doc lost. Doc lost by a margin of 3 percent in a close state-wide race.

Ever the optimist during this dire time, Doc licked his campaign wounds and decided to try again in a couple of years for Alaska's House seat, which he surmised would be an easier contest than attempting to elbow his way into the U.S Senate. Although Doc did think himself a "reasonable shot" at a re-match in 1962, his advisors urged him to give up on the Senate. Reluctantly, Doc cast aside the thought of being a Senator, and settle for "Representative" as a title. Ellison "Doc" Smith managed to get that chance when the incumbent Democrat in the seat opted to pass-up a chance at re-election, leaving the seat open.

Doc chatted with various political donors to his previous Senatorial campaign if their pocket books would be open to him mounting a house seat. Although many were reluctant to pour money into his coffers, Doc managed to convince at least half of them of his "native roots" against the "damned Nee-Yankee that's not even from Alaska herself", assuring them of a homefield advantage for the long-time Alaskan. Doc Smith, however, looked at resulting polls which showed him behind a substantial margin in the Senate election. Deciding that representing Alaska in the House was just as good if not better than having to "Share Alaska with a carpetbagger", he plunged himself into the House election. Doc Smith officially abandoned his Senate campaign on December 14, 1961 and instead announced his bid to become the U.S Representative for Alaska's At-Large Congressional District.

Now refresh with a fresh influx of cash, Doc powered through the general election, promoting publicly his "tire-lessness" in "sweeping away crime and the cripples" whilst serving as Mayor of Anchorage. If one was to look at a Doc campaign poster, it would be one of the man holding a broom and the lower line stating: DOC SWEPT UP CRIME, HE'LL SWEEP UP THE SWAMP.

Apart from gimmicky campaign posters that he loved to send out, Doc took up some lessons from his previously failed run for Senate. Instead of talking to three people and a thousand trees (which can't vote, in spite of his frequent inquiries in bugging the U.S National Park service), Doc decided to hit the more populated areas where he was behind at, hold town-halls and have the people get in his face to ask questions. Although the first couple of these went disastrously, (with his campaign manager having to hold Doc down from hitting another man when he asked about his 'cowardice in war service') Doc forcibly controlled his temper so as to not have 'bad-press' hounding his campaign for the lower house of the American Legislature.

Eventually, his 'wild-bear' attitude managed to have Alaskans endear themselves to Doc, which was good news for his Legislative branch aspirations, as they were fulfilled on November 6, 1962, managing to beat his Democratic opponent by a narrow margin of 51.4% to 48.0%, with a third party candidate siphoning away the remaining .6 percent of the vote.

Now in the swamps of Washington D.C., Doc has been a tireless champion of paraplegics, making sure that those men on the committees never stop hearing about his advocacy for "rights of the disabled and retarded". He has also had a kind heart for conservation efforts, stemming from his ties in the vast Alaskan wilderness whilst on campaign throughout the state in his failed Senate and successful House runs.

However, Doc broke ranks with the other two big names in Alaskan politics by voting against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, being the only one of three in Alaska's Congressional delegation to reject the Civil Rights Act. In a newspaper interview defending his actions, the Alaskan businessman and representative stated his "Years of advocates for the cripple and the wild Indian, but w'all don't have a whole lot of blacks up here in Alaska. I don't see how this bill will do anything for my state. I know others in my delegations, (Not-Barlett) and (Not-Gruening) feel differently, that's up to them."

The man is a foreign policy hawk, but he advocates for a staunch interpretation of the "Monroe Doctrine", even going so far as to update the moniker to the "Smith Doctrine". He has urged a complete defense of the North American continent from the "Bullshit-vick Menance" as he mentioned to reporters while grabbing an ice cream in July. Doc has also been a staunch advocate for Alaska and has over-emphasized it's importance on the global war against the reds, demanding millions of dollars being spent on Alaska, in spite of some Democratic politicians arguing it was "Spendin' money on a large amount damned fuckin' snow."

Alaska has enjoyed the services (and all that sweet, sweet legislative pork barrel spending) that Doc has provided to their state, and has subsequently re-elected Doc in 1964 and 1966 by margins of 49.4% and 58% respectively. Now it comes up to 1968. Doc is focusing on re-election to his House seat, and provided everything goes swimmingly, he should stand to see a flying victory in the mid 50 percent range, provided that the wrong GOP candidate dosen't sink the rest of the ticket downballot.

by **Deblar** » Sat Jun 25, 2022 5:19 pm

by **Louisianan** » Sun Jun 26, 2022 8:04 pm

Guagolandum wrote:NS Nation Name: Guagolandum
Character Name: Michael (Mikhail) Vasilovich
Character Gender: Male
Character Age: 29 (Born April 21, 1939)

Character Roles and Jobs:
Republican Party member (1965-)
House of Representatives member for Wyoming (1966-)
Secretly Agent of the KGB (1963-)
Secretly Red Army soldier (1956-1962)

Appearance: Valery Sablin
Character State of Origin: Grodno, Belarusian SSR, Soviet Union
Character State of Residence: Wyoming, but resides in the D. of Columbia for work reasons
Character Party Affiliation: Republican (left-wing faction)
Main Strengths: Unnoticeable Spy, Encrypted Communications, Possesses a Radio Station
Main Weaknesses: Seen as Too Soft, Underprotected Radio Station and Frequency, Oratory To Be Improved

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NS Nation Name: Guagolandum
Character Name: Leon Hryhorenko
Character Gender: Male
Character Age: 50 (Born February 2, 1918)

Character Position/Role/Job:
Ambassador of the Soviet Union to the United States (1961-)
Agent of the KGB (1954-1956)
Agent of the NKVD (1947-1954)
Red Army Soldier (1939-1945)

Appearance: Lavrenti Beria
Character State of Origin: Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Character State of Residence: Washington D. C., United States of America
Character Party Affiliation: Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1936-)

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I'm really intrigued, BETTY WILL HUNT BOTH OF THESE MEN AND KILL THEM WITH THE BALLISTICS WEAPONS SHE LEARNED ABOUT IN THE WAR

by **Lavan Tiri** » Mon Jun 27, 2022 1:38 pm

Draft of the President.

by **Jovuistan** » Mon Jun 27, 2022 2:05 pm

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Character Application and Information Sheet

NS Nation Name: Jovuistan
Character Name: Paul Noble
Character Gender: Male
Character Age: 49
Character Date of Birth: 24th July 1918
Character Position/Role/Job:
U.S. Representative from North Carolina's 1st District (1961-present)
North Carolina State Senator (1957-1961)
Mayor of Washington, North Carolina (1953-1957)
Press Secretary for Senator (not-Willis Smith) (1950-1953)
Campaign Strategist for (not-Willis Smith) (1950)
Writer at The Pendulum Student Newspaper (1947-1949)
U.S. Marine in the 8th Marine Regiment (1942-1945)
Character Country/State of Birth: North Carolina
Character State of Residence: North Carolina
Character Party Affiliation: Democratic
Faceclaim: Frank Church
Main Strengths: Youthful, ambitious, solid campaign skills, humble upbringing, veteran, ally of the south
Main Weaknesses: Tense relationship with northern and Lauderdale establishment, despised by liberals and desegregationists, stubborn, flip-flop on Vietnam issue, egotistical
Biography: Paul Clarence Noble was born to a middle-class family in Washington, NC. In a traditional and conservative family, Paul was the fourth of seven children born in the family of parents Robert and Ethel Noble. His father served as a local Pastor, while his mother maintained the family's faith and traditionalism by staying at home. Initially homeschooled with the help of his Great War veteran uncle, Paul was able to attend high school in his teenage years. His early political awareness came about during the Great Depression. His father would often return home and recount the horror stories of his congregation as times grew only harder, and the Nobles themselves suffered under the weight of economic calamity.

Paul did not initially have interest in attending a college or becoming actively involved in politics, instead helping his dad with Church services and became a Youth Pastor. Things changed quickly however when Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese. Paul was outraged by the attack and prayed for a swift American victory in the ever-expanding war. He made the decision that his calling was to help defend the United States, swiftly enlisting for and being assigned to the Marine Corps. Deployed in the 8th Marine Regiment, Paul Noble fought valiantly against the Japanese in battles such as Guadalcanal, Saipan, and Okinawa, and was eventually promoted to Corporal.

Returning back home from the Pacific in 1945, Paul now believed that politics was one of the most critical aspects of human life, critical enough to cause and decide major wars. He chose to study Political Science at Elon University. While there, he wrote for the student newspaper: The Pendulum, where he primarily acted as an opinion columnist, supporting states' rights and limited government and opposing desegregation. After a brief stint working for his area's State Senator, Paul worked as a young campaign strategist for one (not-Willis Smith), an aspiring candidate for Senate whom the young Noble looked up to. He became notable in the campaign crew and journalistic circles covering the heated primary race for being an architect of (not-Smith)'s heavy use of race-baiting as a strategy. Upon (not-Smith)'s election, Paul was promoted for his effective strategic insights and experience with journalism to serve as the Senator's Press Secretary. In addition, he met his future wife while working under the Senator, having 5 children with Virginia Wallace since being married in 1962.

His position in front of the media and connections to a sitting Senator helped build Paul's profile, leaving him in a strong position when he resigned to run for Mayor of Washington. A strong campaign infrastructure and political connections helped him easily win the election in his hometown, facing only weak opposition. Now in public office, Paul sought out to achieve his goal of growing his town of birth. He took on the construction of new public services, worked to make Washington more appealing to businesses, and started a new tourism advertising campaign to show off the town's many historic aspects. He also fought to preserve segregation in the town, in spite of challenges from civil rights activists. He easily won re-election in 1955, and after a year of continuing what he had started, Paul was tapped to run in his area's now open State Senate seat.

He benefited substantially from the seat's heavily Democratic lean, and in spite of a primary contest between himself and a State Representative, he easily cruised to victory. His term in the State Senate was defined in his heavy involvement in the state's education policies. He helped push for the creation of the Research Triangle Park, voted in favor of maintaining segregation, and sought to promote patriotic education in schools. He additionally focused on legislation to cut down on bureaucracy and red tape, successfully streamlining some state programs that ate at the budget.

Feeling emboldened by his tenure at the state level, Paul sought out an even higher office: the U.S. Congress. Running in the 1st District, he faced a divided primary field and initially appeared tied with his main opponent. Paul looked back to his previous work in 1950 for inspiration and pulled ahead by positioning himself as a populist supporting the white working class against the Washington bureaucrats and their social engineering. This rhetoric energized a loyal base of supporters, especially with a surge in civil rights support nationally. He was able to win around 54% of the primary vote compared to his main opponent's 37%. His general election victory was never in double in the deep blue seat, in fact, on election night he secured nearly 80% of the vote.

Congressman Paul Noble immediately acted on his promises, proposing a resolution to condemn the actions of civil rights activists and efforts to desegregation schools. His first term was also noted for his vote against the Trade Expansion Act; he would later come out against the (not-Kennedy) Round, calling the expansion of trade a mistake that would harm the working class in favor of special foreign interests, as well as his vote against the 24th Amendment. Paul cruised to re-election with literally no opposition, no Republican bothering in the insanely hostile seat in 1962. His second term was undoubtedly defined by his fight against the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Paul lobbied and spoke extensively in opposition, attacking it as an insult to states' rights and a concession to the "anarchists, communists, and criminals" who he alleged were leading the civil rights movement.

His time in Congress wasn't all opposition, though. He was one of the heads of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution which eventually led to President Lauderdale's engagement in Vietnam. In his third term, he voted for the Social Security Act of 1965, though expressed concern over federal overextension. He voted against the Voting Rights Act and the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, calling out what he perceived as "the surrender of the great American country to people who want nothing to do with our values and culture".

Initially in favor of the Vietnam War, Paul has begun to express doubt over the necessity of and America's success in the war. He has come to publicly regret his efforts in the Tonkin Resolution, and the continued loss of American life, along with his opposition to the overreach of the Great Society and civil rights convinced him to make an outsider bid for the Presidency, running to restore order, negotiate a favorable conclusion to the war, and protecting the working class against Washington elites.
Other Info:

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by **Sao Nova Europa** » Mon Jun 27, 2022 2:10 pm

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Character Application and Information Sheet

NS Nation Name: Sao Nova Europa
Character Name: Michael Jackson
Character Gender: Male
Character Age: 40
Character Date of Birth: 2 April 1927
Character Position/Role/Job:

Editor-in-Chief of National Review (1955 - present)
Host of Firing Line (1966 - )

Character Country/State of Birth: South Dakota
Character State of Residence: New York
Character Party Affiliation: Republican
Faceclaim: William F. Buckley
Main Strengths: Great author, great following among conservative circles, son of war hero
Main Weaknesses: Overshadowed by his father, accusations of nepotism and privilege, considered "far right" by some
Biography:

Michael Jackson is the only son of Jonathan Jackson and Louise Cromwell Brooks. He was born in 2 April 1927. From a young age, he received the best private education his parents could afford him. He showed a love for music, sailing, horses, hunting, and skiing. Despite his stellar grades and good physique, he was a rather shy individual and lacked charisma, especially compared to his famous father.

When the Japanese struck at Pearl Harbor, he was only 14 years old and too young to fight in the war. His father's victories in the Western Theater of World War II affected him, by giving the young teenager great publicity. When he went to church, there was always a huge crowd watching him and all the parents wanted their daughters to dance with "the General's son", though Michael was somewhat reserved and hated that attention. Despite his displeasure, though, the attention given to him forced him to become far more sociable than he wanted and to advance his social skills.

In 1945, he enrolled at Yale University, in which he studied political science, history, and economics, graduating with honors in 1950. He excelled on the Yale Debate Team; under the tutelage of Yale professor Rollin G. Osterweis, Michael honed his acerbic style. In 1951, Michael published his book, God and Man at Yale. Offering a critique of Yale University, Michael argued in the book that the school had strayed from its original mission by attacking the religiosity of students and pushing them to embrace liberalism. Being promoted by his father, the book became a hit amongst conservatives.

In 1955, with financial aid from his father, Michael founded the National Review, a conservative magazine that hoped to promote into the mainstream libertarian economics, social conservatism and anti-communism. Over the years, the magazine would gain increased prominence in conservative circles and would come to influence the conservative wing of the Republican Party, promoting the fusionism of traditional conservatives and libertarians. Michael brought together three powerful and partially contradictory intellectual currents that previously had largely been independent of each other: libertarianism, traditionalism, and anticommunism. He and the National Review played a crucial role in Thomas Silvermilk's successful nomination for President in 1964.

At the same time, though, Michael and the magazine caused controversy. Michael strongly defended Senator Joseph McCarthy as a patriotic crusader against communism, attacked President Davis as "too moderate" and published articles calling for the abolition of social security. Michael also wrote critiques against the staunchest civil rights advocates, causing some to criticize him as being a covert supporter of segregation. His position on civil rights wasn't consistent though. In the aftermath of the attack on the Birmingham church on September 15, 1963, which resulted in the deaths of four African American girls, Michael grew more accommodating toward the civil rights movement. He showed little patience for Southern politicians who incited racial violence and condemned proprietors of commercial establishments who declined service to African Americans in violation of the recently enacted 1964 Civil Rights Act.

Michael and his editors also used the National Review to define the boundaries of conservatism and to exclude people, ideas, or groups they considered unworthy of the conservative title. Michael denounced Ayn Rand, the John Birch Society, George Wallace, white supremacists, and anti-Semites. On April 4, 1966, Michael became the host of Firing Line (at PBS), an hour-long public affairs show (including breaks) for commercial television. The show has become a success and enjoys high ratings.

With his father running for the presidency, Michael hopes to use his position as Editor-in-Chief to support his father's campaign. The Conservative movement may have suffered a defeat in 1964, but Michael now believes it's the right time to push back against what he views as "social radicalism", "Great Society nonsense", "incremental socialism pushed through by the Democrats", "defeatism" and "appeasement of communism".

Other Info:

Michael is married to Canadian-American socialite Patricia Buckley and have one son.

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by **The Sarangtus Lands** » Mon Jun 27, 2022 6:12 pm

NS Nation Name: The Sarangtus Lands
Character Name: Matis K. Yakobsky
Character Gender: Male
Character Age: 70
Character Date of BIrth: 11th of November 1897
Character Position/Role/Job: US Marine (1917 - 1918), United Auto Workers Official (1918 - 1921), Deputy Comptroller of Chicago (1921 - 1922), Comptroller of Chicago (1922 - 1925), Mayor of Chicago (1925 - 1927, 1946 - 1949), Senator of Illinois (1927 - 1933, 1949 - Present), Secretary of Labour (1933 - 1945), President pro Tempore (1967 - Present)
Appearance: Erich Honecker
Character State of Origin: Illinois
Character State of Residence: Illinois
Character Party Affiliation: Democratic
Main Strengths and Weaknesses:
Progressive Machine Politics - As a machine boss himself (and of Chicago, no less), Yakobsky is able to command a great deal of power in his state, and able to survive reelection often in spite of the toughest circumstances. However, this has the problem of having him be disliked by reformers both to his left and to his right who see his machine as deplorable and corrupt. He denies all allegations of corruption, though he does not deny giving his allies jobs, but says that this is necessary to 'ensure the carrying out of the progressive agenda'. How the New Left would take a progressive machine boss is...doubtable.

The Workingman's Militant...And a Hard Hat? - Yakobsky is definitely a creature of the Old Left, a trade unionist and a miner's son himself, along with having worked as a construction apprentice before WWI. He is very popular among both the rural and industrial working class, but less so among students and the otherwise white-collar, who see him as stodgy. He, too, does not like the New Left very much, seeing them as rather thuggish and almost drunken.

An Ageing Titan - He has a lot of experience in the Senate, along with being the longest-serving ever Secretary of Labour. Over this time, he has built up a lot of influence, especially ever since he was made Chair of the Appropriations Committee, along with having seats on Judiciary and Health, Education, Labour and Pensions. However, time catches up with a man, and his time may soon come, and not in a good way...

Lavender Charm - Yakobsky is known as a strong orator, and very charismatic at that. He is known for his rousing speeches with militant rhetoric which move people towards him, along with a personal charm and friendly demeanour in private. However, he is known sometimes for being a bit too charming in a...queer way. His wife - who he married out of convenience, and has a similar secret to him but with women - thankfully helps conceal this, but it may just be a matter of time. Thankfully, only a few people know, and after a failed attempt at seeking treatment he's made peace with it and realised that maybe it wasn't so unnatural after all...

Hero, Killer or Coward? - While he may be a war hero (in spite of his short service), this isn't taken well by many on the left, especially the New Left, who call people like him 'baby killers'. Furthermore, he was also an isolationist until Pearl Harbor and an anti-war activist in general, which may be good attack fodder for those seeking to portray him as dovish, especially considering his stand against Vietnam.

So Much Done, Yet So Much Left to Do - The man, the face, the brain of the New Deal himself, his name is cheered by America’s working class, as he was the man who got them out of the Depression, and remains the heir of G.M. Tinkerhull himself in the eyes of many, at the very least the one without his blood. However, he is also endlessly a perfectionist and ideologue, and was rather peeved at [not-Henry Wallace] being replaced by [not-Truman], to the degree that, as soon as an opening had come up to return to the Senate in Illinois after Roosevelt’s death, though the split was made to look far more amicable in public and simply a matter of him having different priorities. In spite of all he has done, Yakobsky remains brutally dissatisfied,

I’m Sorry, Jethro - A close friend of President Jethro Lauderdale, such as working with him on the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, he had curried his favour up until the moment he officially denounced the Vietnam War, and declared his intention to run in 1968. The two have been rather frigid since then, but it’ll take more than that to break them apart.

In All the Streets - Yakobsky's religion attracts a lot of controversy, as he is both a hero to the crucial Jewish vote and despised by anti-Semites who make lots of conspiracy theories about him.

Bipartisan Progressive - Known for working with progressive Republicans (with many of them being accommodated in the machine), he is also known for being a bit of an ideologue even if not partisan. He is also close friends with his colleagues such as [not-Mansfield], [not-McGovern], and [not-Hatfield]

Son of the Radical and Brother of the Red and of the White - His father was, to put it in one manner of speaking, a far-left terrorist who had very strong convictions in favour of Marxism, and even was involved in an unsuccessful assassination attempt to kill the Governor-General of Lithuania, for which he was able to escape arrest and flee to the United States with his wife, as while his brothers and sisters stayed in the Russian Empire, as Yakobsky had cousins who were killed fighting on both sides, and one that was even a member of the Duma under the Kerenskyite, anti-Bolshevik Socialist-Revolutionaries, along with one currently in the Soviet government as a Gosplan manager for agriculture in the Lithuanian SSR.

Biography: The Yakobskys were a family of subsistence farmers, living as Ashkenazi Jews in the fields of Lithuania. However, Takobsky's father, Kostas Yakobsky, was a rather more enterprising man. Dissatisfied with his life, the elder Yakobsky joined off first with the Narodniks, taking part in their campaign of terrorism against the Russian Imperial government, often taking direct action, which came to a head in 1881 after the assassination of Tsar Alexander II, which he helped indirectly, and certainly supported. He had to flee afterwards, as the Narodnik organisation dissolved, breaking apart and falling into crisis.

Thankfully for him, he fled onto a boat, finding refuge in the United States, and settling down in Chicago after retraining as a car plant worker, helping assemble the cars with his hands. He found his wife, who was a spinner at the local textile mill and also a Lithuanian immigrant, though one who left under less unfavourable circumstances than him. Nonetheless, they settled down and built a family, birthing their first child Alexander, who would later go on to be the chair of the Illinois UAW after their second child, Matis, made his foray into politics.

Matis was born on the 11th of November 1897 (a day that would soon have some other importance, though not yet), and grew up on the Near West Side, one of the poorest areas of the city. He grew up working in the same car factory as his father, crawling under spots and doing the greasy work. During this time, he grew a penchant for argumentativeness, drinking from a young age but also wanting to free himself of his condition, he constantly worked hard at his job as an apprentice, and in fact soon came into contact with a man who would be one of his very close friends, and later something more than that, though not yet - he'd have a few spins around the turbine before arriving at his man.

As America had entered the war, he joined the marines, training up and then was deployed to the front, fighting with honour, vigour and spirit. He collected several medals over this relatively short time, being an effective fighter, even earning a Navy Cross after one particularly daring mission in charging across a river. and was a distinguished shooter and expert rifleman. He left the marines in 1918, walking out with his pension and returning to the factory, but this time enlisting himself in the United Auto Workers, organising the workers in the factory.

At this time, his brother Alexander had built up links, and his oratory and ability to connect with ordinary people had earnt him much popularity within the rank-and-file, being the President of the union local, while allowing him to schmooze with the Chicago machine, slowly slipping himself into it, and while making it clear that he was a political radical, he also made it clear that he was ready to be loyal to his people and follow the line set out for him, being picked to run as Deputy Comptroller for his Irish-American superior in order to win votes in other communities and keep the machine loyal.

And so he did, but soon he found an enemy. Prohibition. He was a man of alcohol (though in healthy moderation), and while he never drank illegal alcohol, he was staunchly opposed to Prohibition on grounds of personal freedom and his belief of alcohol's healthy effects. As Deputy Comptroller, he sparred against Prohibition, but his superior did not, leading to his superior being killed by the mob (some say by Yakobsky's order, but this is not true and there is no evidence of this), and Yakobsky preemptively ascending to Comptroller.

As Comptroller, he, as previous practice, gave patronage out, and worked to ensure efficient administration by the city. However, he was faced with an interesting dilemma. Now with Prohibition on the loose, he introduced an unofficial 'fee' for alcohol, allowing him to rake in the money, but crucially he did not spend it on himself or his lackeys - he spent it on improving infrastructure, on supporting the rank-and-file, and generally making Chicago a better place, establishing the Chicago Public Transport Corporation (not to be confused with the CTA, which is a state-level service), along wth creating the City Department of Volunteer Assistance, supporting soup kitchens and other charitable associations which helped the poor.

With this, he was able to win large popular support in Chicago, and once again used his charm and oratory to win election as Mayor of Chicago, uniting the white ethnic, Jewish and African-American communities to topple the long-term Irish dominance of city politics, taking over the machine from within. As Mayor of Chicago, most of his time was spent on improving the internal bureaucracy and cohesion of Chicago, increasing efficiency while continuing on his push to use alcohol trafficking funds for the good of the city, while also overseeing desegregation and a general improvement in race relations, going as far as to ban racial covenants. This attracted the ire of one Wayne Wheeler, who he often toughly clashed with, writing opinion pieces decrying Prohibition, as he was soon known as a leading and outspoken wet on the alcohol debate.

In opposition to Wheeler and Prohibition, he ran in the 1926 Illinois Senate race, which was known as one of the most brutal of the cycle, if not of the era, as the dries declared full-out war on him, and he declared full-out war on them, as Prohibition became known as a defining wedge issue. However, using his record in Chicago which involved general prosperity in the city, and improvements in the living standards of the poor and in infrastructure, he narrowly won out over his stridently Prohibitionist opponent, and now took a staunchly progresive voting record, and was a key co-sponsor and advocate of the Blaine Act, supporting the 21st Amendment wholeheartedly.

When the Great Depression hit, however, he suddenly boosted his profile. Already being known as a staunch wet, he then rolled out an ambitious plan - built from consultation with left-wing economists and years of reading various books, some even from Karl Marx himself - known as the Common Wealth plan, which called for a 'radical redistribution of social and economic power', including such radical proposals as full employment, a universal basic income, nationalisation of key industries such as manufacturing and electricity paid for through extensive wealth, inheritance and income tax raises on the rich, along with, most controversially, the shifting of agricultural and manufacturing industries towards worker co-ops, uniting America's left and attracting mass condemnation from the right who denounced him as "Eugene Debs reborn", a fact supported by rumours that Yakobsky had voted for Debs in 1920, which in fact were true.

But nevertheless, he pushed on, forming the Common Wealth Organisation, which soon grew to millions, and as the ranks of the unemployed swelled, so did the organisation's membership, growing from a base of none in November 1929 to over three million in November 1930. They formed as a national organisation, as Yakobsky was interviewed on national newspapers, and led marches across the country, starting the Yakobsky-Coxey Marches, marching across all 50 states and culminating in a large event in Washington, which attracted some temporary attention. Yakobsky also spoke at the Bonus Army march, calling for Congress to back the marchers, and introduced a bill which, while passing the House, was defeated in the Senate by brutal margins, causing anger. He was also known as a staunch isolationist, which would later become a problem as he was accused of being a flip-flopper.

There was speculation about whether he'd run for President in 1932, and while he was the favourite candidate of the Illinois delegation, he ultimately threw his support behind Tinkerhull, waving his banner against the media barons and against the man who would soon become his Vice President. In order to win the support of those to his left, Tinkerhull pledged to make him Secretary of Labor, and after his historic landslide victory, he did. Immediately as soon as he won, he handed off the CWO to his deputy who, sadly for him, ran the organisation into the ground by the end of 1936, but nonetheless he still rose triumphant, beginning to enact the New Deal with his close friend and ally Tinkerhull, and his even closer friend Alexander Everett, Secretary of Agriculture and later Vice President, part of whose selection came at Yakobsky's urging. He was also collateral damage in the assassination attempt that killed his close friend the Mayor of Chicago that some believed was meant to target Tinkerhull, leaving a scar on his hand that he still remembers to this day.

Slowly, and bit by bit, Tinkerhull and his cabinet, the top star of which was Yakobsky, built the country back bit by built, laying roads, getting people to work, and strengthening the American nation through building a social safety net. He authored, among other bills, the NLR Act, the Social Security Act, the FERA Act, the TVA Act, the ECA, the EHFA, the USHA, along with the RTAA, submitting them through to Congress either through Tinkerhull himself or through one of the pro-New Deal Democrats, taking on the new blood and freshing them in, including Jethro Lauderdale. During this time, he also had an affair with a rather enterprising actor, one which would lead him trouble down the road.

He kept a high profile throughout this, touring the country and being one of the most popular men in the country after Tinkerhull himself, being cheered as the hero of the New Deal, and supporte his friend Everett for Vice President. He pushed on, assisting with the Second New Deal and founding various programmes there too, while working to defend the Tinkerhull administration against its left-wing critics such as not-Long. He championed the New Deal reforms and even wrote the Second Bill of Rights speech himself, drawing up its proposals.

However, he became slowly disillusioned, as he strongly disagreed with replacing Everett, but nonetheless remained in his spot, however Hammond's pivots in foreign policy away from Tinkerhull were the final straw, leading him to resign from the cabinet to run once again for Mayor of Chicago in 1945, citing 'policy differences', and developing a rather icy relationship with the President, but one that was slowly repaired over time, especially after Hammond convinced Yakobsky to endorse him rather than Everett in 1948 and not to run on the Progressive ticket in spite of all of the speculation that he would. His second term as Mayor of Chicago, which was a rather more full and longer term, involved large-scale public housing constructions, expansions in community-based policing, and increased interactivity between local communities and the city government, as Yakobsky made sure to address small-scale concerns when necessary.

He jumped back into Senate from Illinois, egged on by Hammond, and worked on various programmes, attempting to get the Fair Deal passed but not to much avail. In 1952, he was advanced as a possible VP, but he did not stand, and same with 1956. He was supportive of Davis on civil rights, cheering at his actions in Little Rock while criticising the interstate on grounds of his preference for public transportation, suggesting national railroads instead, pointing to his successful record on transport as Mayor of Chicago, along with leading the failed filibuster against Taft-Hartley. He was also critical of Jackson's foreign policy of brinkmanship, and called for a 'world order built around peace rather than antagonism', though was still staunchly critical of the communists. He authored one major bill in this period, the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958, along with a failed Civil Rights Act which would later re-appear as the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

He soon caught the ire of a certain Senator, a certain Senator whom he despised and who despised him back. Joshua Kenny himself. They both came to blows very often, with Yakobsky attacking Kenny's methods, and Kenny calling Yakobsky a communist sympathiser, even releasing some quite brutal attacks on him, first of his relatives who fought for the Red Army and then his cousin at the time who was involved as a government bureaucrat in the ranks of the Soviet government. However, Yakobsky struck back, pointing out logical inconsistencies, and as Kenny disgraced himself due to his furiosity, Yakobsky slowly won out, even as Kenny attempted one last slur at him, throwing his secret about the actor out there as well. This sparked further outgrace against Joshua Kenny, already reeling from the suicide of a Senator that Yakobsky was close friends with and eulogised at his funeral.

He was a strong backer of Gascilly's bid, stumping for him across the nation, and backing him against Connor, sparring with Tinkerhull Jr. about his father's legacy, though Gascilly's bid failed, and Connor picked Lauderdale for VP instead of Gascilly despite Yakobsky's push, Yakobsky was satisfied that one of his lads got the VP spot, and supported Connor all the way. Once Connor was in office, Yakobsky, just like he did with Tinkerhull, began to speak in his ear, assisting him with the New Frontier programmes, authoring the FLSA amendments, the Peace Corps Act of 1961, the Vocational Education Act of 1963, McIntire–Yakobsky Act of 1962, amendments to the School Lunch Act, the Food Stamps Act, the Omnibus Housing Bill of 1961, the Rural Renewal Program of 1962 and the Clean Air Act of 1963. He also made an interesting mark in terms of foreign policy with Connor, convincing him to begin the Vietnam pullout, and saying later that he was deeply convinced that, had Connor not been assassinated, the 'Vietnam quagmire' would have never happened.

But nonetheless, Connor was dead, and he would work to cooperate with his old protege Lauderdale in the Oval Office, working with Gascilly and recycling his old proposals to create the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Yakobsky-Celler Act which loosened immigration. He was also a key assistant on the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964. He spoke to the media frequently, just like he did under Tinkerhull and Connor, vigorously promoting the new proposals, with some speculating that he was revving up a Presidential run when Lauderdale was done, as it seems his wife had inserted some level of ambition into him, along with his new protege and close ally Representative Harold Canning (Canning will get his own app at some point)

He backed Gascilly's selection for VP, and cheered Lauderdale on in 1964, and continued to work with him after his election. During the time between then and now, he has passed the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965, the Acts establishing the Departments of Transport and Housing and Urban Development, the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967.

As soon as Lauderdale announced his intent to not run for reelection, he made a rousing speech announcing his bid for President, running on the War on Poverty, and calling for an American rebirth, with his slogans being "America Reborn", "A New Dawn for America" and "Morning Has Come", declaring that the solution to America's ills is to foster what he called 'The Egalitarian Nation', involving civil rights, large-scale economic reform and an end to the Vietnam War through a peace with honour. He has seen large-scale support from the unions and from the industrial working class, along with reasonable numbers among minorities and rural voters, though the New Left have seen him as too soft on Vietnam and an 'old machine man', but his campaign has certainly created enthusiasm, and intends to contest the primaries. He has also released a book known as 'The People's Manifesto', outlining ideals similar to the Common Wealth Plan, along with support for 'strong measures to tackle the race problem' and a 'tough on the root' approach when it comes to crime. The book has sold well, especially among the urban proles.

Other Info: Can speak Yiddish and Russian.

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NS Nation Name: New Luciannova
Character Name: Dr. Taras Aleskevitch, MD
Character Gender: Male
Character Age: 52
Character Date of Birth: 1-13-1916
Character Position/Role/Job: US Senator from Ohio, Former Congressman from Ohio, Medical Doctor, Army Medic and Doctor
Character Country/State of Birth: Chicago, Illinois
Character State of Residence: Ohio
Character Party Affiliation: Republican
Faceclaim: FA Hayek (will be added later)
Main Strengths: Educated and Intellectual, Aggressive anti-Communist, Military Background, Medical Expertise, Civil Rights Crusader
Main Weaknesses: Status as a Russian American with parents born in what is now Leningrad causes suspicion, inter-racial marriage with a Japanese-American, strongly disliked in the South
Biography: (Minimum 2-3 paragraphs)
Taras Aleskevitch was born to parents who were both servants of the Tsar. His parents fled the Bolshevik Revolution in 1915 and settled in with an established immigrant relative, Eduard Aleskevitch, a professor of engineeriing at Northwestern.
Taras bonded with both his parents and uncle growing up and learned English very quickly and began reading and translating the newspaper for his parents. Although his parents were educated they settled into working class positions, his mother cleaned the houses of the more fortunate and his father was a handyman. Upon improving their English skills, however, they found better work, his mother working as a secretary and his father as a welder. His parents were always present, enabling Taras and his two younger siblings Katherine "Katyusha/Katie" and Nicolas attend school and pursue their education, even when the economy began slumping.
Taras was raised as much as Eduard as he was by his parents. He grew a deep appreciation of knowledge and hoped to be a scientist for much of this childhood, but in his teenage years he aspired to be a doctor.
Taras was an excellent student and attended Yale University and Medical school, completing his studies in 1940. In undergrad he was a member of Skull and Bones. He seldom discusses it and declines to comment at any length. He worked as a resident in Cincinatti, Ohio. Taras' first political inclinations came during the election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Taras knew the horrors of communism from his parents and felt that Roosevelt was pulling the United States too far to the left, leading him to oppose the President's policies.
In 1941, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Taras volunteered for military duty and was comissioned as a Lieutenant and gained advantages as an interpreter and medical officer. Taras distinguished himself as a doctor serving in the European theatre. Serving in France he once famously left the relative security of the medical hospital into the field to rescue reportedly injured American soldiers. He grabbed the medical flag with him, knowing the Wehrmacht would not intentionally shoot a medic per signing the Geneva Convention, but it was still a high risk and the SS had no such qualms. He performed emergency first aid to two injured American soldiers and stayed with them until it was safe for them to return to the hospital. Aleskevitch earned a Silver Star for his actions. Later, at the Battle of the Bulge, he repeated this feat at the Battle of the Bulge where he provided emergency medical aid to American and British soldiers as well as one German soldier, who he brought back as a "captive." Aleskevitch won the Bronze Star for that second action.
Taras was present when a concentration camp was liberated and performed the best aid he can on those incarcerated there. He said "seeing their faces and bodies will haunt me for eternity. If there is a hellm those that did it have claimed its lowest rungs." He earned citations for his medical skills and ability as an interpreter for some of the prisoners, many of whom were from Eastern Europe.
Upon VE Day, Taras had earned the rank of Captain and returned to the United States, he finished his comission working as a doctor at a Japanese internment camp in San Francisco. There he met a Christian Japanese woman who was 20 years old, Taras was disgusted with the treatment of the Japanese, but lacked the same harsh words as he had about the treatment of the Jews. Taras was discharged in 1945 and married Takako shofrly thereafter, the two returned to Ohio.
Taras' uncle, Eduard, earned accolades during the Second World War as well. He worked on the Manhattan Project as an engineer and through learning from him Taras became a supporter of nuclear power.
Taras also began practicing medicine again following his military service.
Taras as Takako had travelled to Florida for a vacation. Taras encountered a horrifying sight while driving through Georgia. He saw two black men suspended from a tree. He stopped to cut them down, he discovered both were deceased. He prayed over the bodies before reporting it to the local police. He knew the police would take no legal action, but was hoping at least the bodies would be removed and returned to the families for burial. He knew lynchings occured but seeing one he later said "shook me to the core. It is one thing to see horrors across the seas, but another to see the same evil in our own country."
Taras began advocating for civil rights and became increasingly impassioned. He visited the South in the early 1950's to march for civil rights with Takako and both encountered harassment, upon discovering she was pregnant and her harassment was particularly severe, he sent her home, continuing his work for longer. He learned an old medical colleague of his, Zachary Cohen, was harassed with anti-Semitic slurs, and ultimately killed by white supremacists.
Taras left his civil rights work, and decided he could be more effective in government.
He ran as a Republican for the United States House of Representatives in Ohio in 1956, and after being re-elected in 1958, he ran for United States Senate. During this time he was proud to support the 1957 Civil Rights Act he commented, "I have performed medical services on many people or many different backgrounds, I will tell you we all have a heart, two lungs, kidneys, and livers that all look the same. Our blood runs red and is spilled like any others. To consider a man less or greater than I because of his skin color or who his parents were is horrifying to me and not something I will accept."
Taras also became a staunch "red hunter" during his time in government and used his legacy as a Russian-American to aggressively denounce communism. In the United States Senate be became known as a staunch anti-communist, an opponent of the New Deal, and advocate of public health, and of civil rights. He had met with Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X. He spoke praise of the former stating "he is a good Christian, and perhaps a prophet in this modern age," but had a contemptuous attitude toward the latter for his unapologetic anti-Semitism, separatism, and violence, stating "you cannot combat hate with more hate. Malcolm X. does not know this." Taras praised the Civil Rights Act, but referred to Lyndon Johnson as "a disaster" and "an awful person and President," he enthusiastically supported Barry Goldwater for President and explained "I can see how some people who have fought alongside me for civil rights may be uncomfrotable with Sen. Goldwater, but the man harbors not an ounce of hate, but many tons of patriotism." He was a sharp critic of the Great Society programs.

Other Info: Taras Aleskevitch has four children. Taras Aleskevitch never smoked, he didn't like the smell, claiming it made him "nauseous" and claimed that cigarettes were "bad for your chest." Takako never smoked either, this is largely due to her spending many of her earlier years in an internment camp.

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by **Sao Nova Europa** » Wed Jun 29, 2022 11:56 am

Jovuistan wrote:NS Nation Name: Jovuistan
Character Name: Paul Noble

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by **The Sarangtus Lands** » Sat Jul 02, 2022 11:26 am

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NS Nation Name: Sao Nova Europa
Character Name: Jonathan Jackson
Character Gender: Male
Character Age: 72
Character Date of Birth: March 3, 1895
Character Position/Role/Job:

Commanding Officer, I Armored Corps (September 12, 1942 – March 5, 1943)
Commanding Officer (temporary), II Corps (March 5, 1943 to April 16, 1943)
Commanding Officer, I Armored Corps (April 16, 1943 to July 9, 1943)
Commanding Officer, 7th Army (July 9, 1943 – September 9, 1943)
Commanding General, Field Forces European Theater (September 9, 1943 – March 6, 1944)
Commanding General, First Army (March 6, 1944 – August 1, 1944)
Commanding General, 12th Army Group (August 1, 1944 – 12 July 1945)
Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers in Japan (11 November 1945 - 11 April 1951)
Commander of the United Nations Command (7 July 1950 - 11 April 1951)
Secretary of State (January 26, 1953 – January 20, 1961)
Governor of South Dakota (January 3, 1963 – January 5, 1967)

Battles/Wars:
North African campaign
Allied invasion of Sicily
Normandy landings
Allied advance from Paris to the Rhine
Battle of Hürtgen Forest
Western Allied invasion of Germany
Korean War

Character Country/State of Birth: South Dakota
Character State of Residence: South Dakota
Character Party Affiliation: Republican Party
Faceclaim: Charles de Gaulle
Main Strengths:

War Hero – Jonathan Jackson is a celebrated war hero. He commanded the largest group of American soldiers to ever serve under one field commander. He led American troops in North Africa, Sicily, France, Germany and Korea with great success. At the home front, he managed get tons of publicity thanks to his connections to the US press (his brother was a journalist), his ‘Mad Jack’ persona (which he carefully and calculatedly cultivated) and his military victories. As a result, he is highly respected even by political opponents.

Charismatic speaker – Jonathan Jackson is a charismatic speaker who can get crowds fired up. His speeches used to inspire the troops under his command, and now inspire the voters.

Secretary of State – As Secretary of State of the Davis administration, Jackson got a reputation of a hardline anti-communist and became a hero to war hawks in both major parties.

Main Weaknesses:

Old age – At 72 (turning 73 this March), Jackson will be one of the oldest men to be seeking the office of President. Some argue that America needs a President who is young and vigorous, not an old man. Jackson will have to persuade them otherwise.

Mad Jack – While his ‘Mad Jack’ persona has made him famous with the public, it also sparks fears about how he would handle foreign policy. As Commander of UN Forces in Korea he had advocated for expanding the war into China and as Secretary of State he practiced brinkmanship.

Conservative – Jackson belongs to the conservative wing of the GOP, and after the disaster of 1964 there are reasonable fears about nominating another conservative. Jackson will have to persuade them that he can smooth the edges and present a more moderate face.

Biography:

Early Life

Jonathan Jackson was born in Pierre, South Dakota on March 3, 1895. He was the oldest of four brothers. His father, Henry, was a retired U.S. Army captain while his mother, Martha, was a housewife who had inherited her family’s farms in South Dakota. Jonathan was a reserved child, but gifted in history and mathematics. As a young kid, he would read Greek and Roman classics (in English translations), having an unusual interest in the ancient authors for someone of his age. He especially admired Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar, whom he hoped to emulate one day.

His father was a faithful Christian and his uncle – Alexander – was a Presbyterian minister. As such, Jackson’s upbringing was religious and conservative. Jackson grew up to be a deeply devoted Christian, which later on in his life made him hate “godless Marxism” with a passion. He would attend the local Presbyterian Church with his family every Sunday, and he served as an altar boy: this helped him overcome his shyness. His uncle Alexander taught him how to give captivating speeches. He also instilled to him his love for sports, especially baseball. Jackson would consider Alexander a “second father”.

He graduated in 1912 from high school and applied to United States Military Academy at West Point because he thought that would please his father (who was a West Point graduate). As a cadet, he showed great promise due to both his intelligence and physical prowess. He was a baseball star and often played on semi-pro teams for no remuneration. He was considered one of the most outstanding college players in the nation during his junior and senior seasons at West Point, noted as both a power hitter and an outfielder, with one of the best arms in his day. He rejected multiple offers to play professional baseball, choosing to pursue his Army career. He graduated first in his class in 1916, with an academic score of 2424.12 merits out of a possible 2470.00 or 98.14.

Jackson was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the Infantry Branch of the United States Army and was first assigned to the 14th Infantry Regiment on the Mexico–United States border, defending it from incursions due to the Mexican civil war. During that time Jackson set out to verify a report that a number of rogue Mexican locomotives had crossed the border.

He and his party fell victims of an ambush by five gunmen. Then they were attacked first by fifteen horsemen, and then by another three horsemen. Jackson shot many of them while remaining unharmed, the attacker's bullets simply grazing his clothes. Because of his heroism in action, he was awarded a Medal of Honor. It was due to this enterprise that someone dubbed him "Mad Jackson", soon shortened to "Mad Jack". There is still disagreement over whom first use this phrase, but it soon spread. Jackson accepted the moniker and even joked about it from time to time.

When the United States entered World War I in April 1917, Jackson was promoted to captain and sent to guard the Butte, Montana copper mines, considered of strategic importance. Jackson, who was assigned to command the second battalion of the 14th Infantry, joined the 19th Division in August 1918, which was scheduled for European deployment, but the influenza pandemic and the armistice with Germany on November 11, 1918, that fall intervened.

During the difficult period between the wars, Jackson taught and studied. From September 1919 until September 1920, Jackson served as assistant professor of military science at South Dakota State College (now University) in Brookings, South Dakota. From 1920 to 1924, Jackson taught mathematics at West Point. He was one of the most popular professors with the students as a result of his witty lectures and friendly attitude.

During this time, Jackson became romantically involved with socialite and multi-millionaire heiress Louise Cromwell Brooks. He met her at a social event, and charmed her with his humor and innate charisma. They were married on 14 February 1922. They would go on to have two daughters and one son, Michael Jackson.

Jackson was promoted to major in 1924 and took the advanced infantry course at Fort Benning, Georgia. He was then assigned to a battalion command in Hawaii, which shaped his signature command style. He was adamant that commanders must develop an instinctive feel for terrain as an essential underpinning of infantry tactics, and he used both maps and three-dimensional sand tables both for his own education as well as the instruction of his subordinate commanders. After brief duty in Hawaii, Jackson was selected to study at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas in 1928–29. Upon graduating, he served as an instructor in tactics at the U.S. Army Infantry School.

From 1929, Jackson taught again at West Point, studying at the U.S. Army War College in 1934. His critical approach was to teach young officers self-reliance in making their tactical decisions, so that they did not depend on excessively detailed instructions from superior officers. Jackson was promoted to lieutenant colonel on June 26, 1936 and worked at the War Department; after 1938 he was directly reporting to U.S. Army Chief of Staff Marshall. Jackson's main occupation was to summarize and report on various papers of interest to the Army. After a week of getting such summaries, it troubled Marshall that no one had disagreed with any of the papers’ recommendations or offered any contradicting viewpoints for him to consider. Soon after, Jackson disagreed with a course of action Marshall himself had decided. Marshall responded, “Now that is what I want. Unless I hear all the arguments against an action, I am not sure whether I am right or not.” Jackson grasped what Marshall needed and fulfilled his demand for critical analysis.

During that time, he read the 1936 English translation by Jonathan Cape of economist Ludwig von Mises' book "Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis". Jackson was of conservative temperament and already a committed anti-communist, but this book gave him a deep belief in the superiority of the capitalist system and the futility of socialism.

On February 20, 1941, Jackson was promoted to the (wartime) temporary rank of brigadier general (bypassing the rank of colonel). This rank was made permanent by the Army in September 1943. The temporary rank was conferred to allow him to command the U.S. Army Infantry School at Fort Benning, Georgia. Almost a year later, on February 15, 1942, over two months after the American entry into World War II, Jackson was made a temporary major general (a rank made permanent in September 1944) and soon took command of the 82nd Infantry Division. Jackson oversaw the division's transformation into the first American airborne division and took parachute training. In August the division was re-designated as the 82nd Airborne Division and Jackson relinquished command to Major General Matthew Ridgway, who had been his assistant division commander (ADC).

North Africa and Italy
Under Lieutenant General Henry Davis, the Supreme Allied Commander, Jackson was assigned to help plan the Allied invasion of French North Africa as part of Operation Torch in the summer of 1942. Jackson commanded the Western Task Force, consisting of 33,000 men in 100 ships, in landings centered on Casablanca, Morocco. The landings, which took place on November 8, 1942, were opposed by Vichy French forces, but Jackson’s men quickly gained a beachhead and pushed through fierce resistance.

Casablanca fell on November 11 and Jackson negotiated an armistice with French General Charles Noguès. The Sultan of Morocco was so impressed that he presented Jackson with the Order of Ouissam Alaouite, with the citation "Les Lions dans leurs tanières tremblent en le voyant approcher" (“The lions in their dens tremble at his approach”). Jackson oversaw the conversion of Casablanca into a military port and hosted the Casablanca Conference in January 1943. He was also one of the first commanders to integrate black and white soldiers into the same rifle companies.

On March 6, 1943, following the defeat of the U.S. II Corps by the German Afrika Korps, commanded by Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel, at the Battle of Kasserine Pass, Jackson replaced Major General Lloyd Fredendall as Commanding General of the II Corps and was promoted to lieutenant general. With orders to take the battered and demoralized formation into action in 10 days' time, Jackson immediately introduced sweeping changes, ordering all soldiers to wear clean, pressed and complete uniforms, establishing rigorous schedules, and requiring strict adherence to military protocol. He continuously moved throughout the command talking with men, seeking to shape them into effective soldiers. He pushed them hard, and sought to reward them well for their accomplishments.

Jackson’s training was effective, and on March 17, the U.S. 1st Infantry Division took Gafsa, winning the Battle of El Guettar, and pushing a German and Italian armored force back twice. It was the first battle in which U.S. forces were able to defeat the experienced German tank units. More important, his attack had forced von Arnim – the German commander – to commit two-thirds of his mobile reserve to his western front on the eve of Montgomery’s offensive. Davis visited Jackson to tell him he was pleased with his progress.

In the meantime, Jackson continued pushing east. On March 21, Major General Orlando Ward’s 1st Armored Division captured Sened Station, the halfway mark between Gafsa and Maknassy. On April 5, though, Jackson removed Ward after his lackluster performance at Maknassy against numerically inferior German forces. Advancing on Gabès, Jackson’s corps pressured the Mareth Line. During this time, he reported to British General Sir Harold Alexander, commander of the 18th Army Group, and came into conflict with Air Vice Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham about the lack of close air support being provided for his troops.

In letters to his wife, Jackson would mention that the time of destiny had arrived for him. He would also compare himself to Napoleon, Caesar, Hannibal and Alexander the Great as a military commander. Jackson had a deep belief that his destiny was to become the greatest American commander in history, and he wanted deeply to prove to everyone that he was just that.

Jackson relinquished command of II Corps and was assigned to help plan Operation Husky, the Allied invasion of Sicily. For that invasion, Jackson would command the Seventh United States Army, dubbed the Western Task Force, in landings at Gela, Scoglitti and Licata to support landings by General Sir Bernard Montgomery's British Eighth Army. His force of 90,000 landed before dawn on D-Day, July 10, 1943, on beaches near the town of Licata. The armada was hampered by wind and weather, but despite this the three U.S. infantry divisions involved, the 3rd, 1st, and 45th, secured their respective beaches. They then repulsed counterattacks at Gela, where Jackson personally led his troops against German reinforcements from the Hermann Göring Division.

Initially ordered to protect the British forces' left flank, Jackson was granted permission by Alexander to take Palermo after Montgomery's forces became bogged down on the road to Messina. As part of a provisional corps under Major General Geoffrey Keyes, the 3rd Infantry Division under Major General Lucian Truscott covered 100 miles (160 km) in 72 hours, arriving at Palermo on July 21. Jackson then set his sights on Messina. He sought an amphibious assault, but it was delayed by lack of landing craft, and his troops did not land at Santo Stefano until August 8, by which time the Germans and Italians had already evacuated the bulk of their troops to mainland Italy. He ordered more landings on August 10 by the 3rd Infantry Division, which took heavy casualties but pushed the German forces back, and hastened the advance on Messina. A third landing was completed on August 16, and by 22:00 that day Messina fell to his forces.

By the end of the battle, the 200,000-man Seventh Army had suffered 7,500 casualties, and killed or captured 113,000 Axis troops and destroyed 3,500 vehicles. Still, 40,000 German and 70,000 Italian troops escaped to Italy with 10,000 vehicles. Jackson had displayed remarkable political savvy in his race to Palermo and had redeemed the honor of the US Army in the face of lingering British condescension. Despite accusations of self-serving behavior, his successes – which Jackson carefully promoted thanks to one of his brothers being a journalist – had made him a public icon domestically and an American war hero, and put him in the premier position for further major commands in the forthcoming European campaign.

Normandy landings
In October 1943 Jackson moved to London as commander in chief of the American ground forces preparing to invade France in 1944. Jackson realized that Davis had to represent the Allied view in his decision-making, not the American view. Nevertheless, he felt that Davis caved into British pressures too easily in order to maintain harmony. He thus increasingly began to view himself as the main advocate for the American point of view on major operational decisions.

Jackson had bad chemistry with General Sir Bernard Montgomery. Montgomery’s approach struck Jackson as too rigid and not taking sufficient account of the changes in the offensive–defensive balance and the change in tempo made possible by the use of combined-arms warfare and tanks. Jackson believed that modern warfare required a greater willingness to deal with the inherent uncertainties of the battlefield by being willing to improvise and adapt to new circumstances.

For D-Day, Jackson was chosen to command the US First Army which, alongside the British Second Army commanded by Lieutenant-General Miles Dempsey, made up the 21st Army Group commanded by General Montgomery. Jackson’s D-Day forces consisted of Collins’ VII Corps to the right on Utah Beach, spearheaded by the 4th Division, and Gerow’s V Corps on Omaha Beach, spearheaded by regimental combat teams from the 1st and 29th Divisions.

The airborne landings on the night of June 5–6 were a glorious shambles. Both the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions were scattered all over the Cotentin Peninsula and few units captured their objectives on time. Nevertheless, both divisions were blessed by a deep reservoir of self-motivated young warriors who set out as best they could to carry out their missions deep behind German lines. As a result, Germans defenses behind Utah Beach began to disintegrate in confusion and chaos.

The landings by the 4th Division at Utah Beach proceeded like clockwork except that the spearhead regimental combat team landed a distance away from the intended sector. This was all for the better as the landing sector included a much weaker German strongpoint than the planned beachhead, and this particular strongpoint had been neutralized by the pre-invasion bombardment. The 4th Division was off the beach and moving across the flooded farm fields by late morning.

Omaha Beach was a disaster. There was a serious misunderstanding between Jackson’s First US Army and the Eighth Air Force heavy bomber force. Jackson was under the impression that the heavy bombers would bomb parallel to the beach and saturate the defenses, not only knocking out much of the defensive fieldworks, but also cratering the beach to give the landing troops some cover. The US Army Air Force received conflicting demands from the Army, some elements wanting a cratered beach and others wanting the use of small bombs to avoid cratering since the beach would be needed for logistics purposes in the follow-on waves.

The resulting bombardment was a complete waste. In spite of the shortcomings of the bombardment, the real problem was the nature of the German defenses at Omaha Beach. Omaha Beach was a narrow beach overlooked by high bluffs. The initial landings on Omaha Beach aimed straight into the two strongest German strongpoints at Colleville and Vierville, and not surprisingly, faced a horrific firestorm of small arms, mortars, and field guns. It was far closer in intensity to a World War I battlefield. On the east side at the Colleville draw, the experienced 16th Infantry, 1st Division, took serious casualties, but its young NCOs and junior officers quickly and efficiently began leading small parties off the beach and up over the bluffs. The green 116th Infantry of the 29th Division took appalling casualties and was slower to move off the beach. The follow-on waves were stymied by large sections of anticraft obstacles still lurking in the waters off the beach that engineers had failed to clear due to their decimation in the early waves. Young navy and coast guard captains finally ignored the obstacles and headed to shore anyway. By late morning, a steady stream of LCIs (Landing Craft Infantry) were shuttling back and forth from the transports off-shore to the beach.

On June 10, 1944, four days after the initial Normandy landings, General Jackson and his staff debarked to establish a headquarters ashore. Jackson’s immediate task in the week after D-Day was to link up Omaha and Utah Beaches. The First US Army was assigned to take Cherbourg. The main assault on Cherbourg began on the evening of June 19. The initial attacks made steady progress as the German units tended to withdraw after first contact. By June 20, VIII Corps had reached the Cap de la Hague Peninsula and encountered the German main line of resistance. The final attack on Cherbourg on June 22 was preceded by an intense air preparation conducted by IX Tactical Air Command. By June 24, the German defenses began to crumble and breaches were made in the final layer of outer fortifications, providing access to the city itself. Two more days were spent eliminating outlying forts in the harbor, mainly by air attack and tank gunfire; a total of 6,000 prisoners were captured.

During July, Jackson inspected the modifications made by Curtis G. Culin to Sherman tanks that led to the Rhino tank. Later in July, Jackson planned Operation Cobra, the beginning of the breakout from the Normandy beachhead. Operation Cobra called for the use of strategic bombers using huge bomb loads to attack German defensive lines. The key concept here was extreme concentration – of firepower, assault troops, and armour – to open a narrow gap through which the tanks could pass into the open country beyond. “First we must pick a soft point in the enemy’s line,” Jackson explained, “next concentrate our forces against it. Then, after smashing through with a blow that would crush his front-line defences, we spill our mechanised columns through that gap before the enemy could recover his senses.”

After several postponements due to weather, the operation began on July 25, 1944, with a short, very intensive bombardment with lighter explosives, designed so as not to create more rubble and craters that would slow Allied progress. The bombing was successful in knocking out the enemy communication system, rendering German troops confused and ineffective, and opened the way for the ground offensive by attacking infantry. Jackson sent in three infantry divisions—the 9th, 4th and 30th—to move in close behind the bombing. The infantry succeeded in cracking the German defenses, opening the way for advances by armored forces to sweep around the German lines.

As the build-up continued in Normandy, the Third Army was formed under Patton while General Hodges succeeded Jackson in command of the First Army; together, they made up Jackson’s new command, the 12th Army Group. By August, the 12th Army Group had swollen to over 900,000 men and ultimately consisted of four field armies. It was the largest group of American soldiers to ever serve under one field commander.

Operation Lüttich and the Falaise Pocket
During 7–13 August 1944, the Germans launched Operation Lüttich, a counterattack against U.S. positions near Mortain, in northwestern France. SS Panzer troops attacked the positions of the American 30th Infantry Division east of Mortain shortly after midnight, and the Germans achieved temporary surprise. They briefly captured Mortain but were unable to breach the lines of the 30th Division, as the 2nd Battalion of the 120th Infantry Regiment commanded Hill 314, the dominant feature around Mortain. Although cut off, they were supplied by parachute drops. Of the 700 men who defended the position until 12 August, over 300 were killed or wounded.

To the north, the 2nd Panzer Division attacked several hours later, aiming south-west toward Avranches. It managed to penetrate several miles into the American lines, before being stopped by the 35th Infantry Division and a combat command of the 3rd Armored Division only 2 mi (3.2 km) short of Avranches. By noon of 7 August, the early morning fog had dispersed, and large numbers of Allied aircraft appeared over the battlefield. With the advance knowledge of the attack provided by Ultra, the U.S. 9th Air Force had been reinforced by the RAF Second Tactical Air Force.

The Allies inflicted severe losses on the attacking troops, eventually destroying most of the German tanks involved in the attack. Jackson sent two armoured combat commands against the German southern (left) flank. On 8 August, one of these (from the U.S. 2nd Armored Division) was attacking the rear of the two SS Panzer Divisions. Although fighting would continue around Mortain for several more days, there was no further prospect of any German success. As the U.S. First Army counter-attacked German units near Mortain, units of Patton's 3rd Army were advancing unchecked through the open country to the south of the German armies, and had taken Le Mans on 8 August. By 13 August, the offensive had fully halted, with German forces being driven out of Mortain. The Germans had lost 120 tanks and assault guns to Allied counter-attacks and air strikes, more than two-thirds of their committed total.

Hitler's refusal to allow his army to flee the rapidly advancing Allied pincer movement created an opportunity to trap an entire German Army Group in northern France. After the German defeat at Mortain, Jackson’s Army Group and XV Corps became the southern pincer in forming the Falaise Pocket, trapping the German Seventh Army and Fifth Panzer Army in Normandy. The northern pincer was formed of Canadian forces, part of British General Sir Bernard Montgomery's 21st Army Group.

On August 13, concerned that American troops would clash with Canadian forces advancing from the north-west, Jackson overrode Patton's orders for a further push north towards Falaise, while ordering XV Corps to "concentrate for operations in another direction". Any American troops in the vicinity of Argentan were ordered to withdraw. This order halted the southern pincer movement of General Haislip's XV Corps. Though Patton protested the order, he obeyed it, leaving an exit—a "trap with a gap"—for the remaining German forces.

Around 20,000–50,000 German troops (leaving almost all of their heavy material) escaped through the gap, avoiding encirclement and almost certain destruction. They would be reorganized and rearmed in time to slow the Allied advance into the Netherlands and Germany. Most of the blame for this outcome has been placed on Jackson, who had incorrectly assumed - based on Ultra decoding transcripts - that most of the Germans had already escaped encirclement, and he feared a German counterattack as well as possible friendly fire casualties. Though admitting that a mistake had been made, Jackson placed the blame on General Montgomery for moving the British and Commonwealth troops too slowly.

Advance to the Rhine
By the end of August, all of Brittany except for the fortified areas of Brest, Lorient, Saint-Nazaire and the Quiberon peninsula were cleared. The US First Army advanced rapidly through northern France and Belgium. It helped to liberate Paris on August 25. During the Battle of the Mons Pocket (31 August – 5 September 1944), the Allies encircled approximately 70,000 Germans near Mons in Belgium, and took around 25,000 prisoners. The German forces also lost large quantities of equipment, including 40 armored fighting vehicles, 100 half-tracks, 120 artillery guns, 100 antitank and antiaircraft guns and almost 2000 vehicles. The Americans suffered few casualties. The 3rd Armored Division lost 57 men killed, and the 1st Infantry Division had 32 killed and 93 wounded. Losses of equipment were also light, and included two tanks, a tank destroyer and 20 other vehicles. The number of Germans captured in the Mons pocket was the second highest of any engagement during the 1944 campaign in the west.

The American forces reached the "Siegfried Line" or "Westwall" in late September. The success of the advance had taken the Allied high command by surprise. They had expected the German Wehrmacht to make stands on the natural defensive lines provided by the French rivers, and had not prepared the logistics for the much deeper advance of the Allied armies, so fuel ran short. Jackson favored an advance into the Saarland, or possibly a two-thrust assault on both the Saarland and the Ruhr Area. Montgomery argued for a narrow thrust across the Lower Rhine, preferably with all Allied ground forces under his personal command as they had been in the early months of the Normandy campaign, into the open country beyond and then to the northern flank into the Ruhr, thus avoiding the Siegfried Line. Although Montgomery was not permitted to launch an offensive on the scale he had wanted, George Marshall and Hap Arnold were eager to use the First Allied Airborne Army to cross the Rhine, so Davis agreed to Operation Market Garden. Jackson opposed the operation, and bitterly protested to Davis the priority of supplies given to Montgomery, but Davis, mindful of British public opinion regarding damage from V-1 missile launches in the north, refused to make any changes.

Jackson’s Army Group now covered a very wide front in hilly country, from the Netherlands to Lorraine. Despite having the largest concentration of Allied army forces, Jackson faced difficulties in prosecuting a successful broad-front offensive in difficult country with a skilled enemy. General Jackson and his First Army commander, General Courtney Hodges, eventually decided to attack through a corridor known as the Aachen Gap towards the German township of Schmidt. The only nearby military objectives were the Roer River flood control dams, but these were not mentioned in contemporary plans and documents.

Jackson and Hodges' original objective may have been to outflank German forces and prevent them from reinforcing their units further north in the Battle of Aachen. After the war, Jackson would cite the Roer dams as the objective: since the Germans held the dams, they could also unleash millions of gallons of water into the path of advance. The campaign's confused objectives combined with poor intelligence resulted in the costly series of battles known as the Battle of Hurtgen Forest (19 September to 16 December 1944), which cost some 33,000 American casualties. At the end of the fighting in the Hurtgen, German forces remained in control of the Roer dams in what has been described as "the most ineptly fought series of battles of the war in the west."

Further south, Patton's Third Army, which had been advancing with great speed, was faced with last priority (behind the U.S. First and Ninth Armies) for supplies, gasoline and ammunition. As a result, the Third Army lost momentum as German resistance stiffened around the extensive defenses surrounding the city of Metz. While Jackson focused on these two campaigns, the Germans were in the process of assembling troops and materiel for a surprise winter offensive.

Jackson’s command took the initial brunt of what would become the Battle of the Bulge (16 December 1944 – 25 January 1945). For logistical and command reasons, General Davis decided to place Jackson’s First and Ninth Armies under the temporary command of Field Marshal Montgomery's 21st Army Group on the northern flank of the Bulge. Jackson was incensed, and began shouting at Davis: "By God, Pike, I cannot be responsible to the American people if you do this. I resign." Davis turned red, took a breath and replied evenly "Jack, I—not you—am responsible to the American people. Your resignation therefore means absolutely nothing." Jackson paused, made one more protest, then fell silent as Davis concluded "Well, Jack, those are my orders."

Jackson's failures and disappointments led him to momentarily believe that his star was no longer shining. In letters to his wife, he expressed his frustrations and fears he would be regarded as a military failure. But Jackson eventually managed to put behind him his doubts. He would soon go on to lead his army to one of the greatest victories the Allies achieved in the Western Theater.

German Campaign
The first phase of the Anglo-American offensive began on February 8 with two operations aimed at closing on the Rhine in the northern sector. Operation Veritable was Montgomery’s effort to push the 21st Army Group through the Reichswald and into position on the west bank of the Rhine for a major river-crossing operation. Operation Grenade was a supporting effort by the Ninth US Army to finally clear the Roer River and as a prelude to future operations along the Rhine.

Jackson was not content to let First US Army sit idle through the month, and by late February he convinced Eisenhower to permit First US Army to assist Operation Grenade with a simultaneous crossing of the Roer on February 23 to protect the advance’s southern flank. Jackson used an advantage gained in March to break the German defenses and cross the Rhine into the industrial heartland of the Ruhr: aggressive pursuit of the disintegrating German troops by the 9th Armored Division had resulted in the capture of a bridge across the Rhine River at Remagen. Jackson quickly exploited the crossing, forming the southern arm of an enormous pincer movement encircling the German forces in the Ruhr from the north and south. Within the Ruhr pocket some 370,000 German soldiers, 14 divisions of Army Group B and two corps from the First Parachute Army, altogether the remnants of 19 divisions, and millions of civilians were trapped in cities heavily damaged by Allied bombings.

On 10 April the U.S. Ninth Army captured Essen. On 14 April the U.S. First and Ninth armies linked up on the Ruhr river at Hattingen and split the pocket in two; the smaller, eastern part surrendered the next day. The German 15th Army under Gustav-Adolf von Zangen capitulated on 14 April, having lost all control over its subordinate formations. Over 300,000 prisoners were taken. American forces then met up with the Soviet forces near the Elbe River in mid-April. By V-E Day, the 12th Army Group was a force of four armies (First, Third, Ninth, and Fifteenth) that numbered over 1.3 million men.

The crossing of the Rhine, the encirclement and reduction of the Ruhr, and the sweep to the Elbe–Mulde line all established the final campaign on the Western Front as a showcase for Western Allied superiority over the Germans in maneuver warfare. Drawing on the experience gained during the campaign in Normandy and the Allied advance from Paris to the Rhine, Jackson demonstrated his capability of absorbing the lessons of the past. By attaching mechanized infantry units to armored divisions, he created a hybrid of strength and mobility that served him well in the pursuit of warfare through Germany. Key to the effort was the logistical support that kept these forces fueled, and the determination to maintain the forward momentum at all costs. These mobile forces made great thrusts to isolate pockets of German troops, which were mopped up by additional infantry following close behind.

Jackson's ability to deploy huge armies across enormous battlefields, his careful mastery of logistics and his role in the American breakout in Normandy and the movements of American armies across the Rhine have led to him being evaluated as a competent general, despite the occasional mistakes. His holistic grasp of the conflict plane helped him identify risks and opportunities to inform calculated, objective decisions. He had an uncanny ability to hold all the variables of an impending battle in his head, such as his artillery’s strength, the Allied close air support he could expect, his divisions’ fighting capability, and his commanders’ leadership aptitudes. He could also conceptualize an opposing force’s ability to fight, along with its battlefield disposition. Above all, Jackson thought critically in stressful situations, even after setbacks. He quickly fixed his mistakes and reengaged, to lead a brilliant campaign from Normandy’s beaches to Germany’s Elbe River. Such tenacity and resilience despite failure reinforced his leadership excellence.

Jackson cultivated a flashy, distinctive image during the campaign in the belief that this would inspire his troops. His jeep bore oversized rank placards on the front and back, as well as a klaxon horn which would loudly announce his approach from afar. He also developed an ability to deliver charismatic speeches. Jackson had a habit of peremptorily relieving senior commanders who he felt were too independent, or whose command style did not agree with his own. When required, Jackson could be a hard disciplinarian; he recommended the death sentence for several soldiers while he served as the commander of the First Army. All these contributed to making him a celebrity in the home front.

Gaijin Shogun
Following the German surrender, Jackson’s 12th Army Group was disbanded. Hodges’ First US Army and Simpson’s Ninth US Army were slated for the Pacific Theater and the final assault on Japan, Patton’s Third US Army was to remain on occupation duty in Europe. Jackson was recalled to Washington.

He was initially considered for the task of heading the Veterans Administration (VA), but instead in October he was promoted to four-star general and in November was appointed in MacArthur’s – who had been forced to resign from his post due to grievous personal illness – place as Supreme Commander of the Allied Occupation of Japan. This was a decision supported by Davis. At least one historian has attributed Davis' support for Jackson’s promotion and assignment to Japan to, in part, a desire to compensate him for the way in which he had been sidelined during the Battle of the Bulge.

In 1946, Jackson’s staff drafted a new Japanese constitution that renounced war and stripped the Emperor of his military authority. The constitution—which became effective on 3 May 1947—instituted a parliamentary system of government, under which the Emperor acted only on the advice of his ministers. It included Article 9, which outlawed belligerency as an instrument of state policy and the maintenance of a standing army. The constitution also enfranchised women, guaranteed fundamental human rights, outlawed racial discrimination, strengthened the powers of Parliament and the Cabinet, and decentralized the police and local government.

A major land reform was also conducted, led by Wolf Ladejinsky of Jackson’s SCAP staff. Between 1947 and 1949, approximately 4,700,000 acres (1,900,000 ha), or 38% of Japan's cultivated land, was purchased from the landlords under the government's reform program, and 4,600,000 acres (1,860,000 ha) was resold to the farmers who worked them. By 1950, 89% of all agricultural land was owner-operated and only 11% was tenant-operated. Jackson also controversially gave immunity to Shiro Ishii and other members of Unit 731 in exchange for germ warfare data based on human experimentation.

The Japanese nicknamed Jackson Gaijin Shogun (Japanese: gaijin, "foreigner", shogun, "military ruler"). He himself became enamored with Japanese culture. He would learn the Japanese language, read Japanese literature and academic volumes on Japanese history, and would even be seen occasionally wearing traditional Samurai armor. Unlike other Americans who looked down on Asiatic people, Jackson would come to deeply admire East Asian cultures.

Jackson also wrote a number of Haiku poems, which he published in 1949. His most famous poem is “Autumn moonlight”:

An old silent pond...
A frog jumps into the pond,
splash! Silence again.

Autumn moonlight-
a worm digs silently
into the chestnut.

In the twilight rain
these brilliant-hued hibiscus -
A lovely sunset.

His Japanophile attitude left him open to criticism in some circles of American society. Some newspapers also accused him of being involved in an affair with a (much) younger Japanese woman, something which Jackson vehemently denied. Jackson did in fact have such an affair for two years, but he kept it a closely guarded secret. This led him to write private, unpublished poems lamenting the weakness of the flesh, partly a result of the guilt he felt because of his religious upbringing.

In an address to Congress on 19 April 1951, Jackson declared:

“The Japanese people since the war have undergone the greatest reformation recorded in modern history. With a commendable will, eagerness to learn, and marked capacity to understand, they have from the ashes left in war's wake erected in Japan an edifice dedicated to the supremacy of individual liberty and personal dignity, and in the ensuing process there has been created a truly representative government committed to the advance of political morality, freedom of economic enterprise, and social justice.”

Jackson was also in charge of southern Korea from 1945 to 1948 due to the lack of clear orders or initiative from Washington, D.C. The result was a very tumultuous 3 year military occupation that led to the creation of the U.S.-friendly Republic of Korea in 1948.

Korean War
On 25 June 1950, North Korea invaded South Korea, starting the Korean War. The United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 82, which authorized a United Nations Command (UNC) force to assist South Korea. Jackson became commander-in-chief of the UNC, while remaining SCAP in Japan and Commander-in-Chief, Far East. His units were forced to fall back to the Pusan Perimeter, but by the end of August, the crisis subsided. North Korean attacks on the perimeter had tapered off.

In September, despite lingering concerns from superiors (because Inchon's natural and artificial defenses were formidable), Jackson pulled off a successful landing at Inchon, deep behind North Korean lines. Launched with naval and close air support, the landing outflanked the North Koreans, recaptured Seoul (25 September) and forced them to retreat northward in disarray. Most military scholars consider the battle one of the most decisive military operations in modern warfare. Commentators described the Inchon operation as "an example of brilliant generalship and military genius." This was an image which was cultivated by Jackson himself through his connections with the American press.

Visiting the battlefield on 17 September, Jackson surveyed six T-34 tanks that had been knocked out by Marines, ignoring sniper fire around him, except to note that the North Korean marksmen were poorly trained. This story circulated widely in the US press and further enhanced Jackson’s public persona as “Mad Jack”.

By 1 October 1950, the UN Command repelled the KPA northwards past the 38th Parallel; the ROK advanced after them, into North Korea. Six days later, on 7 October, with UN authorization, the UN Command forces followed the ROK forces northwards. The Eighth US Army drove up western Korea and captured Pyongyang on 19 October 1950. The 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team made their first of two combat jumps during the Korean War on 20 October 1950 at Sunchon and Sukchon. The mission was to cut the road north going to China, preventing North Korean leaders from escaping from Pyongyang; and to rescue US prisoners of war.

At month's end, UN forces held 135,000 KPA prisoners of war. As they neared the Sino-Korean border, the UN forces in the west were divided from those in the east by 80–161 km (50–100 mi) of mountainous terrain. In addition to the 135,000 captured, the KPA had also suffered some 200,000 men killed or wounded for a total of 335,000 casualties since the end of June 1950, and had lost 313 tanks (mostly T-34/85 models). A mere 25,000 KPA regulars retreated across the 38th Parallel, as their military had entirely collapsed. The UN forces on the peninsula numbered 229,722 combat troops (including 125,126 Americans and 82,786 South Koreans), 119,559 rear area troops, and 36,667 US Air Force personnel.

Taking advantage of the UN Command's strategic momentum against the communists, Jackson believed it necessary to extend the Korean War into China to destroy depots supplying the North Korean war effort. President Carry S. Hammond disagreed, and ordered caution at the Sino-Korean border. The rapid UN advance, however, was stopped by Chinese intervention. The Battle of Unsan in late October demonstrated the presence of Chinese soldiers in Korea and rendered significant losses to the UN troops. In 25 November 1950, Walker's Eighth Army was attacked by the Chinese Army and soon the UN forces were in retreat. Seoul fell in January 1951.

The UN forces retreated, as Jackson said, “as a fighting army, not as a running mob.” They brought with them all their equipment and, most important, their pride. They settled into elaborate defenses and waited for the Chinese to try again. The battered Communists chose to regroup. Jackson reorganized the UN army and launched a counteroffensive. The goal was the Han River, which would make the enemy’s grip on Seoul untenable. The offensive was a series of carefully planned advances to designated “phase lines,” beyond each of which no one advanced until every assigned unit reached it. Jackson stressed the importance of having good coordination, inflicting maximum punishment, and keeping major units intact.

Jackson inflicted heavy casualties on the Chinese, recaptured Seoul in March 1951 – a symbolic defeat of tremendous proportions to the Communists’ political ambitions –, and pushed on to the 38th Parallel. With the improved military situation, Hammond now saw the opportunity to offer a negotiated peace but, on 24 March, Jackson called upon China to admit that it had been defeated, simultaneously challenging both the Chinese and his own superiors. Hammond's proposed announcement was shelved. Jackson was contentiously removed from command by the President on 11 April 1951, after he again publicly stated his disagreement with the administration.

Polls showed that a majority of Americans disagreed with this decision. The majority of South Koreans also consider Jackson to be a hero who saved their country. The city of Inchon erected a statue of Jackson in 1957, which is considered a symbol of patriotism.

Secretary of State
On 18 April, Jackson returned to the United States. On 19 April, Jackson made an official appearance in a farewell address to the U.S. Congress presenting and defending his side of his disagreement with Hammond over the conduct of the Korean War:

“The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point, and the hopes and dreams have long since vanished, but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular barrack ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that "old soldiers never die; they just fade away". And like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Good Bye.”

On a speaking tour in 1951-2, Jackson accused the President of appeasement in Asia. He had never had much of an interest in politics before that time, but his disagreements with Hammond, conservative temperament and strong anti-communism pushed him to the GOP. Initially he sought to become the GOP nominee himself but he soon came into an agreement to support Henry Davis in exchange for a position in his cabinet. In the presidential elections he actively campaigned for Davis.

When Davis succeeded Truman as president in January 1953, Jackson was appointed and confirmed as his Secretary of State. His tenure as Secretary was marked by conflict with communist governments worldwide, especially the Soviet Union; Jackson strongly opposed communism, calling it "Godless terrorism." Jackson’s preferred strategy was containment through military build-up and the formation of alliances (dubbed "pactomania").

Jackson was a pioneer of the strategies of massive retaliation and brinkmanship. In an article written for Life magazine, Jackson defined his policy of brinkmanship: "The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art." He also wrote that “if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.” Wherever he went, he carried with him Joseph Stalin’s Problems of Leninism and impressed upon his aides the need to study it as a blueprint for conquest similar to Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf.

Jackson’s hard line alienated many leaders of nonaligned countries when on June 9, 1955 he argued in a speech that "neutrality has increasingly become obsolete and, except under very exceptional circumstances, it is an immoral and shortsighted conception." Throughout the 1950s, Jackson was in frequent conflict with non-aligned statesmen who he deemed were too sympathetic to communism, including India's V.K. Krishna Menon.

One of his first major policy shifts towards a more aggressive position against communism occurred in March 1953, when Jackson supported Davis' decision to direct the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to draft plans to overthrow Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh of Iran. That led directly to the coup d'état via Operation Ajax in support of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who regained his position as the Shah of Iran.

In the 1950s, Jackson worked to reduce French influence in Vietnam and asked the United States to attempt to co-operate with the French in the aid of strengthening Diem's army. Over time, Jackson concluded that he had to "ease France out of Vietnam." In 1954, at the height of the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, Jackson helped plan and promote Operation Vulture, a proposed B-29 aerial assault on the communist Viet Minh siege positions to relieve the beleaguered French Army.

President Davis made American participation reliant on British support, but Foreign Secretary Sir Anthony Eden was opposed to it and so Vulture was canceled over Jackson’s objections. With Dien Bien Phu's fall to the communists, Jackson fell out with Eden. At the 1954 Geneva Conference, which concerned the breakup of French Indochina, he forbade any contact with the Chinese delegation and refused to shake hands with Zhou Enlai, the lead Chinese negotiator. He subsequently left to avoid direct association with the negotiations.

As Secretary of State, Jackson carried out the "containment" policy of neutralizing the Taiwan Strait during the Korean War. In 1954, Jackson architected the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, providing for collective action against aggression. The treaty was signed by representatives of Australia, Britain, France, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines, Thailand, and the United States. This treaty was followed in 1955 by the Baghdad Pact, later renamed the Central Treaty Organization (CENTO), uniting the so-called northern tier countries of the Middle East—Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Pakistan—in a defense organization.

In Europe, Jackson was instrumental in putting into final form the Austrian State Treaty (1955), restoring Austria’s pre-1938 frontiers and forbidding a future union between Germany and Austria, and the Trieste agreement (1954), providing for partition of the free territory between Italy and Yugoslavia. During the Austrian State Treaty negotiations, Jackson refused to compromise on some minor points, even though the Austrians themselves pleaded with him to do so for fear the Soviets would walk out. Jackson stood his ground, and the Soviets yielded.

Jackson could be equally intransigent with the allies of the United States. His insistence upon the establishment of the European Defense Community (EDC) threatened to polarize the free world, when in 1953 he announced that failure to ratify EDC by France would result in an “agonizing reappraisal” of the United States’ relations with France. That expression, and Jackson’s announcement in a Paris speech that the United States would react with “massive nuclear retaliation” to any Soviet aggression, found a permanent place in the vocabulary of U.S. foreign policy.

In 1954, Jackson participated in the instigation of a military coup by the Guatemalan army through the CIA by claiming that the democratically elected Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz's government and the Guatemalan Revolution were veering toward communism. In November 1956, Jackson strongly opposed the Anglo-French invasion of the Suez Canal zone in response to Egypt's nationalization of the canal but by 1958 he had become an outspoken opponent of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser and prevented Nasser's government from receiving arms from the United States. That policy allowed the Soviet Union to gain influence in Egypt.

In 1958, Jackson authorized the Secretary of the Air Force to state publicly that the United States was prepared to use nuclear weapons in a conflict with China over the islands of Quemoy and Matsu. Jackson also oversaw the renegotiation of a revised version of the U.S.–Japan Security Treaty.

In his last years in office, his main diplomatic challenges included escalating crises over the status of West Berlin; difficult negotiations with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, especially regarding the Soviet downing of the U-2 spy plane; the collapse of the Paris Summit conference; and the early stages of American efforts to divert Fidel Castro's Cuban revolution away from communism. Jackson supported strong policies against Cuba, and a refusal to compromise on Berlin. During his visit to West Berlin in July 1959, Jackson was enthusiastically celebrated by over 100,000 people in the streets. This fueled suspicions he might seek the Republican nomination for the presidency, but Jackson decided against it.

His time as Secretary of State earned him the support of anti-communist interventionists and war hawks in both major parties, as well as making him popular among conservatives. Jackson was named Time magazine's Man of the Year for 1954. His quote "The United States of America does not have friends; it has interests" became famous. Jackson’s detractors in the U.S. and abroad viewed him as harsh, inflexible, and a tactician, rather than an architect of international diplomacy.

Governor of South Dakota
After the end of his tenure as Secretary of State, Jackson pursued politics in his native South Dakota. He campaigned in 1962 for the office of Governor as a conservative Republican. His status as war hero and Secretary of State meant that he was easily elected, beating Ralph Herseth by 31,000 votes. He was comfortably reelected in 1964 for a second term.

In his two-term Governorship (January 3, 1963 - January 5, 1967) he cut the property tax and the state sales tax, though he failed to reduce by much state spending as he was stifled by opponents in the state legislature. He also focused on crackdowns on drug users and dealers, touting a tough ‘law and order’ agenda. He managed to improve the state's reservoir system, enact a worker training program to attract new industry to South Dakota and successfully overhauled the organization of the state government by creating a cabinet system.

Although some of his initiatives had the support of liberal legislators, his relationship with his political opponents soon worsened and he made liberal use of his veto powers to block a fair number of progressive bills that would increase government spending, to the point he was nicknamed “Mr. Veto”. During the 1964 elections, he had supported Thomas Silvermilk’s campaign, which earned him further credentials in the conservative camp of the GOP.

Nearing the end of his tenure as Governor, he dedicated himself to writing his memoirs. He wanted to revive interest in his WWII career and to defend himself from Democratic-leaning authors who smeared his conduct during the Korean War to justify his removal by Truman. “A Soldier’s Story” was published in 1966 and instantly became a sensation with the public. Jackson himself, as he had no interest in pursuing a third term as Governor, engaged in a book tour in which he visited several states, gave a number of interviews and spoke with veterans. In 1967 the memoirs were adapted to the big screen (“General Jackson”), with Marlon Brando acting the role of the General during the Korean War. The movie focused on his contentious relationship with President Truman.

This led to renewed public interest in Jackson’s military career, which spurred Jackson to seek a higher office. Behind the scenes, he began working towards a presidential campaign for the 1968 elections. Unlike in 1964, he believed that this time the environment was favorable for the Republicans and the GOP nominee could go on to win the presidency. He thus would appear more frequently on TV and radio shows, would give more interviews and would talk with Republican politicians (both Congressmen and various Governors) – meeting old friends who had worked with him in the Eisenhower administration and mending ties with moderate Republicans to assure them he would be a unity candidate –, preparing the scene for his eventual campaign. He would also author and publish (in 1967) a second book: “Facing the Red Menace”, a memoir of his time as Secretary of State.

Jackson announced his candidacy for president on November 30, 1967. “The silent majority shall be silent no more,” he said. “The law-abiding, tax-paying, peaceful, patriotic citizens of this grand nation for too long have been ignored by a decadent establishment that prioritizes rioters, criminals, drug-addicts, extremists and those who hate America and love the Vietcong. No more! I aim to represent the silent majority that wishes for law and order, an end to rioting and violence, victory in Vietnam, good governance that serves the common folk and not DC bureaucrats, and social peace. Together, we can make America great again!”

Now Jackson aims to take the White House. His platform includes restoring law and order, cracking down on protests and violence, launching a war against drugs, promoting traditional morality in the educational system, cutting taxes and government regulations, reducing government spending and winning the war in Vietnam. At the same time, he has been attempting to smooth his image in fear that his more conservative positions – especially on economics – might scare away moderate voters.

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Jackson is a widower, his wife Louise Cromwell Brooks having died in 1965. He has two daughters and one son, Michael Jackson. One of his brothers was a prominent journalist (but is retired now). He owns three cats and is a known advocate of animal welfare.

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