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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus4/19/2018 9:54:45 pm PDT

re: #45 Anymouse 🌹

The years between the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, in 1865, and that of President William McKinley, in 1901, were among the least inspiring in the history of U.S. politics.

And often under-remembered.

Time travel stories often get caught up with assassinations but especially Lincoln, as if going back and stopping his assassination would be a big change in American politics and policy.

I assert that the second assassination, of McKinley, would make for a much more interesting time-travel story, as the death of McKinley leads to Teddy Roosevelt becoming President and then Wilson, both of whom made major impacts on domestic and foreign policy.