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Floyd Olson
Floyd Bjørnstjerne "Skipper" Olson (November 13, 1891 – August 22, 1936) was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1936 until his death in 1942. Olson led the nation through the 2nd American Civil War and succeeded in preserving the Union, bolstering the federal government, and modernizing the U.S. welfare system.

Olson was born on the north side of Minneapolis, Minnesota, and grew up to become a prominent lawyer and politician, eventually becoming the 22nd Governor of Minnesota in 1931. Although initially declining to run on the national level due to a stomach cancer scare, Olson would eventually be propelled into the spotlight after his nomination by the Unity Party alliance, a collection of Democrats and Republicans who wanted to combat the growing popularity of both the Socialist Party and the B|America First Party, the former lead by syndicalist activist and former journalist B|John "Jack" Reed, the latter lead by Louisiana Governor and populist Huey Long.

On New Year's Eve, 1936, after the election of Olson to the Presidency, Jack Reed, the Socialist Party as well as the B|Industrial Workers of the World lead a strike against the new government, proclaiming Olson as nothing more than a turncoat capitalist (referencing Olson's former membership to the IWW) and demanded that syndicalist based policies be undertaken, otherwise the nationwide strike would continue. Dubbed B|The New Years Strike by most, Olson, as well as sitting President Hoover, successfully and deftly negotiated an end to the strike, in exchange for the creation of the B|National Labor Relations Board. Long, an anti-syndicalist populist, viewed the compromise as treason, and declared his intent to secede from the American government if the NLRB was created, citing it as "[...] the beginning of a Syndicalist takeover."

The bill to create the department, dubbed the B|"NLRB Act" and presented to Congress by Montana Senator Burton K. Wheeler passed along party lines, with all AFP Senators walking out, with a large majority of Southern Democrats following close behind. John Nance Garner, Speaker of the House, and one of the 3 Southern Democrats not to walk out of Congress and join Long, famously remarked, "Our nation, just as it was in [18]61, was divided. Time would tell if Olson was our Lincoln, or our B|Buchanan."

Olson, a Farmer-Labor progressive, had to navigate a contentious array of factions with friends and opponents from both the Democratic and Republican parties. His allies, the Progressive Democrats and Republicans, demanded expanded powers and radical reforms, as well as aiding him in his daily governing. Anti-war factions (called "Dixiecrats") despised Olson, and irreconcilable pro-Longist elements (such as B|The Silvershirts and the B|KKK) plotted his assassination. He managed the factions by exploiting their common cause, carefully distributing political patronage, and by appealing to the American people. His Inaugural Address came to be seen as one of his greatest and most influential statements of American national purpose. Olson closely supervised the strategy and tactics in the war effort, including the selection of generals, and implemented a naval blockade of the South's trade, following in the footsteps of Abraham Lincoln. He suspended habeas corpus in Maryland, New Jersey and elsewhere, and he averted German intervention by defusing the B|Wilhelmshaven Affair.

Olson managed his own successful re-election campaign against Norman Thomas, the Socialist Party candidate. Once the war was finished, it was thought that Olson sought to heal the war-torn nation through a policy of a "velvet iron fist", which would punish wartime leaders such as Long and B|Pelley, but pardon the average soldier, to encourage national healing. On March 9, 1942, Olson was attending to business in Washington, D.C., with his wife Ada when he collapsed on the street. He was brought to the Walter Reed General Hospital, and was treated for stomach cancer, something Olson and his family once was in remission. Olson would die in hospital on March 12, 1942, at the age of 50 years old. Olson is remembered as a martyr and a national hero for his wartime leadership and for his efforts to preserve the United States, and is often ranked in both popular and scholarly polls as one of the greatest presidents in American history.

Quentin Roosevelt
Quentin Roosevelt (November 19, 1897 – July 18, 1978), sometimes referred to by his initials QR, was an American politician, pilot and historian who served as the 33rd president of the United States from 1942 until 1952. As the leader of the Republican Party, he became a central figure in world events during the first half of the 20th century. Roosevelt directed the federal government during the final chapter of the 2nd American Civil War, implementing his Fair Deal domestic agenda in response to the aftermath of the war. He built the Fair Deal Coalition, which defined modern liberalism in the United States throughout the middle third of the 20th century. His second and third terms were dominated by The Second Weltkreig, which ended in a joint Entente/Reichspakt victory in 1950.

Quentin was born in Washington D.C., the youngest child of Theodore Roosevelt's household, which included half-sister B|Alice, sister B|Ethel, and brothers Ted (Theodore III), B|Kermit, and B|Archie. Quentin was three years old when his father became president, and he grew up in the White House. By far the favorite of all of President Roosevelt's children, Theodore remarked that Quentin was the most rambunctious of the Roosevelt children. Inspired by his father and siblings, he joined the United States Army Air Service where he became a well-respected pilot; however, after an accident left him nearly dead, Quentin was honorably discharged from the United States Army Air Service in 1918.

In 1919, he married his fiancé Flora Payne Whitney, throwing an extravagant wedding later dubbed "The Wedding of the Decade". They had 3 children, all of whom survived into adulthood. Following closely in his father's footsteps, Quentin graduated from both Harvard University and Columbia Law School, which he graduated from in 1919. Shortly thereafter, Quentin ran for the New York State Senate, representing the B|Manhattan 12th District in 1921. Roosevelt then later successfully ran for Governor in 1929, beating out Democrat B|William Randolph Hearst for the governorship. He served as governor from 1929 to 1935, promoting programs to combat the B|Black Monday economic crisis besetting the United States. In the 1936 presidential election, Roosevelt was selected as Floyd Olson's running mate under the Unity Party ticket, defeating Socialist Party candidate B|John "Jack" Reed and B|America First Party candidate and Louisiana governor B|Huey Long and began his vice-presidency in the midst of the B|2nd American Civil War. Roosevelt called for the creation of programs designed to produce relief, recovery, and reform across America. Within his first years in office, he repeatedly asked Olson to spearhead many federal and legislative reforms, such as desegregation, women's equality and trust busting. Although Olson, a Farmer-Labor progressive, wanted to pass these laws, he feared backlash from the moderates and conservatives in both parties and worried that it might break the Unity coalition. Olson hoped to unite the nation under the cause of preserving the United States and wanted to wait until the war's end to pass the progressive laws suggested by Roosevelt.

When Olson died on March 12th, 1942, Roosevelt was sworn in as President of the United States mere minutes after Olson's death, and he gave a quick radio speech announcing his plan to reunite the nation, and pass a series of laws which later would become known as the Fair Deal programs.

Many Fair Deal programs provided relief to the American people, specifically the Southern populace, such as the B|National Recovery and Reconstruction Administration. Several Fair Deal programs and federal laws such as the B|Agricultural Land Redistribution Act provided relief to black and white sharecroppers of the South, who farms had been ravaged by the war. Roosevelt also instituted major regulatory reforms related to finance, communications, and labor. In addition to the economy, Roosevelt sought to bind the nation's wounds after the 2nd American Civil War. Roosevelt frequently used radio to speak directly to the American people, giving 50 "fireside chat" radio addresses during his presidency and became the first American president to be televised. The social order of the United States after the 2ACW improved rapidly during Roosevelt's first term and he won re-election in 1944, in one of the most closest victories in American history.

Roosevelt was re-elected for his third term in 1948, becoming the first three term American president in US history. In 1939, B|The Second Weltkreig had begun in Europe, which prompted the United States to respond by passing a series of laws affirming neutrality and rejecting intervention. Despite this, President Roosevelt gave strong diplomatic and financial support to Brazil, the Dominion of Canada, The Kingdom of France, Germany and her allies and eventually the Russian Empire. Following the French attack of the USS Abraham Lincoln on December 7, 1945, an event Roosevelt called "a date which will live in infamy", he obtained a congressional declaration of war against The Third International. On December 11 France's allies, The Commune of Britain and Socialist Republic of Italy declared war on the United States. In response, the US formally joined the Entente and entered the European theater of the war. Assisted by his top aide Thomas Dewey and with very strong national support, he worked closely with British King-In-Exile Edward VIII (along with Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King), Tsar Vladimir III of the Russian Empire and Russian President Peter Struve, King Henri VI of the Kingdom of France, Kaiser Wilhelm III of the German Empire as well as Brazilian President Otávio Mangabeira in leading the both the Entente and the Reichspakt against the Third Internationale. Roosevelt supervised the mobilization of the U.S. economy to support the war effort and implemented an anti-Syndicalist first strategy (though he did have private reservations about Germany's ambition on the world stage), initiating the Lend-Lease program and making the defeat of Britain, France and Italy. Domestically, his administration coordinated massive wartime efforts such as the construction of the Hexagon and the Memphis Project, which saw the creation of the nuclear bomb. His foreign policy mirrored internationalist ideals which prompted Roosevelt to make his highest postwar priority being the establishment of the United Nations. Roosevelt expected the United Nations to replace the now defunct League of Nations and to be led by Washington, Berlin, London, Moscow, Paris and Brasilia. These states collectively called the Big Six would work to resolve all major world problems. It was under his wartime leadership that the United States became a superpower on the world stage.

Despite the popularity of the Fair Deal among supporters of Roosevelt, from 1944 onwards, Fair Deal legislation was frequently struck down by the B|US Supreme Court, which maintained a conservative bent. The dispute between Roosevelt and the Court resulted in Roosevelt lobbying for the B|Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1947 (or "the Court Packing Plan"), which expanded the size of the Supreme Court from 9 seats to 12 seats. The bill was narrowly passed by a coalition of Farmer-Labor, Republican and Progressive Democratic senators, however, this bill lead to the creation of the bipartisan Conservative Coalition, which also sought to prevent further Fair Deal legislation. During the late 1940s and early 1950s, Roosevelt launched a rhetorical campaign against big business and monopoly power in the United States, leading to further trust busting across the country. Other major legislation and agencies implemented under Roosevelt include the Securities, Exchange and Fair Banking Commission, the Federal Deposit Corporation, Social Security, The Civil Rights Acts of 1944, 1947, 1949 and 1951, The Army Desegregation Act of 1947, The Trust and Business Relations Act and the Fair Labor Standards Act.

Roosevelt would maintain a high level of popularity throughout his Presidency, and would leave the office in 1952 with one of the highest approval ratings in US history. After the Presidency, Roosevelt would become a respected historian and author, penning his own memoir, as well as that of former President Floyd Olson. Roosevelt would pass away in his sleep inside his home in New York City on July 18, 1978. Since his death, several of Roosevelt's actions have come under substantial criticism, such as the presidential pardons of both B|Charles Lindbergh and B|George Patton as well as several dozen other B|AUS rebel leaders and generals. Conservatives also criticize Roosevelt for expanding the powers of the Federal government, and many conservatives accuse Roosevelt of expanding the power of both Farmer-Labor and the Socialist Party. Nevertheless, he is consistently ranked by scholars, political scientists and historians as one of the greatest presidents in American history.