Watchmen : Nixon

Nixon

How is Nixon still president in the mid eighties? I know this is a alternate timeline, but even if he would have been reelected he still would not be able to be still president in 1985.

"The things you own end up owning you." - Fight Club

Re: Nixon

Term limits were repealed, so he was repeatedly elected president. At the end of the opening credit sequence (just before the Molotov cocktail gets thrown into the store window) Nixon is shown winning reelection in the 1970s and the words "term limits repealed" appear on the television screens.

Re: Nixon

Exactly. He could thus have won a third term in 1976, a 4th in 1980 and a 5th in 1984!
Nightmare!
He would still have been younger than Reagan who was actually president then.

Re: Nixon

Better Nixon than the Soviets. That's why Hollis Mason voted for him five times.

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Yeah and in this universe it wasn't Reagan who was running for the next election. It was another actor who bore the initials: R.R.
Robert Redford.
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