OTL in 1959, Richard Nixon had visited Sverdlovsk and other Ural Russian cities. I think he can do this after his resignation in TNO too, if Ural is reunified by Batov/Yeltsin
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Development Diary XXX: Yippie! - Part 1/4
>Hushed silence consumed the throngs of delegates, operatives, journalists, and bosses seated around Chicago Stadium where attendees of the 1940 Democratic National Convention heard, for the first time, a message from the President of the United States. Franklin Roosevelt's message to the convention, dictated over the phone and delivered by Senator Alben Barkley, refuted speculation that Roosevelt would seek a third term as President. It was an unreal moment; the air was sucked out of the room. There would be no deliverance, no hope for change, no booming voice from above, just an impending vote without the star choice.
>"I have an additional message from the President," said Barkley, who unfolded a second sheet and braced over its contents. "President Roosevelt endorses, for the Democratic Party's nominee for President, Harry L. Hopkins of New York."
>Silence, muted, strained applause, snowballing into an unconvinced ovation. Liberals' eight-year reverie ended there, their champion abdicated, backing a sick standard bearer, awash in shattered morale. They expected a flood and, on November 5th, they saw one.
Yippie! (Pt 1. Lore and Background 1/2)
From Start To Start, 1937-1961
Patch Background
Yip! Yip! Yippie! Welcome to The New Order: *Yippie!*'s Development Diary. This is Mangolith, Happy Warrior, and QuoProQuid, the America Team Leads, and today, we'll be detailing the future of America content and what it has to offer for TNO and players like you.
The USA rework patch, *Yippie!,* has been under development since late 2022. Its team started as a group of three who designed Hart content to ensure we wouldn't hold up any other team's content needs as we designed the largest rework of any TNO nation. This rework involves more than tripling the size of United States content and taking the first steps to place America within the boundary of TNO2 with content up until January 1977!
This patch began as an extension of TT3's USA content, notably the addition of Philip Hart as a new 1968 US presidential candidate. Fans quickly noticed the uptick in the quality of both gameplay and story compared to other USA paths, inspiring us to take things further. The biggest motivators for our undertaking this rework are that current TNO USA content are a lack of continuity between presidencies— as in the ease with which players can "undo" a previous administration—-a lack of changing body politics and cultural engagement, and a disconnect between what is happening in the world and what happens in the United States.
In short, we want to emphasize a strong USA narrative which places that country firmly in a Cold War hotseat and emphasizes dynamism, strong characters, and an in-depth engagement with American history. We understand that much of the community loves current USA content, and we would not do something so brazen as rework these foundations if we were not *absolutely* confident in its replacement.
Whereas current TNO USA has 12 normal candidates, two edge cases, and playable content up to 1973, *Yippie!* will bring 30 normal candidates, over 10 edge cases, and playable content climaxing with the 1976 bicentennial and ending after January 20th, 1977. Yes, that's right, TNO2 starts here. In this diary, we will detail the lore of America and, more pertinent to gameplay, American content until the inauguration of the winner of the 1964 election. We'll cover those years' major events, the new mechanics, and the five potential presidents-elect for that year.
While this diary will only cover the first three playable years of content, playable content from 1962 to 1977 is not a vague, illusory promise to a patch but rather something already designed and currently being implemented. You can expect to get your hands on this patch next year.
>!Editor's note*: We'd suggest those interested in the gameplay pay mind to the lore portion
>Hushed silence consumed the throngs of delegates, operatives, journalists, and bosses seated around Chicago Stadium where attendees of the 1940 Democratic National Convention heard, for the first time, a message from the President of the United States. Franklin Roosevelt's message to the convention, dictated over the phone and delivered by Senator Alben Barkley, refuted speculation that Roosevelt would seek a third term as President. It was an unreal moment; the air was sucked out of the room. There would be no deliverance, no hope for change, no booming voice from above, just an impending vote without the star choice.
>"I have an additional message from the President," said Barkley, who unfolded a second sheet and braced over its contents. "President Roosevelt endorses, for the Democratic Party's nominee for President, Harry L. Hopkins of New York."
>Silence, muted, strained applause, snowballing into an unconvinced ovation. Liberals' eight-year reverie ended there, their champion abdicated, backing a sick standard bearer, awash in shattered morale. They expected a flood and, on November 5th, they saw one.
Yippie! (Pt 1. Lore and Background 1/2)
From Start To Start, 1937-1961
Patch Background
Yip! Yip! Yippie! Welcome to The New Order: *Yippie!*'s Development Diary. This is Mangolith, Happy Warrior, and QuoProQuid, the America Team Leads, and today, we'll be detailing the future of America content and what it has to offer for TNO and players like you.
The USA rework patch, *Yippie!,* has been under development since late 2022. Its team started as a group of three who designed Hart content to ensure we wouldn't hold up any other team's content needs as we designed the largest rework of any TNO nation. This rework involves more than tripling the size of United States content and taking the first steps to place America within the boundary of TNO2 with content up until January 1977!
This patch began as an extension of TT3's USA content, notably the addition of Philip Hart as a new 1968 US presidential candidate. Fans quickly noticed the uptick in the quality of both gameplay and story compared to other USA paths, inspiring us to take things further. The biggest motivators for our undertaking this rework are that current TNO USA content are a lack of continuity between presidencies— as in the ease with which players can "undo" a previous administration—-a lack of changing body politics and cultural engagement, and a disconnect between what is happening in the world and what happens in the United States.
In short, we want to emphasize a strong USA narrative which places that country firmly in a Cold War hotseat and emphasizes dynamism, strong characters, and an in-depth engagement with American history. We understand that much of the community loves current USA content, and we would not do something so brazen as rework these foundations if we were not *absolutely* confident in its replacement.
Whereas current TNO USA has 12 normal candidates, two edge cases, and playable content up to 1973, *Yippie!* will bring 30 normal candidates, over 10 edge cases, and playable content climaxing with the 1976 bicentennial and ending after January 20th, 1977. Yes, that's right, TNO2 starts here. In this diary, we will detail the lore of America and, more pertinent to gameplay, American content until the inauguration of the winner of the 1964 election. We'll cover those years' major events, the new mechanics, and the five potential presidents-elect for that year.
While this diary will only cover the first three playable years of content, playable content from 1962 to 1977 is not a vague, illusory promise to a patch but rather something already designed and currently being implemented. You can expect to get your hands on this patch next year.
>!Editor's note*: We'd suggest those interested in the gameplay pay mind to the lore portion
below, though if that is not your speed, check out the link to Part 2 here*!<
Lore
Bright white waves of flashbulbs peppered the side of President Franklin Roosevelt's all-black carriage like rounds from a machine gun. So many hands had killed the champion of his "court-packing scheme," and those same figures, Republicans and Democrats, all returned to gloat in victory. It was July 16th, 1937, hot and somber, and the first family sat behind trotting horses en route to the funeral for Senator Joseph Robinson of Arkansas. President Roosevelt stared out the window, not raising his hand to wave or his lips to smile.
Perhaps First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt asked him, "Are you alright, Franklin?" to which the President may have said, "I simply worry about Mrs. Robinson," or another utterance of false confidence. Never mind that Senator Robinson had brought Roosevelt's agenda to the grave with him, or that there was an impending recession. The failures after failures in Congress and brewing world conflicts in Europe, Asia, and the Americas all weighed on his mind. Never mind the victories, Roosevelt saw only the defeats and would never recover from this spiral. After that July day, everything to him was sand, pouring, never to be held again.
The mirage of Roosevelt's dominance in the United States dissipated with the 1938 midterms, where Republicans and conservative Democrats thrashed the Roosevelt coalition on a push for restraint and congressional government. The New Deal, "Roosevelt's Behemoth," restructured the American administrative state but could neither prevent the Recession of 1937–38 nor provide accountability for the machines and cartels that drew paychecks from New Deal programs. In the eyes of conservatives and an increasing number of liberals, the once-tolerable President Roosevelt was now a gangster tending an administrative protection racket for the American economy. To beat this current and end the regulatory nightmare, Republicans sought an expert in throwing high-profile criminals into the light.
While the Republicans courted a standard-bearer for 1940, the Roosevelt White House remained in turmoil. President Roosevelt could've run for a third term, bucking the precedent set by Washington, but his doubt remained constant and intense. He had seen up close President Wilson's undoing—how a vicious Republican congress ravaged his life's work and cleared the way for today's Nazi regime. Seeing the consequences firsthand in 1920 and how this failure lingered with the party until Roosevelt's victory in 1932, he decided it was best not to tempt a disruption of his already unstable position.
Thomas E. Dewey started as District Attorney for Manhattan on New Year's Day, 1938, wide-eyed and ambitious for a shakeup against organized crime. Dewey, born in 1902, was approaching his 36th birthday and his 5th year of prosecuting gangsters in New York City with a soaring public image. Newspapers hailed him almost unanimously, the population screamed his name in passing, and his gleam was such that thousands of voters in neighboring Attorney General races wanted to elect the young warrior for their community. Dewey was young, popular, and—lacking deeply the credentials of an administrator and leader—remarkably talented at carrying himself in a consistently flattering way.
Beating out moderate Willkie and heavily conservative Robert Taft by courting both bases, Dewey told an energized Republican National Convention of new ideas and a return to reasonable government. By contrast, the Democratic convention seemed almost mournful as delegates nominated Roosevelt's Secretary of Commerce and political proxy, the sickly Harry Hopkins, for President of the United States. As the 1940 presidential election campaign evolved, Dewey's inexperience took a backseat to mass discussion of Hopkins's health and alleged improprieties. Deals to lend equipment to the democratic forces in war-torn Europe stalled, relations with Japan
Lore
Bright white waves of flashbulbs peppered the side of President Franklin Roosevelt's all-black carriage like rounds from a machine gun. So many hands had killed the champion of his "court-packing scheme," and those same figures, Republicans and Democrats, all returned to gloat in victory. It was July 16th, 1937, hot and somber, and the first family sat behind trotting horses en route to the funeral for Senator Joseph Robinson of Arkansas. President Roosevelt stared out the window, not raising his hand to wave or his lips to smile.
Perhaps First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt asked him, "Are you alright, Franklin?" to which the President may have said, "I simply worry about Mrs. Robinson," or another utterance of false confidence. Never mind that Senator Robinson had brought Roosevelt's agenda to the grave with him, or that there was an impending recession. The failures after failures in Congress and brewing world conflicts in Europe, Asia, and the Americas all weighed on his mind. Never mind the victories, Roosevelt saw only the defeats and would never recover from this spiral. After that July day, everything to him was sand, pouring, never to be held again.
The mirage of Roosevelt's dominance in the United States dissipated with the 1938 midterms, where Republicans and conservative Democrats thrashed the Roosevelt coalition on a push for restraint and congressional government. The New Deal, "Roosevelt's Behemoth," restructured the American administrative state but could neither prevent the Recession of 1937–38 nor provide accountability for the machines and cartels that drew paychecks from New Deal programs. In the eyes of conservatives and an increasing number of liberals, the once-tolerable President Roosevelt was now a gangster tending an administrative protection racket for the American economy. To beat this current and end the regulatory nightmare, Republicans sought an expert in throwing high-profile criminals into the light.
While the Republicans courted a standard-bearer for 1940, the Roosevelt White House remained in turmoil. President Roosevelt could've run for a third term, bucking the precedent set by Washington, but his doubt remained constant and intense. He had seen up close President Wilson's undoing—how a vicious Republican congress ravaged his life's work and cleared the way for today's Nazi regime. Seeing the consequences firsthand in 1920 and how this failure lingered with the party until Roosevelt's victory in 1932, he decided it was best not to tempt a disruption of his already unstable position.
Thomas E. Dewey started as District Attorney for Manhattan on New Year's Day, 1938, wide-eyed and ambitious for a shakeup against organized crime. Dewey, born in 1902, was approaching his 36th birthday and his 5th year of prosecuting gangsters in New York City with a soaring public image. Newspapers hailed him almost unanimously, the population screamed his name in passing, and his gleam was such that thousands of voters in neighboring Attorney General races wanted to elect the young warrior for their community. Dewey was young, popular, and—lacking deeply the credentials of an administrator and leader—remarkably talented at carrying himself in a consistently flattering way.
Beating out moderate Willkie and heavily conservative Robert Taft by courting both bases, Dewey told an energized Republican National Convention of new ideas and a return to reasonable government. By contrast, the Democratic convention seemed almost mournful as delegates nominated Roosevelt's Secretary of Commerce and political proxy, the sickly Harry Hopkins, for President of the United States. As the 1940 presidential election campaign evolved, Dewey's inexperience took a backseat to mass discussion of Hopkins's health and alleged improprieties. Deals to lend equipment to the democratic forces in war-torn Europe stalled, relations with Japan
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