Margaret Chase Smith (born December 14, 1897) is an American politician and a moderate (Although Militarist War-Hawk) member of the Nationalist Party. After her husband was elected to the House of Representatives in 1936, she accompanied her husband to Washington DC and served as his secretary. In 1940, her husband had a heart attack and asked to Smith to run for his seat in the House. She won, making her formal entrance into politics. Despite being part of the Nationalists, Smith has an uneasy relationship with the segregationists (led by Wallace) and the Sovereigntists (led by Yockey). Smith also refuses to break bread with the rest of the NPP, especially the Progressives. To her few allies, Smith is a pillar of consistency in the fractured NPP...and maybe even a fit for the presidency.
In game[]
Smith's presidency will be focused on uniting the parties in the National Progressive Pact and being a hawk against the fascist powers, she is convinced that the US must fight against their foreign tyranny.
Event if she aligns with Yockey
If nuclear war starts during her presidency, she commits suicide after the bombs drop and writes in a note that she doesn't want to be the "queen of the ashes".
In-Game Description[]
Margaret Chase Smith has been making history her entire life. The first woman to serve in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. The first woman to serve on the Senate Armed Services Committee. The first woman to stand for the Presidency - and win. Every step of the way, her detractors have whispered that she would be a shrinking violet, unfit to serve - and President Smith delights in proving them wrong every time, having built a reputation as a hard-nosed and principled defense hawk over her two decades in Washington.
To her few allies, President Smith is a pillar of consistency in a fractious NPP; to her many rivals and enemies, President Smith is an infuriating iconoclast. She stunned her Republican Senate colleagues by being the first among them to break ranks and denounce Joseph McCarthy's Grey Scare as 'un-American' for its attack on civil liberties, even as Tokyo labeled her a 'beast in the shape of a woman' for commenting that she would have nuked Japan back after the atomic attack on Pearl Harbor. After abandoning the R-D's after their merger in 1951 (refusing, she said, to work with the architects of America's surrender) Smith has had an uneasy relationship with the rest of the NPP, utterly refusing to break bread with the NPP-Far Right's segregationists while chastising NPP-Center or former Republican colleagues if they seemed to be losing focus on the fascist threat.
A event should MCS go to the Right, possibly starting the Third World War
Smith is convinced that America must take the fight to - and defeat - the fascists, without selling its soul in the process. And now that the NPP has rallied behind her - if only to capitalize on the cowardice of the R-Ds while putting the segregationists to the side - President Smith faces the even more daunting task of convincing the rest of America that the fight against foreign tyranny is never done, while consigning the worst impulses of the NPP to the dustbin of history. It is her greatest challenge yet - but for President Smith, it's only Tuesday.