I think RFK would have won big because he was more likeable than Nixon and because he had his family mystique. He'd not have been a successful President, though, because his plans to pull out of Vietnam quickly would have been shot down by congress. He'd be locked into a war he didn't want any part, and would fail. Just like Niceas failed when he had to take over Alcibiades' Sicilian Invasion in the Peloponnesian War.
Ronald Reagan wins in 1972 with Paul Laxalt as his running mate, resumes bombing and invades North Vietnam. China would stay out of the war, as long as we don't copy McAurthur's mistake in Korea and attack them directly. US wins the Vietnam War, Reagan is a hero, the Soviet Union collapses in the mid eighties and not the early nineties, Nixon-Carter stagflation never happens, and Reagan-Laxalt give us 16 years of strength and prosperity.
I don't believe a single word of the last sentence.
Up to there, it's extremely credible, though.
