Bunnybrit
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« on: March 02, 2005, 02:08:47 PM » |
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JJ is right Johnson was playing to leave the ticket in 64, much to do with his perssonal hatred of Kennedy, whom he called "the boy".
With Johnson off the ticket the Dem VP nomination would have gone either to Humphrey (as it did in OTL),or Missouri Senator Stuart Symington who ran for the nomination in 1960 and was on Kennedy`s VP short list that year and was also on Johnson`s in 1964.
I think a 1964 election in those terms would have been closer, and of course in the "Goldwater rules the world idea" by PBrunsel who knows what would have happened if tales of Kennedys private life broke out or if the fact he covered up his Addison`s illness.
I say if this didnt happen Kennedy would have won but it would have been closer but don`t forget even a 10% swing to Goldwater would not have changed much.
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