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« on: November 17, 2010, 06:40:58 PM »

Let's say there's a scenario wherein Oswald is foibled or something--In any event, Kennedy lives past 11-22-1963. How do you see the rest of the '60s going?
Does he win re-election? By how much, and with his illnesses, does he survive his second term, or does he become handicapped from his illnesses? What about Vietnam? Do we still get involved, and as deeply? How about our relationship with the USSR--Does Detente come a decade earlier, or do things get worse? Does the Hippie Movement still rise any way?
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« Reply #1 on: November 17, 2010, 08:35:21 PM »

Let's see...

-Goldwater still gets crushed, but does a little better.

-US intervention in Vietnam remains limited, so that's a big difference in the culture of the late 60's-early 70's.

-No idea how the 1968 election would go.
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« Reply #2 on: November 17, 2010, 09:16:29 PM »

1) Rockefeller more likely to win Republican nomination, makes Goldwater in '68 plausible

2) Democrats more likely to win a third term to the Whitehouse

3) Either pull out of Vietnam, or more serious commitment of troops (what people say about Kennedy on Vietnam is often conflicting and confusing)

4) Bobby Kennedy lives because he doesn't run for President in '68

5) Chappaquidick doesn't happen because Bobby lives

6) Bobby likely stays Attorney General for four more years and runs fro something in '68 or '70

7) Democrats might not be taken over by the McGovernites and stay a more blue collar party

That's my two (seven) cents.
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« Reply #3 on: November 17, 2010, 09:56:05 PM »

The most obvious difference is that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 either is weaker than in OTL or doesn't make it past the Senate filibuster.  In particular the private lawsuit provisions of Title VII certainly don't get passed.
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