johnpressman
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« on: November 12, 2013, 07:04:56 PM » |
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Now THIS is a plausible scenario, in fact, Joe Kennedy offered to finance LBJ's presidential candidacy in 1956 if he would have taken JFK as his vice presidential candidate. Johnson turned him down, much to Robert Kennedy's disgust. He called LBJ "ungrateful".
An LBJ/JFK ticket in 1960 raises many interesting questions, such as: Would their have been televised Presidential debates with LBJ as the Democratic candidate? Would the Catholic vote in the Northern and Midwestern cities have been as overwhelmingly Democratic? Would LBJ respond to the jailing of Martin Luther King in the same way as JFK did? Remember, in 1960, many African Americans voted Republican including Martin Luther King, Sr. and Jackie Robinson (a Nixon fan).
With the above questions answered in the negative, Nixon pulls off a close victory.
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