President Johnson
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« on: November 23, 2020, 03:22:54 PM » |
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Hard to predict whether Jack Kennedy would have been more careful with his public appearances with the absence of the vice president, who could not be replaced at the time.
If Kennedy is still assassinated, Speaker John McCormack would have ended up as caretaker for the remainder of the term. It would have been the first time in US history there is no official president in name and title, only an acting officer. He would have governed low key and not run in the 1964 presidential election. I think Hubert Humphrey would have been the nominee in 1964 then, running with a Southern running mate (like Stuart Symington). Hubert would have won quite handily and passed some Civil Rights Bills. He may not have gone to a full scale war in Vietnam and lose it to the Communists, causing a backlash at home from the right. Combined with "overreach" in domestic programs, I see him vulnerable to a Republican challenger in 1968, potentially Richard Nixon again.
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