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JFK won his MA Senate bid by about 70k votes - or three percent. There are a number of PODs that have been suggested to help Lodge: If he'd spent less time getting Ike nominated and more time worrying about his race, if Joe McCarthy agreed to campaign for Lodge and helped with Catholics, JPK's...

Kennedy's first choice On the afternoon of July 14, 1960, Democratic Presidential nominee John F. Kennedy made official his chosen running mate for that year's election - Missouri Senator Stuart Symington. The decision was not especially surprising - as Kennedy and Symington had a strong...

Anybody else read this? I have the audiobook and Ive listened through it several times over the years. I feel the author gives it a good try and its entertaining but I think a little too optimistic. Too much goes right and too little wrong. Still worth a read (or listen) but thats my two cents.

I've heard what people think Kennedy would do if he weren't assassinated, but I wonder what he would do after. Assume he serves only the one term or both both if you want. What does he do after the Presidency? Does he stay in politics? Write books? Raise his family?

During the Berlin Crisis of 1961, a small group of officials in the Pentagon and the White House had worked out a plan for a first strike that would virtually wipe out the Soviets' nuclear arsenal, minimizing the chance of retaliation. The plan was concrete and highly detailed, and was seriously...

As the title says. Make the Kennedys as powerful and enduring a political dynasty as possible! Bonus points if you get Joe Jr. to survive WW2 and make him president too.

After a long a tumultuous campaign season, the 1960 election has finally come to a close. But the results are unlike anything anyone would've expected. In the aftermath of eight years of a popular Eisenhower administration, it seemed common sense that Vice President Richard Milhous Nixon would...

I'm no stranger to the fact that there are dozens of threads already in this forum about what would have happened had JFK never been assassinated and served two full terms. But as far as I can tell no one's posted about this topic in *checks notes* several months, so I figured my addition would...

Part 1 “We must act to liquidate the communist scourge that threatens us from all over—from the Soviet Union in Europe, from just across the sea in Cuba and from within at the hands of communist agitators who, under the guise of civil rights, seek to upend the southern way of life and elevate...

So, we all know what happened from 1962 to 1969. The JFK administration wanted to discredit Castro's Cuba, and used Operation Northwoods as a false flag operation, staging multiple terrorist attacks and aircraft shootdowns in Florida, and sinking boats full of Cuban refugees throughout 1962...

Prologue Harry’s Favorite President KENNEDY LOSES WEST VIRGINIA! - THE NEW YORK TIMES, 1960 “Of course Kennedy lost West Virginia! He ran as a Catholic in fu&@ing West Virginia!” - Senator Lyndon B. Johnson on Kennedy’s loss The loss of West Virginia for Senator Kennedy proved fatal as it...

I've been wondering on what a Nixon Presidency would look like if JFK hadn't been killed in Dallas. Here's a sketch of what I have: 1963 - Lee Harvey Oswald is arrested for shoplifting before the Kennedy assassination, JFK has a uneventful trip to Dallas. 1964 - Kennedy signs the Tax Revenue...

For a scenario I'm working on, I need your help with a couple of points. Here is the basic premise: The assassination attempt on the life of US President John F Kennedy on 22 November 1963 fails, only wounding him and sending him into a coma for a couple of days. After regaining...

Nixon's victory in the 1968 US Presidential election is known as one of the great comebacks in American political history: after narrowly losing to JFK in 1960 and being humiliated by Pat Brown in 1962, Nixon defeated Hubert Humphrey and became the 37th US President. But Nixon won only narrowly...

In 1960, Senator John Kennedy challenged Vice-President Richard Nixon to debate him. However, on the advice of President Eisenhower Nixon declined. What if Nixon and Kennedy had debated in 1960?

On July 16, it will be 20 years since John F. Kennedy Jr died in a plane crash alongside his wife and sister in law. It was speculated that Kennedy might've gone into politics in the 2000s had he lived. But what if instead of entering the publishing world with the magazine George, Kennedy had...

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There's speculation that JFK would've jumped LBJ from the 1964 ticket had he lived. But how likely was this, really? Would JFK kept LBJ on board for '64, or ditched him for a new running mate?

In response to the US support of the South Vietnamese government,a faction of the Viet Cong hijacked three commercial airliners to attack the US in 1963.Two crashed into the Empire State Building while the third one crashed into the White House,successfully killing then president John F Kennedy...