Meursault
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« on: June 07, 2014, 01:20:53 AM » |
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No New Frontier, no Great Society.
Johnson wrests the nomination from Kennedy in a brutal, crusing fight that leaves him alienated from Party liberals. He beats Nixon by a margin thinner than in real life, going completely toxic on him.
Johnson has now been elected with no reform mandate. He may pass a Head Start-style programme given his personal concern for education, and perhaps a lesser version of Medicare, but none of the other New Frontier/Great Society programmes are even proposed.
What happens next? Does this Lyndon, with no obligation to the martyr's memory and estranged from liberalism, even try for civil rights? Does the Democratic Party shift conservative? Does the South stay with them? And can Lyndon win again in 1964?
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