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« on: July 12, 2014, 03:35:23 PM »

In 1968, President Johnson runs again and defeats Richard Nixon. Hubert Humphrey remains Vice President. Shortly after the election, a Vietnam peace treaty with the same conditions as under Nixon in real life is signed and troops are withdrawn by 1972.

As the president is term-limited, it is an open race.

Anything else remains the same (RFK does not live). What's going to happen? Candidates? Maps?

(I believe Rockefeller or Reagan would be the nomiee of the GOP; Gerald Ford maybe the running-mate. Perhaps Humphrey the Democratic nominee)
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« Reply #1 on: July 12, 2014, 09:09:49 PM »



Reagan/Rockefeller (R)  305
Humphrey/Carter (D)  233

Reagan was always an "includer" and including Nelson Rockefeller would have brought about unity for the GOP. 

Carter, after nit-picking and criticizing McGovern prior to the 1972 DNC, lobbied to be his VP.  He was the guy that actually wanted the VP pick, but McGovern wouldn't have him.  I believe he'd have done the same to HHH, and Humphrey would have picked Carter, who could be persistent and would have offered the illusion of being able to carry the South. 

I'm pretty sure that given this scenario, the nation would have had a bad case of Johnson fatigue.
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« Reply #2 on: July 13, 2014, 10:54:09 PM »

√ Pres. Lyndon Johnson/Vice Pres. Hubert Humphrey: 273 (41.2%)
Vice Pres. Richard Nixon/Gov. Spiro Agnew: 201 (40.8%)
Gov. George Wallace/Gen. Curtis LeMay: 64 (17.0%)

√ Gov. Ronald Reagan/Sen. Richard Schweiker: 333 (51.3%)
Vice Pres. Hubert Humphrey/Sen. Edmund Muskie: 205 (47.9%)
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« Reply #3 on: July 15, 2014, 04:32:28 PM »

How do we know if LBJ's health would've been holding up to allow him to serve a full 9 1/2 years in office ?

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« Reply #4 on: July 16, 2014, 11:47:41 AM »

How do we know if LBJ's health would've been holding up to allow him to serve a full 9 1/2 years in office ?


I think that Lyndon Johnson would have died by 1971 if he ran for a second term and was elected over Richard Nixon and George Wallace mostly due to the demands of being President at a time of tumult.
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« Reply #5 on: July 18, 2014, 10:44:50 AM »

I don't think the country would have stomached back-to-back presidential funerals.

Considering the 1960s saw several presidential funerals: JFK (1963), Hoover (1964), Eisenhower (1969)

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