JFK Lives

[hcallega]

AWESOME!!!!!!!
That being said, if you need any help on anything (in particular senate and congressional issues) i would love to help, as my grandpa was quite active at the time as an advisor to Kennedy and later Johnson on veterans issues.

[hcallega]

I have trouble believing Kennedy would be joking after John Connally's death. Besides that this seems like a good start.

[hcallega]

Good timeline so far. I'm just wondering what you are going to do as far as LBJ being VP? A lot of folks think that he would have dropped him, and the popularity boost from the assassination attempt would have given him the leverage to drop him. His closest aides said that he was thinking Terry Sanford, governor of NC and a symbol of the new south.

[hcallega]

I guess it's the risk we run in a free society and forum.

[hcallega]

Very well thought out. Here's a few things I like, and some I don't
1-Smathers makes a whole lot of sense. Anti-communist, southern, and a Kennedy supporter. I would have liked to see Sanford, but Smathers is good too.
2-Johnson withdrawing on his own sounds a little sketchy. It does sound like Bobby and other Kennedy allies persuaded him to do it.
3-Texas going to Goldwater after Dallas!!!!???!!!!! I can see the south and inner-west, but not Texas.
Besides that, fantastic update!

[hcallega]

I agree with Prime Minister Chipp on both questions. For one, Jackson would never take a VEEP role, and even with the Democratic party less dovish, he wasn't exactly the most inspirational candidate (plus labor wouldn't give him their full support if Humphrey was the frontrunner). The Prime Minister's second point I also agree with. For my Kennedy timline, I have realized that international events can become solid filler, as well as making things more interesting. For instance, Russia and China have worse relations with the U.S., and Vietnam may very well become a dominant power in southeast Asia.

[hcallega]

who do you think? A Kennedy perhaps?

[hcallega]

Yep Tower was Pro-Choice, so was Baker. It will be interesting as to how the Democratic Party will shift on abortion. Will Jack Kennedy be viewed as pro-choice or pro-life, and if the partisan divide is lessened, will abortion be that big of an issue.

[hcallega]

Wow, a President Humphrey. Not to shocking if you think about the fact that he was royally screwed by Johnson/Vietnam, as well as pigeonholed as something he was not. I'm look forward to what one might call the most "Pragmatic Liberal" of all presidents.

[hcallega]

NO NOT NAFTA!!!!!! I thought that would have died a horrible death without a pro-buisness southerner at the helm!

[hcallega]

I would think Bobby would do something politically rated.

[hcallega]

OUCH!!! Poor Mikey.  Despite my "Reagan Democrat" leanings, I really admire the former Bay State Governor. I think he would have been a very solid President with his intelligence and ability to make really good executive decisions.

[hcallega]

Also, for the county maps are you just going through paint and doing it manually?

[hcallega]

Then Kennedy would've died soon anyways with the amount of pills he was on. That's the reason his face swelled up so much while he was in office. I asked my psychiatrist about this and he agreed.

actually his face swelled up because he used cortisone shots. He was actually far skinnier when he was younger, almost lethally. The cortisone helped save his political career and to some extent his life.

[hcallega]

Ok, Ben let's go straight.

If you won't update your TL after return, we're hijacking this thread just as we did to Gporter's 1972 thing.

Thing is a good way to put that.