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What if RFK had been assassinated after winning the 1968 Democratic nomination for President?
What if RFK had been assassinated after winning the 1968 Democratic nomination for President?
What if RFK had been assassinated after winning the 1968 Democratic nomination for President?
Hmmmm....I would presume his VP steps into the top spot and picks a new VP. I'm just speculating though. I don't know what either of the parties would do in that situation. Do we know who he was thinking about as his potential running mate?
No need to scream "Butterflies!!!!!"
No one was really screaming butterflies and in the future he will remember to check what forum he put stuff in for fear of getting more responses like these.
Maybe King Richard II would sit down with the Democratic Party and discuss the future for its hard to work out what is best for the American Kingdom
Now that things are in the correct forum, any non-ASB responses?
While there's no real precedent, I'd imagine that whomever had selected as his VP would get the nod. Depending on who it is, it might be politically difficult to pass him over. If not, then Humphrey sounds like a logical alternative. I suppose it's way too late for LBJ to step back into the arena.
So who would he select as his VP then? John Glenn maybe? I understand that it was Bobby Kennedy who talked Glenn into running for the Senate in the first place. By 1968, the space program was on the verge of becoming the cornerstone of JFK's legacy. Plus, Glenn has a fair amount of foreign policy experience having served in World War II and Korea before becoming astronaut, which itself sent him traveling all over the world for training and PR purposes. And we know from OTL that he wanted to be President. If he was offered the Vice Presidency, I strongly doubt that he would say no.
John Glenn hadn't held public office yet in 1968. He may have been picked for a Cabinet position in a Robert Kennedy administration, but it would be unusual (probably unprecedented) for someone with no political experience to be nominated for Vice President.