AHC: LBJ/RFK presidential bid in 1960

Halcyon Dayz · Jul 18, 2011

So, with a POD post-WWII, how do we get the power team of Lyndon Johnson and Robert Kennedy to throw the hat in the ring together?
How do you get these men to get along?

And what would happen if they won?

Ron Paul 2012 · Jul 18, 2011

RFK on a presidential ticket in 1960 sounds like ASB. He would be just barely eligible (35 in November 1960) and would have held no prior elected office.

Paul V McNutt · Jul 18, 2011

Have JFK die from some health problem not too long after RFK's 30th birthday in November1955 and have a friendly Democrat governor appoint RFK to his brother's seat. As a Senator, he would probably have a friendlier relationship with LBJ .

Paul V McNutt · Jul 18, 2011

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RogueBeaver · Jul 18, 2011

Completely and utterly ASB.

Lord Grattan · Jul 18, 2011

Without many implausable twists and waves of the magician's hand a 1960 LBJ-RFK Democratic ticket is not going to come to pass.

Snowstalker · Jul 18, 2011

RFK was too young and had held no political post, so no. JFK as the veep is plausible.

RogueBeaver · Jul 18, 2011

I can't see them sharing a ticket no matter the year TBH. Two alpha males whose similarities in personality ignited as many sparks as their differences.

JFK as VP: That was floated in '56 and was shot down because LBJ knew he would just be a stalking horse.