1968 presidential election

Since the passage of the 22nd Amendment, all presidents eligible for reelection have sought it and been renominated by their party. Some won, some lost. The sole exception is Lyndon B. Johnson in 1968, who very well could have won renomination (though certainly not without a considerable uphill...

Introduction I've had this scenario written up for a long while now. I had learned a few years back that John Wayne was asked to run by Texas Republican Party backers. He refused because he felt American voters wouldn't buy an actor running for office. And since Ronald Reagan is a thing, I...

"RFK announces presidential candidacy" - Headline of the Washington Post, 11th December 1967 "Kennedy is plausible. He's not a Johnson or Humphrey, he's not tied to that [Johnson's] administration, the American people will rally around him, he is the one of the few men in this campaign to lead...

Just a half-formed idea that I wanted to play around with. Folks forget this, but Jimmy Carter actually ran for Governor of Georgia as early as 1966. He came in a close third place in the race for the Democratic nomination, which eventually went to segregationist Lester Maddox. The top...

So, Harold Stassen, the famous liberal Republican politician turned joke perennial candidate from the 1952 presidential election onward, we all know him. But what if he made a comeback in 1958? That year, he tried to become the GOP gubernatorial candidate in Pennsylvania, but he was defeated in...

Let's say Senator Eugene McCarthy won the Democratic Nomination either because Herbert Humphrey's drafting was unsuccessful or he decided not to split the party just before the Convention in Chicago. In OTL McCarthy was the frontrunner during most of the primaries and eventually won the most...

Welcome to Give Peace Another Chance, the revised and updated version of the Turtledove-nominated Give Peace A Chance: The Presidency of Eugene McCarthy. Give Peace A Chance, my first timeline, started on May 23rd 2018. After about a year and a half of weekly posting (more or less), the timeline...

In the week leading up to the infamous 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Eugene McCarthy was staying with his family in St Paul, Minnesota. Following the assassination of Bobby Kennedy, they were being kept under the protection of the Secret Service, but, despite this, McCarthy was...

Full disclosure: this is for a story I'm writing where a time traveler prevents the assassinations of both King and Kennedy. Not only do they not die, they're not shot at all, and no one has any clue that they almost were. Now the time traveler is trying to prevent the violence at the Chicago...

IOTL Allard Lowenstein, the leader of the "Dump Johnson" movement, spoke to several anti-war politicians in the fall of 1967 to convince one of them to run against President Johnson for the Democratic Presidential Nomination in 1968. One of them was Senator George McGovern, who was recommended...

Assuming RFK lived or was not shot, but could not secure the 1968 Democratic presidential nomination on the first ballot, could a compromise candidate between the Humphrey/Johnson and RFK factions have emerged in successive balloting? If so, who?

There is a veritable avalanche of alternate history timelines surrounding the Election of 1968. It is, perhaps, the most written about, analysed, and discussed election in alternate history history. Normally, these stories involve a last-minute Hail Mary pulled off by that year's Democratic...

We all know that on June 5, 1968 RFK was nearly assassinated by a man named Sirhan Sirhan. Luckily RFK had gone in the opposite direction of the kitchen where Sirhan was and avoided death. Eventually the wannabe assassin left the hotel and was arrested two days later, but what if Kennedy had...

Here's a challenge. Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy survives his assassination unharmed. Under the circumstances of either Humphrey as President and Kennedy as Vice President, or Kennedy as President and Humphrey as Vice President, what does such an administration look like?

Forward: Looking Back... Photo by David Shankbone Excerpts from Looking Back at Gore Vidal 31 July 2012 -- Gore Vidal passed away from pneumonia at the age of 86. Looking back at this colossus in American politics is much too much to cover in a single article. He was an author, a...

In our world, George Wallace achieved an upset win over John F. Kennedy, who was deeply disliked by many, and clinch the Democratic Party's Presidential nomination in 1968, winning by around 50 votes. George Wallace, the first candidate to mount a succesful primary challenge to an incumbent...

What if the Peace Talks in the fall of 1968 that ended the Vietnam war failed and Richard Nixon was elected the 37th President of the United States instead of Hubert Humphrey, who was arguably only able to pull off his narrow victory due to the last minute success of the Peace Talks?

Assuming LBJ does not run in 1968 due to health concerns [1], without the Vietnam War, who will Humphrey pick as his VP? Let's say RFK is alive, kicking, and is still in the poltical arena, but Humphrey still wins the Democratic nomination and wins in November that year[2]...

In 1968, ABC hired William F. Buckley, Jr. and Gore Vidal to debate during the Republican and Democratic national conventions. Both of the debaters had failed political careers. In 1965, Buckley lost a mayoral race in New York City. In 1960, Gore Vidal lost the race for New York's 29th District...