A Different World
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The Veepstakes began. Johnson looked at former diplomat Thomas Dodd and Senators Hubert Humphrey, Eugene McCarthy, and even movie star Gregory Peck before settling on Louisiana Congressman Thomas Hale Boggs. Nixon, meanwhile looked at former General Douglas MacArthur, New York governor Nelson Rockefeller, and Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton, before settling on Michigan's George Romney.
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The campaign was in full swing. Surrogates did most of the campaigning. For Johnson, Senators John F. Kennedy and Hubert H. Humphrey did most of the hard lifting in the North, while Texas governor John Connally and Tennessee's Albert Gore did most of the campaigning in the South. Meanwhile, Nixon had Nelson Rockefeller and William Scranton up North, with his Southern branch led by General Douglas MacArthur, who was born in Arkansas and had retired to Virginia and thus had ties to the region, in spite of the fact that his father was a Union soldier from Wisconsin.
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The election was finally over. The winners were Lyndon B. Johnson and Thomas Hale Boggs. The true task of assembling a Cabinet had begun. For Secretary of State, Washington Senator Henry M. Jackson was looked at, as was George W. Ball, the young diplomat, but eventually Thomas Dodd of Connecticut got the deal. For Defense, retired General Mark Clark took up his post, while Treasury went to Minnesota's Hubert H. Humphrey. Attorney General lead to NAACP counsel Thurgood Marshall, while Interior ended up the province of Nevada's Rex Bell. Agriculture was headed by a young peanut farmer and Navy Officer from Georgia by the name of Jimmy Carter, while Commerce ended up in the hands of former DNC Chair Paul Butler. Secretary of Labor went to young, talented U.S. Congressman George McGovern.
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The first meeting of Johnson's Presidency, the day after Inauguration Day, was between President Johnson, Vice President Boggs, and Secretary of State Dodd. The meeting was on dealing with policy in the former French Indochina. "We'll have to wait to see what Mark wants", Boggs said, referring to Secretary of Defense Mark Clark. "I doubt he'd want another war. He had fought, remember. It is those who have seen the horrors of war who desire only peace", Dodd said. Johnson finally got in a word, "We can't be seen as weak on the Commies." But he was drowned out by the voices of Boggs and Dodd who wanted to wait and see what Secretary Clark had planned.
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Hey man! I kind of like your timeline, and I think it is going well with LBJ being president. I think you just need to label your posts as thread marks so it will be easy to follow.
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Also I have a question: Why would John Connally be running for POTUS in 1960 since he is not governor at this time and he was a lawyer from Fort Worth and aide to Johnson?
PNWKing
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That was a research failure on my part, and he wasn't actually running for POTUS, just a top surrogate for Johnson.
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The hallways were intimidating. In fact Lyndon B. Johnson's daughter Claudia was hanging out with Hale Boggs' daughter Corrine. Corrine, or as her brother called her "Cokie" looked at everything like the pool reporters. In fact she told Claudia that the pool reporters were all male, and wondered if a woman could ever be a pool reporter. Claudia said, "Maybe you could do it."
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- Hubert Humphrey-US Senator from Minnesota
- Richard Nixon-Is plotting a comeback by eyeing the California governorship, but he may face some stiff competition...........
- Martin Luther King-Currently a minister in Alabama, wondering about the nascent Civil Rights Movement. Likes Johnson's appointment of Marshall as AG.
- John F. Kennedy-US Senator from Massachusetts. Might consider primarying Johnson in 1964.
PNWKing
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1961 began with some turbulence. President Johnson had tried to manage the nascent Civil Rights Movement, but soon Attorney General Marshall decided to goad his boss into decisive action. Johnson couldn't do anything, as FBI Director Hoover had him by the balls, perhaps literally considering Johnson's habit of calling meetings while taking a poop and whipping his penis out during meetings and saying "Is that the biggest thing you ever seen?". Hoover wanted to blackmail Johnson but Johnson had his own tricks up his sleeve. Hoover's relationship with Clyde Tolson was easy fuel for Johnson's rumor mills.