American golden age:more quiet 60s

How bout- no Vietnam, LBJ's Great Society does come into existence ?
Sensible. Again, you've got to go back to WW2 to achieve it, IMO. FDR & Truman buggered it up by not making a deal with Viet nationalists & France in '44-5: 1 country, France leaves peacefully, & U.S. acts as guarantor for both sides. Result, IMO: no war. (OK, not exactly simple. Frex, who's the Viet leader? IMO, there had to be a few candidates in Japanese or French prisons who weren't communists or fascists...)

OTOH, if you can get Nixon in, you could see more sensible policies on illegal drugs before the '60s are over. He was already leaning toward liberalization... Maybe a VP able to get things done on civil rights? (Who was GOP equivalent of LBJ?)
the baby boom generation would be noticeably smaller.
I'm dubious of that. A lot of those kids were to couples separated by war, or unable to afford to start families in the Depression. I don't think it would drop much (a few %, maybe).
Let's see, there's no reason why the civil rights movement couldn't have started off as a long slow burn during the 40s
It did. And black vets came back from the war...so unless you can arrange they don't go (which I doubt) or no war (which you might, if you POD early enough)...
 
Nationalists win the Chinese Civil War. So no Vietnam War and ensuing economic prosperity through the Chinese market.

Hell, no Korean War, or at least a much less traumatic one.

And with a ally on that huge border, the Cold War would be a lot less scary for the US over all.

With more border for the sovs to protect, harder to get the huge numerical superiourity of OTL.

Of course that might just mean less military spending by NATO (including US) so threat level just as high, albeit with more social spending, imagine results as you wish.;)
 
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