We all now of Lee Harvey Oswald, a man who injured Kennedy and killed his wife. But what would of happened had the assassination been succesfull? How would history have changed?
 
Well, obviously Kennedy isn't around to finish his one term and quietly pass away in '67. That's not a huge deal since Lyndon Johnson won in '64 anyway, so that's not a huge change on the Presidential level. We know now that Kennedy was never in good health and the wounds he received from Oswald ultimately hastened his demise. So realistically, Johnson has a little extra time in office to push his Great Society agenda. He might get a little more through and accomplish a few more things. I suppose the mess with Ted Kennedy might be butterflied away, but who knows there? RFK also may do better and take a swing at high office?
 
I wonder if there would be so many one-term Presidents between Ike and Bush. JFK stepped down in 1964, LBJ lost to Nixon, who lost to RFK, who lost to what-the-fuck-were-we-thinking Agnew, who lost to President Moonbeam, who finally lost to Bush, who served two terms. Six single terms in a row.
 
I wonder if there would be so many one-term Presidents between Ike and Bush. JFK stepped down in 1964, LBJ lost to Nixon, who lost to RFK, who lost to what-the-fuck-were-we-thinking Agnew, who lost to President Moonbeam, who finally lost to Bush, who served two terms. Six single terms in a row.

And then as a bonus the US got Brown back again in 1992 for a second non-consecutive term.
 
And then as a bonus the US got Brown back again in 1992 for a second non-consecutive term.

And then it started again. Lincoln Chafee got voted out in 2000 by Trump, who got primaried by Bush’s kid after his gaffe about Afghanistan, and then the economy went to shit and we got Bill Clinton. Then his ex-wife got the better of him and Romney won. And now...**rubs temples and sighs**
 
I wonder if there would be so many one-term Presidents between Ike and Bush. JFK stepped down in 1964, LBJ lost to Nixon, who lost to RFK, who lost to what-the-fuck-were-we-thinking Agnew, who lost to President Moonbeam, who finally lost to Bush, who served two terms. Six single terms in a row.

The political uncertainty that prevailed and the backing-and-forthing makes me wonder: what would stronger leadership have done to the Cold War? OTL we ended up with detente in all but name, then gradual reform within the USSR, then official detente from the 1990s until now.

Though that latter could be changing with the current rake of GOP hawks...
 
The political uncertainty that prevailed and the backing-and-forthing makes me wonder: what would stronger leadership have done to the Cold War? OTL we ended up with detente in all but name, then gradual reform within the USSR, then official detente from the 1990s until now.

Though that latter could be changing with the current rake of GOP hawks...
Considering the most experts believe that they USSR is a year or two away from breaking up, not so much.
I went to East Berlin a while a go to see the wall get torn down, things are really changing.
 
Considering the most experts believe that they USSR is a year or two away from breaking up, not so much.
I went to East Berlin a while a go to see the wall get torn down, things are really changing.

Warsaw Pact's gone, for sure. But the USSR...way things are going, it's in for a namechange and a loosening up, but most of the stuff I've read reckons that the new looser federal structure they've got going has the potential to last for quite a while, especially given the economic reforms that've been going for a while. Between that and the spike in oil prices, they're doing tolerably.

Say what you like about Lebed, the man knows what he's doing.
 
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