DBWI: Nixon Wasn't Assasinated in 1963

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Sanford was a very weak President, however. He totally botched the war in Indochina with his unconditional, unilateral cease-fires and retreats. The infamous photos of US helicopters lifting off from Saigon in 1970 just confirmed the Republican charge that the Democrats allowed countries to fall to Communism.

You view history through biased glasses. Sanford brought about a peace between the South Vietnamese and North Vietnamese which Lodge would have replaced only with a continued war and rising death tole. The fact that the North violated that later is due mainly to the fact that Lodge had allowed the South to become unstable and reliant on the US.

If only Nixon could have been there he'd have prevented it!
If Nixon was there, there may not have been a Vietnam to begin with.

Sanford also had no idea of what he was doing economically. Inflation and unemployment rose dramatically and his imposition of wage and price controls nearly provoked a revolt. And when he came out in favor of school busing he destroyed himself politically. So that's how we ended up with a fractured Democratic Party that split nearly down the middle, with Wallace on one side and Sanford on the other. RFK, opportunistic SOB that he was, tried to run up the middle but few trusted him.
Me-thinks you do not understand US history. Sanford had every idea what he was doing. Inflation and unemployment increases were hold overs from Lodge's term and the price and wage controls did not provoke a revolt. It only PO'd the conservatives. Likewise, he managed to reverse that inflation and unemployment trend. The Democrats also did not fracture down the middle. Wallace only had a small percentage of overall supporters compared to Sanford and RFK gave Sanford his endorsement (which is why Sanford named him VP for his 1972 term, but that's another matter). And that did not hinder Sanford's reelection.

The revelation of JFK's reckless lifestyle didn't help. I know America would never tolerate a President who would lie under oath about sexual encounters. How tawdry!
JFK never lied because no one ever asked. And that information only came out decades later.

It's still amazing how an actor could get elected President, but Ronald Reagan was the man for the hour. In 1972 he swept the West and Midwest and split the South with Wallace. His unexpected choice of Senator George Bush for VP helped him nail down Texas.

So poor old Sanford loses his home state to Wallace and ends up with just DC, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. A pathetic end to a once promising career.
Again, you misunderstand US history (and in this case massively.)

Reagan did not win in 1972, he won in 1976 (and that has a lot to do with VP RFK not running in 1976 because he had to deal with family matters). And not against Sanford, but Jimmy Cart. And his term was a time of economic stagflation if you recall.
 
We've gotten sidetracked on actual historical debate.

Now to get back on task, how might history have gone had Nixon lived? So far, we've only dealt slightly with Vietnam and the Bay of Bigs.
 
We've gotten sidetracked on actual historical debate.

Now to get back on task, how might history have gone had Nixon lived? So far, we've only dealt slightly with Vietnam and the Bay of Bigs.

Nixon had been considered strong on civil rights in 1960, as much so as JFK, more so than Eisenhower. I wonder how that would have played out.

Nixon was also close to Billy Graham, who opposed segregation but was not politically outspoken on civil rights. I also wonder if that would have made a difference (being a white Southerner, could Billy Graham's background and closeness to Nixon allowed a more peaceful acceptance of desegregation in the South?).

I think Nixon would have been more cautious re: taxes and spending than JFK.
 
Well, in June 1964, with his new opponent, another Kennedy, Robert, hot on his heels, President Nixon orders a break-in at the Democratic national headquarters. Later a building called the Watergate would be there, it was just an office building in 1964, I don't recall the name. But when the robbers were caught, it went all the way to the white house. And in August, 1966, Nixon resigned. In the meantime, VP Lodge had gotten ill and retired, so Gerald Ford, who had become Speaker of the House with the Republican win in Congress in 1964, became President (No 25th Amendment yet). He was President until Robert Kennedy was elected in 1968. However in June 1972 when campaigning for his second term, with VP Martin Luther King, they were both killed by gunshots on the same day, the VP campaigning in Memphis and President Robert Kennedy in Los Angeles. :D
 
Are you on drugs? Where is all this coming from? Nixon may have been somewhat paranoid, but not that much. And all that other stuff is baseless to the nth degree.
 
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