Discussion: Would revelations of JFK's health end his '60 candidacy?

I'd say yes, especially if the Nixon camp gets their hands on a medical kit like they tried to do IOTL. I wonder what the public's reaction would be to amphetamines.
 
I'd say yes, especially if the Nixon camp gets their hands on a medical kit like they tried to do IOTL. I wonder what the public's reaction would be to amphetamines.
I think that is very probable.
We have two serious fact here:
1-the candidate have serious health problems
2-the candidate have lied to the American people about his health.
But i think that Nixon knew the true story,and JFK knew that Nixon gone to an psychiatrist,and knew about some unclear money affairs of Nixon's brother.
So.......
 
By today's standards, JFK would have been disqualified. But that was 1960. The public's trust for science, medicine and drugs was at an all-time high.

The polio vaccine was only five years old. Life-saving antibiotics had been around for only a generation (or less). Once nominated, the notion that he was taking drugs that would have disqualified any pilot from flying would not come up.

Only decades earlier, a crippled president took the country out of the Great Depression and set the US to military victory. I believe it was asked if JFK had Addison's disease, and the campaign was able to cleverly refute it.
 
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