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Let's assume that it happens (and that the assassin has no apparent foreign connections to complicate US relations with other countries). While in part my interest is in the possible differences between the JFK and LBJ administrations in January-November 1963, there would be important long-run effects even if there were no substantial differences in policy during those months. Since LBJ would take office before January 20, 1963, he will have served at least two years of JFK's presidential term, and therefore will not be eligible to run again in 1968. Of course in the end he decided not to in OTL, but what would be the effects of everyone *knowing in advance* that he couldn't run in 1968? RFK, it seems to me, would announce much earlier than in OTL, and Humphrey would find it harder to dodge the primaries.
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