JFK Lives, Johnson Dropped In '64: What Happens With Civil Rights?

Kennedy seriously discussed dropping Johnson from the ticket for 1964 and replacing him, likely with Terry Sanford. However, thinking about it, that could have a major retarding effect on Civil rights (perhaps). Then again, while Johnson was a good arm twister, there were a lot of other folks in Washington supportive of the Civil Rights bill as well. So what would have happened concerning Civil Rights had Johnson been dropped from the ticket in 1964?
 
LBJ would not have been dropped from the '64 ticket. When Evelyn Lincoln wrote a book of reminisces of JFK in early 1968, the idea was repudiated by Steve Smith and RFK themselves. "Can you ever imagine the President talking to Evelyn about a subject like this?" -RFK to Schlesinger "... We need to carry Texas in '64, and maybe Georgia."- JFK to O'Donnell. If RFK was denying it in Feb. '68, when he'd long "dropped the mask" so to speak, it wasn't happening. But if it did, JFK might've had to trade away the muscle. He simply wasn't a legislative guru like Johnson was, and the same applies to Sanford, Donald Russell or Carl Sanders, the other possibilities. So no equal-employment, more Southern hatred, and the '68 coronation being in serious risk of derailment.
 
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