JFK returns to The US Senate

So many threads about what if JFK had not been assassinated focus on JFK serving two full terms as President and on what his second term would have been like.

But what about his post-White House years? According to things he said to some of his closest friends, and to some of his private papers, he was thinking about the possibility of a post-Presidential run for The US Senate. Not for the seat his brother Ted held and still holds today, but for the other Senate seat from Mass.

Along with my thread on what if Bobbie had never run for president, What would it be like having all three surviving Kennedy brothers serving together in The US Senate? Would The American people accept all three serving together in The Senate? Would the people of Mass elect both Jack and Ted to The Senate? Would the people of NY elect Bobby to The Senate if Jack and Ted were both Senators from Mass?

By now (2008) Jack would be 91, so would he still be in The Senate or would he have retired? Remember, their mother lived to be 103 years old.

Just some thoughts as to an alternate history on the subject.
 
As I recall JFK was strongly thinking about either running a university or a newspaper (probably the Boston Globe).

Given his already existing journalist impulses (he covered the formation of the UN, in 1945) I could see him buying a paper and setting out to rival the NYTimes.

I honestly don't see him going back to the Senate (nor running for Governor somewhere). Once you've been President… well…*nothing quite matches up, I imagine, but a newspaper is not bad.

Heck given his personal fortune and the money he could draw upon from bankers and friends it's not inconceivable he takes over a TV network (or starts one).

As for the Senate I'd note only a couple things: the Kennedy's held to a long standing agreement not to contest the other "Republican" seat for a number of years (decades, really), and JFK and Ted were not close. Both in the Senate from the same state could get a little weird.
 
Why not give ex-presidents ex officio status in the US Senate. Since Rome was taken as a guide why not have the equivalent of the ex-consuls.

I think Harry Truman suggested something like that where ex-presidents would have a non-voting seat in the Senate where they could take part in debate and discussion but could no vote. He said this would give us the benefit of the experience ex-presidents had accumulated during their years as president.
 
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