Long Live the King: An MLK Survives Collab TL

June 28, 1968, Saigon - General Andrew Goodpaster arrives to take command of U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam.
 
November 15th 1968 - President elect Kennedy meets with President Lyndon Johnson. While it is never made official, it is reported through second hand accounts that the two share far less than friendly words behind closed doors.

November 20th 1968 - Ethel Kennedy, 1 month away from her due date, wakes with severe pain and fears for the unborn infant. After an emergency visit to the doctor, it is determined that the child is fine and in no distress. The doctor sends her home after concluding there is no danger.
 
November 28, 1968 - At a Thanksgiving dinner with family and friends, Ronald Reagan laments Nixon's defeat in the presidential election, blaming it on Nixon's failure to generate enthusiasm among the conservative wing of the Republican Party.
 
December 5th 1968 - Nixon accepts an offer from Pepsico to become CEO. In an op-ed in New York, Nixon pledges not to be finished in the world of public service.
 
OOC: Could someone make a map of the final election results?
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All of the suggestions below are not definite, just ideas to be debated among ourselves

January 21, 1969: Robert F. Kennedy, makes his suggestions and appointments:
- Edna F. Kelly, to become the first female secretary of state.
- John Connally as Secretary of Defence
- Fred R. Harris as Secretary of Treasury
- Ramsey Clark, to continue as his role as Attorney General, he has held since November 28, 1966.
- Secretary of the Interior to be given to Joseph S. Clark Jr.
- Wayne Morse to the office of Secretary of Agriculture
- Cecil R. King as Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare
- Roger D. Branigin as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
- Secretary of Transportation to be given to Frank Lausche

November 12th,1968:
Wallace suddenly drops his challenges, giving a Curt explanation about it being for the good of the country. Rumors however leak that a Kennedy campaign official offered his party a pick at a supreme Court seat if they dropped the challenge. Both sides deny this rumor however.
November 15, 1968: Wallace holds a meeting with Former Governor, Dan K. Moore of North Carolina, whose term-limited, has left him out of office. This visit is said to be a not towards the rumours, with Moore in the running for the Supreme Court.
 
Since Wallace requested recounts in Arkansas and NC, I think that we should flip them to RFK and flip one of RFK's states to Nixon
Okay then maybe Flip Virginia,Florida,New Jersey and Missouri to give Kennedy the reach to out vote California.

So giving back Arkansas and NC gave kennedy 291, so flipping Maryland due to Governor Spiro Agnew of Maryland, spending more time campaigning in his state hoping to being nominated by Nixon as Secretary of Defense, giving us 199 Nixon (R) 281 Kennedy (D) 58 Wallace (AI)

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November 20th 1968 - Ethel Kennedy, 1 month away from her due date, wakes with severe pain and fears for the unborn infant. After an emergency visit to the doctor, it is determined that the child is fine and in no distress. The doctor sends her home after concluding there is no danger.
December 12, 1968: Ethel Kennedy gives birth to a health girl, who is named Rory Elizabeth Katherine, the eleventh child of the pair.

March 20, 1969: Two months after taking the presidential inauguration speech, Robert and Ethel Kennedy announced their pregnancy of a new baby, whom would be the second baby born in the 180 years of presidential office.

October 12, 1969: The Kennedy's announce the birth of Esther Ethel Kennedy (named after Ester Cleveland, the first child born in the White House and her mother)
 
January 31st 1969 - Nixon pens a letter to now President Kennedy, letting him know that should he need advice on international matters that he will be available to him.

February 15th 1969 - accounts from friends describe Nixon as "less depressed than his loss in 1960", and others liken him to, "A man determined to still make a difference."

March 5th 1969 - Nixon, now CEO of Pepsico, founds the Richard M. Nixon foundation. A non-profit organization focused on aiding those under severe financial strain. From building homes for homeless, to feeding starving children, the Richard M. Nixon foundation begins to see immediate success and recognition.
 
January 3, 1969 - As the 91st Congress is sworn in, southern representatives and senators, some of whom have already joined the AIP, break with party leadership to name their own candidate for Speaker and PPT, House Majority Whip Hale Boggs of Louisiana, and Senator Richard Russell Jr. of Georgia, deadlocking both elections
How do we plan to resolve this?
 
A Monnerville state visit in the US would be interresting ^^
January 20th, 1969 - In a phone call to Kennedy, French President Gaston Monnerville congratulates him on the inauguration. A state visit by the latter to the United States is set for May 18th
 
January 3, 1969 - As the 91st Congress is sworn in, southern representatives and senators, some of whom have already joined the AIP, break with party leadership to name their own candidate for Speaker and PPT, House Majority Whip Hale Boggs of Louisiana, and Senator Richard Russell Jr. of Georgia, deadlocking both elections

Boggs wouldn't go along with the AIP. He supported the Voting Rights Act and the Louisiana Legislature had to redistrict the state to keep him from getting voted out of office.
 
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