Kennedy gets picked as Stevenson's running mate in 1956 and as in OTL Stevenson loses to Ike in a landslide. With the stench of the 56 loses the nomination to Johnson, who picks Hubert Humphrey as his running mate and narrowly defeats Nixon in 1960. Johnson avoids the debacle that was the Bay of Pigs or at least handles it better than Kennedy did, so no Cuban Missile Crisis, and Diem is not taken out in South Vietnam. Military advisers are still there though and Johnson might increase the number while at the same time not escalating the conflict into a full scale war. Medicare and Medicaid are passed in 62 or 63 as is a Tax Cut to fight off the mild recession that took place in the early 60s OTL. We also begin the Space Program and The Peace Corps is created as it was OTL. Johnson is re elected in 1964 decisively (although not by the landslide of OTL) against Goldwater. The Civil Rights Act is passed and signed into law in early 1965 and with it the Voting Rights Act. A bigger Great Society than OTL is implemented through Johnson's second term. With no Vietnam war, less social unrest than OTL, a relatively strong economy, and a popular President Johnson, Vice President Humphrey and his running mate Terry Sanford defeat Governor Nelson Rockefeller in the 1968 Presidential election. Outside of the Moon landing in 1969, Humphrey has a difficult term in office that includes a bad economy (worse than OTL as Humphrey won't go to the extent that Nixon did to prop it up), a Republican take over of Congress in 1970, and South Vietnam falling to Communism. Humphrey is challenged in the primary from the left by George McGovern and from the right from George Wallace. Despite this, he secure renomination, but loses the 1972 General election to California Governor Ronald Reagan and his running mate Charles Percy of Illinois.