No Longer Jack

Nick P

Donor
That is a very sad story.... Could anyone supply the last page please?
While I can guess how it ends I would like to read it.
 

vultan

[FONT=&quot]November 23, 1964[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]INT. WHITE HOUSE PRESS ROOM - DAY[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]"Mr. Attorney General, we have heard reports that there is a confusion of sorts over who exactly is leading the country in this delicate period..."
"President John Kennedy is leading this country."
"President Kennedy is in the hospital. After General Eisenhower's 1955 heart attack, then-Vice President Nixon chaired Cabinet meetings, but here, there has been surprisingly little mention of Vice President Johnson–"
"Constitutionally, uh, should the President decide he wants to transfer the helm to the Vice President, he will do so. He has not done that. As of now, I am in control here, uh, pending return of the President and am in close touch with him. If, uh, something came up, I would check with him, of course."
"'Him' being President Kennedy, or Vice President Johnson?"
"Uh, the President. As I said, the President has not decided to transfer power to the Vice President."
"Does this have anything to do with rumors that President Kennedy has been considering dropping Vice President Johnson from the ticket in next year's election?"
"We don't even know if the President is going to, uh, uh, er, I'm not the person to ask for that. You would have to ask the President."
"Is the President not on his way to a stable recovery? We have reports that–"
"The President IS recovering, but, uh, the process is not one without complications in the healing procedure. No more questions, thank you."[/FONT]
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KENNEDY MAY NOT RUN AGAIN
WHERE'S JOHNSON? RFK: 'I AM IN CONTROL'
KENNEDY HEALTH HAS 'COMPLICATIONS' — November 24, 1963

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[FONT=&quot]INT. BARRY GOLDWATER'S OFFICE - DAY

The Senator is sitting at the desk, on the phone.

Secretary (VO): "...the President will be on the line in just a moment, Senator Goldwater."

Goldwater: "Thank you, ma'am."

He sits tight for a moment, until...

Kennedy (VO)(gruffly): "Hello?"

Goldwater: "Hello, Jack! This is Barry. I hope-"

Kennedy (VO): "Jack? JACK? Just what in the goddamn hell do you think you’re doing?"

Goldwater: "...what?"

Kennedy (VO): "You have a lot of nerve, Goldwater, a lot of goddamn nerve. I want you to listen good, you little bastard, I don't have any proof yet, but I got the FBI all over this situation, and when I find what I'm looking for, you're going to get shot for treason!"

Goldwater: "WHAT? Mr. President--"

But Kennedy has hung up.

Goldwater just sits there for a moment, in utter shock.

~~~

INT. RESTAURANT - NIGHT

Barry Goldwater and Brent Bozell sit at a table. Bozell has already finished his meal, but Goldwater has barely even touched it.

Goldwater: "I just don't know, Brent, I've never heard Kennedy talk like that before."

Bozell: "Well, he’s still in the hospital. He could be doped up on all kinds of medications. And in a presidential campaign, I suppose things can sometimes get heated--"

Goldwater: "No, you don't get it. He's changed. When we were in the Senate, he's was friends with everyone, even those he disagreed with. And even after he got in the White House, I may disagree with him, but he was still basically a good person. But now, after Dallas..."

He nervously starts playing with his food. The two men sit quietly for a moment.

Bozell: "Well, what do you suppose you're going to do about it?"

Goldwater (chuckling): "I guess I'm going to have to beat him. Maybe that'll knock some sense into him!"

Bozell (chuckling): "Barry, I think that'd knock some sense into the whole country."

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[FONT=&quot]PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY TAPES[/FONT]
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JFK: "What the hell is going on here? What the hell is going on there? What in the world are you doing, Bobby? Are you crazy?"
RFK: "Mr. President, uh, the situation is under–"
JFK: "No! No! The markets are going to hell because no one knows who is in charge! By God, I'M still the President last time I checked! You can wait your goddamn turn!"
RFK: "...Yes, Mr. President."
JFK: "[sighs] Goddamn, just concentrate on getting to the bottom of this hit on me. No more press conferences from you, only Salinger. You know this Oswald freak was a communist, right, Bobby?"
RFK: "Uh, there have been reports to that effect, yes."
JFK: "Then why in God's name did I not find out about it until today's issue of the Jew York Times!"
RFK: "The–uh, uh, Mr. President, we're still looking into the matter–"
JFK: "Maybe I should put Johnson in charge of the Cabinet, for now. But that could be just what this communist toady wants. Bobby, have you realized I got shot at in goddamn DALLAS?"
RFK: "Uh–"
JFK: "Initially I thought this Oswald was part of some vast right-wing conspiracy, you know, the Goldwater people, the Birchers. It's DALLAS after all. But this crazy guy is a communist! So if the Birchers are out, then Lyndon Goddamn Johnson might have teamed up with Khrushchev and set me up... or maybe it was Castro... or the Jews and Israelis... We know there's pink in this. Whoever it was, we're gonna get 'em!"
RFK: "..."
JFK: "Bobby?"
RFK: "Yes?"
JFK: "Yes, Mr. President."
RFK: "Yes, Mr. President?"
JFK: "We have to maintain constant vigilance against the communists. Poland, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Turkey, China, Korea, Vietnam, Dallas... They will stop at NOTHING to spread their cancerous ideology. Imagine if I had turned out like Diem!”[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Pause.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]JFK: “Speaking of Vietnam, Bobby, that situation has been on my mind lately. I've been in contact with McNamara, and it seems that situation has been going to hell since that goddamn Diem died... For the past year, everyone’s been painting this rosy picture about how the communists are at their end, but the Pentagon is full of crazy incompetents, seems like. It looks like we’ll have to escalate our presence there."
RFK: "Mr. President, there is nothing to worry about in Vietnam. The fundamentals of the war are sound."
JFK:"You haven't been in contact with Defense or State have you? I have! Except to investigate this assassination conspiracy, of course."
RFK:"Mr. President, I don't think signs are pointing to a conspiracy. The fact that he's a communist is already making the public very–"
JFK:"Well obviously we can't let the PUBLIC know about this. It's been a little over a year since the world was nearly blown to hell. But I want you to investigate this. Don't trust the CIA and ESPECIALLY not that sonofabitch Hoover. The CIA or Hoover or the mob could be in on all this, Bobby."
RFK: "Jack..."
JFK: "I want there to be a security overhaul. No more 'never write it down' politicking. We need more taps on dangerous elements. We have to start recording everything. I already started with this room. We need to reign in the FBI and CIA and make it our own. There are several elements involved with the mob that could be mixed up in this Dallas business. Get on it. Once we do that, we can ramp up the Bobby Baker business to take care of Johnson, after isolating Rometsch from all... Bobby, if anyone has something to do with this, it's Rometsch! And she's part of the Bobby Baker/Lyndon Johnson axis! Ohh, before we get rid of Hoover, we HAVE to have him take care of this. But it won't be safe to do so until after the election. No, it's best to have our own people take care of this. Maybe we can set up something as party of the re-election committee... Bobby? Bobby, what's wrong? You look like you're about to cry."
RFK: "I-I just remembered I have to see Teddy."
JFK: "Bring him here, I forgot to ask him something at noon. I'll go back thinking about this Vietnam situation... I don't want Goldwater to make an issue of this, make a fool out of me like Khrushchev did in '61. Lodge has a proposal he’s been feeding me… It might be best just to dissolve South Vietnam and make him consul of a protectorate. You don't think this Dallas thing has anything to do with Diem, do you?"
RFK: "Jack, how is your back?"
JFK: "I can't feel anything. After Dallas, they say I'm going to need to be on more painkillers for quite some time."
RFK: "I know."[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]JFK: “Bobby, I can’t feel anything.”[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]INT. WHITE HOUSE – DAY[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]RFK: “Johnson? He didn’t tell me he was putting that Johnson in charge! Well, he talked about it, but he didn’t say he was doing it.”[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]EMK: “Just for a couple of days, Bobby. Let this Bobby Baker stuff take its course, and…”[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]RFK: "Goddamn, you didn’t put him up to this, did you?”[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]EMK: “… At first he was very belligerent, but then he got dazed and very persuadable. It’s a–”[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]RFK: “FUCK, TEDDY! LYNDON JOHNSON, IN THE OVAL OFFICE? EVEN IN A MATTER OF DAYS, HE COULD DESTROY EVERYTHING WE’VE BEEN WORKING ON. CIVIL RIGHTS, GONE! HE WON’T RELINQUISH THIS ‘ACTING’ PRESIDENT ROLE UNTIL WE PRY IT FROM HIS COLD, DEAD HANDS!”[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]EMK: “Jack will reclaim the Oval when he is ready. He’s just messed up right now, with the medications, and all… The complications from hypothyroidism and the Addison’s must be doing a number on him…”[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]RFK: “Teddy! Listen to me! Jack is no longer Jack!”[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Silence.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot]EMK (crying): “I know! I was just in there! I know! I know!”

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[FONT=&quot]November 24, 1963[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]KENNEDY TAPES[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]LBJ: “Mr. President, I, uh, want you to know that Lady Bird and I are praying for, and[/FONT][FONT=&quot]–“[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]JFK: [weakly] “Yes, yes, thank you. Now, I want you, uh, to, uh, take the reins for this week. Just one week. [coughs] Maybe more, maybe more.”[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]LBJ: “Mr. President, I[/FONT][FONT=&quot]–[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]JFK: “That’ll be all, Lyndon.” *click*[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]November 25, 1963[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]JOHNSON TAKES THE REINS[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] “Their cause must be our cause too. Because it is not just Negroes, but really it is all of us, who must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice. And we shall overcome.” – Acting President Lyndon B. Johnson, on the immediate necessity of implementing a civil rights act[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]“Oh, no you fucking don’t. That goddamn speech of yours won’t even make the front pages.” – John F. Kennedy, to Robert F. Kennedy[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]“Lyndon Johnsons’ Money” – cover story of Life[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]BAKER: JOHNSON PROFITED IN DEALINGS[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]KENNEDY TAPES - Night[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]LBJ: “…Wait, Mr. President, I don’t see the problem. We can strike for civil rights now while the iron is–“[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]JFK: “A President shouldn’t spend his time and power on lost causes, no matter how worthy those causes might be.” *click* [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]LBJ: [to himself] “Well, what the hell’s the presidency for?”[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]JFK: “The fuck did you just say! Now, you’re going to get yours, you and that little snot bastard Baker who runs around Congress. No civil rights smokescreen to distract from ol’ Rufus Cornpone’s corruption. Who the hell the presidency’s for my ass. Lyndon, I’m going to drive you from office if I have to drive you off the Chappaquiddick bridge myself. This ‘Acting President’ stuff is because Bobby screwed up back there, but it won’t last a week. I’m not going to have that fucking coup you tried to pull with that communist in Dallas go through!” *click*[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]“[/FONT]If the circumstances make it such that you can't fuck a man in the ass, then just peckerslap him. Better to let him know who's in charge than to let him think he's got the keys to the car.” – Lyndon B. Johnson[FONT=&quot][/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]November 26, 1963[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]WHITE HOUSE AIDE: KENNEDY HAS ADDISON’S DISEASE, TAKES ‘DRUG COCKTAILS,’ IS ‘BIPOLAR’[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Johnson denies Baker allegations[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]KENNEDY TAPES[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Arthur Schlesinger: “It’s a very worrying situation. He might need to be managed for some time.”[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Ted Sorenson: “He’s just furious right now. I don’t think there’s anything for him to do but come clean on this.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]November 27, 1963[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]KENNEDY TO RETURN TO OFFICE FRIDAY WITH ‘MAJOR’ SPEECH[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]White House aide comment “supposed to be off the record”[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]INT. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE BUILDING – NIGHT[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]“There’s a lot of leverage to be gained, Clyde, when two men both have their hands on the same prize, and they want me to pry the other one’s off.”[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]November 27, 1963[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION AMENDMENT PASSED IN BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Johnson presses for tax cut[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]November 28, 1963[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]KENNEDY PROPOSES EXPANSION OF FBI POWER[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Kennedy: “Matter of safety and national security”[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]November 29, 1963[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]KENNEDY COLLAPSES BEFORE GIVING ‘MAJOR’ SPEECH[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Unknown if Johnson resumes Acting President duties[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]December 1-11th, 1963[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]John F. Kennedy lies in a semi-comatose state.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]December 2, 1963[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]KENNEDY’S HEALTH UNKNOWN[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Salinger: ‘Not necessary’ for Johnson to be Acting President[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]“The most worrisome thing here is the risk of a second secret President, a second Edith Wilson running the White House. This whole situation cannot get out of control. We cannot allow an Edith Wilson Kennedy during times of a delicate international situation.” – Nelson Rockefeller[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]December 3, 1963[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]ROCKEFELLER: “RFK 2nd ‘SECRET PRESIDENT’[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]KENNEDY TAPES[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Pierre Salinger: “How was the new Australian Prime Minister?”[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]RFK: “Nelson Rockefeller is a sob. He’ll pay for this.”[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]December 4, 1963[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]25TH AMENDMENT BECOMES LAW[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Fastest ever Amendment adopted, by far[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]December 5, 1963[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]JOHNSON BECOMES ‘ACTING PRESIDENT,’ PER 25TH AMENDMENT[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]RFK: Decision ‘unanimous’ among the Cabinet[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]December 6, 1963[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]RFK TO MAKE PEARL HARBOR SPEECH TOMORROW[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Not Johnson[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]December 16, 1963[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]KENNEDY RETURNS TO OFFICE, ANNOUNCES DISSOLUTION OF SOUTH VIETNAM IN PRESS CONFERENCE[/FONT]

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[FONT=&quot]INTERVIEWER: Senator Goldwater, what do you think of President Kennedy’s announcement that South Vietnam will become a protectorate?[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]
GOLDWATER: I think it's a pointless waste of time. I mean, it looks like we’re going around conquering places like the Japanese did. The forces of international Communism are strengthened by such a bald miscalculation. I’d rather he withdraw from Vietnam entirely. He might as well.

INTERVIEWER: But Senator, you've gone on record as stating that you believe we should rollback the forces of Communism worldwide--

GOLDWATER: Exactly, but not like this. Had he withdrawn, the President would have shown principle, even if it is pinko principle. This is just a halfway gap. We don't need to sacrifice the American image to get Ho Chi Minh and his boys. What we need to do is send a message. We need to use our full military might. That'll show them what's what![/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]INTERVIEW: So, you disagree with the President because you think this measure doesn’t go far enough?[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]GOLDWATER: Disagree? I wouldn’t be surprised if the President announced an escalation of the war in the coming months. In his heart, he knows I’m right.[/FONT]

~~~
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[FONT=&quot]GOLDWATER: KENNEDY PROTECTORATE “HALFWAY GAP”[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]December 27, 1963[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]KENNEDY ADMITS HE HAS ADDISON’S DISEASE[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]"Yeah, and I'm gonna win." —President Kennedy, when asked if he was running for a second term
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[FONT=&quot]March 10, 1964[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]GOLDWATER NARROWLY WINS NH PRIMARY OVER ROCKEFELLER, STASSEN, SMITH[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]WALLACE DOES BETTER THAN EXPECTED IN NH[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]"When you and I start marching and demonstrating and carrying signs, we will close every highway in the country!" – George Wallace to a crowd of thousands in Wisconsin, cheering him on.[/FONT]
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Japhy

Banned
037771 said:
Good grief, he really has lost it.

Fascinating opening, although the South Vietnam stuff begs the question as to whether figures within the administration would just refuse to implement his decision.
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Indeed.

I like the opening it's very interesting to watch but I wonder how you can even get the US to go that imperial without action being taken to stop such 19th Century tactics.
 

thekingsguard

If that's how insane he's acting NOW... how mad will he be by election day?

On the upside, it looks like Barry Goldwater won't be the politician dubbed the '
'mad bomber' now :p
 

Orville_third

Banned
This could be getting wild.
I do have an idea for a cameo that may change things down the road. Even if JFK gets defeated, he will need medical care. I have someone who deserves to be better treated and could have provided medical care to him. (OTL, he provided medical care to LBJ.) Want me to PM you?
 
Plumber

Plumber

037771 said:
Good grief, he really has lost it.

Fascinating opening, although the South Vietnam stuff begs the question as to whether figures within the administration would just refuse to implement his decision.
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Japhy said:
Indeed.

I like the opening it's very interesting to watch but I wonder how you can even get the US to go that imperial without action being taken to stop such 19th Century tactics.
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037771 said:
Well he did announce it during a press conference, so it could conceivably be explained away as a very embarrassing but non-binding outburst made by a sick President.
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The idiotic plan was an OTL proposal of Lodge's, and as we see in NH, it's basically killed his career. The next update will show more of the effects of this... proposal.

Whanztastic said:
Now that's what I call crazy.
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Brainbin said:
I'll say. 1964 looks like a powder-keg just waiting to happen :eek: Keep up the great work, you two!
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Clorox23 said:
Worth the wait.
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AnywhereButOTL said:
Oh dear. You guys broke JFK! :(
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Thank you! :D

thekingsguard said:
If that's how insane he's acting NOW... how mad will he be by election day?

On the upside, it looks like Barry Goldwater won't be the politician dubbed the '
'mad bomber' now :p
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Vote for Barry Goldwater on November 3. The stakes are too high for you to stay at home.
Orville_third said:
This could be getting wild.
I do have an idea for a cameo that may change things down the road. Even if JFK gets defeated, he will need medical care. I have someone who deserves to be better treated and could have provided medical care to him. (OTL, he provided medical care to LBJ.) Want me to PM you?
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Sure.
 

Japhy

Banned
Plumber said:
The idiotic plan was an OTL proposal of Lodge's, and as we see in NH, it's basically killed his career. The next update will show more of the effects of this... proposal.
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Dear Lord. What on earth was anyone thinking letting Lodge near anything that mattered more than a burger stand?

At least Kennedy here is missing a third of his brain and an eyeball, what the hell is Lodge's excuse?
 
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