If you're reading my new TL titled, "Alternate Vietnam partition, war and 1960s", would you prefer I have LBJ run for reelection in 1968 or not?
To summarize where the thread stands now, I have brought the TL up to Christmas 1967.
Because of territorial and demographic changes dating to the 1954 partition of Vietnam, Ngo Dinh Diem is in power, the collapse of the Saigon regime to either internal strife or rural insurgency is not perceived as imminent, and other than the presence of 75,000 US specialist advisors, Vietnam is a distant low-intensity conflict to the American and world audiences rather than "the Vietnam War". The Johnson Administration has not yet been faced with the imminent choice of "escalate big or lose" that it felt it faced in OTL '64 and '65, and has been able to focus more on domestic politics and policy.
Under these circumstances, do you prefer to see LBJ plan to run for reelection or to step down after completing a successful single-term presidency?
While ultimately the war and primary challenges in OTL prompted LBJ not to run for reelection, I've at least heard rumors that as early as 64 or 65 LBJ was thinking of not running again. Otherwise I would not have even considered him not running as an option.
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