I'm watching The Best Man - a more attractive Adlai Stevenson (played by Henry Fonda) is facing of against an even more evil John F Kennedy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Best_Man_(play)
In the course of events each man gets some dirt on the other and attempts to use it to force the other to withdraw from the race.
This set me thinking: what if LBJ had got hold of some proof of JFK's catastrophic bad health? Could he have used it to force him to withdraw, and then make a heavy play at the convention and secured the nomination?
How would LBJ have worked out if he was elected in 1960?
Thoughts?
I'm going to read my Dallek Biogs for more ideas....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Best_Man_(play)
In the course of events each man gets some dirt on the other and attempts to use it to force the other to withdraw from the race.
This set me thinking: what if LBJ had got hold of some proof of JFK's catastrophic bad health? Could he have used it to force him to withdraw, and then make a heavy play at the convention and secured the nomination?
How would LBJ have worked out if he was elected in 1960?
Thoughts?
I'm going to read my Dallek Biogs for more ideas....