The Happiest Warrior:A Hubert Humphrey Wank-Timeline

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January 1st, 1968: President Lyndon Johnson dies of cardiac arrest. Vice President Hubert Humphrey is sworn-in as president.

January 2nd, 1968: Humphrey selects Robert Kennedy as his vice-president.

January 3rd, 1968:Robert Kennedy is confirmed by the Senate dispite opposition by George Smathers,Jesse Helms,and Strom Thurmond
 
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To bring in more traffic to this thread and to get help in going to modern day I'm making this a collaborative timeline.
 
An even better Hubert Humphrey wank would probably have him win office in 1960, so he could avoid Vietnam altogether.
 
Or, alternately, sack up and turn down LBJ, then run in '72, get much more attentive and better preventative care as President, and last probably all of the Seventies before succumbing to his family's genetic curse, either fragmenting or significantly delaying the New Right Revolution (he'll have beaten Reagan in '72 or '76 and Ron will be a spent force except on the radio.) And we can have single-payer health care and an economy focused around full employment rather than maximum profit and infrastructural investment in education from kindergarten through college and maybe a lifeline thrown to Kosygin to start a longer, stronger détente and and and and....

Essentially you had me at "Hubert", "Humphrey," and "Wank." I will go be ashamed now...
 

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January 4th, 1968: President Humphrey holds a meting with his staff instructing them to write him a State of Union address that includes peace in Vietnam.

January 10th, 1968: President Humphrey and Cyrus Vance disscuss negotiating peace with Vietnam.

January 12th, 1968: Vice President Kennedy discusses with President Humphrey about having Martin Luther King Jr. as a speaker during the Democratic National Convention.

January 17th, 1968: Hubert Humphrey gives his state of the Union address in it he outlines:His plan to bring the troops home from Vietnam,to continue to push for Abe Fortas's nomination to be Chief Justice,and to help the poor and downtrodden with an expansion of Medi-Care to all citizens,and to sign the 1968 Civil Rights Act.
 
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January 20th, 1968:Republican Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen makes it clear that President Humphrey's health care proposal and peace plan are dead on arrival.
 
I'm not sure a vice presidential selection would be confirmed within 3 days of the former POTUS's death.

Secondly, unless Humphrey feels like he needs Kennedy to help him win in '68 (which I don't think he would) or he's trying to stave off a potential primary challenge, I don't think he'd be inclined to pick RFK.

Third, Kennedy was always going to run in '68. Why is RFK accepting the #2 spot ITTL?
 
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