Two men who are to some degree known for their many affairs. They also both travel a lot given their jobs. Let’s say JFK doesn’t get shot and lives longer, while Johnson having avoided the stress of the presidency makes it another decade. However, they both contract the disease at some point in either the 60s or 70s and eventually die from it destroying their immune systems. Potentially getting the disease initially while in the White House.
They go down as the first celebrity deaths from the disease.
What impact would this have on the early years of HIV? Would it get more research earlier? Does it no longer become known as the gay disease, or does it simply create rumors about those twos sexuality?