WI: Both No Vietnam War and Kennedy Lives

What would a Kennedy presidency look like if Jack lived, but the United States was not involved to any degree in the civil war in Vietnam?
 
JFK would have wish he died in 1963. His health was horrible, his love affairs. Both would have come out and ruin him. The North taking South Vietnam would not help him.
 
His health was stable and he'd likely make it fine to 70. Making it beyond that is another matter. He was only as philandering as most of the Washington elite, and his affairs would not have come out during his presidency any more so than Lyndon Johnson's did. The media did not dig that dirt until the 1970s, by which time Kennedy would be many years out of office. The eventual collapse of South Vietnam is another matter, but it is important to keep in mind that over 70% of the public did not pay attention to Vietnam as of the first time opinion polls were taken in 1964. At the time, it was a far off situation which was not an American conflict, though we supported the government. It was a rather different situation than after 1965, or even in 1964.
 
What would a Kennedy presidency look like if Jack lived, but the United States was not involved to any degree in the civil war in Vietnam?

This is a really ambiguous statement. We were already somewhat involved via Kennedy's military advisors, and just days before leaving office, authorized the assassination of Vietnamese dictrator Ngo Dinh Diem. If you just mean no escalation like Johnson, we're par the course with Kennedy as he was, had he lived.
 
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