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Joseph Kennedy Jr., or Joe for short, was the first and favorite son of the Joseph Kennedy Sr. and was the son the family placed its hopes upon. He died in World War II on the top secret aircraft experiment "Operation Aphrodite". The mantle was then placed on John Kennedy and Robert Kennedy. John Kennedy assumed the path meant for Joe, following it to the White House.

What if Joseph Kennedy Jr. had not died in 1944, but instead had lived and fulfilled his father's dreams all the way up to a run for the Presidency?

It is important to note that Joe seems much more his father's son than the other Kennedy sons. It appears he took after Papa Joe not only in things like womanizing (a trait passed to all the sons but Bobby, who was raised as his mother's son and whose libido went to making 11 children in a devoted marriage), but also in anti-semitism and a what could perhaps be called an admiration for the successes of Hitler (and I'll follow that up by saying admiration does not equate devotion nor support). I have also read that people who interacted with Joe thought he came off like his father's puppet. That seems to be the proper ingredients for a Nixonian Kennedy with all that that entails.
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