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What if Lyndon Johnson ended up committing suicide because of the depression brought on by being Kennedy's Vice President? What sort of reaction would this garner for a sitting executive to commit such an act in office?
Vietnam is going to change, will all US forces get pulled out?
Vietnam is going to change, will all US forces get pulled out?
Even with Kennedy still at the helm, it's already been discussed and shows ad nauseum why Kennedy would still increase Armed Forces numbers in the region as South Vietnam struggled. He was a Cold Warrior, not anti-War.
Okay Vietnam wise that might be tricky, do we still see a Gulf of Tonkin fabrication happen? Even then how the war plays out depends on how a president McCormack is willing to conduct the Vietnam, if he's more interested in results, but not willing to be too attached to who he sends then there could be a possibility of "victory"
But he was against fighting in a third-world country. He would have probably continued Eisenhower's policy.
Victory was impossible. The American people would protest if the conflict got out of hand.