In our Nixon wins 1960 discussions, we have tended to do away with the inverted history narrative that Nixon wins and Lee Harvey Oswald shoots him in Dallas in November 1963. We have recognized it as easy and ignorant. We have recognized that so many factors would have fluttered those events away, and there is no reason for Nixon to visit the same city on the same date with the same route, with Oswald being of the same mood and with the same plan. That does not mention the other factors of the day, which were random as any day is.
However, it is nonetheless an interesting thought experiment. So I wish to dust off that old tome, and to try to gather a decent discussion from it. Handwaving the logistics into place, what if it had occurred? What if Nixon had been elected in 1960, and assassinated by Oswald in Dallas on November 22, 1963? What if Henry Cabot Lodge had been thrust into the presidency on that date, likely to win reelection on Nixon's body if nothing else? What if Lodge were to oversee the latter 1960s, from the potential of a Vietnam War to youth revolt and populist protest and movement?