If this never happened, would Vietnam happend, would he have done more for the space program, and more for civil rights? supporting details.
2007-01-25 02:58:09 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
There is whole series of debates and books about that.
Make up your own ideas because we will never know.
The romanics will have rosey picture.
Those who didn't like Kenndy will have a darker picture.
2007-01-25 03:18:04 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because of life experiences Johnson had a deeper convictions about civil rights than even Kennedy's strongest supporters claim he did. Johnson also was able to gain support in the congress for civil rights bills because of his long association with southern senators and a understanding of how to convince them not to block the legislation. On Vietnam the question is debated, but Johnson tapes reveal he knew we should get out but could not find a way that would not produce an even worse result than staying both domestically and internationally. Maybe Kennedy could have found a way, or maybe he would have lost in 1964 and a Republican president could have taken the domestic political risk of leaving, as Nixon did eventually. Johnson was a strong supporter of the space program so there would have been little difference.
2007-01-25 18:22:27 · answer #2 · answered by meg 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To begin with, Kennedy was NOT a popular President. That is why he was in Dallas in the first place: to heal party wounds. Polls showed at the time that it was questionable whether or not he could win re-election. He needed Texas, and the party was bitterly divided in that state. Also, It was Kennedy who got us involved in Vietnam to begin with, NOT Johnson. But because he was martyred, people think he was a popular president and that he would have never gotten us into Vietnam. The Kennedys, including the pathological liar Teddy, still want people to believe he was against Vietnam. Not so. He got us into the war to begin with.
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2007-01-25 11:49:40 · answer #3 · answered by No one 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Debatable, either he could have gone on to more important things, or maybe some affair could've been exposed and Chappaquiddick happens years earlier.
2007-01-25 12:25:24 · answer #4 · answered by zebbie g 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋