2007-06-21 08:09:07 · 24 answers · asked by Jasmine 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Whatever: I'm sorry, was this question too hard?
2007-06-21 08:14:35 · update #1
Had JFK lived it would be a different America. It is very unlikely we would have stayed in Vietnam, so, the war there and what it meant to America would have had a vastly different outcome. JFK sought a balance with the USSR, so, it might be likely there would have been a thawing with the USSR before it took place a generation later. JFK was a proponent of tax cuts, so, raising taxes to foot the bill come later would not have been associated with the Democrats. His leadership style embodied vision, courage, and selflessness, so, America being divided by the war, Nixon, and so on, likely would not have been played out. Our dem v replican rhetoric would be quite different today.
2007-06-21 08:18:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 1⤋
I'm one of those people who think things happen for a reason, so this was tough. In honor of all the people who answered this question with wanting to get rid of the 60's, I would choose to be at the Dakota just prior to the shooting of John Lennon. Mark David Chapman would have had an unfortunate accident. Get rid of the 60's? Maybe the social stuff, the assassinations, Vietnam, but please, not the music!
2007-06-21 16:33:36 · answer #2 · answered by Matt 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd change the fact that JFK was assassinated. A lot of things changed in our culture after that, it crept into the American consciousness in a negative way. Vietnam may have turned out much differently for instance.
The other thing might be Nixon's criminal activities. If I could go back and make Nixon an honest man it would be interesting. That's another thing that changed our entire collective consciousness about our government. Many people became permanent cynics about our government after Watergate - and I was one of them.
2007-06-21 15:20:30 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 1⤋
The Third Reich, Pearl Harbor, The Kennedy Assassination, Vietnam War, slavery, the 2000 Presidential election, the Iraq War,Terrorist attacks on 9/11.
2007-06-21 15:18:28 · answer #4 · answered by Global warming ain't cool 6 · 4⤊ 2⤋
I wouldn't change anything. But, I would go to California in about 1845 and clean up the gold fields before the 49ers showed up.
2007-06-21 15:49:54 · answer #5 · answered by Overt Operative 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Making sure Bush didn't get elected during the year 2000 election. Things would have been a great deal different now. Good enough, yes?
2007-06-21 15:40:11 · answer #6 · answered by FILO 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To be honest and I'm not trying to be mean but I feel this had a lot to do with the attitudes of the young people and degradation of America....I would remove Clinton's Administration and place someone there conservative in it's place.
2007-06-21 16:54:42 · answer #7 · answered by egg_sammash 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'd change Fed policy in the 1920s and 1930s - - - not inflate so much in the 1920s and not shrink the money supply in the 1930s.
That would spare us the whole New Deal disaster.
2007-06-21 15:14:54 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 1⤋
Everything after the beginning of the attacks on the American Indian and Mexico!
2007-06-21 15:19:17 · answer #9 · answered by cantcu 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
I would of made sure Eve never ate that damn apple. Oh crud you said American History.
2007-06-21 15:16:57 · answer #10 · answered by fire_side_2003 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋