Did Oswald do America a favor?

[Big Money]

Without him, JFK might have won a second term....

Discuss.

 

[NOVA]

A second term for JFK could have meant no term for an asshole like LBJ.....cripes, that means I might remained a Democrat a few years longer....lmao

 

[Big Money]

Didn't LBJ continue JFKs disastrous policies?

 

[cancel2 2022]

If Nixon had won in 1960 it is arguable that we would even be around now.

 

[Big Money]

If Nixon had won in 1960 it is arguable that we would even be around now.

How so?

 

[Airstrip One]

No Pentagon Papers means likely no Watergate. Probably no escalation in Vietnam, and a different situation in Cuba as he would have handled the Bay of Pigs differently.

 

[Big Money]

Think Nixon would have done a better job than JFK if he'd been President from 1960-68 instead of later?

Of course, if the Dems hadn't cheated in the '60 election, we'd know, wouldn't we?

 

[Airstrip One]

It all comes down to Cuba. If the Bay of Pigs still goes sour, I give JFK the edge in handling the missile crisis better. Otherwise, Nixon would have been superior in every other way. Probably no tax cuts, though...

 

[Big Money]

JFK took the world to the nuclear brink.

Why do you think Nixon wouldn't have dealt with Castro and Khrushchev more effectively?

Nixon had already faced Nikita once.

 

[Airstrip One]

Kitchen Debates were awesome.

 

[Big Money]

Do you agree that Nixon would have handled the Cuban situation better than JFK?