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FakeNoose

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5. It's true there was no love lost between LBJ and RFK

Reply to former9thward (Reply #4)

Sun May 23, 2021, 03:33 PM

May 2021

... but we'll never know if Johnson would have blocked Kennedy from the nomination. I like to think he wouldn't have because many of his assumptions had changed during his time as Potus. For that matter, Johnson himself declined to run for a 2nd term in 1968. The entire world went katty-wompus, as my mom used to say.

Johnson was a lot of things, but I believe he would have preferred a Dem. candidate to succeed him in the White House rather than hand it over to Nixon.

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Eleven days before his death, Robert Kennedy as if looking into the future, Astoria OR, May 24, 1968 [View all] mahatmakanejeeves May 2021 OP

Oh what could have been-for the millionth time. Boomerproud May 2021 #1

Robert Kennedy would have won that primary and that election FakeNoose May 2021 #2

Unfortunately he lost the Oregon Primary. Sneederbunk May 2021 #3

Kennedy would not have won the nomination. former9thward May 2021 #4

It's true there was no love lost between LBJ and RFK FakeNoose May 2021 #5

Humphrey could have won the election. former9thward May 2021 #7

I agree. He came out against the war and Humphrey supported it. RFK was on the right side of history jalan48 May 2021 #8

RFK died on my high school graduation day. Trueblue1968 May 2021 #6

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