Nixon and Dulles wanted to Nuke North Vietnam.

[Kid Berwyn]

5. A complicated human, Goldwater.

With his support in the Senate, and had Nixon won the presidency in 1960, the war in Vietnam would likely have taken a very different course.

One important example is Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. -- the former US Senator from Massachusetts whom JFK defeated for that office in 1952 -- would become Nixon's Vice President in 1961.

Interestingly, JFK selected Lodge as his "Ambassador at Large" to South Vietnam. From there, he counseled the removal of South Vietnamese President Diem in a coup ostensibly led by the SV military. How much that reflected the views of JFK and/or Nixon remains open to discussion.