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graham4anything

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1. Two disagreements- It was because of LBJ that made the reality of a President Obama, not JFK
Wed May 29, 2013, 09:15 AM
May 2013

I personally do NOT think JFK would have expended the necessary capital, especially knowing he needed
to get Bobby elected President.

I do however think 100% of what happened in Vietnam would have happened with JFK, due to the fact that
Robert McNamara was hired by JFK and after all, Vietnam was Truman, Eisenhower & JFKs war long before it
became LBJ's.

But it was LBJ that rammed through the civil rights/ voting rights and all the other social issues through.

I do think all 3 Kennedy's would indeed have approved of 100% of anything and everything Barack Obama has done
as President.
And I do think had JFK not been killed, Teddy would never had that one thing that happened have happened, so I think
Teddy would have been President at some point, and his son might have still been alive too.

However, one cannot go back, one can only go Forward.

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