Timeline Part Six (1963: No Dallas)

January 20, 1969  Richard Nixon is sworn in as the 36th President of the United States. A formal tea is held before the Inauguration by President and Mrs. Kennedy for the President-elect and Pat Nixon and their children. Julie Nixon Eisenhower (with husband David) and Tricia Nixon play with the Kennedy children. Nixon and Kennedy hold a private meeting and later biographers say that the two former rivals engage in a friendly, magnanimous discussion. Some elements of national security are given to Nixon by JFK.

January 21, 1969 John F. Kennedy and his family return to Hyannisport to the Kennedy Compound for several weeks. Plans (in development since late 1967) are for a new mansion to be built on an adjoining beach-front lot for the President, Jackie, and the three children.

February 1, 1969 Due to chaos effects, the massive Union Oil off-shore oil spill occurs days later than OTL. Some 100,000 barrels of oil are spilled; it closes the Santa Barbara harbor a week later. The spill increases awareness of the "ecology movement" and the formation of the first "Earth Day".