Board Thread:New on Alternative History/@comment-216.11.36.8-20131029144151

SENATOR ROBERT F KENNEDY HAD MADE HIS VICTORY SPEECH AT AMBASSADOR HOTEL. THEN FOLLOWED SECURITY THROUGH THE DESIGNATED AREA TO HIS PRESS CONFERENCE. LATER, HE WENT TO A PARTY CELEBRATION. THE NEXT MORNING, HE FLEW TO HYANNISPORT TO SEE HIS PARENTS, HOLD MEETINGS WITH CAMPAIGN AIDES

ON HOW TO USE THE MOMENTUM OF THE CALIFORNIA VICTORY TO SECURE THE NOMINATION FROM HUMPHREY. ALSO, HE DISCUSSED THE SELECTION OF A RUNNINGMATE FOR VICEPRESIDENT, SEN,J,WILLIAM FULBRIGHT OF ARKANSAS WAS HIS TOP CHOICE. HISSECOND CHOICE WAS SEN. ERNEST HOLLINGS OF SOUTH CAROLINA. KENNEDY ALSO HAD TO MEET WITH SEN.MCCARTHY TO BRIDGE GAP IN PARTY. cHICAGO MAYOR RICHARD DALEY WAS NOW ENDORSING KENNEDY AND WOULD PERSUADE OTHER BIG CITY BOSSES TO DO THE SAME..KENNEDY WOULD SECURE NOMINATION BY WINNING MANY UNCOMMITTED DELEGATES BEFORE AND AT CONVENTION. HE DID SELECT FULLBRIGHT AS HIS RUNNINGMATE. REPUBLICAN NOMINEE RICHARD NIXON CHALLENGED RFK TO DEBATES. RFK OUTSHINED HIM ON THE ISSUES. RFK PROMISED TO END WAR IF ELECTED AS NIXON PROCLAIMED, BUT RFK DIDNT WANT TO HINDER THE PARIS PEACE TALKS. pRESIDENT JOHNSON WAS TRYING TO SHAPE HIS LEGACY HOPING TO END THE WAR BEFORE LEAVING OFFICE. A WEEK BEFORE THE ELECTION, LBJ ORDERS BOMBLING HALT NIXON TRIES TO SABATOGE TALKS. SCANDAL ERRUPTS. RFK WINS LANDSLIDE. NIXON AND AIDES ARRESTED. SENATE COMMITEE BEGINS IN SPRING,1969. NIXON/AIDES SENT TO PRISON. DEMOCRATS WIN HUGE GAINS IN CONGRESS. RFK GETS AGENDA THRIUGH CONGRESS IN FIRST SESSION. FISRT US PRESIDENT TO WIN PASSAGE OF HEALTH CARE IN 1969. RED CHINA ADMITTED TO UN IN 1970, RFK VISITS SOVIET UNION AND CHINA DURING FIRST TERM. ENDS WAR IN VIETNAM AND US LANDS ON MOON IN JULY 1969. SIGNS TAX CUT INTO LAW IN 1969, WHICH CONTINUES TO STIMULATE ECONOMIC GROWTH DURING HIS PRESIDENCY. wINS NOBEL PRIZE IN 1969. NOMINATES AMBASSADOR PAT HARRIS AS FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN FEMALE TO HIGH COURT IN 1972. AFTER 16 YRS ON HIGH COURT, CHIEF JUSTICE WARREN RESIGNED, AND RFK NAMED EX SUPREME COURT JUSTICE ART GOLDBERG AS CHIEF JUSTICE IN 1969 KENENDY WAS ABLE TO FURTHER LIBERALIZE THE COURT AND ADD MORE JUSTICESDURING HIS TWO TERMS.BY 1970, REPUBLICANS WITH HELP OF FBI DIRECTOR HOOVER RUMORED OF RFK SKELETONS WHICH KEPT RESURFACING, BUT NO REAL PROOF AROSE DUE TO RFKS COOPERATING WITH HOOVER ON KEEPING HIM ON AS DIRECTOR. HOOVER DIES IN 1972, AND ALL RECORDS ARE DESTROYED. RFK NAMES EX ATTY GEN. ROBERT KATZENBACH AS HEAD OF FBI. RFK WINS REELCTION IN 1972 OVER CALIFORNIA GOV. RONALD REAGAN. NEW FEDERAL CABINET DEPT CREATED(ENERGY).PROHIBITED FROM RUNNING FOR 3RD TERM IN 1976, HE ENDORSES YOUNGER BROTHER, SEN,TED KENNEDY FOR DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION. VICEPRES, FULLBRIGHT WAS NOW TTO OLD AT 74. EMK WINS NOMINATION. SELECTS SEN,JOHN GLEEN JR, OF OHIO AS VP. WINS ELECTION. RFK LEAVES WHITE HOUSE IN 1977.  