22 November 2020

A Dark Day

Today, 57 years ago, Lindon Baines Johnson was sworn into office as President.

The reason the office was open remains completely unexamined.  A mystery that not a single person in history has bothered to look into.

Someone on the internet probably knows why Mr Kennedy was no longer bothering to punch in.

But who else would bother with such an obscure political fact?

Posted by Angus McThag at 17:33
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  1. Technomad22 November, 2020 21:38

    I personally don't believe in wide-spread plots to get rid of JFK. He wasn't all THAT super-popular, and if he'd lived, Goldwater might have given him a real rough going-over in 1964. If he won in '64, he'd almost certainly have been out (and as popular as LBJ was in our timeline) by 1968. "Hey, Hey, JFK, how many kids did you kill today?" Contrary to his hagiographers, I don't think he had any intention of tucking-tail-and-running in Vietnam.

    That said...LBJ might have talked him into coming to Dallas hoping that one of the local crazies would shoot him. It's not widely remembered, but LBJ was in serious trouble over his dealings with a guy named Bobby Baker at the time of the Apotheosis of St. John Kennedy. Once JFK was gone, though, LBJ was POTUS and all but untouchable. Particularly because, as a Democrat, he had 95% or more of the press corps automatically cutting him slack.

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    1. Angus McThag22 November, 2020 23:48

      He died?!?

      Geebus! You'd think someone would have made a documentary or something about it.

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  2. JayNola23 November, 2020 07:21

    Up....
    And to the left...

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