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The 1960 Rat ticket lost too. It’s just that Richard J. Daley “fixed” things.

ABSOLUTELY right! And you have hit on a favorite topic of mine, which is how American history might have taken a drastically different turn had the LEGITIMATE winning political ticket of Richard Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge contested the results, demanded a recount, and taken office.

First of all, there would have been consistency and continuity from the Eisenhower to the Nixon Administration, and we would very well have NOT had the Soviets via their proxy Castro playing missile games in Cuba. Why?

Khrushchev had already taken the measure of Nixon during their famous 'kitchen debate', and he had witnessed Nixon facing a possible sudden death by protesting mobs in South America, and he knew that Nixon was not somebody to screw around with. But Kennedy? He was an unproven and uncertain new Chief Executive and Khrushchev believed he could get away with pushing JFK around and except for an enormous series of lucky breaks on the part of JFK, we might very well have ended up in a nuclear war with the Soviets due to Moscow's political miscalculations, combined with JFK's inexperience.