While running for president, announce he was brainwashed during the Korean War? (a la Michigan Gov. George Romney, 1967).
Aside from telling Jack Northrop that he could have the Bomber contract for the relatively stealthy B-49 only if he moved all the work to Texas, and merged with Convair....
Then doing everthing he could to ruin Northrop for the sin of refusing his corrupt demands.
Instead we got the "aluminium overcast" B-36 with propellors and a RCS as big as a smallish planet, and slow enough to give the world a weeks notice that they were on the way.
Well, I take it personally.