[Verginius Rufus]

Thanks for an interesting post.

If it hadn't been for Mayor Daley's ballot-stuffing in Chicago and the usual Texas voter fraud at LBJ's behest, Nixon would have won in 1960. He might have been a better President then than he was later, since his mistakes in 1972 which led to his downfall grew out of his paranoia and his desire to win big in 1972 to make up for his earlier loss and his narrow victory in 1968. How well would he have handled Khrushchev, Castro, Viet Nam, and the civil rights issues, if he had been in office in the early 1960s instead of JFK?

[Eva]

I think that Nixon would have handled Vietnam far differently than JFK. If Nixon chose to escalate our involvement in Vietnam, I think that it would have been more along the lines of the Goldwater suggestion, bomb the hell out of them and get out.