Precisely. Had JFK lived the country would have eventually been presented with the corrupt, philandering, unintelligent, pampered Kennedy scumbag that JFK was. Instead we got a dead martyr and LBJ used it to push through the great society.
Recall that Congress was pressured to pass Obamacare in Ted Kennedy's "honor".
The deed was accomplished with a Democrat Senate majority that was realized by stealing a seat for Al Franken and "selecting not electing" Dead Red Ted Kennedy's replacement. The massholes screwed with the law again to do that (they'd changed the law already when it looked like John Kerry "might" become president so they didn't want Romney(R) to appoint his successor).