I was thinking along the same lines but even before 64. I’d like to have seen Nixon win in 1960, hopefully keeping us out of Vietnam, and then the radicalization we saw in the 60’s and early 70’s might not have been so great.
This is what has really destroyed this country, the radical break from traditional values and work ethics largely attributable to the 1960’s. I honestly don’t know if we’ll ever recover.
Without the Vietnam war to rally around though the radicalization may not have gained as much traction as it did. Who knows though. We’re stuck in this reality I guess.
“Without the Vietnam war to rally around though the radicalization may not have gained as much traction as it did. Who knows though.”
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I think it would have happened anyway,just as it did in the 1920s-——and as it is changing now.
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We were already in Vietnam as early as 1956. Advisors, 16,000 by 1960. My dad’s Pentagon office partner went in 1961 and my father a year later.
Eisenhower committed us to preventing the sequential Communist conquest of Southeast Asia in his Domino speech of 1954. Nixon would have honored our SEATO agreement.