[dfwgator]

Kennedy had more “conservative values” than Nixon, who never saw a welfare program he didn’t like. He gave us affirmative action, the EPA. He took the gold standard and based it on credit. He cut and ran from Vietnam. He also called for universal health insurance.

And don't forget Wage and Price Controls.

[ansel12]

You two are confusing a pre-JFK world and America, and Nixon, with the post JFK/LBJ, 1960s, Vietnam war, burning cities, and radicalism and chaos that Nixon governed in and that influenced his politics.

Electing Eisenhower’s veep in 1960 would have meant that America survived and that the 1960s and the resulting legislation mostly never happened, and probably would have led to a Reagan presidency in 1968.