If Kennedy hadn’t been kilt, we would of had Johnson from 1969-76, then Humphrey from 1977-1984, then who knows who, but at least we wouldn’ta have no Bushes!
“Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy...”
From “A Boy And His Dog” by Harlen Ellison, starring Don Johnson.
No we wouldn't have, it would have been 8 years of Nixon, followed by California Governor, Ronald Reagan in 1968.
Vietnam, the 1960s shift, the 1965 Immigration Act, the domination by Ted Kennedy and the Kennedy family, none of that would have happened.
LBJ died in early 1973, and had he been President after 1969, the stress of the job would’ve killed him before that. He was only 59 when he announced he wouldn’t run in 1968 and he already looked like an old man. Reagan was only 2 1/2 years younger than LBJ when he attempted to run for President in ‘68 (just 57) and was pretty energetic and fresh-faced by comparison.
Humphrey, too, died in early 1978 (while serving in the Senate) and also wouldn’t have survived the stress of the Presidency.