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Nice idea about Eisenhower being Oswald's target in '63, but it doesn't pass muster. Even if nobody can agree on why Kennedy was shot, at least there is agreement that Kennedy was a specific target, not "The President". Eisenhower's administration was totally different to Kennedy's - it's hard to think of a circumstance under which a Kennedy assassination would occur to him, or at least attempted, instead. Also, I doubt Adlai Stevenson would get the nomination three times. Maybe, perhaps, possibly, if his opponent wasn't Eisenhower. But in the real 1960 he didn't get nominated either, and he wasn't even going to be up against Ike. By 1960, Stevenson's time had come and gone - that's why Kennedy won. Cprhodesact 01:45, 5 October 2008 (UTC)



Well, Cpr, it looks like the author of this timeline took your words to heart. What do you think of how he finally got it written -- ending up with Jeb Bush over Barak Obama in a totally conservative America? He completely skips including Kennedy and Johnson, though. Presumedly, Nixon would have taken a different approach -- and probably would not have been a target in Texas. I figure he ends up leaving the Kennedy-Johnson years entact, therefore not including them in his alternate timeline. I suppose we could place a line or two in his final product to state that such things went about the same. Nixon, it seems, would not have been a factor after that. Personally I think a twenty-year long presidency of Reagan would probably have gone just about the way he laid it out. :-) SouthWriter 17:51, January 25, 2010 (UTC)
LOL, this time line is riduculously funny and not even remotely feasible. Hell of an imagination, my friend. -Izzo
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