Alternate Kennedys by Mike Resnick
Author:Mike Resnick [Resnick, Mike]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780812519556
Amazon: 0812519558
Goodreads: 1130354
Published: 2021-06-15T07:51:48+00:00
President-Elect
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âItâs partly your own fault, you know. If you had distanced yourself from Lyndonâs position on the war a little sooner, Bobby wouldnât have had an issue to run on.
Youâd be ahead in the primariesâhell, he probably wouldnât have run at all. Then Sirhan couldnât have taken a shot at him and we wouldnât be in this mess.â
He placed one hand on the small stack of blue folders.
âAnyway, hereâs what it comes down to. Against a Kennedy-Nixon Republican ticketâcan you believe it?â
you lose, sixty-five to thirty-five percent, plus or minus three, no matter who you choose as VP. Weâve got only one chanceâjust on the low side of even, according to the numbers. But it means someone else heading the ticket, with you as VP. If you want it.â
OâBrien pushed one folder toward Humphrey. Humphrey opened his mouth as if to argue, but spoke only one word.
âWho?â
OâBrien smiledâa rare event, these days.
âKennedy.â
âBut Bobbyâs ⦠â
âNot Bobby. Teddy.â
It is a fact that the organs of democracy are rarely democratic within themselves. The power brokers of the Democratic and Republican parties quietly lined up the support necessary to nominate their candidates without incident at their respective conventions. And in general without the elected delegates realizing how they were being manipulated.
In Chicago, Mayor Richard Daley and Connecticut Senator Abraham Ribicoff struck a deal to maintain order at the Democratic National Convention. Daley ordered his police force to extend every courtesy to the media and to avoid confrontations with demonstrators.
On the first night of the convention, network news viewers were treated to the sight of a mixed quartet of
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