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Andrew Johnson found that out.

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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777

Yeah, he switched parties for national unity and all that, but he was elected on the Lincoln ticket.

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Democrats attacking democrats over morality, crimes in office and national security.

The republicans back then were even more principled than now. Principled to the point of near insanity but principled nonetheless.
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777

The South was the backbone of the Democratic party back then. You can't see a womanizing northeastern liberal like President Kennedy splitting the party? Especially if you throw in aggressive civil rights action from AG RFK?

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If ever there was an opportunity there it was.
Berlin Wall another really ripe spot.
Then there was the Cuban Missile crisis.

After the Missile Crisis there had to be a whole lot of people in washington that didn't want to wake up as ash.
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777

Just ordered Return Engagement and Drive to the East, having finished today my (first) watch of the Yamamoto Youko television series.

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since it was so far fetched, but from "How Few Remain" onward became something close to a Turtledove fanatic. He tells an amazingly credible story of what might have happened had someone not come by three cigars wrapped in a sheet of paper.

In Vino Veritas

I missed How Few Remain and started up at American Front. I'll have to go back at some point, heh.

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like most series, some of the later ones got tired and repetitive.

In Vino Veritas

Lyndon Johnson made the point in his memoirs that the New York Times first raised the flag for overthrow of the Diem government, way back in the Eisenhower Administration. And the Times had tremendous influence at that time over all the news coverage in any medium in the US, far more than it does now.

If you had been a typical "well-informed" sophisticate in the early Sixties, you would have thought Diem was the worst thing happening in Vietnam and he needed to be gotten rid of. (Of course, after he finally was gotten rid of, the die was cast for South Vietnam because they never again had capable leadership.)

Ergo, I don't think JFK would have been impeached over this.

but I had some awareness of it. My family was pretty politically aware, though not very politically involved. This was the rural South and my Grandad was a Tom Watson kind of guy and my Dad wasn't far from him. JFK was practically a cussword. That said, I can remember a general characterization of Diem as a bad guy and his assassination being thought a good thing. In the days of one or two channels, one or two radio stations, and one or two newspapers, Conventional Wisdom meant a lot more than it does today.

I agree with you but would go further; NOTHING would have resulted in the impeachment of JFK. The Camelot myth was powerful even for people who hated him.

In Vino Veritas

It's hard to overestimate the glamor of the first Presidential couple that the television camera adored. JFK was really the first President whose appeal rested primarily on his personality rather than his character.