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Post by James G on Mar 25, 2018 15:35:11 GMT
Vice President Richard Nixon was in Venezuela on the last leg of a South American tour in 1958. A mob in Caracas attacked his motorcade and came very close to getting to him. From the sounds of it, if they had, they would have torn him to pieces. The attack was staged by Venezuelan communists; Venezuelan troops and police disappeared. This is before Castro took power in Cuba. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Richard_Nixon%27s_motorcadeSo... what does President Eisenhower do if Nixon had been killed? He wouldn't have been alone as he was with his wife, aides, security and journalists. Does the US go to war? What would be any possible aims of any war beyond to punish Venezuela? |
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Post by lordroel on Mar 25, 2018 15:36:25 GMT
Vice President Richard Nixon was in Venezuela on the last leg of a South American tour in 1958. A mob in Caracas attacked his motorcade and came very close to getting to him. From the sounds of it, if they had, they would have torn him to pieces. The attack was staged by Venezuelan communists; Venezuelan troops and police disappeared. This is before Castro took power in Cuba. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Richard_Nixon%27s_motorcadeSo... what does President Eisenhower do if Nixon had been killed? He wouldn't have been alone as he was with his wife, aides, security and journalists. Does the US go to war? What would be any possible aims of any war beyond to punish Venezuela? With who would the United States go to war with. |
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Post by James G on Mar 25, 2018 15:39:20 GMT
Vice President Richard Nixon was in Venezuela on the last leg of a South American tour in 1958. A mob in Caracas attacked his motorcade and came very close to getting to him. From the sounds of it, if they had, they would have torn him to pieces. The attack was staged by Venezuelan communists; Venezuelan troops and police disappeared. This is before Castro took power in Cuba. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Richard_Nixon%27s_motorcadeSo... what does President Eisenhower do if Nixon had been killed? He wouldn't have been alone as he was with his wife, aides, security and journalists. Does the US go to war? What would be any possible aims of any war beyond to punish Venezuela? With who would the United States go to war with. I'm not sure. There was a mass military readiness on the part of the United States in a big mobilisation straight after the attack. My thinking was that should Nixon have been killed, the United States would react. But then, as I asked, would Eisenhower go to war over it? Venezuela would apologise and promise to punish the killers, so what more could Eisenhower do than that? |
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Post by insect on Mar 25, 2018 20:28:00 GMT
Venezuela would punish the killers. who would run in 60 if Nixon was killed?
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Post by James G on Mar 25, 2018 21:21:11 GMT
Venezuela would punish the killers. who would run in 60 if Nixon was killed? I guess it would have to be Rocky: Nelson Rockefeller. |
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Post by stevep on Mar 26, 2018 14:39:13 GMT
Venezuela would punish the killers. who would run in 60 if Nixon was killed? I guess it would have to be Rocky: Nelson Rockefeller. Next question is how he could do against Kennedy? Presuming he's still the Democratic candidate as the POD is two years earlier. It was close OTL so would Rocky do that bit better than Dicky, possibly especially in the TV debates, that would secure another Republican term? |
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Post by James G on Mar 26, 2018 16:29:19 GMT
I guess it would have to be Rocky: Nelson Rockefeller. Next question is how he could do against Kennedy? Presuming he's still the Democratic candidate as the POD is two years earlier. It was close OTL so would Rocky do that bit better than Dicky, possibly especially in the TV debates, that would secure another Republican term? Or... would Pa Kennedy and the Mob have to buy more than just Illinois and West Virginia facing Rocky? |
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Post by lordroel on Mar 27, 2018 14:08:12 GMT
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