What if different US leader besides LBJ was POTUS during May 1967 Mideast Crisis, potential June 6-D
Nov 21, 2023 15:52:37 GMT
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Post by raharris1973 on Nov 21, 2023 15:52:37 GMT
What if a different US leader besides LBJ was POTUS during the May 1967 Mideast Crisis, the potential June 6-Day War & that general era from 1965?
How would the presence of different politician than the overall quite pro-Israel Lyndon Johnson, in the West Wing and in the resolute desk, shape American handling of the possible 6-Day War and its aftermath, or the various crises beforehand leading up to it, regarding the Straits of Tiran, removal UN peacekeepers, Israeli-Syrian frontier escalation, the emergence of the PLO and Fatah and cross-border Fedayeen attacks, and clandestine but suspected developments within the Israeli nuclear program, all of which may affect whether an Arab-Israeli war happens at all, or who is involved?
Here are some potential alternate leaders to Johnson to consider:
a) A surviving JFK
b) A Nixon elected in 1960 and reelected in 1964
c) A JFK, assassinated as in OTL, but who had been elected in 60 with another Veep on the ticket, reelected in 1964 - Senator Stuart Symington of Missouri
d) Similar set up of an LBJ's slot with JFK taken - but by Senator Albert Gore Sr. of Tennessee - this scenario was developed 25 years ago on SHWI by poster President Chester A. Arthur, who is still a member here under a different name, and abbreviated as PAGS (President Al Gore Senior)
e) Similar, but Senator Henry 'Scoop' Jackson of Washington State is the LBJ substitute and POTUS after JFK's assassination
f) Nixon as a comeback kid, elected in 1964, after JFK has to make a public trade of missiles in Turkey for Cuba, that makes the electorate think he is weak.
g) Barry Goldwater somehow elected against a surviving Kennedy.
h) A non-divorced Rockefeller somehow winning against a surviving Kennedy
g) Henry Cabot Lodge jr. as POTUS, having succeeded Nixon (elected in 1960) after Nixon's 1963 assassination
LBJ's Israel policy - did not actually intervene in the 1967 crisis. His prior pro-Israel moves however were, 1st face to face summit with an Israeli PM, Levi Eshkol, in 1964 or 1965. And first approval of a sale of US offensive systems, fighter aircraft, and I think tanks, in 1966 or 1967. Ordered, but not delivered to Israel, by the time of the June 1967 fighting.
How would the presence of different politician than the overall quite pro-Israel Lyndon Johnson, in the West Wing and in the resolute desk, shape American handling of the possible 6-Day War and its aftermath, or the various crises beforehand leading up to it, regarding the Straits of Tiran, removal UN peacekeepers, Israeli-Syrian frontier escalation, the emergence of the PLO and Fatah and cross-border Fedayeen attacks, and clandestine but suspected developments within the Israeli nuclear program, all of which may affect whether an Arab-Israeli war happens at all, or who is involved?
Here are some potential alternate leaders to Johnson to consider:
a) A surviving JFK
b) A Nixon elected in 1960 and reelected in 1964
c) A JFK, assassinated as in OTL, but who had been elected in 60 with another Veep on the ticket, reelected in 1964 - Senator Stuart Symington of Missouri
d) Similar set up of an LBJ's slot with JFK taken - but by Senator Albert Gore Sr. of Tennessee - this scenario was developed 25 years ago on SHWI by poster President Chester A. Arthur, who is still a member here under a different name, and abbreviated as PAGS (President Al Gore Senior)
e) Similar, but Senator Henry 'Scoop' Jackson of Washington State is the LBJ substitute and POTUS after JFK's assassination
f) Nixon as a comeback kid, elected in 1964, after JFK has to make a public trade of missiles in Turkey for Cuba, that makes the electorate think he is weak.
g) Barry Goldwater somehow elected against a surviving Kennedy.
h) A non-divorced Rockefeller somehow winning against a surviving Kennedy
g) Henry Cabot Lodge jr. as POTUS, having succeeded Nixon (elected in 1960) after Nixon's 1963 assassination
LBJ's Israel policy - did not actually intervene in the 1967 crisis. His prior pro-Israel moves however were, 1st face to face summit with an Israeli PM, Levi Eshkol, in 1964 or 1965. And first approval of a sale of US offensive systems, fighter aircraft, and I think tanks, in 1966 or 1967. Ordered, but not delivered to Israel, by the time of the June 1967 fighting.
