David Brin wrote: > > February '77 National Lampoon --"Grand Fifth Term > Inaugural Issue: JFK's First 6,000 Days" which > featured a silver-haired JFK on the cover. The whole > issue was a big "what if..." about how things might > have turned out had the assassin's bullet missed JFK > and hit Jackie instead. A very good issue--neatly > deflates the Kennedy myth: US steers clear of Vietnam, > but ends up in Northern Ireland instead. > In Heinlein's "The Number of the Beast", the succession of USA presidents in "Timeline 2" is Woodrow Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy, ..., Neemiah Scudder Interregnum.
I guess that he gave two 4-year mandates to each of the three brothers (is it legal to have a brother succeed another one in the USA?), which would make Ted Kennedy to leave office in 1984 - or earlier, in the case of impeachment. Or maybe each Kennedy above is a different family member, which would place Kennedy VI being elected in... hmmm... 1960 + 5 x 8... 2000 (!). It's a pity that he abandoned this idea in later books, because in "To Sail Beyond the Sunset" the presidents are Roosevelt, Alvin Barkley (who?), and Patton (who dies in 1961). Alberto Monteiro _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
