War has played a key role in the history of the United States, from the nation's founding right down to the present.

Wars made the United States independent, kept it together, increased its size, and established it as a global superpower.

Hi, I'm James Early, host of the Key Battles of American History podcast.

In each episode I discuss American history through the lens of the most important battles of America's Wars.

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The history of North America podcast is a sweeping historical saga of the United States, Canada, and Mexico, from their deep origins to our present epoch.

Join me, Mark Vinet, on this exciting, fascinating epic journey through time,

focusing on the compelling, wonderful, and tragic stories of North America's inhabitants, heroes, villains, leaders, environment, and geography.

I invite you to come along for the ride.

Welcome to the History Unplugged Podcast.

The unscripted show that celebrates unsung heroes, myth busts historical lies, and rediscoveres the forgotten stories that changed our world.

I'm your host, Scott Rank.

Hey, everybody. Welcome to this broadcast from History on the Net. My name is Scott Rank.

And I answer your questions about history. Anything you can think of, you can send to me, and I will answer it for you.

So the question that I have today is about JFK.

This question for today's episode comes from Brandon. Here's what he says.

This is Brandon Wall, and I'm wondering what would have happened if Nixon beat JFK in the presidential election?

How would the world be looking like these days? For instance, how do you think he would have handled the Russians trying to give Cuba a nuke?

Okay, Brandon, thank you. That's a great question.

And before I jump into the particulars, I want to say something in general.

A lot of times when we think about people in the past, we imagine that what we think about them today is how people back then thought of them.

But what I mean by that is there's a really romantic idea of JFK now. We think of his

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