survived the attempt his life in dallas? and what ever happened to counter culture in the cold war with civil rights, would kennedy have survived the terror in dallas? it's hard wondering how history might have been different. jeff green is a brilliant author and wrote the new book "if kennedy lived," and he's a great political analyst. what you wrote is based on what happened before kennedy was killed, you extrapolate it. i don't want to belittle it, but less than 200 americans had been killed in vietnam by the time he was killed. and where do you think he would have taken that? would he have blown it up to 500,000 american soldiers over there, a war that had gone right through the late '60s? >> no. i mean, i think the probabilities are no. nobody could say this with certainty, of course, but everything we know about him is that the hawkish john kennedy of the 1960 campaign, the guy who wanted to take out castro, to take the offense against the soviets, had gone through a kind of an akneeling process at the