There was a recent article at Counter Currents, which argues the U.S. (and by extension the world) would be a better place if Nixon had won in 1960.

Counter-Currents:

Despite the similarities in the campaign, Nixon was a superior president when he came into office eight years later. If he had won earlier, he may have saved this country from a lot of grief. Nixon, knowing the plans for the Bay of Pigs as Vice President, would have likely committed more American military resources towards it and made it a successful operation against the Castro regime. No Castro, no Cuban missile crisis.

Kennedy felt a stronger need to prove he was tough on foreign policy and got us more enmeshed into Vietnam as a result. His advisers, famously dubbed the “best and the brightest” by David Halberstam, persuaded Kennedy’s successor to get us into a full-blown war in Southeast Asia. Nixon already had impeccable anti-communist bonafides and would have been more inclined to a realist approach to Vietnam. Imagine American history with only a limited engagement in Nam.

Domestically, Nixon would’ve probably followed Eisenhower’s reluctance to fully champion civil rights and would’ve steered clear of the comprehensive legislation backed by JFK and LBJ. Nixon also didn’t write a book called A Nation of Immigrants and wouldn’t have revolutionized American immigration policy. LBJ, in an attempt to honor Kennedy’s legacy, did so through the Immigration Act of 1965.

Under Nixon, we may have not seen the civil rights revolution enshrined by the federal government, our nation swamped by mass immigration, and we would have likely not wasted blood and treasure in Vietnam. In all likelihood, America would be a better country today if Nixon had won. [Cont...]