Especially with the events of the past week, it's well to remember that the Kennedy Administration had major roles in improving civil rights at home, not only acting in Southeast Asia. While in our world LBJ wasn't a great wartime leader, education and civil rights were important to him at a deep personal level. He and JFK, in our world, didn't work closely enough. But what if…
See Chapter 10 of "Ask Not What Your Country Can Do" to start looking at civil rights as well as war.