Malzberg, Barry N. "January 1975"
Divergence: 1960 CE
What if: Nixon was elected president in 1960.
Summary: A writer in that timeline tries to convince his editor to accept a series of stories based on the premise that Kennedy was elected.
Published: In Analog, January 1975; Down Here in the Dream Quarter, Doubleday 1976 (0385122683); 100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Storie (eds. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg and Joseph D. Olander), Doubleday 1978 (0385130449) and Avon 1978 (0380507730); and The Passage of the Light: The Recursive Science Fiction of Barry N. Malzberg, NESFA 1994 (0915368595).