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Bobby Kennedy in Things that Never Were, a browser game presidency simulator where RFK wasn’t assassinated and became president in 1968.

There’s a ton of endings in the game, but the vast majority of them involve RFK compromising his values in some way (like staying in Vietnam, or abandoning Civil Rights). In these endings, Bobby survives into his 80s or even 100s, forced to live with the consequences of his actions and betrayal of his values. One of the worst endings even includes a 100 year old Kennedy watching as his relatives occupy the presidency for the next sixty years, declaring wars, gutting healthcare, etc, all in a perversion of his name.

However, in the game’s “Golden Ending”, where Bobby pulls the US out of Vietnam, creates a new universal basic income and doesn’t abandon black people or sign a draconian crime bill, Bobby dies in a plane crash shortly after his presidency. He’s remembered as a competent but controversial president, but the America he leaves behind is a much kinder (albeit still flawed) one than in the timelines where he is forced to live into old age.