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Post by mcnutt on Mar 8, 2017 3:41:22 GMT
What if FDR listens to a doctor, who tells he won't live through another term as president and he does not run in 1944. Who wins the Democratic nomination? I think Roosevelt's endorsement would be very important. Who would he pick? I think the Democrat would win. He would be helped by Roosevelt's popularity and the idea of continueing the successful wartime polices. That is unless Roosevelt picks William O Douglas. I don't think a man who as a 67 year old Supreme Court Justice married a 23 year old college senior would have had good political skills. I don't see why Dewey wouldn't still be the Republican candidate.
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Post by baloo on Mar 8, 2017 14:08:14 GMT
Paul McNutt would be interesting.
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Post by lordroel on Mar 8, 2017 14:11:39 GMT
Paul McNutt would be interesting. How would hè run the United States in the war. |
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Post by mcnutt on Mar 8, 2017 15:38:09 GMT
McNutt was a New Dealer. His policies would have been much the same as Truman. The one difference I can think of is that he would have integrated the military earlier.
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Post by lordroel on Mar 8, 2017 15:57:06 GMT
McNutt was a New Dealer. His policies would have been much the same as Truman. The one difference I can think of is that he would have integrated the military earlier. Would hè have fought the war as it happend in OTL öre would hè take a different route. |
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Post by mcnutt on Mar 8, 2017 16:06:44 GMT
I don't think he would have done anything different about the war. I know he favored using the atomic bomb.
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Post by lordroel on Mar 8, 2017 16:54:59 GMT
I don't think he would have done anything different about the war. I know he favored using the atomic bomb. On Japan ore Germany. |
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Post by mcnutt on Mar 8, 2017 22:02:28 GMT
He probably would have approved of using the bomb on either one, in order to shorten the war.
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Post by lordroel on Mar 9, 2017 7:51:31 GMT
He probably would have approved of using the bomb on either one, in order to shorten the war. So he becoms the Truman of this universe. |
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Post by baloo on Mar 11, 2017 16:09:28 GMT
His Wikipedia article states that he favored the extermination of the Japanese people. Whew! If that became general knowledge, the Japanese would have been really suicidal to surrender. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_V._McNutt |
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Post by mcnutt on Mar 12, 2017 4:16:59 GMT
He used the word extermination in a speech. He said he meant the leaders of the Japanese government.
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Post by lordroel on Mar 12, 2017 9:53:32 GMT
He used the word extermination in a speech. He said he meant the leaders of the Japanese government. You mean the imperial family. |
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Post by mcnutt on Mar 13, 2017 16:34:36 GMT
He would have included Tojo and the other military leaders.
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Post by lordroel on Mar 13, 2017 16:36:00 GMT
He would have included Tojo and the other military leaders. Not the emperor. |
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