There are those obsessed with the idea of Woodrow Wilson as president. How that would be possible in the real world, I cannot begin to imagine. Let's put it this way: if Theodore Roosevelt convince the American electorate in 1908 that Elihu Root would be a worthy successor (the problem, as we all know, was not Root's competency--his ability as an executive/lawyer/administrator was well established--but his Wall Street connections), he could make a case for his return to the White House with little or no trouble, as we all know he did in 1912, handily defeating Wilson.
The points of departure for a Wilson victory are always based on some sort of Republican schism, and we all know little could be farther from the truth given the unifying efforts of Roosevelt, Root, Lodge, Hughes, and Hadley. But there are those who would ignore that and have a crypto-Southern university professor in the Oval Office...and nearly always they have the relatively minor Austro-Serbian crisis of June/July 1914 degenerate into a full-scale conflict. That, I suppose, has to be a consequence of an unknown / foreign affairs dilettante in the White House as opposed to TR.
Oh, well...you can always read those for laughs.
The points of departure for a Wilson victory are always based on some sort of Republican schism, and we all know little could be farther from the truth given the unifying efforts of Roosevelt, Root, Lodge, Hughes, and Hadley. But there are those who would ignore that and have a crypto-Southern university professor in the Oval Office...and nearly always they have the relatively minor Austro-Serbian crisis of June/July 1914 degenerate into a full-scale conflict. That, I suppose, has to be a consequence of an unknown / foreign affairs dilettante in the White House as opposed to TR.
Oh, well...you can always read those for laughs.
