earl warren

As it says in the title; who would be likely nominees for the Supreme Court in the case where Hubert Humphrey defeated Richard Nixon in 1968? Right off the bat he would be naming Earl Warren’s successor as Chief Justice; either elevating a sitting Justice, or nominating a new Chief Justice...

1948 was seen as the year that the GOP would finally reclaim the White House after sixteen years of Democratic domination. Not only was Truman seen as a weak incumbent, but it was also assumed that Wallace and Thurmond would further hurt him with their third-party campaigns. However, the...

What if Senator Kefauver beat then-Vice President Warren in the 1956 Presidential Election? Will the Democrats move to dismantle the Dewey-era defense spending? What effect would the Kefauver administration have on the Civil Rights Act? For that matter, how would this change the political...

Prologue: . A Decade of War and Peace The 40s, the decade of World War II, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the rise of an unexpected contender. But before we learn about all of this we must first learn the beginnings of this all, the United States Presidential Election of 1940. The parties...