harry truman

In 1952, the incumbent Democratic Party was facing an uphill contest in that year's election. They had been in power for going on 20 years and were facing an electorate that was increasingly tired of them. While they had managed to maintain control of both chambers of Congress in 1950, by 1952...

You might have heard of the Stern gang. You know the jewish nazbols, tried to side with nazi germany but were forced to be communists instead. Essentially the reverse Bose. Well they tried to kill the fucking president at the time Harry Truman. Specifically with a mailbomb. Yes I know presidents...

Let’s say the Chinese offensive in the Korean War is a complete disaster and the US/UN coalition annihilates them and holds serve in Korea. How does the US domestic political landscape change? Truman would be a sure fire victory in 1952 as I don’t think Eisenhower would run in this scenario...

I was combing through my family records the other day, and a convoluted idea took shape. Harry Truman decides to do television instead of politics. This means he’s never chosen as FDR’s vice president, and he never becomes president at all. Considering how active he was with social justice...

In 1946 Republicans made great gains taking the house and senate under Truman. So how could fortunes reverse for the democrats where they actually gain a significant amount of seats adding to their super-majority in 1946

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...

Though Harry Truman is often regarded as a good, or even great President by many historians, he never is in contention for the greatest US president, or even the top-five greatest. Your challenge is to change that and have Truman be considered by most to be in the top-five presidents or even the...

Like it says on the tin. What could've been some major effects of the Nationalists winning the Chinese Civil war? Would the USSR focus most of its efforts in securing its empire in Europe, rather than trying to export communism to the Third World? Would we still have a Korean War? If so, Kim...

In the 1920s, a young man from Michigan named Thomas E. Dewey wanted to become a professional singer. With a deep baritone voice, he showed great promise. But after contracting a throat infection, Dewey decided against becoming a singer and instead he went to law school. This lead him down the...

In 1944, Democratic Party bosses were insistent that Vice-President Henry Wallace be dumped from the presidential ticket. But FDR stuck to his guns, and pushed through Wallace's renomination and pelated party bosses via federal patronage. But what if FDR had left the bosses to their own devices...

1948 was one of the great upsets in US political history. Just about every poll predicted that Republican Tom Dewey would be elected, yet President Truman narrowly beat him. Historians have attributed this to the Republicans running a bland, passive campaign as a result of their overconfidence...

The Korean War is often hailed as an example of a swift, decisive military intervention. After North Korea invaded South Korea, the UN launched a counteroffensive that pushed the Communists out of the South. Once the UN's mission was accomplished, President Harry Truman ordered his forces to...

In 1952, as Truman was completing his last full year in office, there was speculation that he would run for the US Senate once again. But Truman declined. Had Truman lost in 1948, and he were a former President in need of a job in 1952, might he have been more willing to run for the Senate...

In OTL, Thomas Dewey narrowly defeated Harry Truman in 1948 and appointed J. Edgar Hoover Attorney General. This was part of a secret deal Hoover had made with Dewey to feed him dirt on his opponents in exchange for the AG spot. Soon afterwards, Hoover was appointed an Associate Justice of the...

If Thomas Dewey got elected President in 1948, does he win in 1952? Is Korea still an issue? Does Dewey handle it better than Truman? Who do the Democrats nominate? Stevenson as in OTL or perhaps Kefauver?

Similar to another recent thread of mine on Truman and Korea, I'd like to ask about how Truman might have handled Vietnam. In 1950 Dewey gave extensive aid and military advisers to the French in order to help them reclaim their colonies in Indochina. This effort failed as Vietnam defeated France...

After his narrow victory over Truman in 1948, President Dewey ordered a military build up and decided to keep US troops in South Korea. In 1950 there was a war scare when North Korea threatened to invade South Korea and expel the Americans from the peninsula with help from Communist China...

Henry Wallace has been a long time favorite of alternate history writers. Well, maybe "favorite" isn't exactly the best word since nearly everyone agrees that Wallace wouldn't have been a successful President and he would certainly have been defeated in 1948. But here is a man who came so close...

Suppose that in 1948 Dewey had gone with his gut and aggressively counterattacked Truman during the fall election campaign. The President still gains ground against his opponent, but it is not enough to deprive Dewey of an electoral college majority. On January 20, 1949 Thomas E. Dewey is sworn...

In 1948, New York Governor Thomas Dewey easily defeated President Harry Truman in an electoral margin of 307 to 185, with Strom Thurmond gobbling up 39 votes in the South. New York Mayor Wendell Willkie of the Liberal Party and his running mate Henry Wallace took 7.2% of the popular vote by...