john nance garner

There is a great thread about this from about 8 years ago, but I was hoping to reignite discussion on this subject. "bguy" deconstructed much of the mythology regarding Garner being this very conservative, anti-New Deal figure, and laid out a case for Garner, though being far less pro labor than...

FDR shaped, in many ways, the modern American presidency. He put a popular face on policies backed by congress while at the same time pushing for more expansive programs, and generally played a pivotal role in steering the US out from the Depression, toward some mild military readiness and...

So in the TL "The Falcon Cannot Hear", FDR is killed by Zangara like he almost was OTL. Later, due to his policies, Garner loses in 1936 to Alf Landon and due to how Landon handles the country, it slowly crumbles into a Civil War. However, given how that TL is over nine years old at this point...

Let's say FDR does not run for a third term in 1940 and announced his retirement from politics before the convention, how would things turn out? For starters his VP, John Nance Garner would most likely win the democratic nomination. Garner had consistently polled as the top pick for the...

As we all obviously know, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a politician who was elected the 32nd president of the United States, and died in 1933, just weeks before being sworn in as president. On February 15th, 1933, as FDR had just finished giving a speech in Miami's Bayfront Park from the back...

In 1939 President Roosevelt stated would keep the Washington tradition of only serving two terms. with the Nazi occupation of France and the London bombings Roosevelt pledge to run again. This put him at odds with his first Vice President John Nance Garner whom was hoping for an endorsement...

For the sake of argument, let's say the Republic of Texas survived it's first twenty years and secured all the territory from Galveston to San Francisco. By 1940, would it be safe to say that John Nance Garner would be Texas President? Would Admiral Nimitz be the supreme Naval commander of the...

CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS? January 6th, 1933 President-Elect Calvin Coolidge passed away suddenly yesterday at 10:32 AM from coronary thrombosis, sparking a possible constitutional crisis. Following his landslide victory over incumbent President Harrison in November, Former President Coolidge has...

"In politics nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way."-F.D.R. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Seriously? You just abandoned your old TL. Yup. I wanna take another go. So what's the...

This TL is in the style of the Selma Massacre and The Sino Amercian War as its a Collab TL telling stories through news articles and quotes and documentary footage. July 3rd 1940: NEW YORK TIMES ROOSEVELT NOT RUNNING KEEPING THE STREAK OF TWO TERMS GOING Last night around living rooms across...

Hello and welcome to a brand new collaborative timeline! I'm glad to see that these kinds of timelines have picked up in popularity since I last made one. Though, to make sure that this timeline can become successful and fun for it participants, I'll need to implement some rules. The Rules 1...

What if President Franklin Delano Roosevelt would have followed the tradition of a two-term presidency and handed the reigns to his former rival and Vice President, John Nance Garner? Do you think Garner could beat Wendell Willkie in the General Election? Who do you think Garner's vice president...