A slightly different Henry Wallace.

Id like to explore a slightly different Henry Wallace, If Henry Wallace kept all his Progressive domestic views but extremlly distrustfull of Soviet Communism (much like Bevin in the UK), could he have kept the VP posistion and become President?.

Correct me if i am wrong, but in his later life did he not turn into an Arch-Anti-Communist and support Nixon?.
 
I think his progressive views were what dropped him from the ticket, i.e. civil rights, not his foreign policy, which was not that different from FDR.

If you do have him continue as veep, and them become president, but with a tougher foreign policy, he is basically Truman. As far as his more liberal domestic agenda, he wouldn't have been able to pass anything into law. (Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley act was overridden, congress was no longer the New Deal but was dominated by Republicans and conservative southern Democrats).
 
Wallace was to the left of Truman on many domestic issues. Truman desegregated the military. Wallace would have gone further (though he would have faced stiff resistance). In addition, Truman not only distrusted the Soviets, he trusted the Nationalist Chinese, British (including Churchill) and French. Wallace didn't.
I can't see Wallace getting the USA into NATO.
 
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