AHC:President George Meany

With no POD from before 1945 get George Meany to become President of the USA either via election or Presidential succession
 
Very unlikely. The Democrats knew they needed the support of organized labor, but they also knew that to be *too* closely associated with unions, by nominating a union leader for president, would be bad politics in much of the country. Not to mention that the blunt, cigar-smoking Meany was hardly the ideal candidate for a media-conscious age. And after Al Smith, the Democrats figured that they did not want to nominate any Irish-American who fit the traditional stereotype of Irish-Americans the way Meany, like Smith, did. Rather, go for the smooth, Harvard-educated Kennedys.

Besides which, Meany AFAIK never showed any interest in any non-union office.
 
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