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In an alternate timeline George Washington's health is seriously deteriorating by the time of the first U.S. Presidential election. Even though the office was created specifically for him he refuses to run telling the county he wants to spend what time he has left with his family at Mount Vernon. Benjamin Franklin (who is in better health than in our time line) is tapped for the Presidency. Without any other serious competition he wins in a landslide with John Adams gaining the Vice Presidency. Lets say he lives to serve one full term as President how does this affect the early country? What sort of policies do you think we might see pushed by a Franklin administration that were not pursued by Washington? How would he have handled crisis such as the Whiskey rebellion? How would he have been viewed by other Nations?
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