In 1893, President Grover Cleveland tragically died while under going surgery for throat cancer. The operation was a botched affair, carried out in secret on a boat in the middle of the night. Vice-President Adlai Stevenson, who succeeded Cleveland upon his death, was not told until after the President had passed away. One of the doctors later wrote that had the team been more careful in carrying out the surgery, Cleveland might have lived and survived his cancer. What if he did?