President Wallace surely deserves his place in history for Americans alongside such greats as Washington and Lincoln.
He ensured peace and justice spread throughout the world. What a great man he was.
I cannot imagine any notion of how the world would look now without his wisdom. Of course, Stalin ensured Hitler was beaten but working with Stalin, Wallace brought about the end to the war with Japan, the end of colonism and guaranteed peace.
Roosevelt, never the man Wallace was, knew this and talk of him planning to dump Wallace I refuse to believe.
Then how come he managed to lose every state in the Union in the 1948 election (under the Progressive Party ticket, with Glen Taylor as his running mate), after he was denied his own party's nomination (the reason why is below), to the Republican ticket of Thomas Dewey and Harold Stassen (not to mention the Democratic ticket of Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson (1) and the Dixiecrat ticket of Strom Thurmond and Beauford Jester)?
Please, he deserves his place in history as the worst 20th-century American president (he's even managed to top Harding and Buchanan in many polls to this day, and the latter
let the Civil War start under his watch!!!). Of course, his becoming one of only a few presidents to lose his own party's nomination was inevitable after the revelation that he'd managed to appoint two Soviet spies (Alger Hiss and Harry Dexter White) as Secretary of State and Secretary of the Treasury and his subsequent firing of J. Edgar Hoover (not that
that was any big loss, IMO, given what came out about Hoover); the only reason he escaped impeachment was because it was near the election, and many thought it was a waste of time...
At least Ethel Rosenberg hadn't come forward yet; otherwise, he'd have been run out of Washington on a rail (and many Republicans and Democrats wanted to do that anyway) for giving A-bomb information to the Soviets...
Oh, and such greats as Washington and Lincoln? Wallace doesn't deserve to be in the same universe as them...
(1) At least Truman and Johnson managed to restore their reputations later in life (Johnson through supporting high-speed rail for Texas); hell, even Wallace, towards the end of his life, apologized for supporting the Soviet Union...