FDR's health in 1944

If Lomazow and Fettman are right, Republican Thomas E. Dewey or a different Democrat should have been elected president in 1944. In that case, Harry S. Truman, FDR's vice president, would almost certainly not have been commander-in-chief from 1945 to 1952. The Cold War and subsequent American history might have taken a very different path.

Er, it's long been accepted that FDR was dying when he ran for his forth presidential election. It's just that everbody has believed it was his cadiovascular system that was kaput, not the theory proposed in this article that a melanoma cancer had spread to his brain.

Though it is amazing to consider that FDR's health was the great elephant in room, and that the Democratic Party leadership and the cabinet quietly knew he wouldn't last another term.
 
During the 1944 election, the Dewey campaign knew that FDR was dying, but Dewey refused time and again to bring it up and use it. It divided his inner campaign team down the middle.
 
That's why, thankfully (huge understatement) Hannegan managed to get Wallace replaced with Truman. Also, wasn't FDR planning to resign after the war? Another option would be asking the Dem electors to vote for Truman in January '45.
 
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