How Would Adlai Stevenson Have Been Different?

Marius Mazzini

How different would Adlai Stevenson been as President if he'd been elected instead of Dwight Eisenhower?

I think in foreign policy, Stevenson would have been less aggressive than Eisenhower and would not have supported the coup against Mossadegh in Iran or the one in Guatemala. In domestic policy, I see Stevenson following pretty much the same economic policy and probably the same civil rights policy too-he didn't seem to have any trouble winning the Southern states in both of his elections unlike Truman, Kennedy, or Johnson.
 
Plumber

Plumber

I don't think he would treat Brown so poorly as Eisenhower. I see him as more of a JFK on the issue than a Truman or Johnson (still better than Eisenhower, but not amazing). I think the most significant variation will be that South Vietnam might not be created; if so, Uncle Ho probably ends up the Asian Tito. That was Truman's plan, but Stevenson was more hawkish, so there could still be disaster on that front.

There's also the possibility that no Chief Justice Earl Warren leads to there being no Brown at all...
 
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