If Roosevelt Didn't Die...

Soundgarden

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Lets say Roosevelt survived all or most of his fourth term, how do you think things would change? Would there be a cold war? Would he have the U.S. drop the atomic bomb? Would he run for a fifth term in 1948?

If I had to guess those questions, then 1)Not as soon as we did, 2)Yes he would, and 3)No, him running for a 3rd and 4th term received a degree of backlash from the Republicans since there was an unwritten rule that you can only serve two terms max.

Your thoughts?
 
FDR was a GREAT President. Yet after the court debacle of 37 he had a hard time getting things passed on the domestic front. I think the GOP would have been gunning for him hard. But I think he would have done 2 things. 1. Get France in NATO with out allowing them to go back in Vietnam. 2. He could have got National Health Insurance through also. Then comes 48 FDR does not run. Who does? Don't say Truman he would not have had the juice. Top 3 in my opinion. 1. Byrnes Yes he was from the south but he would have tried. 2. Douglas a good person to run. 3. Wallace, would FDR help him, keep him under check? Then the wild card. Would FDR get IKE to run against Dewey? I say yes and the moderate Republican party is destroyed. FDR's idea of liberals vs Conservatives comes true.
 
Roosevelt drops the bomb. The cold war is not delayed. FDR can not stop Soviet aggression. He does not run for a fifth term.If there is not a war, he does not get to run. There are very little policy differences from what Truman did.
 
The only reason I agree he wouldn't run for a fifth term is that his health might be pretty bad. If he's healthy, well the skies the limit if he wants it really.

After the war he's probably very cautious about Stalin and disagrees with Churchill regularly.
 

Soundgarden

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The only reason I agree he wouldn't run for a fifth term is that his health might be pretty bad. If he's healthy, well the skies the limit if he wants it really.

After the war he's probably very cautious about Stalin and disagrees with Churchill regularly.

He actually didn't want to run for a third and fourth term. He was just persuaded to because of the war. His health was a secondary factor. You can say he fought to the last breath just as victory was in sight.
 
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