No Truman

Disliked by his contemporaries yet valued by historians, Truman is now believed to be one of the best Presidents the USA has had. He presided over or was directly responsible for many first steps of the Cold War, such as the Marshall Plan, the creation of NATO, the Korean War, and the Berlin Airlift.

WI Truman just didn't exist? What would US policy look like and how would the first few years of the Cold War play out?
 
Hmm. While then, we need a VP. FDR is still going to ditch Wallace but no Truman leaves him a little stuck for '44.

The two options are James F. Byrnes & Henry F. Schricker. IOTL Schricker turned FDR down, and Byrnes was viewed as too conservative and therefore Truman was offered the spot.

ITTL there is no Truman (which has other butterflies—it might be best for him to suffer a fatal heart attack in 1943 or so) and so Schricker, Byrnes, or an unconsidered IOTL third option will have to do.

Byrnes sets the Democratic Party on a more conservative path, Schricker is a moderate from what I know.
 
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