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You could take it to the bank (IMO) that he would be a TR protégé of the first order.
Or a competitor -- I can see both of their egos being too big for the party.
You could take it to the bank (IMO) that he would be a TR protégé of the first order.
Going to argue that: TR was about 16 years older, and easily in a position to be a mentor. Further, it seems unlikely that when Churchill would have been rising to prominence, TR would have been alive. I could see a TR administration wherein he was the GOP nominee in 1912 / taking office in 1913 that had Churchill as the Secretary of the Navy. That would be a springboard for higher offices in the 1930s (or even the late 1920s).Or a competitor -- I can see both of their egos being too big for the party.
I enormously enjoyed this post - a sensible well researched argument in favour of someone who was obviously a strong candidate if he reached the Oval Office, whether by means of election or the Vice Presidency to be a good (in the sense competent and effective) President.OK, as I did back on Jan. 24, let me go into more detail re one of my picks, Alfred E Smith:
One problem: Franklin was 81 when the Constitutional Convention was in session. My guess is that he would have declined outright based on his age and health (as I understand it, gout can be an unholy terror, for openers). If by some machinations the American Revolution happened 25 years earlier, well, that would be a different story.
I... am utterly flabbergasted.
I just read through all 132 posts, and not once did I see the man that the Founding Fathers themselves considered the most qualified man to be president, had he not been in poor health.
Therefore, I humbly submit for consideration the great thinker, inventor, statesman, diplomat, political theorist, scientist, postmaster, founder, civic father, governor, delegate, fellow of the Royal Society, holder of honorary doctorates from both Oxford and Cambridge, chess grandmaster, wine connoisseur, lecher, and above all else, printer... Dr. Benjamin Franklin.