President MacArthur.

apologies if this has been done before.
WI: Eisenhower doesn't run in 52 (not killed in action, of course, but maybe wounded in that accidental strafing at the military base... details foggy... anyway, he's not up for it).
Supporters of Taft were supporting MacArthur for VP. Assuming Taft could beat Stevenson (I think he could), we know that Taft died in 1953. Cancer. That's unlikely to be butterflied away. That makes Gen. MacArthur 36th President. What would it look like?

And no fair just responding `WW3'. I'm looking for details. :)
 

Nietzsche

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We're fucked! The earth is reduced to varying levels of "blackened wasteland" by about day 7 of the presidency.
 
i doubt that Mac would take VP, doesn't sound like him

Probably not - just read that somewhere. So winning on his own accord. Let's assume he doesn't use nukes in Korea.
How would his approach to containing communism be different? Assuming we'd still have the overthrow of the Shah, Arbenz, etc... But how would the situation with the Soviets and Cuba be different?
 
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