Roosevelt talks Wilson into running as his running mate as a united Democratic Progressive front agreeing to compromise between the New Nationalism and New Freedom Movements.
Freethinker, are you trying to provoke those men into coming back to haunt you?
They absolutely hated each other. No way would you ever have got them on the same ticket.
And in particular, what is in it for Wilson? Once nominated, he is a dead cert to become President just so long as he's still breathing on March 4. So why settle for being anybody's veep? Even if he could swallow running with Roosevelt at all, in the conditions of 1912 the ticket would have to be the other way round.
And if Wilson is willing to be VP (in your dreams) why not with Bryan or Champ Clark? He was closer to them politically than to TR, and it would have been much easier to arrange.
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