Who Is The Worst President America Never Had?

Well, let's see...

Marion Gordon "Pat" Robertson. If Jim and Tammy Faye had broken up in 1980, he would have taken the Republican nomination for sure.

Robert Taft

Henry Wallace

Thomas Dewey (Would have named J. Edgar Hoover to the Supreme Court)

Bob McAdoo

Dan Quayle

Anyone running for president purely on a lark.
 
Ross Perot he said that if he stayed in the race the George Bush campaign would have sabotaged his daughter's wedding. He made this charge without offering any proof. If he won the election, he would have been the only elected official of the Reform Party. He would have needed allies. Making this charge, he showed himself to be untrustworthy.
 
He technically was President for a day (braces for possible incoming retaliation).

But what was so bad about him?

Very Pro slavery, on Othertimelines ( formerly Different Worlds) someone wrote a TL about him becoming president, Pierce dies in the train reck that kills his son,that had him offering so much assistance to the filibusters that he provokes a war with Spain.
 
David McCullough's Truman says Dewey would have named Hoover as Attorney General. Doesn't say anything about the Supreme Court.
With the Korean quagmire Dewey loses in 1952. Stevenson or some other Democrat is not going to reappoint Dewey's Attorney General. We are rid of him in 1953. He has to go private law practice.
 
With the Korean quagmire Dewey loses in 1952. Stevenson or some other Democrat is not going to reappoint Dewey's Attorney General. We are rid of him in 1953. He has to go private law practice.

That's assuming of course, that J. Edgar Hoover accepts the appointment and he might politely decline Dewey's offer to be Attorney General.
 
To be fair to LeMay he was an opponent of segregation. He pointed out that integration had worked in the USAF.

Granted, although the stories I heard about him inside SAC regarding his actions during the Cuban Missile Crisis were hair-raising.
 
That's assuming of course, that J. Edgar Hoover accepts the appointment and he might politely decline Dewey's offer to be Attorney General.

I'm currently reading McCullough's biography of Truman, and he says Hoover was actually feeding Dewey information on Truman's campaign in exchange for the appointment.
 
I'm currently reading McCullough's biography of Truman, and he says Hoover was actually feeding Dewey information on Truman's campaign in exchange for the appointment.
Hm. I don't remember that when I last read it two months ago.
 
Probably not the worst, but Curtis LeMay. Ran for VP on Wallace's ticket for the American Independent Party, then claimed to be surprised when the press called him a bigot. Among other things, suggested nuking Vietnam and wanted to maintain US first-strike superiority over the Soviet Union.

Eh, Thomas Power would be even worse. *LEMAY* called that man a Fascist. :eek:
 
Hm. I don't remember that when I last read it two months ago.

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To help guarantee a Dewey victory, J. Edgar Hoover was secretly supplying him with all the information the FBI could provide. Dewey and Hoover were old friends and got along well. Hoover had put the resources of the bureau at Dewey's disposal months before, in the expectation that when Dewey became President he would name Hoover as his Attorney General.
 

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I can't help but think that George Clinton would have been just awful. Jack Calhoun, too. We dodged four separate bullets between the two of them.
 

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The plan was Hoover as AG, Tolson as assistant AG, Lou Nichols in charge of the FBI. Hoover would take the first vacancy on the Supreme Court, with the eventual goal of Chief Justice. Had Dewey won, Hoover would have been CJ by the summer of '46.

That's right. Chief Justice John Edgar Hoover, 1946-1972.

:eek:
 
The plan was Hoover as AG, Tolson as assistant AG, Lou Nichols in charge of the FBI. Hoover would take the first vacancy on the Supreme Court, with the eventual goal of Chief Justice. Had Dewey won, Hoover would have been CJ by the summer of '46.

That's right. Chief Justice John Edgar Hoover, 1946-1972.

Holy shit. :eek:

That's bonkers. Hoover on the SCOTUS? Somebody needs to make a TL with this as the premise...
 
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