Thomas Dewey (Would have named J. Edgar Hoover to the Supreme Court).
No votes yet for David Rice Atchison?
He technically was President for a day (braces for possible incoming retaliation).
But what was so bad about him?
Source? That seems like such a bad idea I could see it happening quite easily.
Anyone running for president purely on a lark.
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.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.
To be fair to LeMay he was an opponent of segregation. He pointed out that integration had worked in the USAF.
That's assuming of course, that J. Edgar Hoover accepts the appointment and he might politely decline Dewey's offer to be Attorney General.
Hm. I don't remember that when I last read it two months ago.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.
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.
Hm. I don't remember that when I last read it two months ago.
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.
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.Bottom of Page 673:
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.