WI: Eisenhower Gets Patton's Fate?

I am curious how this would affect the post-war US Army leadership. Bradley will get bumped up to Chief of Staff early since Marshall will be out. I would expect Clark to benefit, and become Army Chief of Staff in 1948.

I really have no idea what to expect out of Patton after the war.
 
Nixon in 53

If Korea is the f-up it was in OTL, I figure Taft wins, IF he campaigns hard (no Landon crap; that will kill any politician after 1900). No idea how good of a campaigner he is; he never made past the primaries. :p Democrats are weighed down by Korea, and Nixon is a young, energetic, no nonsense Anti-Communist (still seems he is VP; ust can't see anyone else. Zombie Vandenburg?). Won't be a blow out, but I figure an edge to Republicans, and Taft's isolationism sounds appealing after WW2 and Korea. Eisenhower and Taft were politically close; only on foreign policy did they differ. They did go golfing, after all (might seem like nothing, but once Taft was not running for President he mellowed, and they hung out together. (According to wiki, so if a real author has a different view go with them...)

If Korea is butterflied, then sure, give it to Truman (I did note he could pull 2 back-to-back upsets). But how does Ike dying convince Kim not to invade Korea?? Only buterflies are from 1945-1952, so unless there are other POD's I do not know, seems Korea happens on schedule, Truman's defence cuts and MacArthur's arrogance cause OTL.
 
Yeah, looking at wiki just now about the 1952 election Truman lost the New Hampshire primary. His approval rating was the lowest until Nixon and Dubya... Ouch. Between Korea, communists in the State Dept (some real, most not), 20 years of Democratic rule, I figure Truman is out. Now Stevenson can still win. I think the election will be like 1960 or 2000; very close, maybe 2004 (not as close, something like 51-49).

From Wiki:

College Box Scores 1789–1996. Official website of the National Archives. (August 1, 2005).
[edit] Close state races

Election results in these states were within ten percentage points. Colors represent the winning party, using the present-day convention in which red indicates Republican and blue indicates Democrat.
  1. Kentucky, 0.07%
  2. Tennessee, 0.27%
  3. South Carolina, 1.44%
  4. Missouri, 1.56%
  5. Rhode Island, 1.84%
  6. West Virginia, 3.85%
  7. Delaware, 3.88%
trying to see how important these are
 
still lose from those states, sorry

I really need to get to bed, so no time to do a county breakdown, but giving those four states to Democrats makes it 411 (R)-120 (D), down from 442(R)-89(D). Hey, Nixon can't run in 1960, so I still expect President JFK if it helps...

If Korea stays cold, then Truman has only Mcarthy's red baiting, mob investigations (not into him; but into usually Democratic machines in big cities) as far as I know, so I expect a 2nd New Deal, with little political capital to buy it. At the OTL DNC, Truman could not win, but he helped swing votes to the winner. here, he might pull a 1948.
 
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Hyperion

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How many stars did Marshall have, at this point?

In 1945, four US Army generals have five star rank: Ike, Marshall, MacArthur, and Henry H. Arnold.

Bradley would be the obvious choice to get promoted in place of Ike, though at this point in time, I'm actually not sure how many four star generals the US Army had. If you assume that Patton dies same as OTL, that would leave Bradley and Clark in Europe at the least.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Army_four-star_generals#List_of_generals

From the wiki page, there's at least a dozen or so 4 stars that are still active by the end of 1945, Kruger, Stillwell, Clark, Bradley, Wainwright,
 
Cold Korea?

2 easy PODs are USSR takes it all at the end of WW2, or takes Hokkaido (I believe) in a sort of Operation Downfall, then evacuates in return for US held South Korea. Or Truman's SecState declares S. Korea an "area of vital concern" or some diplomatic talk like that so Kim cannot invade.... Stalin dying early always is nice.
 

Stolengood

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So, cold Korea, and Ike can't contest Truman; what happens next? :D

(Just give me some scenarios, sort of like what people're doin' in the No Nixon thread. ;))
 
My info is weak...

but Truman will try to expand the New Deal, or at least hold the line (Taft-Hartley was a setback in 1948). He will have little political capital though, as the large number of strikes post WW2 seemed to annoy people... not really sure. I think little progressive (as in liberal) laws get passed. Good news (hopefully) is a coalition of Republicans and Northern/liberal Democrats might get an earlier civil rights bill passed. Supreme Court might end up more conservative on social issues, liberal on government rights, ironically, without Warren.
 
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