WI FDR has lived a little longer?

perhaps 4 more years or more, maybe he never starts smoking.

would US and Soviet relations be much better with FDR still in office, perhaps a less dramatic cold war or maybe none at all?
 
Actually , FDR was becoming very distrustful of Stalin. There are indiciations that he wanted to revise the occupation zones in Germany and believed that Stalin was attempting to subvert all of eastern europe . FDR was in addion aware that the soviets were sping on the US and attempting to gain the secrets of the atomic bomb.
 
I read in a biography of FDR that when he picked Harry Truman as his running mate in 1944, he was picking the next President and knew Truman was the man for the job. Not because FDR was thinking of dieing, but he was planning to resign The Presidency once the war ended.

By the summer of 1944 FDR knew the war was in its final chapters. Already the Allies were talking about some international organization like the former League Of Nations, but larger and with some authority. That organization, The United Nations, first met in San Francisco, California in August or September 1945.

I forget the title of the book but I think it focused on FDR's last year. Anyway, FDR was planning to resign The Presidency once the war was over, to devote his time and effort to The United Nations. I believe there were some things in some of his personal papers about this and he had said something about it to some of those personally closest to him.

There was some speculation that had FDR lived and been healthy enough to do so, he would have been the first Secretary General of The UN.

I don't know if there is anything to this but I did read it somewhere.
 
I read in a biography of FDR that when he picked Harry Truman as his running mate in 1944, he was picking the next President and knew Truman was the man for the job. Not because FDR was thinking of dieing, but he was planning to resign The Presidency once the war ended.

By the summer of 1944 FDR knew the war was in its final chapters. Already the Allies were talking about some international organization like the former League Of Nations, but larger and with some authority. That organization, The United Nations, first met in San Francisco, California in August or September 1945.

I forget the title of the book but I think it focused on FDR's last year. Anyway, FDR was planning to resign The Presidency once the war was over, to devote his time and effort to The United Nations. I believe there were some things in some of his personal papers about this and he had said something about it to some of those personally closest to him.

There was some speculation that had FDR lived and been healthy enough to do so, he would have been the first Secretary General of The UN.

I don't know if there is anything to this but I did read it somewhere.

Another reason that Truman was chosen for VP, is that FDR's previous VP was inadvertanly giving information to the German's through his brother in law, who lived in Switzerland.

Torqumada
 
Actually , FDR was becoming very distrustful of Stalin. There are indiciations that he wanted to revise the occupation zones in Germany and believed that Stalin was attempting to subvert all of eastern europe . FDR was in addion aware that the soviets were sping on the US and attempting to gain the secrets of the atomic bomb.


From ‘Warlords, the heart of conflict 1939 – 1945’ by Simon Berthon and Joanna Potts.

Page 131

But as the war ground on, Churchill began to see a new threat to Europe – the man who had become the third ally in the fight against Hitler, Joseph Stalin. In late 1942 he told Anthony Eden: ‘It would be a measureless disaster if Russian barbarianism overlaid the ancient state of Europe.’

Roosevelt thought otherwise. As far as he was concerned, the cause of war in the first place was the in fighting between Europe’s ancient, imperialist nations and he began to see in Stalin someone who would help him in his great cause of freeing the world of that Imperialism. Also in 1942, in a conversation with the Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York, he remarked: ‘The European people will simply have to endure Russian domination in the hope that – in ten or 20 years – the European influence will bring the Russians to become less barbarous.’


This is taken from ‘The Roosevelt Letters: Being the Personnel Correspondence of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Vol.3: 1928 – 1945.
 

zarkov

Banned
FDR would be able to deal with USSR at postdam but what would come of it. Would he be able to sort out all the problems or would someone have become the loser at the talks ?

Another thing, what will Roosevelt do once he has retired from being President and what affect will he have on the UN while he serves with them ?:confused:
 
FDR lets Potsdam go largely as it did. The only noticeable difference initially will be that the french colonies in Southeast Asia will get independence.
 

Max Rakus

Banned
I doubt that he would have even lived to 75 he was very very ill at the last years of the president and probably would have resigned after world war 2 was over so his post presidential power would be limited. But there's another question would he have dropped the bomb?
 
I have deep, deep doubts he'd live that much longer.:eek:

Still, if it was only a few months, you could just butterfly the Bomb on Japan.:eek::cool::cool: FDR could have agreed to terms for Japan, which got lost in the shuffle when he died just as Japan was making her first overtures in April '45.

It's also possible he could've clarified his aims for Vietnam. So, it's possible to have avoided the 10,000 Day War.:cool::cool:
 
FDR lets Potsdam go largely as it did. The only noticeable difference initially will be that the french colonies in Southeast Asia will get independence.

How is that going to happen with first the British and then the French landing there? Since they have all the nearby forces and so are always going to get there first and everything.
 
Sweet, merciful Christ. Stop Necroing Threads. Stop...Necroing...Threads. Really, when a thread was last active during a previous administration, and children born when it was last posted in are in First Grade now, you should know to leave it alone.

This necroing thing is an epidemic.
 
Sweet, merciful Christ. Stop Necroing Threads. Stop...Necroing...Threads. Really, when a thread was last active during a previous administration, and children born when it was last posted in are in First Grade now, you should know to leave it alone.

This necroing thing is an epidemic.

If people have something to say about the topic I think they're doing a service by finding the thread about it instead of just starting a new one about the same thing.
 
If people have something to say about the topic I think they're doing a service by finding the thread about it instead of just starting a new one about the same thing.

6. Minor rules.

Don't respond to posts old threads (several months or more), which is often referred to as "thread necromancy". Only post to an old thread if you have a substantial new contribution to make, such as to extend a timeline.

Straight from IAN's Mouth.
 
Maybe he would have a epiphany and realize that social security was the biggest ponzi scheme, besides fiat money, that stole from the young to buy off their parents and pushed congress to cancel the whole thing and save America from a progressive nightmare.
 

Stolengood

Banned
Maybe he would have a epiphany and realize that social security was the biggest ponzi scheme, besides fiat money, that stole from the young to buy off their parents and pushed congress to cancel the whole thing and save America from a progressive nightmare.
Erm... what? :eek:
 
6. Minor rules.

Don't respond to posts old threads (several months or more), which is often referred to as "thread necromancy". Only post to an old thread if you have a substantial new contribution to make, such as to extend a timeline.
Instead, start a new thread & have people whining about new threads on old topics?:confused::rolleyes:

Some people are never satisfied.:rolleyes:
 
Instead, start a new thread & have people whining about new threads on old topics?:confused::rolleyes:

Some people are never satisfied.:rolleyes:
Just start a new thread, link to the old one. That works.

While the board's policy on necromancy is a bit extreme IMO, it is reasonably easy to abide by it.
 
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