WI: President Leonard Wood?

It might well be an after-thought but what would the effects of such a Presidency beginning in 1920 have been? The POD can be his successful position as U.S. Field Commander in WWI and for plot purposes it is acceptable to allow him to live a little longer due to better White House treatment of his recurring brain tumor.

A friend of TR's, Wood's policies may have been similar (read almost identical) but with a much stronger (almost McCarthian) anti-communist agenda...

...but I want to know what YOU think.

Can someone provide a short synopsis of the Presidency and after-effects of OTL's General L. Wood?
 
Probably Ike a few decades early IMO: a push for League entry, progressive/centrist Republicanism at home and not allowing reversion to a Third World military to appease the ancestors of Ronulans.
 

mowque

Banned
A few things in my TL I have Wood do....

1. He'd be a bit of standard when it came to racism or whatever (he wasn't a very nice guy in the Phillipines).

2. He was a medical doctor so we MIGHT see some advancement in that direction.

3. In economics, he'd follow the party line. I honestly didn't see much progressivism about him.

4. He'd be far more internationalist then some Republicans, as RB said, he'd admire the League and such things.
 
Party orthodoxy at the time was very much up in the air. This is the moment of flux when the parties swapped ideologies: progressivism on non-racial matters took hold in the Democratic Party, small government, low taxes and isolationism took hold of the GOP. Without Harding and Coolidge (who might be placed as VP to appease the fiscal conservatives) this is still up in the air. The Bourbons had lost their control over domestic policy pre-WWI but as Wilson and Davis proved, still retained their grip on fiscal policy until FDR. Remember that in 1932 the Democratic platform attacked Hoover from the fiscal right and demanded free trade and a balanced budget.
 
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