WI - Teddy Roosevelt wins in 1912/1916 and lives long enough to see FDR's 2nd term

Partly inspired by an old thread as well as a more recent video by AlternateHistoryHub (on the impact Woodrow Wilson had the US), What-If Theodore Roosevelt not only won the 1912/1916 US elections but managed to live long enough to see FDR's 2nd term as President?

Amongst a number of questions would Teddy be willing/able to resist the temptation of running for nomination after his 4th term finishes?
 
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Additionally aside from Prohibition being butterflied away. Would we see an earlier implementation of term limits after Theodore Roosevelt's 3rd-4th terms as president endds, as was the case after OTL FDR's presidency?
 
It's very unlikely that FDR would be president if TR won in 1912. He got his big political break when Wilson appointed him Assistant Secretary of the Navy--which in turn ultimately led to his being nominated by the Democrats as vice-president in 1920 (giving him even more national exposure, despite the ticket's loss). Granted, with the Roosevelt name and his seat in the New York State Senate, he would still have had a political future, but there were so many contingencies in his being elected POTUS in OTL, it is very unlikely he would first be elected POTUS in 1932 in this ATL (though he just might in another year...).
 
Additionally aside from Prohibition being butterflied away. Would we see an earlier implementation of term limits after Theodore Roosevelt's 3rd-4th terms as president endds, as was the case after OTL FDR's presidency?

Is there a particular reason you say Prohibition would be butterfly’d away?
 
Admittingly it would be stretch to see FDR win in 1932, with 1936 being more likely in this scenario.

Is there a particular reason you say Prohibition would be butterfly’d away?

It is something that have seen in past threads on Teddy Roosevelt winning in 1912/1916, with others believing it would not make it out of committee hearings in Congress in ATL. While during WW1 in OTL he strongly supporting the prohibition of grains or other foodstuffs from being used to manufacture intoxicating liquor, and of its consumption by soldiers or workers in munitions and other war-related industries, he was apparently non-committal as far as peacetime prohibition was concerned and in this scenario.
 
Admittingly it would be stretch to see FDR win in 1932, with 1936 being more likely in this scenario.



It is something that have seen in past threads on Teddy Roosevelt winning in 1912/1916, with others believing it would not make it out of committee hearings in Congress in ATL. While during WW1 in OTL he strongly supporting the prohibition of grains or other foodstuffs from being used to manufacture intoxicating liquor, and of its consumption by soldiers or workers in munitions and other war-related industries, he was apparently non-committal as far as peacetime prohibition was concerned and in this scenario.

So what? Wilson was no Prohibitionist--he even vetoed the Volstead Act (the veto was overridden). Prohibition didn't depend on the president's support. (To some extent, it depended on the conditions the president helped to cause, such as wartime desire to save grain, wartime dislike of the largely German-American brewers, etc. But these would presumably be the same under TR as under Wilson.)
 
There must have a been a reason a number of past threads are under the impression No Prohibition or limited wartime Prohibition (that is repealed in peacetime) would have happened in the event Theodore Roosevelt won in 1912/1916, let alone of the view it was not inevitable.
 
There must have a been a reason a number of past threads are under the impression No Prohibition or limited wartime Prohibition (that is repealed in peacetime) would have happened in the event Theodore Roosevelt won in 1912/1916, let alone of the view it was not inevitable.

AH people think Woodrow Wilson was responsible for everything bad to happen in America since the Salem Witch Trials.
 
Perhaps though Teddy living longer until the mid-1930s to early-1940s (under FDR) and winning in 1912/1916 is a scenario worth exploring, both in terms of his presidency's impact both domestically and outside the US.
 
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