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Vice President Henry A. Wallace (inc.; IA)		  
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Senator Harry S. Truman (MO)		  
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« on: May 18, 2016, 09:10:20 AM »
You are a delegate at the 1944 Democratic National Convention. Who would you vote for in the vice presidential selection?

I like both men, but tilt towards Wallace. I think he was more progressive and more in the tradition of FDR.
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« Reply #1 on: May 18, 2016, 09:19:39 AM »
Wallace and Socialism.
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« Reply #2 on: May 18, 2016, 09:33:27 AM »
Truman.  Wallace was too close to the Soviet Union.
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« Reply #3 on: May 18, 2016, 09:52:56 AM »
Wallace without hindsight, Truman with it.
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« Reply #4 on: May 18, 2016, 09:56:52 AM »
Truman is the sole sane choice. A Wallace presidency would have been a disaster, and I shudder to think how the post war world would have developed with him at the helm given how naive he was regarding the Soviet Union.
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« Reply #5 on: May 18, 2016, 09:59:53 AM »
Quote from: L.D. Smith on May 18, 2016, 09:52:56 AM
Wallace without hindsight, Truman with it.

With? Truman was literally the person of dropping nuclear bombs, especially but not limited to Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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« Reply #6 on: May 18, 2016, 11:32:57 AM »
Quote from: Lumine on May 18, 2016, 09:56:52 AM
Truman is the sole sane choice.
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« Reply #7 on: May 18, 2016, 11:36:45 AM »
Both are great, but at the time I would have been a strong Wallace supporter.
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« Reply #8 on: May 18, 2016, 11:38:29 AM »
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« Reply #9 on: May 18, 2016, 11:47:10 AM »
Truman
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« Reply #10 on: May 18, 2016, 01:01:03 PM »
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« Reply #11 on: May 18, 2016, 01:05:51 PM »
Where's James Byrnes?
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« Reply #12 on: May 18, 2016, 01:11:57 PM »
Wallace. Would fight to expand the New Deal and refuse to commit genocide.
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« Reply #13 on: May 18, 2016, 01:40:03 PM »
Quote from: Lumine on May 18, 2016, 09:56:52 AM
Truman is the sole sane choice. A Wallace presidency would have been a disaster, and I shudder to think how the post war world would have developed with him at the helm given how naive he was regarding the Soviet Union.
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« Reply #14 on: May 18, 2016, 02:00:58 PM »
Truman.
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« Reply #15 on: May 18, 2016, 02:06:00 PM »
Without a hindsight, I'd almost certainly vote for Wallace.
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« Reply #16 on: May 18, 2016, 02:09:22 PM »
Quote from: Enver Pasha of Enverland on May 18, 2016, 02:06:00 PM
Without a hindsight, I'd almost certainly vote for Wallace.
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« Reply #17 on: May 18, 2016, 02:20:29 PM »
Quote from: Intell on May 18, 2016, 09:59:53 AM
Quote from: L.D. Smith on May 18, 2016, 09:52:56 AM
Wallace without hindsight, Truman with it.

With? Truman was literally the person of dropping nuclear bombs, especially but not limited to Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Wallace went onto support Nixon and Ike and practically renounced everything on foreign policy. What's to say being in the big seat wouldn't have further accentuated that change?

I'm also not sure if he could've effectively fired MacArthur, gotten the Marshall Plan forward, or desegregated the Army as Truman did.
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« Reply #18 on: May 18, 2016, 04:08:24 PM »
The one not endorsed by Soviet front group Communist Party USA
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« Reply #19 on: May 18, 2016, 07:20:55 PM »
Quote from: Mr. Reactionary on May 18, 2016, 04:08:24 PM
The one not endorsed by Soviet front group Communist Party USA
Yeah, Wallace would have probably allowed Stalin to get even more land in Europe.  It would not have been pretty.
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