Bull Moose Goes Down - A TL

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I'm enjoying this but I'd like to see some more detail regarding the actual administrations.  All in all, it's a great TL though

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Will Hoover be governing more as a moderate as opposed to the LaFollette years?

I think Dems and Conservatives will unite and Hoover will be forced to govern from the center

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Will Hoover be governing more as a moderate as opposed to the LaFollette years?

I think Dems and Conservatives will unite and Hoover will be forced to govern from the center

Well, IMO, he wouldn't be a straight up Prog in the first place. Business friendly, but also very much in support of publilc works programs, and on social issues, he'd probably be pro-civil rights and in support of prohibition (whatever became of that?). Placing Hoover ideologically is a difficult task. Someone said "He was a Progressive in Harding and Coolidge's time, a moderate in his own time, and a Conservative in FDR's time", showing how much the world changed around him. In 1920 he was a Progressive Republican businessman but in 1940 he was one of the leaders of the Conservatives in his party.

Yes because of the New Deal he was a conservative in comparison.  He ran in the south as a pro-prohibition guy, and it's his fault that the GOP lost the black vote: they were mad when he was ca,painting on states rights in 28, and since then a Republican has never won a majority of the African-American vote, and also, he was a turncoat on prohibition to get the north back into his column in 1932, and the chairman of the Proh. Party called him "The greatest turncoat since Benedict Arnold" because of his flip flop

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Great so far, Iron!

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Don't worry, I'll update soon.

I look forward to it

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Good job so far.

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Go Taft!  What is Henry Ford doing at the moment?

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Go Taft!  What is Henry Ford doing at the moment?

He tried to enter the Progressive race for president but dropped out after second ballot. Continues to work with industry, though.

Neat!

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I look forward to more!

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ATTENTION!
Since Taft inauguration I change the TL format to "Event Date" style.

Alright.  Looking forward to next update!

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Never Gonna Say Goodbye: First Term of Robert Taft

Nice.

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It's back!

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Why would Taft, an isolationist until Pearl Harbor, launch us into WWII before such an attack? Also, would he have flouridation of water? From what I remember, there were some folks of the fringe element sort who believed it a commie conspiracy.

Taft was certainly a liberal conservative, and though he's the best we had back then, he's probably a moderate at best ITTL

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I know firsthand how hard it is to filter real life out from your TL; try proof reading it twice-over before you post, maybe even put your updates in Microsoft Word first to ensure all grammar and spelling is correct if you have Office

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Also, keep the focus on what the president & congress are doing. A number of events here seem to be taken out if real life.

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Please say this is officially back for good now