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He might, but he also made a number of enemies within the party, so assuming he was sick and unable to run again he might not be up to much and it would be people otherwise opposed to JPK who would go after him. He too made enemies in the press and public over his appeasement stance after 1939...

That was the rumor, but no one has ever been able to prove it and several bios (and the family) claim it was false. Now him being a shady stock trader (not illegal at the time for some reason), that is true and in fact FDR made him the first chair of the brand new SEC to close the loopholes he...

Thing was that the GOP was isolationist in 1940 and it was only during the convention, when it was too late to really make a difference, that Wilkie was able to edge things out on a muted interventionist platform. Of course both he and FDR then tracked back toward an isolationist platform...

Board postings are sometimes worse than memory! Dewey was a non-interventionist. He just started changing his tune in 1940 due to the Fall of France and Wilkie's challenge in the primary, but too little too late. He became an internationalist in 1944 having lost to Wilkie in 1940 over the...

I'm reading a biography now and so far (only up to 1939) and he was apparently very well liked in British upper classes. There I think was a falling out once he pushed appeasement after Chamberlain had abandoned the policy and then tried to get them to negotiate to end the war. Apparently he...

What if FDR was too sick to run for a 3rd term and Joe Kennedy ran, as he apparently intended to if FDR didn't, and was elected president? Apparently though a dark horse candidate he had a lot of support in the US and cross over support even from substantial numbers of Republicans, who would...