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In reply to the discussion: If you could change one event in history, [View all]First Speaker
(4,858 posts)13. I'd ensure that Theodore Roosevelt got the 1912 GOP Presidential nomination...
...the power brokers in the party conspired to give it to Taft, who had basically failed as President. Roosevelt was the choice of the party, but that didn't matter in those days of the smoke-filled room. As a result, TR ran on the Bull Moose ticket, and lost to Woodrow Wilson. Had TR been President in 1914, World War One simply would not have happened as it did. And both Nazism and Communism would never have happened, either.
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I don't have the wisdom to know the repercussions of any change I might make.
Binkie The Clown
Mar 2021
#11
It sounds like it would make for a good movie. It is often explored as one of
Politicub
Mar 2021
#24
I'd ensure that Theodore Roosevelt got the 1912 GOP Presidential nomination...
First Speaker
Mar 2021
#13
It think you vastly overstate American influence in 1914. The US was not considered a world...
NNadir
Mar 2021
#14
The powers at Versailles were not about to surrender their punitive approach to Germany...
NNadir
Mar 2021
#28
History ... H E R S T O R Y ... Henry VIII King of England DIES before he had Anne Boleyn beheaded
Trueblue1968
Mar 2021
#41
I would have gone back and gotten Palm Beach County, Fla., to do a ballot people could read
jmowreader
Mar 2021
#36