Had Charles Evan Hughes been elected President in November 1916, how do you think the course of the next four to eight years might have been different? Would America have still gotten involved in World War I? To a greater or lesser extent?
Really doubt that it would be a greater extent -- not sure what a greater extent would even look like.
Yes. Possibly even a better idea for an organization that the US would have joined.
Why do you say a better idea might have been put forth under a Hughes Presidency? I'm not very familiar with Hughes' political positions, but it seems the GOP was very much against the idea of the League of Nations for what seems, from my reading, to be staunch isolationism. I guess as basically the party leader, if Hughes offered up any such idea for a League of Nations type body, the GOP would have better supported it, but the question is--Would he have? I don't know what his views were on that sort of thing.
So yeah...Why do you think we would've had a League of Nations type organization, and why might it have been better?
