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« Reply #2 on: August 17, 2007, 08:58:38 PM » |
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CPT Mikey, I agree with your map.
But there is simply no way that Vice President Thomas Marshall would have signed on for yet a third run for Vice President. At age 66, he would want to retire from public life, after a long career in politics.
Besides, he would not want to be Vice President for four more years, in the extremely unlikely event that he and Wilson were to win. Don't forget, in those days, the Vice Presidency was not the powerful office it has become of late, and back then, it was not the stepping stone to the Presidency, unless the President died. In those days, a Vice President was chosen largely to fullfill the constitutional requirement, presiding over the Senate, and little else.
No, Marshall would not have run for a third term as Vice President.
In real life, after Wilson's stroke in 1919, which almost totally incapacitated him, Wilson was, with few exceptions, kept out of the presence of Vice President Marshall. Wilson's was the most serious case of Presidential disability in history. The Vice President should have been kept very close to the situation, and should have assumed some Presidential duties. Instead, Wilson's wife, Edith Wilson, selected issues for the President's attention, and delegated other issues to Cabinet Secretaries.
After being treated with such disdain in real life, even in this theoretical scenario, I would imagine that Wilson would not hold Marshall in high regard.
When FDR in fact ran for a third term in 1940, he selected another Vice Presidential running mate, instead of the Vice President he had for 8 years. Wilson would have done the same thing.
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