RogueBeaver
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« on: December 07, 2013, 05:40:47 PM » |
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Garner would've governed as FDR-lite, but I doubt you see much of a permanent welfare state unless Congress overrides his vetoes to enact something. No Wagner Act since Garner was very hostile to organized labor. No Court-packing either. Congress can be a problem: on one hand he handled them very well, on the other they'd probably push for things more liberal than he wanted. Though of course Rayburn and Robinson might temper that out of deference. In foreign affairs Garner was probably aligned with his fellow SoDems, but he didn't have the skillset required to even try nudging the country in an internationalist direction. More conservative economic policy in his second term.
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