Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from Radiotopia.

My name is Jody Avergan. This day, 1944, as the 1944 presidential election is heating up and the Democratic Party

is gearing up for its convention, we are hurtling towards a great American political what if we don't do what ifs that much on this podcast but here is one

Look as we know now

Harry Truman was elected alongside FDR that year and then a few months later

FDR died Truman assumes office very quickly we have the Nazi surrender the

atomic bombs the end of World War II the Marshall Plan the rise of the

Cold War etc etc you know the Harry Truman stuff the of that

Henry Wallace was this close to being FDR's vice president and it was just a few little things

here and there at the convention largely in the summer of 1944 that tipped things away from Wallace and

towards Truman.

So what if we spent 15 minutes imagining a Henry Wallace America?

Let's do that right now with, as always,

Kelly Carter, uh,

Nikolheimer of Columbia and Kelly Carter Jackson of Wesley.

Hello there.

Should I say hello comrade?

I mean, what does it Henry Wallace

counterfactual history look like?

Exactly, yeah.

What if I also switched up the order in which I introduced the two of you which I just

randomly did for no, anyway hello there hi so we

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