What If Dewey Defeated Truman? | Alternate History

What If Thomas E. Dewey defeated Harry Truman and won the 1948 presidential election? What would Dewey's presidency be like?

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[luisreyes]

In other words, Thomas Dewey might have been nearly as conservative as Ronald Reagan given the chance.

[williamjol]

President Thomas E. Dewey would have nominated long-time Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation J. Edgar Hoover, aka "America's Top Cop", as his Attorney General for his administration until a Supreme Court seat became vacant. Dewey then promised Hoover that he would nominate him to the seat, however if Dewey was re-elected in the 1952 presidential election in such a scenario (a distant possibility, but not impossible) the Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson would die within nine months of his second term in office. That would leave the possibility of Dewey bumping Hoover up to the top job as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court! Depending on who is President upon Hoover's death in May 1972 it could complicate whoever his successor would be (apparently around 1971 President Richard Nixon was looking for a way to get Agnew out of the way prior to the 1972 presidential election by considering nominating him to a recently vacated Supreme Court seat, so maybe Chief Justice Agnew if Nixon got elected in '68, a very unlikely but possible scenario).

Edit: Also a good possible successor to Dewey whether or not if he were to lose re-election in 1952 could be Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver who had defeated incumbent President Harry S. Truman in some early Democratic primary contests in our timeline and later went on to become Adlai Stevenson II's running mate in the 1956 presidential election after narrowly beating out freshman Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy for the VP slot on the ticket. Texas Senator Lyndon B. Johnson could also pose as a possible strong presidential contender in the 1956 election, maybe even picking young Jack Kennedy for his running mate.😉

[qivverjammerchannel]

The newspaper be like: Truman Defeats Dewey

[VinceHere]

He honestly would've been a pretty decent president.

[Cool-]

I’d like to see Alf Landon just because of how terrible of a rap HOI4 has given him

[ddsdamon]

What if the dutch discovered brazil instead of the Portuguese.

[noahhumbard]

Dewey would have been fine as was Truman a election in which both candidates were good

[ivebeenlookingforwardtothi]

Nah, what if the Dixiecrats w- I’m just jokinggg.

[LeftysLefty]

2 very very wrong points in your post, :

1 - there is no "Democrat Party". Do you get how offensive you are calling it that?
2 - N Korea started the Korean War by a surprise invasion of S Korea on June 25, 1950. President Truman announced our intervention 2 days later on June 27, 1950.
And you're speculating that Dewey would have intervened "earlier"? How's that? Are you seriously saying this? Are you also suggesting that Truman was less "anti-Communist" than Dewey? Might I remind you that the Berlin Airlift occurred under Truman? That NATO and the CIA were formed under Truman?
Don't quit your day-job.