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At the Democratic national convention in 1944, Eleanor Roosevelt would not drop the issue of a vice presidential candidate. No one in the know expected the President to live through this term and the party elders were uneasy with the idea of pinkbellied Henry A. Wallace as the leader of the Allies. The fight over just who should inherit the presidency and its great powers in a time of war broke out into all out factional in-fighting on the convention floor; with Eleanor pushing for Wallace or another member of the New Deal Brains Trust, the liberal mainline wanting someone a little less contentious, the party bosses wanting a moderate, the Dixiecrats wanting a conservative to balance the ticket, and so on and so on.



In the end, an effort led by no-name Democratic delegate from California Bob Heinlein led to a general consensus support of a apolitical compromise candidate, whom everyone who looked up to FDR could trust:



Vannever Bush, director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development.



Somehow from there to here we won the war before the end of 45, were stuck in Europe and Asia mediating disputes between factions until 48, ended up having the whole nation ran by a remarkable system of ENIAC computers with state of the art IBM card punch readers, and having Henry Wallace elected in '48 - unleashing the hordes of Times Square hooligans and other freaks that had been bubbling up during the continued rationing and civil service conscription for three years after the war's end.