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Podcast: This Day (An America 250 History Show)
Episode: The Wallace What-If (1944)
Description: It’s July 17th. This day in 1944, there are real questions about who will be the Vice Presidential nominee going into FDR’s run for office that fall. Henry Wallace was almost chosen instead of Harry Truman — and the course of the end of WWII and a consequential moment in history may have looked very different.
Jody, Niki, and Kellie discuss the twists and turns of how Truman came to be nominated over Wallace, Wallace’s progressive “common man” politics, and what could have been.
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