[Wallace T.]

I credit Reagan and Trump for doing some good things while in office. However, the best opportunity to turn America around was squandered in 1952, when the Republicans chose Eisenhower rather than Taft as their Presidential nominee. A President Taft would have abolished the New Deal, let the British, French, and Israelis take the Suez Canal, ended any trade with the Soviet bloc, and appointed Clarence Manion Chief Justice rather than Earl Warren. A President Taft would not have pressured Britain and France to divest their colonial empires and, assuming he had a second term, prevented Castro from taking over Cuba.

[nopardons]

I'm in agreement with everything you said!

Ike was NOT a good president at all; though a few good things happened under his terms...a lot of very bad things happened too, which he either ignored or made worse.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Well, the problem is that Taft would’ve only been President for 6 months tops in 1953. He would’ve died regardless early on. His policies would’ve had to have been carried out by a President Douglas MacArthur as his VP.

Clarence Manion. Had to look him up. Would’ve been curious to see if Taft/MacArthur could’ve gotten him through the confirmation process. As a registered Democrat, the GOP might’ve been unhappy with putting in one as Chief Justice. Another downside would’ve been his death occurred in 1979, and that would’ve given Jimmy Carter (who didn’t have any appointments to SCOTUS) the opportunity to appoint a Chief Justice. Then again, with MacArthur as President to ‘61, it would’ve likely altered the entire political scene onwards, and Carter might never have become President (how nice that would’ve been).