Does anyone know what caused FDR to drop Wallace in favor of Truman? I was too young to know anything about it, and those events were too fresh for my schools to teach anything about it.
It was all secret, but top Democrats saw Wallace as too radical and knew that FDR was in rapidly declining health. FDR choose to drop Wallace in favor of Truman. The exact reasons for picking Truman are also unknown. Leftists, including Eleanor Roosevelt, were furious at FDR, but the bosses ruled the convention in those days.