[Dog Gone]

No, I died.

You sure took your sweet time doing it, though. Eight days.

Next time, try to be more dramatic about it, and maybe you'll get your face on the half dollar coin.

[William McKinley]

I wonder how different the world would be if McKinley had not been shot. Teddy Roosevelt may still have been elected in 1904, but would he have not run in 1908 had he not served out the majority of McKinley's second term? I bet he would have.

That would totally changed the dynamic of the 1912 election. Instead of Wilson facing a divided Republican camp, with conservatives staying with the incumbent Taft and the progressives following Roosevelt to a third party, it is likely that there would not have been a third party challenge- either Roosevelt would have run for a third term as a Republican or he wouldn't have run at all. In either case, it is likely we would never have had the disasterous Woodrow Wilson administration during World War I.

And without the way Wilson handled WWI, there may never have been a WWII, never have been a League of Nations (and the subsequent UN).