Responsible Statecraft · October 27, 2026
Historians Peter Kuznick and Ivana Nikolić Hughes revisit the 1944 Democratic convention, where party leaders replaced Vice President Henry Wallace with Harry Truman on FDR’s ticket. They ask how the Cold War and the nuclear arms race might have unfolded had Wallace stayed.
Vice President Henry Wallace in his Victory Garden, 1942 (Library of Congress).
