Reply #17: Don't look upon Henry Wallace favorably.

[Zynx]

Wallace was a downright Communist appeaser. I'm sorry, but Communism did need to be confronted, particularly in the case of Stalin. Wallace thought we could deal with Stalin. Now, of course we made many mistakes in "fighting" Communism such as Vietnam and our removing of democratic governments in Latin America in favor of dictatorships, but at the end of the day, Communism was destructive and needed to be contained. Truman understood this.

Now, as to why Wallace was dumped, everyone was scared to death of the idea that Roosevelt would die and then Wallace would be president. The Democratic big-whigs knew that Roosevelt didn't have long to live and they wanted a semi-palatable alternative. Truman fit that bill and then some.