Chen Qiang personally traveled to Washington to visit Senator Harry Truman.

Chen Qiang thought that Truman should be busy, and the day of the presidential election was getting closer and closer, and now Truman must be trying to win the vice presidential nomination and is busy with campaign activities.

However, what Chen Qiang didn't expect was that Truman was not very busy, and when Chen Qiang met Truman, he learned that Truman did not plan to run for the vice presidential nomination in the Democratic Party. This is so mainly because of the presence of Henry Agad Wallace.

Henry Agard Wallace is the current vice president, and he has not made any major mistakes in his four years as vice president, and he will normally continue to run for the next term as Roosevelt's partner.

It is not uncommon for the vice presidents of the United States to resign or be replaced during their term of office, but when the current president seeks re-election, it is almost impossible to replace his partner, and the current vice president often becomes the candidate for the next vice president.

Roosevelt was a special case, having won four presidential terms, so he had three vice presidents and had two experiences of changing partners when seeking re-election.

When Roosevelt first ran for president in 1932, his partner was John Nance Garner. Ghana assisted Roosevelt for eight years, serving two terms as vice president of the United States, and chose to retire at the end of his term in 1941. Ghana is 14 years older than Roosevelt, so when Ghana retires, he will already be a 74-year-old man, coinciding with the outbreak of World War II, and it is indeed difficult to have enough energy to continue to serve as vice president of the United States at such an age.

Ghana's successor is Henry Agad Wallace, the current vice president of the United States, Wallace is a full six years younger than Roosevelt, if nothing else, he will continue to be Roosevelt's partner, accompanying Roosevelt through the next four-year term, and even after four years, Wallace will only be 60 years old, even if he stands up for president, it will not be surprising.

In terms of age, Truman is four years older than Wallace, and with Wallace here, Truman has no intention of competing for the Democratic Party's vice presidential nomination, so Truman does not have much expectation for the vice presidential nomination.

However, when Chen Qiang gave campaign funds in the name of Nike, Truman still happily accepted it, even if Truman did not plan to fight for the vice presidential nomination, but he would need money to run for the Senate in the future. Someone was willing to offer campaign funds, and Truman, of course, did not refuse to come.

Chen Qiang promised to remit campaign funds to Truman's campaign account, and by the way, he mentioned the matter of lifting rubber.

When it comes to rubber, Truman also frowned, the United States is too strict in the control of rubber resources, even if Truman is a senator in Congress, it is not easy to get a large amount of rubber.

"Mr. Chen, how much rubber does your sporting goods company need?" Truman asked.

"At present, my products are still in the research and development stage, and there is not much rubber in demand, but according to my estimates, after my products are officially put into production next year, the demand for rubber will be relatively large." Chen Qiang replied.

"As far as I know, the rubber quota of the United States this year is full, and I can help you fight for some of the rubber quota next year." Truman replied.

Chen Qiang is waiting for this sentence, if he is just engaged in the research and development of sports shoes, Chen Qiang can buy some rubber at a high price, but if he wants to mass produce sports shoes, he must not use high-priced rubber, and he can't sell it for money. Chen Qiang needs the quota of rubber raw materials given by the U.S. government to buy rubber raw materials at a low price in order to produce sports shoes on a large scale.

Truman continued: "Our U.S. offensive in the Pacific and Southeast Asia is progressing very smoothly, and it is estimated that a campaign to recover the Philippines will be launched at the end of this year, and once the Japanese army is driven out of Southeast Asia, the pressure on rubber raw materials will be greatly reduced, and it is foreseeable that next year's rubber raw material quota will definitely be more than this year." Therefore, you can rest assured that your company will not be delayed in launching new products next year. ”

At this time, in the Pacific theater, after several years of war of attrition, the number and tonnage of ships of the US Pacific Fleet had already surpassed that of the Japanese army, and under the command of MacArthur, the commander-in-chief of the Pacific, the US military gradually gained strategic superiority.

In February, the U.S. military captured the Marshall Islands, a strategic location in the South Pacific, and with the Marshall Islands as a barrier, it was difficult for the Japanese navy to threaten Hawaii. The U.S. military then recaptured Saipan, Guam, and Tinian Islands. One by one, the nails of the Japanese army in the South Pacific were pulled out by the American army.

At present, the US military has advanced to the position of the so-called "second island chain" in the future, and it can be said that it has formed an encirclement of Japan, which is a very strategic advantage, so the US top brass has also become optimistic about the situation in the Pacific theater, and the plan to recover the Philippines has entered the schedule of the Pacific Fleet.

Once the United States recovers the Philippines, then the Dutch East Indies, which is now Indonesia and Malaysia, and Japan will not be able to hold on, and the rubber resources of Southeast Asia will be able to supply the United States.

However, the American top brass was still too optimistic about the Pacific War, and they ignored the Japanese army's will to fight. In the concept of the Americans, if it is a certain defeat, then they should surrender immediately, do not make unnecessary sacrifices, and if they surrender, according to the Geneva Conventions, prisoners of war will also be duly protected.

However, the Japanese launched a suicide attack, one by one they were loyal to the emperor, and when they were dying, they had to pull an American on their backs, and no one surrendered at all. It wasn't until they paid a very heavy price that the U.S. military realized that it didn't matter what he didn't kill and surrendered, only the dead Japanese were good Japanese.

During the Battle of the Marianas, although the Japanese army was miserable, the suicide attack of the "kamikaze special forces" also shone brightly, and in the Battle of Iwo Jima, the Japanese army even fought in various ways, and the American army fought a casualty ratio of 1 to 1.23. There will be a movie "Hacksaw Ridge" in the future, in which the scenes of war are shocking, but in fact, the battle on Hacksaw Ridge is even more tragic than the movie describes.

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Now that Truman was given a sum of campaign money, Chen Qiang also began to pay attention to the situation of the US presidential election.

Roosevelt was plagued by a variety of diseases, the most lethal of which was, of course, cerebrovascular disease. At that time, doctors were not aware of the dangers of high blood pressure at all, and even thought that high blood pressure was a good thing, which could promote blood circulation, and did not effectively control Roosevelt's condition, which made Roosevelt's physical condition worse and worse. At the time of the presidential election in the United States at the end of 1944, many "insiders" had already realized that Roosevelt might not survive his fourth term.

Once Roosevelt dies in office, according to US law, the vice president will take over, so in the 1944 US presidential election, the vice president nomination is also particularly important for the Democratic Party.

Polls by various agencies show that the incumbent Vice President Wallace is the most popular candidate and the most likely to be nominated for vice president, and there are even some voices who want Roosevelt not to run anymore and let Wallace run for president.

In fact, within the Democratic Party, the vast majority of people do not want Wallace to be nominated for vice president. Because Wallace's policy propositions are more inclined to the working class, which must have upset many big capitalists, Wallace's polls are very good, but there are many political opponents within the Democratic Party. In May and June, the most critical months for the party's nomination, Roosevelt sent Wallace to visit China, and for more than a month, Wallace could not carry out campaign activities.

Wallace concluded his visit to China, and not long after returning to the United States, the Democratic Party convened a Democratic National Convention. Since Roosevelt's candidacy is already a sure thing, this time the Democratic National Convention is mainly to elect the Democratic nominee for vice president.

The four vice presidential nominees are incumbent Vice President Wallace, Senator Harry Truman, Senator John Bankhead, and Senator Scott Lucas. In the vote, Wallace received 429 votes, while Truman received only 319 votes, and the other two candidates received fewer than 100 votes.

But according to the rules, candidates must receive more than 50 percent of the votes to be nominated, so the top two voters, Wallace and Truman, will need to participate in a second round of voting.

At this time, a very interesting thing happened, those Democrats who opposed Wallace lobbied overnight, hoping that everyone would not support Wallace and support Truman instead, but in the final vote, Truman, who was originally behind in the vote, received more than 90% of the votes, while Wallace only got less than 10% of the votes, and Truman also successfully became the candidate for vice president of the Democratic Party, partnering Roosevelt to participate in the 1944 US presidential election. It can be said that one of the reasons why Truman was able to win the vice presidential nomination was because Wallace was hated within the Democratic Party.

After learning that Truman successfully nominated the Democratic Party for vice president, Chen Qiang also breathed a sigh of relief, Chen Qiang was still more worried that he would change history, in case it was not Truman who nominated the vice president, it would be bad. But judging from the results, Chen Qiang still thinks too much, and he, a little butterfly, really doesn't have the ability to change the trend of history.

In Chen Qiang's view, there is no suspense at the presidential election at the end of the year, and Roosevelt's prestige is unmatched, and no matter who the Republican Party sends to run, it is impossible to defeat Roosevelt.

And the war is also developing in the direction of victory, after the Normandy landings, the sound of victory continued to be heard on the European battlefield, and the German army was losing and retreating, especially in August, when the Allies invaded Paris and recovered France, the overall situation of the European battlefield was decided. All this good news will allow Roosevelt to get more votes.

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The streets of New York are filled with advertisements for presidential candidates from both parties. The Democratic candidates were Roosevelt and Truman, while the Republicans put forward the candidate New York Governor Thomas Dewey, who was partnered by Ohio Governor John Brick.

Thomas Dewey, as the governor of New York State, usually appears in New York newspapers, and Chen Qiang has also had several encounters with him. As for Ohio Governor John Brick, Chen Qiang really doesn't know him.

Chen Qiang looked at Thomas Dewey's campaign ad on the street, and said secretly in his heart: "I really didn't expect that the Republican Party would let Thomas Dewey compete with Roosevelt. Thomas Dewey is so young, and his opponent is Roosevelt, it must be no fun! ”

Thomas Dewey is a "post-zero" candidate, and the first "post-zero" candidate in the history of the U.S. presidential election. The "post-zero" here does not refer to those born after 2000, but after 1900.

Four years ago, Dewey sought the Republican nomination, according to US law, a person to participate in the presidential election must be at least 35 years old, Dewey was only 38 years old at that time, he was too young to be nominated by the Republican Party. Four years later, he made a comeback, this time beating out his rivals and winning the Republican nomination, at the age of 42, and even in 2019, Dewey was the youngest Republican nominee for president.

The young Thomas Dewey met Roosevelt, the greatest president in American history, and the battle was doomed before it even began. But the result was that Roosevelt, whose popularity was unmatched, almost overturned in the election.

In the final vote, Roosevelt received 25.61 million votes, with a vote rate of 53.4%, and Dewey received 22.01 million long votes, with a vote rate of 45.9%, with only 3.6 million votes between the two sides. If it were someone else, it would have been nice to have a lead of 3.6 million votes, but it was Roosevelt! With Roosevelt's prestige, he only had a 7.5% lead, which surprised countless people. Dewey handed over such a report card, which was enough for him to blow for a lifetime.

However, the U.S. presidential election is an electoral system, and although Roosevelt only led by 7.5% of the votes, he won more than 80% of the electoral votes, and Roosevelt won 36 of the 48 states in the United States.

In 1944, there were only 48 states in the United States, and Alaska and Hawaii were both established in 1959, so before 1959, Alaska and Hawaii did not have electoral votes.

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During this period, Chen Qiang also negotiated another business, that is, sponsoring the 1944 US Open.

During World War II, although the U.S. Open was not suspended, it was also in a state of stubbornness, with fewer players, less attention to the competition, and fewer sponsors, and 1944 should be regarded as the lowest year of the U.S. Open. By the time of the 1945 U.S. Open, the war was over, and the U.S. Open was instantly better.

At this time, Chen Qiang was willing to pay for sponsorship, and the organizers of the US Open of course treated Chen Qiang as a grandfather.

Chen Qiang's sponsorship is also conditional, that is, to make the new tennis racket the official designated racket of the US Open, and it will be signed for five years.

Of course, this so-called "officially designated racket" is not a forced requirement for every player to use a new type of tennis racket, but it is more like a game title, but this "officially designated" gimmick alone is enough for Chen Qiang to promote.

Chen Qiang also generously donated hundreds of new tennis rackets to the US Open tournament and provided them to the participating players for free, which can be regarded as expanding the publicity effect.

The new tennis racket has also been collectively replaced with the Nike logo and has become a product of Nike.

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