Riginslinger, I don't follow. In what way did the fact that Henry Wallace was no longer the VP when Roosevelt died affect the Crash of '29 and the ensuing Great Depression? We're talking 10 years and more past the crash. And things were well on the upward track during the Truman years.

"And the second took place when the oil powers in the Middle East determined that they needed to get rid of Carter because he was trying to make America independant of foreign energy"

? I'm not even going to address that thought.