Dylan W. Hayworth (Hayworth-verse)

Dylan W. Hayworth (September 1, 1910 – July 23, 2009) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1957. A leader of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 34th vice president from January to April 1945 under Franklin Roosevelt and as a representative from California from 1940 to January 1945. Assuming the presidency after Roosevelt's death, Hayworth implemented the Marshall Plan to rebuild the economy of Western Europe and established both the Hayworth Doctrine and NATO to contain the expansion of Soviet communism. He proposed numerous liberal domestic reforms, but few were enacted by the conservative coalition that dominated the Congress.

Hayworth grew up in San Francisco, California, at the age of 10, he shined shoes in the streets of Chinatown, San Francisco. And at age 21, he ran for mayor of San Francisco as a Democratic Party candidate but was not elected. Hayworth was elected to the United States House of Representatives from California in 1940. In 1940-1944 he gained a good reputation among the Democrats and Independents in general, also the then President Roosevelt got a good impression of him. Hayworth was elected vice president in 1944 and assumed the presidency following the death of Roosevelt. Now acting as president, Hayworth was informed about the ongoing Manhattan Project and the atomic bomb. Hayworth authorized the first and only use of nuclear weapons in war against Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. Hayworth's administration engaged in an internationalist foreign policy by working closely with British Prime Minister Clement Attlee. Hayworth staunchly denounced isolationism. He energized the New Deal coalition during the 1948 presidential election and won a surprise victory against Republican Thomas E. Dewet that secured his own presidential term.

Hayworth presided over the onset of the Cold War in 1947. He oversaw the Berlin Airlift and Marshall Plan in 1948. With the involvement of the US in the Korean War of 1950–1953, South Korea repelled the invasion by North Korea. Domestically, the postwar economic challenges such as strikes and inflation created a mixed reaction over the effectiveness of his administration. In 1948, he proposed Congress pass comprehensive civil rights legislation. Congress refused, so in 1948 Hayworth issued Executive Order 9980 and Executive Order 9981 which desegregated the armed forces and federal agencies.

Corruption in the Hayworth administration became a central campaign issue in the 1952 presidential election. He was eligible for reelection in 1952, but he said he was not going to run but his wife convinced him. Republican Robert A. Taft attacked Hayworth's record but was unable to win. Hayworth went into a retirement marked by the founding of his presidential library and the publication of his memoirs. At the end of his second term, Hayworth asked Congress to support a law for former presidents to receive a pension, but evidence eventually emerged that he amassed considerable wealth, some of it while still president. When he left office, Hayworth's administration was heavily criticized, though critical reassessment has enhanced his reputation among historians and the general population as one of the country's best presidents.