Since the two of you seem to be discussing alone:

1. I don't know a lot about USN internals and King's relatinships with others. So there is not much I can say. I can ask if his reputation as being difficult was a fact of 1935-42 or did it develop later after he became the boss? If he had it all along, then that is probably how he will be in any situaiton.

2. As Mark said, one big difference in FFO is that the UK is not alone, financially broken, and exhausted (yet, at any rate) as early as in OTL. This is a major, even if barely visible, difference in how relationships stack up.


GaryJ
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