Roosevelt instead of Truman at Potsdam

How important was President Truman at the Potsdam Conference, and what might change if Franklin Roosevelt were still president?

The panel speculates that Roosevelt's established relationship with Stalin could preserve some personal continuity and alter the agreement, without specifying different treaty terms.

The discussion focuses on the later Potsdam trio of Truman, Attlee and Stalin. Within that group, Stalin was the remaining member of the established wartime partnership. Truman lacked Roosevelt's relationship with him, while the panel describes Attlee as viewed suspiciously in both Washington and Moscow. The counterfactual is the panel's speculation that Roosevelt's survival could preserve some personal trust and produce a slightly different agreement. No specific alternative treaty terms are proposed. The discussion then explains why allied countries arrange contacts between rising politicians across party lines: established national partnerships still need relationships between successive leaders.