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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Washington set the precedent and example for others, which FDR declined to follow because of the impending War.

"Bad" is always better than "worse." If FDR had decided to not run, the most likely candidate would have been Henry Wallace; he would have handled the war similarly to FDR, but would have given Stalin everything he wanted after the war (remember, he was the 1948 Progressive Party candidate). If Wallace had been defeated by Wendell Wilkie, Wilkie had left the Dems because of FDR aggrandizing power, so he was the original assistant Democrat. His famous 1942 book? One World. All you need to know.

29 posted on 04/15/2024 12:46:43 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: chajin
he would have handled the war similarly to FDR, but would have given Stalin everything he wanted after the war

that already happened. When we did not enter Berlin and allowed the Soviets to occupy it as we stood back it was a disaster that cost us the rest of the 20th century.

36 posted on 04/15/2024 12:59:03 PM PDT by frogjerk (More people have died trusting the government than not trusting the government.)
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