Posted on 06/08/2004 6:19:25 AM PDT by Theodore R.
Please. It is actually uplifting to everyone who has read it.
beautiful. thanks.
I never had any respect for him. Welcome to the club.
Which begs the question: Was Roosevelt a good president?
If there was a poll with this question:
Was Roosevelt a good president?
I would not vote, unless there is a Hell No choice.
You are faking it aren't you ; )
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What would you say about his foresight to build hydroelectric dams like the Hoover Dam and the Grand Coulee Dam to generate enough electricity to make aluminum to build aircraft? The Hoover Dam project was perhaps started before his administration but wasn't he a big supporter of cheap electricity for this purpose?
no, i read it. i had just been back to the Nancy's last moments with RR thread and was already teared up and figured i would just get through your pome. i am glad i did. : )
When Reagan called FDR a great president, he remembered what it was like to be in the grip of depression and the hope FDR brought. Just like those of us who remember the Carter years. Reagan is great because he was able to lead us back from the abyss... FDR did the same for his generation.
No.
So you believe we should have just starved out the masses in the depression? Sorry I can't hop on that wagon in the context of those times.
Modern Welfare has no comparison to the WPA. Work was required.
Do you think the US and Great Britan could have stopped the Nazis without Stalin chasing them back to Berlin?
FDR was a terrible president saved only by WW II that "cured" the depression. His handling of foreign policy, especially benefitting Stalin, was a disaster that we still suffer from due to the massive tax money lavished on Russia and former Russian satellites, along with the trillion dollar socialistic mishmash he created. The writer is an obvious RAT with his own weird agenda, so he can be ignored. I hope to see him eat his words about Bush "being turned out of office."
Newt Gingrich calls F.D.R. the greatest President of the century. Bob Dole praises F.D.R. as an "energetic and inspiring leader during the dark days of the Depression; a tough, single-minded Commander in Chief during World War II; and a statesman."
"Where'd you get this?"
I saw a program on TV - it was the History Channel or Discovery.
The program stated that the Lusitania, a passenger ship, was illegally carrying munitions aboard and German Intelligence was aware of it, and German newspapers warned civlians not to sail on it. It also said that the ship was charting a course into waters infested with German submarines and the destroyer escourts abandoned it as it was entering those waters.
What's so difficult to believe about this?? Churchill was once asked how many American soldiers should be sent over to help in WW1. He supposedly stated "Just one. We'll take very good care of him and make sure we put him someplace where he is sure to be shot."
The reluctance of Americans to get involved with foreign wars was well-known. Their equal irrascibility once aroused was also.
"The German skipper later said that he didn't think that a single torpedo was enough to sink such a large ship."
And the Souix indians said that the Seventh Cavalry shot themselves. Why would the skipper of a U-Boar responsible for such a tragic attack say anything we could trust?
"Now, if you want to say that FDR 'provoked' the Japanese by embargoing Steel, Rubber & Texas Crude, I might go along with that."
He did more than that. He sent American Naval forces into Japanese territorial waters to antagonize them. And even if Washington suspected the main attack at the Phillipines, you would have expected, under the circumstances, that the Administration would have made sure that our major naval base in the Pacific was on high alert while all this was going on. The reason it wasn't I believe, is because Roosevelt wanted an attack which would unite public opinion behind his war to help Joe Stalin.
As for the Japanese Codes, I don't know for sure when we had broken them, but I HAVE read they were broken BEFORE the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Either way, the attack on Pearly Harbor was CERTAINLY not something FDR should not have anticipated, given all the many provocations delivered to the Japanese beforehand.
It was hardly the equivalent of 9-1-1.
Buchanan, infamous for "Buchanan's Blunder" was another president willing to make war on his own people, simply due to their religious beliefs (sorta like Clinton at Waco...). Buchanan lost that war.
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