Posted on 12/23/2021 3:49:30 AM PST by Chad C. Mulligan
Too bad Patton couldn’t have been elected in 1944 and then succeeded by Taft/MacArthur in 1952. Taft, of course, still would’ve died in the Summer of 1953 due to his poor health, which would’ve elevated VP MacArthur to the top job after just 6 months. It would’ve been curious to see what this trio could’ve done over a 16 year period to bring the country back to the small-government and low-tax 1920s (albeit with a stronger and larger military). The prosperity and growth would’ve been without equal. We’d probably be 100 years ahead of where we are today across the board.
FDR would’ve preferred Justice “Wild Bill” Douglas as his VP in 1944. Douglas scarcely differed from the pro-Soviet Wallace. Truman, of course, was no prize.
“Truman, of course, was no prize,” but he was better than any of the other choices and a lot better than any Democrat that followed him.
Actually, no. He was an epic fiasco. His refusal to allow MacArthur to follow through in China to defeat Mao set the stage for everything to this day. A Nationalist China under Chiang would’ve been an ally to us and there wouldn’t have been a Communist proliferation (or wins) in Korea or Vietnam. He also did nothing to stop an increasing Communist infiltration of our government and institutions. He was more indignant at the claims than anything else. He was the product of a corrupt urban political machine in Kansas City.
Jewish people need to remind themselves he did VERY little to stop the concentration camps... In 1939 he turned away 60.000 Spanish refugees who were forcd to seek refuge in Mexico. My father spoke of thim with contempt.
https://jewishworldnews.org/katie-couric-wasnt-the-first-fdr-truman-and-the-jews/
… President Roosevelt’s image has also benefitted from another troubling omission, this one courtesy of the State Department. At the Yalta Conference, in February 1945, Roosevelt mentioned to Josef Stalin that he would soon be seeing Saudi Arabia’s king, Ibn Saud. Stalin asked if FDR intended to make any concessions to Saud. According to the transcript, “The President replied that there was only one concession he thought he might offer and that was to give him the six million Jews in the United States.”
But when the State Department published the transcript in 1955, Roosevelt’s unpleasant remark about Jews was omitted. More than fifty years later, a researcher discovered that then-Assistant Secretary of State Walter Bedell Smith had crossed out the comment about Jews prior to publication, and had written in the margin: “Delete this–it is not pertinent history.”…
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