Posted on 07/12/2014 5:11:09 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
Good thing Roosevelt chose Truman as his VP. Henry Wallace was a Soviet sympathizer. Truman was a Democrat, but loved America and tried to do right.
‘Let’ is not the right word. Let me clarify. My only source in this is my old copy of David McCullough's TRUMAN, FDR told Wallace that he was his choice for VP, but the choice at that time was not FDR's alone to make obviously. FDR could have put up a real fight for Wallace but was convinced by his advisors not to. But letting it be thrown entirely to the convention and not doing more than making a basic statement that he would vote for Wallace were he one of the delegates, FDR let Wallace be replaced by Truman.
http://www.nebraskaaircrash.com/crashsites/daykin1.html
Seventy years ago today a P-47 Fighter pilot 2nd Lt. Charles F. Jewett from Lakeland, FL became a WWII statistic along with seven crew members of the B-17. They were part of the more than 15,000 training fatalities Unfortunately, portions of the two planes were for a very short time occupying the same air space. This accident occurred approximately four miles south of the Nebraska farm which was my childhood home.
The area is near what was at that time Bruning Army Air Field and practically every day, fighter planes would fill the skies doing dog fights. When a flight of bombers came over, they would attack that formation. I was four and a half years old at the time and remember that my two older brothers, my younger sister and I, if we were not outside already, would always run out of the house to watch the action.
I did not see the accident, but both of my brothers did. They said that the fighter plane clipped the tail off the bomber. We did, however, in a day or two, pile into the Model A and toured the area. The P-47 was in my eyes at the time, in a large round, deep hole with oil and water. I do not remember there being a crater. The pilot was still with the plane. We never heard if he or his plane were recovered.
Parts of the bomber were strewn over a wider area. The main part, the fuselage was located a short distance from the road and Mother said that there were guards. She seemed to think that some bodies were still in there. Don’t remember seeing the tail, but sitting near the road in a wheat field was an engine, prop still attached with a burned spot around it in the wheat field.
In the 90s, I had occasion to look for the P-47 with a prototype mapping metal detector and was not successful in locating any buried metal structures. Turns out that to find something that is lost underground, it helps a lot to know where it is. Our system would do about an acre an hour at 5’ data point spacing. We did 10’ spacing, but likely did not have the right spot. The photo seems to indicate that we were too far east, not far enough into the field.
You may remember, in the past I've posted that President Obama's political "father" was Lyndon Johnson and "grandfather" Franklin Roosevelt.
Well, now I'd say that's way too generous to Obama, and even insulting to Johnson & FDR.
Obama's political "father" is, of course, Jimmy Carter and "grandfather" Henry Wallace.
Just imagine a Wallace presidency, and that's what we have now, only worse.
Uh, you are totally missing the anti-Wallace movement by major democratic leaders. FDR was not convinced by his advisors. Wallace was defeated due to political maneuvering by major democrats at the convention.
The democratic leaders knew FDR was at death’s door and they in NO WAY would allow Wallace to become president.
FDR was a worn out old man and had no real fight/say in the process.
What was Wallace’s major problem? It wouldn’t have been being too pro-Soviet; the USSR was our ally in 1944 (that certainly was Wallace’s problem when he ran for President independently in 1948 and only got 2% of the vote)).
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