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DerekG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-11-04 06:07 AM Original message |
FDR scholars: Why was Henry Wallace dumped from the '44 ticket? |
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Wapsie B (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-11-04 06:10 AM Response to Original message |
1. Interesting question. |
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DemocratSinceBirth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-11-04 06:17 AM Response to Original message |
2. Respectfully... |
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DemocratSinceBirth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-11-04 06:23 AM Response to Reply #2 |
3. What A Fair Dispassionate Assessment |
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Radical Activist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-13-04 12:38 AM Response to Reply #3 |
25. Schlesinger had his own biases |
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DemocratSinceBirth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-13-04 05:50 AM Response to Reply #25 |
29. I Respect Vidal As A Polemicist Or Gadfly But Not As A Historian... |
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TaleWgnDg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-11-04 06:32 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Indeed. Gore Vidal has an axe to grind and does so quite often |
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DemocratSinceBirth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-11-04 06:37 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. He's Not A Great Historian But He Is A Great Polemicist.... |
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gjb (197 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-12-04 10:31 PM Response to Reply #4 |
24. Yeah but it's the right axe. History is written by the ruling class. |
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NNadir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-11-04 06:51 AM Response to Original message |
6. Believe it or not, FDR's election was no shoe in in 1944. |
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DemocratSinceBirth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-11-04 06:56 AM Response to Reply #6 |
7. Everything Up ToYour Last Statement Was Fine.... |
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NNadir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-11-04 06:58 AM Response to Reply #7 |
8. Many people worked hard to defeat Hitler in 1932. |
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DemocratSinceBirth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-11-04 07:04 AM Response to Reply #8 |
10. How About "Good Germans" Like Willie Brandt.... |
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NNadir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-11-04 07:57 AM Response to Reply #10 |
11. There are significant differences between "original sin" and the guilt |
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murielm99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-11-04 06:58 AM Response to Reply #6 |
9. Bravo! |
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Zynx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-12-04 09:54 PM Response to Reply #6 |
18. Your post is very accurate. |
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liberalpragmatist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-12-04 10:18 PM Response to Reply #6 |
22. If the public knew how sick Roosevelt was, Dewey would've been elected |
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tsuki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-12-04 10:31 PM Response to Reply #6 |
23. Also, I was given to understand it was his commission, senate |
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AP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-13-04 01:36 AM Response to Reply #6 |
27. My impression was that FDR wanted to get away from Harvard & elitism. |
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bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-11-04 10:10 AM Response to Original message |
12. Yes, and yes. |
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JohnKleeb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-11-04 10:17 AM Response to Original message |
13. Ive read |
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Blue Wally (974 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-11-04 11:01 AM Response to Reply #13 |
14. Another historian once said...... |
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NNadir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-11-04 02:27 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. You have the general flavor, but the only "Party Leader" that actually |
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EVDebs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-12-04 09:44 PM Response to Original message |
16. Some TV show said he either leaked info or inadvertently spied |
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Zynx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-12-04 09:50 PM Response to Original message |
17. Don't look upon Henry Wallace favorably. |
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EVDebs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-12-04 10:05 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. Truman was also a Freemason, as was FDR for what it's worth |
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Julien Sorel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-12-04 10:06 PM Response to Original message |
20. I'm hardly an FDR scholar. |
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liberalpragmatist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-12-04 10:16 PM Response to Original message |
21. A President Wallace May Have Destroyed the Democratic Party |
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Radical Activist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-13-04 12:57 AM Response to Original message |
26. He was getting too liberal |
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DemocratSinceBirth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-13-04 05:52 AM Response to Reply #26 |
30. Maybe We Never Had Socialism |
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Blue Wally (974 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-13-04 06:24 AM Response to Reply #26 |
31. The unions were against socialism as well |
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T Town Jake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-13-04 02:08 AM Response to Original message |
28. Harry Truman told a story... |
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