Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
[General Douglas] Macarthur is the most dangerous man in America.
He was assessing him with the demagogue Huey Long and determining that MacArthur was more dangerous, This was based on his brutal suppression of the Veterans who protested and camped in Washington to get the Bonus that Congress had promised them from WWI but would not appropriate the money, MacArthur’s huge ego and ambition, and his penchant for self-promotion. FDR did not at the time know of course that MacArthur would disobey his orders and almost start WWIII later by attacking China in the Korean War. President Truman fired MacArthur. See {638721} for the way FDR tried to handle him. In 2014, historian Mark Perry, would use this quotation as the title of his biography of MacArthur.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882-1945, 32nd President of the United States (Democrat, NY), Quoted in Evan Thomas, “A military pioneer but so vainglorious”, The Washington Post, March 30, 2014
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While Jefferson appreciated Jackson’s military prowess, that was about all.
he always called him by his first name The name Mad Anthony Wayne stuck.
Kennedy hated Roosevelt who had forced him to resign as the U. S. Ambassador to England. Kennedy was an admirer of Mussolini and Hitler. He had allied himself with the part of the British aristocracy that was pro Fascist and opposed Winston Churchill and the democratic element in Britain. Kennedy had opposed aid to Britain to fight Hitler and advised all who would listen that Britain could and would not stand up to Germany. Roosevelt’s support of Britain with Lend Lease and other means proved Kennedy wrong pragmatically and Kennedy’s own statements had forever proved him wrong morally. Although Kennedy opposed our entry in WWII, his sons did not. His oldest son volunteered for a very dangerous mission and was killed. Kennedy blamed his death on Roosevelt {616651} and forever after slandered FDR whenever he got a chance until his son Jack got into politics when his ambition for his son outweighed his hatred.
The Governor was opposed to all involvement in politics by organizations other than the political parties – especially those which advocated reform. While the League became a non-partisan educational organization, at the time they worked to unseat some of the more sexist legislators including some of Miller’s allies.
This quotation is important for two reasons. First, this is one of the most negative attacks on an opponent in a Presidential election in all of American History—to call the opponent ‘dangerous’ to the nation. Second, it is a classic example of two close political friends and allies, after a falling out. Roosevelt had in effect made Taft President in 1908, but Roosevelt was extremely disappointed as Taft was controllable by the Republican Party bosses, who hated Roosevelt. TR then challenged the then sitting President for the Republican Presidential nomination. At that time there were 12 states that had primary elections and Roosevelt won 9 of them. La Follette won 2 and Taft only 1. The majority of the states did not then have primaries allowing the party bosses to make the decision of which candidate to support. Party leaders generally did not like Roosevelt who was a major reformer, so they voted for Taft at the convention pushing him over the top when he clearly was the less popular of all 3 candidates. Roosevelt, outraged by the party bosses overriding the will of the people, then walked out of the convention and organized his own convention and TR ran as the Progressive Party (Bull Moose Party). In the general election Roosevelt got more votes than Taft, but the two of them had split the majority Republican vote and the Democrat, Woodrow Wilson was the winner.
While Jones and Falwell were both fundamentalist, conservative Christians, Jones was very concerned that the Falwell propensity for being active in partisan politics would undermine Christian duty and faith as political compromises are always made and alliances require not attacking or criticizing political allies. Jones wanted Christians to be comfortable attacking the Republicans when they were morally deficient just as well as Democrats. He thought that Falwell’s approach was tempting for Christians but would undermine and destroy the integrity of Christians in America. Hence Falwell was dangerous.
Although a fervent Nazi, he detested Hitler. When Hitler consolidated power, one of the first things he did in 1934 was to order his guards to murder Strasser, just as Strasser had feared.
Gingrich was one of the most polarizing political figures of his era. He conflated liberals with intellectuals, and people he called “elites” creating a form of class warfare where the class divisions were educational and cultural instead of socioeconomic.
At the time, the Russian economy was dominated by and dependent upon their exports of oil and natural gas. The rest of the economy was relatively weak.
The President was then Theodore Roosevelt who was then the most popular President the nation had ever had since George Washington. Van Cleave was rabidly opposed to any anti-trust government “interference” with business and he was also virulently opposed to labor unions. See {638616}, {638615}, {638614}, and {638612}.
that MacArthur should command the final assault on Japan. The Atomic Bomb later made the final assault unnecessary. Almost every officer who worked with MacArthur—except those on his personal staff—found him an overbearing egomaniac who was militarily capable, but nowhere near as capable as he saw himself. In success he rarely shared the limelight with anyone else, but would rarely take the blame when things were not as successful as all had hoped. Stimson and President Roosevelt had decided that MacArthur should lead the invasion on Japan, and discovered all this hostility amongst MacArthur’s colleagues. It was much easier to place MacArthur in charge of Post War Japan where he would not work that closely with so many senior officers throughout the services. He did a brilliant job governing Japan but still alienated other senior officers. MacArthur was so egotistical that he thought that he could run the country far better than FDR and in 1944 thought of running against the President.
The only soldier ever so honored
Early in the Donald Trump Presidency, some of his first decisions, including his Anti-Muslim ban on immigration and vistitation from 7 Islamic nations, were very distrubing to amy politicians experienced in national security and defense. 100 leaders from past adminsitrations, Democratic and Republicans, signed a petition warning that the travek ban endangered our national security. Then 1000 U. S. State Department Diplomats signed a letter advising the President to recind the order for similar reasons. Malinowski was asked if this kind of opposition to a new presidents actions was unusual. This quotation was his reply. Not the use of sarcasim. He states what happened in very stark terms and then says that it is not unusual and there is notjing to worry about, when it was withotu precedent ever and very worrisome to him and others. Quotations using sarcasim are very problimatical becasue just a literal reading, would lead us to believe he was not concened with sich a common occurance.
Northam, then the Virginia Lieutenant Governor, was campaigning to be the Virginia Governor. President Donald Tump had been in office less than 4 months, but his approval rating was the lowest in the early stages of a Presidential term of any President since such a measue had been made. Most of the hostility toward Trump was based on his personal characteristics, his prevaricationsm, and inconsistency. However, no politican in modern history had run for a high State position by attacking a President with such strong terms. However, many psychologists and psychiatrists also agreed with Northam who was a Physician as well as a politician.
- Born: January 30, 1882
- Died: April 12, 1945
- Nationality: American
- Profession: President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, often referred to by his initials FDR, was an American politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. A member of the Democratic Party, he won a record four presidential elections and became a central figure in world events during the first half of the 20th century. Roosevelt directed the federal government during most of the Great Depression, implementing his New Deal domestic agenda in response to the worst economic crisis in U.S. history. As a dominant leader of his party, he built the New Deal Coalition, which defined modern liberalism in the United States throughout the middle third of the 20th century. His third and fourth terms were dominated by World War II, which ended shortly after he died in office.
