Political Harm Quotes



Theodore Roosevelt was the Presidential nominee. Wendell Wilkie, 1892-1944, Republican candidate for President (IN), was perhaps the nation’s greatest proponent of bipartisanship. Despite the fact that he ran against FDR in 1940 and was a staunch Republican, for him the danger of Hitler and the Fascists was a problem that all Americans needed to do something about. He proceeded to lead many Republicans and independents to Support of President Roosevelt, aid to England, and preparedness for war and the military draft. His support overcame the more conservative Republicans who were isolationists and some were admirers of Hitler.