Political Resentment Quotes
Seward had been the odds on favorite to win the Republican Presidential nomination and was totally surprised when he did not and Lincoln did. Seward was one of the most prominent politicians in the nation while Lincoln was a relative unknown who had served a single non descript term in the House of Representatives. However, there were other prominent Republicans contesting for the nomination. Lincoln’s team followed a strategy of trying to be the second choice of many of the delegations who favored another candidate. When none of the front runners could muster a majority, delegations started shifting to their second choices and that’s when Lincoln ended up with the majority beating his better known opponents.
Truman told Kennedy to keep quiet or he would "throw him out the window." Truman was about to physically attack Kennedy he was so angry. Kennedy was a Nazi sympathizer and an admirer of Mussolini and Hitler and this ended his active political career. His oldest son Joe was his favorite, but Joe did not share his father’s fascist inclinations. He not only enlisted for service in WWII but he volunteered for a very risky secret mission on which he was killed. Kennedy blamed Roosevelt for assisting England (he had been the ambassador was pro Hitler and had urged against American involvement) and hence the war. Kennedy’s oldest son Joe, had enlisted to fight Germany. He was a pilot who had volunteered for a very dangerous secret mission in which his plane blew up and he was killed. Joseph Kennedy blamed Roosevelt personally for the death of Joe. Driven out of active politics, Kennedy used his wealth to promote his second son’s political career, and JFK and his brothers had managed thereafter to be politicians in the mold of Franklin D. Roosevelt and reject their father’s political philosophy. To this day, most Americans have no idea that the elder Kennedy held such positions.
