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To: dfwgator

Your suggestion makes sense on why someone might want FDR around longer. I can’t imagine holding that position, but there are many things I can’t imagine that other people think are true.

If one were limited to choosing American politicians that one wished had died sooner, I think he would be making a lot of lists (FDR, not Truman).

I kind of wish that Jefferson had died just before the Louisiana purchase—while it was a great deal in many ways, it kind of undermined the strict constructionist position. I have a huge admiration for Jefferson, but view the act as something of the equivalent of the original sin against the Constitution. Being patient and finding a way to do things correctly, I believe, might have made a huge difference.


321 posted on 05/29/2019 10:08:34 AM PDT by Hieronymus ("I shall drink--to the Pope, if you please,-still, to Conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.")
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To: Hieronymus

The British would have grabbed it all & with their fleet enforced it!

An Indian Confederation counterweight could have been formed with British help - think Tecumseh and his efforts.
Western expansion would have been harder, bloodier & and an international issue since the British were involved.


322 posted on 05/29/2019 10:15:50 AM PDT by Reily
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To: Hieronymus

I have mixed feelings on FDR, I think he was a good wartime President, but he did have some bad actors in his Administration, I don’t know who could have done a better job during the War, amongst his contemporaries, it wasn’t as if the Republicans of that time were much better, Wilkie was a joke.


323 posted on 05/29/2019 2:37:49 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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