Posted on 10/23/2006 2:07:13 PM PDT by Fedora
Its like shooting fish in a barrel.
I've always viewed that as Joseph Kennedy following the Nazi party line, and backing off from it after FDR chewed him out. MI5 and the FBI raised concerns about him after he hired a Nazi spy named Tyler Kent to his staff in late 1939. In December 1940 the FBI reported to FDR that Kennedy was involved in negotiating a peace between Germany and Nazi sympathizers in France, prompting FDR to hold a cabinet meeting about what to do with Kennedy. A bit after that Kennedy made a public statement attacking Lend-Lease. That was the last straw for FDR, and he called Kennedy in and personally laid into him. I believe Kennedy's shift in party line started after that incident.
I've always viewed that as Joseph Kennedy following the Nazi party line, and backing off from it after FDR chewed him out. MI5 and the FBI raised concerns about him after he hired a Nazi spy named Tyler Kent to his staff in late 1939. In December 1940 the FBI reported to FDR that Kennedy was involved in negotiating a peace between Germany and Nazi sympathizers in France, prompting FDR to hold a cabinet meeting about what to do with Kennedy. A bit after that Kennedy made a public statement attacking Lend-Lease. That was the last straw for FDR, and he called Kennedy in and personally laid into him. I believe Kennedy's shift in party line started after that incident.
Sorry about the double-post; my server's not connecting well this afternoon.
Thanks. You know a lot more about this than I do. Mostly I'm going from old memories and things read a long time ago.
LOL, he could roll like a ball!
bump
Excellent work...
Harold Ickes the Elder and Junior.
check out the last 100 posts....
gOOgling FOAMEX INTERNATIONAL DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS
was interesting considering the losses apparent in the time frame from 9/11 to the Iraq War.
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_102406/content/institute.guest.html
"For example, yesterday, (I) gave you the story, Senator Kennedy actually tried to get Yuri Andropov in 1983, the leader of the Soviet Communist Party, the dictator of the Soviet Union, the president of worldwide communism, to go on American TV to trash Ronald Reagan to help defeat Reagan's reelection in 1984 and to warn the American people that it was Reagan that threatened world peace because he was a nuclear cowboy. It was Ted Kennedy that did this. The letter that he sent to the KGB that was then to be transferred to Andropov, Yuri Andropov, has been discovered and is in a book by a professor named Paul Kenger and that book came out last week.
It was the same thing with the Contras in Nicaragua. It was commonplace, Daniel Ortega, the Soviet satellite, communist leader in Nicaragua, the Sandanista movement would routinely embarrass Democrats who supported them as they opposed President Reagan's attempt to fund freedom fighters so that freedom and capitalism and a market economy could develop in Nicaragua. They would routinely dispatch people like George Miller, congressman from California, down to slap Ortega around when he embarrassed the Democrats. John Kerry. Jim Wright was the speaker of House, Jim Jones, a former member of Congress from Oklahoma, they all got together. Patsy Schroeder wrote a "Dear Comandante" letter, "Dear Comandante Ortega," basically saying we Democrats are your friends; we'll do what we can to protect you from Ronald Reagan; Reagan is the problem. They lionize Fidel Castro. They do things in such a way that make leaders like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hugo Chavez come to the United Nations and tear a hole through the United States of America by saying essentially the same things about George Bush that the Democrats have been saying, the liberals have. They are who they are. "
Will do!
thank you for the post..
I have been reading them for the last few hours, with breaks for family..LOL
Fascinating stuff..and ALL of the freepers that have contributed are great..and I thank them all...especially Fedora.
That is interesting. I haven't looked into it in sufficient depth to draw any conclusions, but I think in light of his past anything Tunney is involved with merits scrutiny.
Thanks for the ping!
Thanks! Glad to see Kengor has generated some publicity. The Nicaragua parallel is also interesting in light of the fact that was occurring at the same time and also involved some of Kennedy's associates, e.g. John Kerry, Tip O'Neill.
You're most welcome; and thank you for taking the time to read the thread.
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