Posted on 08/08/2025 12:06:27 PM PDT by TBP
You beat me to it. Coolidge was a silent giant.
You think? More proof for Charlie that college is a scam.
Grandpa called the WPA “We Poke Along” after watching some of the crews “working”.
Hell naw!
Hello to pissant! Haven’t seen you on here for a while.
We don’t make deals with government. The entire concept of a ‘New Deal’ is antithetical to the foundations of America. Any and all power that anyone in government has is granted to them by us.
I was born 11 months after FDR assumed the Presidency...
By the time WWII started, I was 8 and understood what a POS he was...
Yeah no, the only thing he was great at ead being a great War leader
Otherwise an absolut3 disaster.
FDR imprisoned US citizens without trial simply for being the wrong race and ethnicity.
Sounds pretty villainous, to me.
” had its own incredible wartime leader: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.”
He was whipped like a servile dog by Stalin, over and over. He and Harry Hopkins were completely unable to represent the United States effectively whenever Stalin wanted anything at all, no matter how unreasonable. And this was true long before Roosevelt was a near vegetable at the Yalta conference.
Hopkins, Roosevelt’s closest aide was an enthusiastic supporter of Stalin. We don’t know if he was an actual Soviet agent or just a useful idiot. Many others in Roosevelt’s administration were actual Soviet spies.
Roosevelt hired these people and let Hopkins run amok. He let another Soviet spy goad him into imposing the sanctions that caused Japan to start WWII with the US.
He was an awful wartime leader.
Truman let Communists continue to burrow into the Government
Eisenhower also.
FDR ‘s biggest Mahoritoes and deepest popularity was in the South.
Majorities.
I don't think McClellan's heart was in it. By all accounts, he was a brilliant general, but I think he saw the war as wrong, and wanted to delay until Lincoln was gone.
It's just a theory, but it explains everything McClellan did and didn't do.
Perhaps the same is true of some of the other Generals, but I don't know all that much about the prosecution of the war. I have always been focused on the lead-up to the war.
Once it was started, the outcome was inevitable. 4-5 times the manpower to draw on, and probably 10 times the industrial base.
It is a wonder it took as long as it did.
Sherman was a bit of a fanatic. You can see it in his writings. Fanatics can sometimes make good fanatical leaders because they are driven to win.
Jackson would have ended the War in mounths.
“We Poke Along” — LOL, that’s a good one. Of course, those WPA layabouts could learn a lot from the people building the California choo-choo. At least WPA got stuff built.
FDR was a Socialist who gave us Social Security, the National Labor Relations Act, the National Firearms Act, the welfare state, he took measures that insured Japan would attack the USA in an act of self-preservation, and he cleared the way for an endlessly-expanding federal government.
Not good!
FDR was a commie. Loved him some Uncle Joe Stalin.
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