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To: freedumb2003

Double irony: didn’t it finally emerge that Henry Wallace was a communist agent, and that was why FDR dropped him from the ticket?


4 posted on 09/10/2009 2:43:30 PM PDT by La Lydia
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To: La Lydia
Double irony: didn’t it finally emerge that Henry Wallace was a communist agent, and that was why FDR dropped him from the ticket?

He was definitely a Communist sympathizer and "useful idiot" but I don't think he was a formal Soviet agent per se. He served as Roosevelt's VP for a term but the Democrat Party named Harry Truman to replace him in the next election. Wallace later was the 1948 Presidential candidate for -- guess what -- the Progressive Party.

23 posted on 09/10/2009 4:17:11 PM PDT by Bernard Marx ("Civilizations die by suicide, not from murder" Toynbee)
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