My dad had a picture of FDR on his mantle....later it was joined by a picture of Ronald Reagan. I use to point out the irony. He eventually conceded FDR wasn’t what he thought he was.
I wish my Dad had lived longer. I’m sure I could have gotten him to vote Republican.
“My dad had a picture of FDR on his mantle....later it was joined by a picture of Ronald Reagan. I use to point out the irony. He eventually conceded FDR wasn’t what he thought he was.”
There may not have been a reason for him to do so. Ronald Reagan voted for FDR and didn’t disavow that decision later in life:
” He readily admitted he had voted for FDR four times and in 1982 wrote in his diary that he was trying to “undo the Great Society,” not the New Deal. He always said that he had not left the Democratic Party, the Democratic Party had left him. He even quoted FDR directly in the 1964 television speech on behalf of Barry Goldwater that made him a national figure.”
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/07/02/reagan_fdrs_true_heir_134354.html