[Proud_texan]

I've gone back and forth on that one, certainly FDR had some real scum working for him. For instance the original Harold Ickes who, amoung other things, was his Secretary of the Interior and started the PWA. I don't hold a very high opinion of the Ickes family (notice how the Clinton version never held a position that required confirmation.....

On the other hand FDR was pretty sick by Potsdam and, as best as I can tell, he had allowed his administration to be pretty well inflitrated by commies.

So he was either a commie or a chump, maybe a bit of both, but tied with LBJ for visiting the biggest disasters on future generations.

BTW, thanks for the link, have it bookmarked for additional study, looks like great stuff, appreciate it.

[risk]

BTW, thanks for the link, have it bookmarked for additional study, looks like great stuff, appreciate it.

You're welcome. Please post your thoughts in a vanity or under a related article if you get the time.

To say that FDR loved Stalin is not to say that he himself was a communist. An interesting quote from French philospher Jean Paul Sartre right up until Soviet tanks entered Budhapest in 1956 believed that Russian communism had a future. In 1954 he blithely said, "there is a total freedom of criticism in the USSR."

Stalin had been conducting pogroms for decades by this time, and yet he was able to fool many outsiders, including Walter Duranty who recieved the 1932 Pulitzer prize. for his glowing report on Soviet progress. Lincoln Steffens after visiting Russian in 1919 said, I've seen the future, and it works!"

But others were very skeptical about communism well before Simon Sebag Montefiore says (with what proof?) that FDR wanted to use Stalin and the USSR as a balance against British imperialism. (I'm still not confident in that quote at all.)

I've seen the future, and it kills!