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To: Theodore R.
Didn’t Henry Wallace later renounce his liberalism and endorse that liberal Richard Nixon in 1968?

If he did I'm unaware of it, and I'd be hard put to explain, if it's the same Henry Wallace, why a lifelong Red would endorse the consummate and preeminent anticommunist politician of his day.

29 posted on 04/20/2012 10:20:07 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: lentulusgracchus; Theodore R.
Theodore R. appears to remember correctly.

From Wikipedia, FWIW:

In 1950, when North Korea invaded South Korea, Wallace broke with the Progressives and backed the U.S.-led war effort in the Korean War.[5] In 1952, Wallace published Where I Was Wrong, in which he explained that his seemingly-trusting stance toward the Soviet Union and Joseph Stalin stemmed from inadequate information about Stalin's excesses and that he, too, now considered himself an anti-Communist. He wrote various letters to "people who he thought had traduced (maligned) him" and advocated the re-election of President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1956.[5]

In 1961, President-elect John F. Kennedy invited him to his inauguration ceremony, though he had supported Kennedy's opponent Richard Nixon. A touched Wallace wrote to Kennedy: "At no time in our history have so many tens of millions of people been so completely enthusiastic about an Inaugural Address as about yours."[5]

I learned something, too.

30 posted on 04/20/2012 10:31:44 PM PDT by okie01
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