There are so many good quotes in that article - but you picked up on ones that I also found pertinent. But like I said, although a long read, it is AMAZING how the same things are being set in motion today by Obama, and it makes for good reading. I imagine Obama is using FDR’s playbook in the hope of completing FDR’s vision.
Interesting, and scary, information on FDR’s attacks against his opponents.
The DOJ prosecutor was O. John Rogge who was a personal acquaintance of Stalin's, maybe even a friend if anyone could be his friend. Rogge did visit with Stalin.
Truman fired Rogge from DOJ.
Truman, Prompted By Wheeler, Ordered Dismissal Of Rogge
.. but some of the luster is removed from Truman's act when I read that Rogge prosecuted Kansas City Boss Tom Pendergast the man who got Truman a seat in the U.S. Senate. Truman didn't need much prompting. Also..
the article verifies that Rogge actually did go to Germany after the war to try to find ways to link the Nazis to Americans with whom he had disputes (like a Senator friend of President Truman's and labor leader John L. Lewis). That's probably what got him fired.. not his illegal persecutions of FDR critics.