She was right on WWI, not so much WWII.
“Jeanette Rankin. Only vote against WWII.
She was right on WWI, not so much WWII.”
Very few people today understand much that fall outside the walls of their current silo or bubble.
She was a lifelong pacifist. Nixon was raised in the pacifist Quaker tradition.
Nixon joined the US Navy to serve his country in time of war.
My grandfaather was born one year after Raankin, and later registered for the WWI draft in Montana.
In WWII his son, my father age 17 rode the bus to Billings Montana, the train to San Diego to join the Marines.