[Impy]

Check this out “FDR had his own Bolton” One of his major speechwriters turned on him and became a conservative Republican and wrote an indictment of the new deal.

https://www.newsmax.com/john-gizzi/john-bolton-fdr-raymond-moley-conservative/2020/06/21/id/973362/

I never heard of this guy

[dfwgator]

Even Henry Wallace in his latter years because a staunch Anti-Communist.

[BillyBoy]

Hell, FDR has his own "Ron Reagan Jr", as his youngest son, John Roosevelt. He officially announced he was switching to the GOP in 1947 and became increasingly conservative over the year. He vocally campaigned for Eisenhower in '52 and '56 over the rest of the family's wishes, and became a hardcore Nixon defender, causing considerable embarrassment to his mommy Eleanor.

I wonder what the Teddy Roosevelt wing of the family felt about that. I believe they are still Republicans, though his namesake great grandson "Teddy Roosevelt IV" is pretty much a useless RINO douche.

[BillyBoy]

"In the last week, several historians have concluded, before Bolton, the last former top White House official to come out with a critical book on the President he served while he was still in the White House was Moley."

HUH?

These "historians" apparently have amnesia about former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill's "The Price of Loyalty", an book of Neill's 'memoirs' which was EXTREMELY critical of Bush and released in 2004 when Bush still in the White House (and indeed, hadn't even started his second term yet!)

The liberal MSM made it front page news to bash Bush at the time (O'Neill spent 90% of the book bashing Bush over Iraq, good thing the guy in charge of the domestic U.S. Treasury Dept. was such an "expert insider" on foreign policy discussions), and now apparently has forgotten the book exists so they can create this "no high ranking cabinet official has ever turned against a President they served so quickly" narrative. Maybe we should send them some copies of the book to "remind" them.

But, to be fair, our side gets amnesia about events from a decade earlier too. Rudy Giuliani claiming "no Presidential impeachment has ever been partisan". Yeah, oddles of Democrats happily voted to impeach Slick Willie, right?

[fieldmarshaldj]

Raymond Moley. I have his autograph. :-P