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To: Dave S
(FDR)wasnt a Communist any more than Eisenhower was

I agree that FDR was not a communist. But he was almost held hostage in the White House by communists. His wife was a Red:

"Smearing good people like Alger Hiss and Lauchlin Currie is, I think, unforgivable...Anyone knowing either Mr. Currie or Mr. Hiss, who are two people whom I happen to know fairly well, would not need any denial on their part to know they are not Communists. Their records prove it."--Eleanor Roosevelt. August 16, 1948

Alger Hiss, who traveled with FDR to Yalta where Eastern Europe was handed over to the Soviets was an officer in the KGB.

Laughlin Currie, special advisor to Roosevelt, who helped Mao gain power, lived in the White House down the hall from FDR's quarters. Currie fled the country in 1948 rather than testify before Congress.

Harry Hopkins, who also lived in the White House, was--at best--a deep shade of pink.

Assistant Treasury Secretary Harry Dexter White, who cut off money to the Nationalists allowing Mao to gain power and whose supported turning Germany into a pasture after WWII so the Red Army could roll to the English channel, was a KGB agent.

FDR's mistress Lucy Mercer was as left wing as Eleanor.

Owen Lattimore,Roosevelt's key advisor on China, followed the Soviet line on virtually every foreign policy issue. During the Moscow show trials, Lattimore declared they "sounded like democracy to me." After the war, he advocated the withdrawal of American troops from Japan and Korea.

Henry Wallace, FDR's VP, toured Soviet concentration camps with Lattimore and said nothing when Lattimore compared the gulags to the American TVA.

10 posted on 05/27/2003 3:40:33 PM PDT by DPB101 (Dan Sickles (D-NY) shot a man to death in front of the White House and 12 witnesses.)
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To: DPB101
These people unfortunately are no more Communist than most of the checkered pants careerists at State. I guess that Yale education works wonders.
15 posted on 05/29/2003 7:15:51 AM PDT by steve8714
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To: DPB101
Excellent, factual post DBP. Might add that Alger Hiss was the organizational secretary of the UN. Whittaker Chambers said he didn't know a single New Dealer who was not a Communist. Of course, he had reference to his time as a Communist agent. Just thank God for James Byrnes who prevented Henry Wallace from another VP term in 1944. If Roosevelt had died just months earlier Wallace would have become President!
24 posted on 05/29/2003 6:33:21 PM PDT by Rushian
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