Yeah, those ‘golden’ FDR years.
Couple FDR’s antisemitism with the fact that his administration and the US government was rife with Communist spies and influence peddlers (read Diana West’s American Betrayal), and whose economic and social policies prolonged the Great Depression, his attempt at stacking the Supreme Court with cronies, his ”president for life” repetitive terms, you then see the entire mixed bag that was the FDR legacy.
NOTE: His only major achievement was in defeating Japan and Hitler, only then to offer half of Europe to the Communists.
“The President replied that there was only one concession he thought he might offer and that was to give him the six millionJews in the United States.”
FDR to Stalin: “I Would Give Saudi King 6 Million Jews”
This isn’t really new, but some of the most interesting material comes from Rafael Medoff’s demonstration of how the material was buried and misreported by historians sympathetic to liberal presidents.
When FDR endorsed quotas for Jews in the US and even North Africa, liberal historians claimed that he was being “practical” or actually trying to help Jews. And then there’s the story of the efforts to bury and lie about FDR’s exchange with Stalin about the Jews.
Contrast FDR with distant cousin Teddy Roosevelt’s view of Israel and Jews
From Israel, Picture of the day . . .
Excellent contrast WTD!