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Reagan Lists FDR Among His Heroes
WASHINGTON (AP) _ Ronald Reagan has always said he's a sucker for heroes. One of the heroes who influenced him the most, he says, is Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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President Reagan deeply admired Franklin Roosevelt citing him at his greatest hero.
it is interesting to note that all of the World War II veterans I have spoken with deeply admire Roosevelt. All of the criticism of Roosevelt is based on myths things that popped up decades after the life of Roosevelt and years after the lives of so many Americans who lived during the World War II era passed on. To this day there aren’t that many World War II veterans left but we will always know the truth Roosevelt is an American hero. Perhaps far under 1%% of the United States believes that Roosevelt was some sort of a socialist or communist Who somehow placated the Soviet union. On C-SPAN today somebody was providing the mythical view that Roosevelt let’s stolen takeover Eastern Europe. The thing is if Roosevelt lived on Pass World War II we would’ve surely avoided the Cold War so that needs to be taken into consideration.
There are also those who wrongly believe that Roosevelt prolonged World War II or prolonged the depression. But Roosevelt inherited the great depression and the end result matters… he led us to victory in World War II and he led us to having the greatest military and the greatest economy in the world. Before World War II the US military was 18th in the world behind Romania, but after World War II we were the number one military superpower. And that was because we had good leader ship as well as a great American citizenry that worked very hard at the factories and in the education system. And that did not have to happen, none of that had to happen…. if we were led by an isolationist in Ww2 or a poor leader who didn’t know how to handle things we would’ve lost World War II and who knows how the world would look today. Franklin Roosevelt was the strong leader to stand up to Hideki Tojo, Mussolini and Hitler. Other people would have shivered in their boots perhaps. The magnitude of it all of leading the greatest army the allied forces. Roosevelt is the leader of the allied forces even when people and the Soviet union looked at World War II they would always say Roosevelt front and center in between Churchill and Stalin showcasing a sign of strength… American strength. Roosevelt was very important in bringing together Churchill and Stalin… in bringing together the communist forces and the monarchy.
The great men and women from the World War II generation, the senior citizens of the United States who are alive to this day who lived during World War II overwhelmingly support FDR if not all of them support FDR. And the types of people who criticize Roosevelt they are born decades after World War II many of them are not Americans they come from different countries some even have pro Third Reich type views. Or agendas for some matter. But I solidify my views I cite Ronald Reagan a conservative American hero as to why all of the masculine Americans, the conservative Americans from the 70s 80s 90s would generally agree with me with all agree with the World War II veterans that Roosevelt was the greatest president of American history. No man is perfect George Washington, Abraham Lincoln Franklin Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan included… but for so many Americans common citizen and historian alike these men are ranked as the top four presidents of all time.
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of the very small percentage of Americans who called in to criticize Roosevelt. Their arguments were as follows. They criticize Roosevelt for racism, for apparently prolonging the depression and for somehow causing the deaths of Americans that was not needed. Somebody had claimed 100,000 Americans died because of Roosevelt without evidence. All of these points have a valid and logical counter response. Let’s take a look at one of the most abused myths against Roosevelt that he was a racist or antisemite. ….well the United States compared to every country of the world was probably the most liberal. Remember that in 1937 Ethiopia had legalized slavery, let’s not even begin to say what the Empire of Japan and the third Reich were doing to there own citizens and their political opponents of course. that’s why it is clearly agenda driven when people on the right or Republicans criticize Roosevelt for his treatment of African Americans or American Japanese these same Republicans are critical of BLM. Rightfully critical of BLM but they are hypocrites for the criticism of Roosevelt because they are of course attempting to buy political points. And beyond that one cannot use 2022 morales when they are looking at the 1940s. It is irresponsible to history.
When in fact the Tuskeegee airmen the black African-American men who served the United States military in ww2 …went on to praise Roosevelt as a great man. That was the viewpoint of Roscoe Brown One of the Tuskegee airmen who served in World War II. So when I hear that it’s all the evidence I need to hear. Also the United States took on more Jewish refugees than any other country during World War II. The ms St. Louis The ship of Jewish refugees was actually sent to an allied country. The ms St. Louis propaganda is used against Roosevelt to this day and its reckless. The idea being that the United States sent away a ship of Jewish refugees back to Nazi Germany. No couldn’t be any further from the truth in the late 30s a ship of Jewish refugees tried to get to the United States but we were unable to accommodate…. the ship was then sent to an allied country that was later overran by the third Reich. What is not mentioned by the propagandists is that the United States had taken on more Jewish refugees than any other country during World War II. And in the course of history there are plenty of cases where some number of refugees and immigrants are turned away from coming to the country. The United States has turned away many non-Jewish immigrants and refugees by the way so there’s that. So basically there’s no logic no common sense toward the viewpoint that FDR with some kind of a bad guy or some kind of a racist.
Overwhelmingly American Jews supported Franklin Roosevelt. Over 80% of American Jews supported him at the polls during the elections.
So it’s interesting that the few Republicans who criticize Roosevelt are the same people who claim the Democrats are the party of race politics. And they are right the Democrats of today are the party of race politics and it has caused division in our country…. it’s all the more reason why we need all the Americans we can to recall the legacy of great figures of history like FDR as to help our country out today.
My position is that the Democratic Party today needs to be more like the democratic party of the Roosevelt era. And I would cite Ronald Reagan as to why Republicans can join Democrats of today in order to look up to the legacy of Franklin Roosevelt for advice.
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