PoliticalChic
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While we celebrate the death of no American, on this date in 1945, Franklin Delano Roosevelt passed on, and Harry S. Truman began both his presidency, and his epiphany.
And Harry Truman's ascendancy......that we do celeberate.
It was a momentous change for America, and in a significant way represented Providence as mentioned in the Declaration of Independence.
1. Roosevelt bound the United Stated to the bloodiest regime in history....up to that time, as it gave birth to Mao's China.....and Roosevelt had a communist as his vice-president, prior to Truman.
Roosevelt actually told the Democrat Party that he would not run again if Henry Wallace, communist, were not his veep.
" Even with FDR’s endorsement (and his threat to withdraw from the presidential race if Wallace were not chosen by the Democratic convention), Wallace won by only 628 to 459…Wallace was not allowed to give an acceptance speech."
FDR Stalin and Oliver Stone - The New York Sun
Had FDR passed on earlier, Stalin's man would have been President.
2. As was true of so may other Americans, Truman certainly didn't begin with such inclinations. What happened?
According to "The Man of Independence," an authorized Truman biography by Jonathan Daniels, it was Max Lowenthal, a crafty southpaw government lawyer, who first corrupted Truman's mind with Marxist prejudices against railroads, insurance companies, and "big business" generally. Lowenthal was counsel to a Senate Interstate Commerce Subcommittee. In 1936 Truman, an eager member of the subcommittee, fell under Lowenthal's spell. When Lowenthal proposed to take him to see Justice Louis D. Brandeis, the country boy said he was "not used to meeting people like that," but he went anyway and became a disciple of "the great liberal," who held forth on the evils of the American economic system.
Manly, "The Twenty Year Revolution," p. 137.
a. Truman moved so far to the Left, that after his election, he received this salute from Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.,: "The conceptions of the intellectual are at last beginning to catch up with the instincts of the Democratic politician."
3. Truman's road back to patriotism, Americanism, was not easy. And, we find Leftists tendencies not shaken off quickly.
But he did, and turned down Stalin's plans for Europe with the Marshall Plan.
It all began on this date.
And Harry Truman's ascendancy......that we do celeberate.
It was a momentous change for America, and in a significant way represented Providence as mentioned in the Declaration of Independence.
1. Roosevelt bound the United Stated to the bloodiest regime in history....up to that time, as it gave birth to Mao's China.....and Roosevelt had a communist as his vice-president, prior to Truman.
Roosevelt actually told the Democrat Party that he would not run again if Henry Wallace, communist, were not his veep.
" Even with FDR’s endorsement (and his threat to withdraw from the presidential race if Wallace were not chosen by the Democratic convention), Wallace won by only 628 to 459…Wallace was not allowed to give an acceptance speech."
FDR Stalin and Oliver Stone - The New York Sun
Had FDR passed on earlier, Stalin's man would have been President.
2. As was true of so may other Americans, Truman certainly didn't begin with such inclinations. What happened?
According to "The Man of Independence," an authorized Truman biography by Jonathan Daniels, it was Max Lowenthal, a crafty southpaw government lawyer, who first corrupted Truman's mind with Marxist prejudices against railroads, insurance companies, and "big business" generally. Lowenthal was counsel to a Senate Interstate Commerce Subcommittee. In 1936 Truman, an eager member of the subcommittee, fell under Lowenthal's spell. When Lowenthal proposed to take him to see Justice Louis D. Brandeis, the country boy said he was "not used to meeting people like that," but he went anyway and became a disciple of "the great liberal," who held forth on the evils of the American economic system.
Manly, "The Twenty Year Revolution," p. 137.
a. Truman moved so far to the Left, that after his election, he received this salute from Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.,: "The conceptions of the intellectual are at last beginning to catch up with the instincts of the Democratic politician."
3. Truman's road back to patriotism, Americanism, was not easy. And, we find Leftists tendencies not shaken off quickly.
But he did, and turned down Stalin's plans for Europe with the Marshall Plan.
It all began on this date.
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