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RHMerriman

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3. Or African-American, or Italian-American, or a homosexual in the Navy in WW I...

Reply to MichMan (Reply #2)

Sun Jun 23, 2019, 10:14 PM

Jun 2019

Or African-American (discriminated against in the New Deal), or Italian-American (interned during WW II), or a homosexual in the Navy in WW I (court-martialled)... plus he cheated on Eleanor, swore, and drank to excess.

Human beings are not perfect. True.

But on the scale of the 45-strong cohort he is best known as being part of, he's third from the top in any honest evaluation. Holding fast during the Depression and leading the Grand Alliance in WW 2 places him up with Washington and Lincoln.

And for a WASP male born in 1882, he was head-and-shoulders above the majority of his peers.

So there's that...

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Words of Franklin D. Roosevelt [View all] Lady Freedom Returns Jun 2019 OP

A great individual, and a great president... RHMerriman Jun 2019 #1

Well, unless you were a Japanese American.... MichMan Jun 2019 #2

Or African-American, or Italian-American, or a homosexual in the Navy in WW I... RHMerriman Jun 2019 #3

For African Americans in particular, the New Deal was a big fat nothing, even worse. Blue_true Jun 2019 #4

Um, yes and no... RHMerriman Jun 2019 #5

I knew Black people that served in the military in Europe during WWII. Blue_true Jun 2019 #6

Nothing was "rosy" about segregation of the US armed forces in WW 2, and there's nothing RHMerriman Jun 2019 #7

I will stay with recollections that I heard from old men and women as a child. Blue_true Jun 2019 #8

Anecdote is not evidence, and women, of course, did not serve in combat in the US forces during WW 2 RHMerriman Jun 2019 #9

Mail and supply details that were poorly guarded. Blue_true Jun 2019 #10

Mail and supply details guarded by who? RHMerriman Jun 2019 #11

You keep posting "official" military history. Like they don't have something to hide. Blue_true Jun 2019 #12

You keep posting zero details or content... RHMerriman Jun 2019 #13