America would be vastly different if FDR
hadn’t pushed this man out
New York Post,
by
Gavin Newsham
Original Article
Posted By: ladydawgfan,
1/20/2024 3:18:56 PM
Henry Agard Wallace, the 33rd vice president of the United States, was a peculiar fellow.
He didn’t drink, smoke or swear.
He didn’t like telling jokes, reading fiction or playing golf. In fact, he hated any pursuit in which he could discern no scope for self-improvement.
While highly intelligent, Wallace struggled in social situations, as author Benn Steil explains in “The World That Wasn’t: Henry Wallace and the Fate of The American Century” (Avid Reader Press).
Steil believes Wallace actually had Asperger’s syndrome, a form of autism spectrum disorder first highlighted by Austrian physician Hans Asperger in 1944 — Wallace’s final year as vice president.
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O.P., that is exactly what I thought. Reading between the lines, I feel like the author of this article thinks the world would be better if Henry Wallace had become President rather than Truman. However, based on what the article tells us, and what I know of the Soviet Union, I believe the reverse would be true.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 1/20/2024 3:37:46 PM (No. 1640764)
Henry Wallace was one of the Communist’s “useful idiots”. As with PIAPS in 2016, we dodged a yuuuge bullet when Wallace was sent packing.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
earlybird 1/20/2024 3:52:20 PM (No. 1640768)
Wasn't Wallace a Communist or at least a fellow traveler?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
earlybird 1/20/2024 4:02:20 PM (No. 1640772)
"Henry A. Wallace was watched by the Federal Bureau of Investigation while he was Vice President under Franklin D. Roosevelt and Secretary of Commerce for Harry S. Truman, and also in his 1948 run for the Presidency, a newspaper has reported.
The bureau opened Wallace's mail, tapped his supporters' telephones and used informers and agents to trail him in search of ''possible Communist or pro-Soviet ties,'' The Des Moines Sunday Register reported.
Bureau records show what historians have long suspected: J. Edgar Hoover disliked Wallace, a liberal, and was quick to investigate him, the newspaper said."
https://www.nytimes.com/1983/09/06/us/fbi-kept-watch-on-henry-wallace.html
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
HerbVA 1/20/2024 4:15:18 PM (No. 1640779)
This lunatic would be considered a sensible moderate democrat today.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
DVC 1/20/2024 5:26:52 PM (No. 1640806)
And, the story I heard was the J. Edgar Hoover had the goods on Wallace being a Soviet stooge and told the powers that be "Replace Wallace or I go public". And so a little known haberdasher, who was put into his seat by the corrupt Pendergast political machine in KC was made the VP when everyone was pretty sure that FDR would soon die in office.
Yes, we dodged a bullet....but it was a much better FBI than the evil thugs that run it today that pushed us out of the path of that Soviet bullet.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Gordon Mills 1/20/2024 7:58:32 PM (No. 1640874)
Strange as it may seem, the decline of America began with the election of FDR. Actions have consequences.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
49 Ford 1/20/2024 9:41:18 PM (No. 1640936)
My imperfect understanding is that FDR knew he would not live through a fourth term and, understanding the dissatisfaction with Wallace within the party, kept his VP at arm's length and encouraged the Democratic convention to choose his 1944 running mate.
IMO they chose wisely. Good move by FDR.
And # 7, you would have a very hard time trying to sell that notion to the American voters of that era.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
OhioNick 1/20/2024 9:55:12 PM (No. 1640945)
#8
If the Democrats cheat in the next election, we'll have the exact same scenario. Should Joe Biden be declared the winner, there's no way he'll finish his second term.
I realize that many people on this board disagree with me, but Kamala Harris -- an anchor baby citizen -- is not eligible to be president. If Joe starts his second term and later steps aside, I guarantee you that the Republicans will take the matter of Kamala's eligibility to the Supreme Court. And I'm very confident they will side with the Republicans. If that happens. expect some ugly things to occur across this nation.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Son of Grady 1/20/2024 10:46:02 PM (No. 1640971)
I may have missed it but the big unanswered question in the article is
would Wallace have dropped the The big Egg on japan? probably not.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Geoman 1/21/2024 12:56:32 PM (No. 1641288)
Upon FDR's death in '45, Henry Wallace would have been sworn in, making him the only president worse than Biden. Thankfully, Truman was VP in '45, and Wallace was placed over the Commerce Dept. This is back when democrats weren't in the tank for communists and Islamists. In the 1944 democrat convention, it was the conservative democrats who replaced Wallace with Truman, who eventually fired him in '46 for publicly advocating his openly friendly policies towards the USSR and his far left domestic policy advocacy. Wallace went on to establish the Progressive Party, which tanked.
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Wow! Sounds like the US dodged a bullet!!