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| Nov 13, 2018 at 17:04 | comment | added | Tom Au | WS2: FDR had polio, which limited his "visiting" capability. More to the point, it was mainly FDR that approved the cessation of eastern Europe while Churchill made the iron curtain speech. Churchill also referred to the alliance with Stalin as a pact with the devil and the Soviet Union as "the monster I tried to strangle at its birth." | |
| Nov 11, 2018 at 7:39 | comment | added | WS2 | @TomAu What evidence do you have that Roosevelt "was a lot friendlier to Stalin than Churchill (was)"? Churchill visited Stalin in Moscow at least twice during the war, I believe. I don't recall Roosevelt ever doing so. And Churchill clearly had an open line to Stalin. For example when Eisenhower was planning the timing of D-Day, he was anxious to find out when the Red Army was planning its assault on the Vistula. He happened to mention that he couldn't get any information through Washington, so WC simply said, I'll call Stalin and ask him - which he did. | |
| Oct 16, 2017 at 13:19 | comment | added | CsBalazsHungary | @jamesqf I agree that FDR was the closest to the dictator's definition in US history. 1st your mention of didn't leave after 2nd term (which wasn't obligatory in US, but still it was an unwritten rule from Washington). 2nd he increased the taxes into heights which is practically wealth confiscation. 3rd, gold confiscation law. I would say it does look like a dictatorial rule. 4th handling japanese origin citizens in US during WW2. Of course he wasn't as autocratic as Hitler or Stalin, but I would say he was far enough from liberalism. | |
| Oct 14, 2017 at 17:30 | comment | added | jamesqf | @zen: That Washington didn't want to become a dictator (or monarch) says it all, really. FDR is the only President not to voluntarily leave office after two terms. Indeed, he stubbornly clung to power despite health problems that made him incapable of effectively carrying out the duties of the office for at least the last year or so. | |
| Oct 13, 2017 at 13:20 | comment | added | zen | @TomAu actually It can be argued that George washington is the closest thing to being a dictator for the US if you look at power. The only reason that he didn't become a dictator is basically because he didn't want to, but I think there is little doubt that if he would have declared himself dictator/monarch of the UShe would have the best change of any american policitcian ever. | |
| Oct 5, 2017 at 12:25 | comment | added | Tom Au | 1) Roosevelt was a lot friendlier to Stalin than Churchill, the "realist." With "court packing" and "top down" laws (Schechter vs. U.S.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…), Roosevelt was the "closEST" thing that the U.S. had as a dictator (among 32 people)without actually being one. | |
| Oct 5, 2017 at 12:11 | comment | added | Matei Florescu | 1) Roosvelt was not a friend of Stalin, but an ally. There is a big difference. 2) The fact that economic policies pursued by Roosvelt happen to be similar to those pursued by Mussolini does not make him a dictator, nor does it make in close to. Example: Hitler build highways, would this imply that every government that did the same is showing signs of totalitarianism? | |
| Oct 5, 2017 at 7:27 | comment | added | user25367 | csmonitor.com/Books/Book-Reviews/2015/0305/… and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Franklin_D._Roosevelt is a good start. Many copared his 'New Deal' to Mussolinis plan. He seized control of supreme court. He was a racist, after the 1936 Berlin Olympics he invited only white athletes. | |
| Oct 5, 2017 at 7:15 | comment | added | user3653831 | @Tlen If you add such a comment, you better support it with some serious references. | |
| Oct 5, 2017 at 6:43 | comment | added | user25367 | "abhorred totalitarianism" !!!??? Roosevelt was closest thing USA had to a dictator. He was friend of Stalin and trusted him, he lost WWII for the democracy. | |
| Oct 5, 2017 at 2:36 | history | answered | Jos | CC BY-SA 3.0 |