Ken Burns Roosevelt Documentary

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I think few people realize just how many public projects were completed by the WPA. So much of what you read is about waste, costs, delays, and mistakes. However, the American infrastructure was effective rebuilt providing American the backbone it would needed to support the war effort. The WPA built or improved 651,000 miles of roads, built, repaired, or improved 124,011 bridges 19,700 miles of water mains and 500 water treatment plants. Workers built 24,000 miles of sidewalks; 12,800 playgrounds; 24,000 miles of storm and sewer lines; 1200 airport buildings; 226 hospitals; and more than 5,900 schools.

Other notable public works projects included the Hoover Damn, Grand Coulee Damn, the Overseas Highway that connects Miami and Key West, the Lincoln Tunnel, the Blue Ridge Parkway, the Triborough Bridge, and LaGuardia Airport.

Also, the Empire State Building, the Tennessee Valley Authority, Golden Gate Bridge and the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, Shasta Dam in California, and the nation's first freeway in Los Angeles.

What the fuck did Ronald Reagan ever build?

Hmmm...ask the East Germans, and the Poles, and the Lithuanians, and the Latvians, and the Estonians, and...well, you get the picture...I hope. Hope! That's what Ronald Reagan built. Hope!

Well, maybe some hope, but a lot more debt than hope. Reagan managed to triple the debt.

You're a lying sack of shit.

Wow you really are so uninformed.

When reagan, the traitor to America, took office the national debt was around 900 billion. When reagan, the traitor to America, left office the national debt was around 2.7 trillion dollars.

Just in case you can't multiply that's tripling the debt.

Government - Historical Debt Outstanding - Annual 1950 - 1999

When ronald reagan, the traitor to America, took office America was the largest creditor nation in the world. When reagan, the traitor to America, left office America was the largest debtor nation in the world.

Around 90% of the debt America faces today was forced on us by 3 republican presidents. They being, reagan, bush and the bush boy.

You can deny it and call people liars all you want but the honest historic facts prove you're either very delusional or a liar. Or both.

You know what else was great about Reagan.....he never lied to the American people or exceeded his constitutional authority.

 

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Stalin refused to allow FDR to communicate with him.

If you wonder why you aren't taken seriously, it's sentences like that.

Where it not for ignorance, you'd be agreeing with me.

Really? Then explain how Stalin had any authority over FDR.

Notice how politicalchic doesn't post any documentation to support her lie.

I swear, those conservatives just make things up that sound good to them. Unfortunately the official record contradicts just about everything they say.

Here's some of the communication between Roosevelt and Stalin. It's just a small portion of all the communication between the two leaders:

Correspondence of Roosevelt and Truman with Stalin on Lend Lease and Other Aid to the Soviet Union, 1941-1945

AIDE-MEMOIRE

Handed to A. Y. Vyshinsky by the U.S. Ambassador

Mr. Steinhardt, on November 2, 1941

In a personal message to Mr. Stalin, President Roosevelt states:

(I) That he has seen the Protocol of the Three-Power Conference in Moscow and has discussed with the members of the American Mission the data set forth therein.

(2) That he has approved all the items of military equipment and munitions and has directed that the raw materials be provided so far as possible as rapidly as possible.

(3) That he has given orders that the deliveries are to begin at once and are to be continued in the largest possible volume.

(4) So as to obviate any financial difficulties he has directed that there be effected immediately arrangements under which shipments may be made under the Lease-Lend Act up to the value of $1,000,000,000.

(5) He proposes, subject to the approval of the Soviet Government, that no interest be charged by the United States on such indebtedness as may be incurred by the Soviet Government arising out of these shipments and that on such indebtedness as the Soviet Government may incur, payments shall begin only five years after the end of the war, and that the payments be made over a period of ten years after the expiration of this five-year period.

(6) The President hopes that the Soviet Government will make special efforts to sell such commodities and raw materials to the United States as may be available and of which the United States may be in need, the proceeds of sales to the United States to be credited on the account of the Government of the Soviet Union.

(7) The President takes the opportunity to thank the Soviet Government for the speedy manner in which the Three-Power Conference in Moscow was conducted by Mr. Stalin and his associates and assures him that the implications of that Conference will be carried out to the utmost.

(8) The President expresses the hope that Mr. Stalin will not hesitate to communicate with him directly should the occasion require.



Kuibyshev, November 2, 1941



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J. V. STALIN TO F. ROOSEVELT

Mr. President,

I have not yet received the text of your message, but on November 2 Mr. Steinhardt, the United States Ambassador, delivered to me through Mr. Vyshinsky an Aide-Memoire giving its substance.

I should like first of all to express complete agreement with your appraisal of the results of the Three-Power Conference in Moscow, which should be credited primarily to Mr. Harriman and to Mr. Beaverbrook who did their best to bring the Conference to an early and successful conclusion. The Soviet Government is most grateful for your statement that the implications of the Conference will be carried out to the utmost.

Your decision, Mr. President, to grant the Soviet Union an interest-free loan to the value of $1,000,000,000 to meet deliveries of munitions and raw materials to the Soviet Union is accepted by the Soviet Government with heartfelt gratitude as vital aid to the Soviet Union in its tremendous and onerous struggle against our common enemy-bloody Hitlerism.

On instructions from the Government of the U.S.S.R. I express complete agreement with your terms for granting the loan, repayment of which shall begin five years after the end of the war and continue over 10 years after expiration of the five-year period.

The Soviet Government is ready to do everything to supply the United States of America with such commodities and raw materials as are available and as the United States may need.

As regards your wish, Mr. President, that direct personal contact be established between you and me without delay if circumstances so require, I gladly join you in that wish and am ready, for my part, to do all in my power to bring it about.



Yours very sincerely, November 4, 1941

J. STALIN



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F. ROOSEVELT TO J. V. STALIN

I am happy to inform you that medical supplies in the list prepared by the Medical Supplies Committee of the Three-Power Conference will be provided as rapidly as these supplies can be purchased and shipped, less such portion thereof as the British may provide. Conditions of American supply and production make impossible the immediate purchase of large amounts of certain items requested, but twenty-five per cent of the total list can be provided within thirty to sixty days and the balance in installments during the next eight months.

The American Red Cross is prepared to provide approximately one-third of the total list at an approximate cost of $5,000,000 as a gift of the American people. Acting on my instructions the American Red Cross will procure these supplies with funds placed at my disposal by the Congress and also funds contributed by the American people for relief in the Soviet Union. As the American Feed Cross must account to the Congress and to its contributors for the use of these funds and supplies, Wardwell, the Chairman of their Delegation, outlined in a letter to Mr. Kolesnikov, of the Soviet Alliance, the kind of cooperative arrangement between the Red Cross societies of our respective countries which is desired. The Red Cross is also transmitting a message to Mr. Kolesnikov today pointing out the importance of reasonable observation by the American Feed Cross representative of the distribution made of its supplies subject, of course, to all appropriate military considerations. I would deeply appreciate it if your Government can assure me that the desired arrangements are acceptable. I may point out that the procedures proposed by the American Red Cross are the same which are followed with regard to their assistance in Great Britain and other countries.

On the basis indicated, the American Red Cross is prepared to consider further substantial assistance in the Soviet Union as needs develop and requests are made.

November 6, 1941



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Sent on November 14, 1941

PERSONAL MESSAGE FROM J. STALIN TO Mr. ROOSEVELT

Your message about the favourable decision taken by the American Red Cross concerning delivery of medical supplies reached me on November 11.

The Soviet Government has no objection to establishing the organizational forms of cooperation between the Red Cross societies of our two countries, it being understood that it will be organised in accordance with the exchange of letters the text of which was agreed early in November by Red Cross representatives of both countries in Kuibyshev.

STALIN



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Received on February 11, 1942

SECRET AND PERSONAL MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT TO Mr. STALIN

For January and February our shipments have included and will include 449 light tanks, 408 medium tanks, 244 fighter planes, 24 B-25's, and 233 A-20's.

I realize the importance of getting our supplies to you at the earliest possible date and every effort is being made to get shipments off.

The reports here indicate that you are getting on well in pushing back the Nazis.

Although we are having our immediate troubles in the Far East, I believe that we will have that area reinforced in the near future to such an extent that we can stop the Japs, but we are prepared for some further setbacks.



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Received on February 13, 1942

F. ROOSEVELT TO J. V. STALIN

I am much pleased that your Government has expressed its willingness to receive my old and trusted friend, Admiral Standley, as the Ambassador of the United States. He and I have been e closely associated for many years, and I have complete confidence in him. I recommend him to you not only as a man of integrity and energy but also as one who is appreciative of and an admirer of the accomplishments of the Soviet Union, which, you will recall, he visited last year with Mr. Harriman. Admiral Standley has since his return from Moscow already done much to further understanding in the United States of the situation in the Soviet Union and with his rich background and his knowledge of the problems which are facing our respective countries I am sure that with your cooperation his efforts to bring them still more close together will meet with success.

My attention has just been called to the fact that the Soviet Government has placed requisitions with us for supplies and munitions of a value which will exceed the billion dollars which were placed at its disposal last autumn under the Lease-Lend Act following an exchange of letters between us. Therefore, I propose that under this same Act a second billion dollars be placed at the disposal of your Government upon the same conditions as those upon which the first billion were allocated. Should you have any counter suggestions to offer with regard to the terms under which the second billion dollars should be made available you may be sure that careful and sympathetic consideration will be given them. It may, in any event, prove mutually desirable later to review such financial arrangements as we may enter into now to meet changing conditions.



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Sent on February 18, 1942

J. V. STALIN TO F. ROOSEVELT

I have received your message about U.S. arms deliveries in January and February. I stress that it is now, when the peoples of the Soviet Union and their Army are bending their energies to throw the Hitler troops back by a tenacious offensive, that U.S. deliveries, including tanks and aircraft, are essential for our common cause and our further success.



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Sent on February 18, 1942

J. V. STALIN TO F. ROOSEVELT

This is to acknowledge receipt of yours of February 13 . I should like first of all to point out that I share your conviction that the efforts of the new U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, Admiral Standley, whom you hold in such high esteem, to bring our two countries still closer together, will be crowned with success.

Your decision, Mr. President, to grant the Government of the U.S.S.R. another $1,000,000,000 under the Lend-Lease Act on the same terms as the first $1,000,000,000, is accepted by the Soviet Government with sincere gratitude. With reference to the matter raised by you I would like to say that, in order not to delay decision, the Soviet Government will not at the moment raise the matter of revising the terms for the second $1,000,000,000 to be granted to the Soviet Union nor call for taking due account of the extreme strain placed on the U.S.S.R. by the war against our common foe. At the same time I fully agree with you and hope that later we shall jointly fix the moment when it will be mutually desirable to revise the financial agreements now being concluded, in order to take special account of the circumstances pointed out above.

I take this opportunity to draw your attention to the fact that in using the loan extended to the U.S.S.R. the appropriate Soviet agencies are encountering great difficulties as far as shipping the munitions and materials purchased in the U.S.A. is concerned. In these circumstances we think that the most useful system is the one effectively used in shipping munitions from Britain to Archangel, a system not introduced so far with regard to supplies from the U.S.A. In keeping with this system the British military authorities supplying the munitions and materials select the ships, supervise their loading in harbor and convoying to the ports of destination. The Soviet Government would be most grateful if the same system of delivering munitions and convoying the ships to Soviet harbours were adopted by the U.S. Government.

Yours very sincerely,

J. STALIN



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FROM THE PRESIDENT TO J. V. STALIN

(Retranslated)

This is to acknowledge receipt of your message of February

I would like you to know that in due course we will be glad to revise with you our agreement on the funds advanced by us under the Lend-Lease Act. At the moment the prime task is delivery of supplies to you.

I have given directions to study your proposal for centralizing here munitions deliveries to Russia.

We are greatly encouraged by the latest news of the successes of your Army.

I send you warm congratulations on the 24th anniversary of the Red Army.

February 23, 1942



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Received on March 16, 1942

HIS EXCELLENCY JOSEPH STALIN,

PRESIDENT OF THE SOVIET OF PEOPLE'S COMMISSARS OF THE U.S.S.R.

My dear Mr. Stalin.

Mr. Harriman has handed me your kind note dated October 3, 1941.9 I appreciate very much hearing from you.

A cable has already gone to you advising you that we can include the Soviet Union under our Lend-Lease arrangements

I want to take this opportunity to assure you again that we are going to bend every possible effort to move these supplies to your battle lines.

The determination of your armies and people to defeat Hitlerism is an inspiration to the free people of all the world.

Very sincerely yours,

Frankllin D. ROOSEVELT



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Received on April 12, 1942

PERSONAL MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT TO Mr. STALIN

It is unfortunate that geographical distance makes it practically impossible for you and me to meet at this time. Such a meeting of minds in personal conversation would be useful to the conduct of the war against Hitlerism. Perhaps if things go as well as we hope, you and I could spend a few days together next summer near our common border off Alaska. But, in the meantime, I regard it as of the utmost military importance that we have the nearest possible approach to an exchange of views.

I have in mind a very important military proposal involving the utilization of our armed forces in a manner to relieve your critical Western Front. This objective carries great weight with me.

Therefore, I wish you would consider sending Mr. Molotov and a General upon whom you rely to Washington in the immediate future. Time is of the essence if we are to help in an important way. We will furnish them with a good transport plane so that they should be able to make the round trip in two weeks.

I do not want by such a trip to go over the head of my friend, Mr. Litvinov, in any way, as he will understand, but we can gain time by the visit I propose.

I suggest this procedure not only because of the secrecy, which is so essential, but because I need your advice before we determine with finality the strategic course of our common military action.

I have sent Hopkins to London relative to this proposal.

The American people are thrilled by the magnificent fighting of your armed forces and we want to help you in the destruction of Hitler's armies and material more than we are doing now.

I send you my sincere regards.

ROOSEVELT



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F. ROOSEVELT TO J. V. STALIN



The situation, which is developing in the Northern Area of the Pacific Ocean and in the Alaskan Area, presents tangible evidence that the Japanese Government may be taking steps to carry out operations against the Soviet Maritime Provinces. Should such an attack materialize the United States is ready to assist the Soviet Union with American air power provided the Soviet Union makes available to it suitable landing fields in the Siberian Area. The efforts of the Soviet Union and of the United States would of course have to be carefully coordinated in order promptly to carry out such an operation.

Ambassador Litvinov has informed me that you have signified your approval of the movement of American planes via Alaska and Northern Siberia to the Western Front and I am pleased to receive this news. I am of the opinion that in our common interests it is essential that detailed information be immediately initiated between our joint Army, Navy and Air representatives in order to meet this new danger in the Pacific. I feel that the question is so urgent as to warrant granting to the representatives of the Soviet Union and of the United States full power to initiate action and to make definite plans. For this reason I propose that you and I appoint such representatives and that we direct them immediately to confer in Moscow and Washington.

June 17, 1942



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F. ROOSEVELT TO J. V. STALIN

In connection with my message to you of June 17, I wish to emphasize that if the delivery of aircraft from the United States to the Soviet Union could be effected through Alaska and Siberia instead of across Africa, as is now the practice, a great deal of time would be saved. Furthermore, the establishment of a ferry service through Siberia would permit the delivery by air of short-range aircraft to the Soviet Union instead of by sea, as is now the case.

If landing fields can be constructed in the Siberian area and meteorological and navigational facilities can be established to connect up with the appropriate American air services, I am prepared to instruct the American ferry crews to deliver aircraft to you at Lake Baikal. This air route could be easily connected up with the landing fields leading into the Vladivostok area. In the event of a Japanese attack on the Soviet Maritime Provinces, such a Siberian airway would permit the United States quickly to transfer American aircraft units to the latter area for the purpose of coming to the assistance of the Soviet Union.

From the studies I have made of the problems involved in the establishment of a Siberian-Lake Baikal air service, it is clear that certain rivers which flow into the Arctic Ocean would have to be utilized for the shipping into Eastern Siberia of such bulky goods as fuel, as well as machinery, needed for the construction of the landing fields. The reason why I am communicating with you before receiving an answer to my message of June 17 is dictated by the necessity for immediate action, since this freight must be moved while the rivers in question are free of ice, that is, during the next few weeks.

If you are in agreement with the urgency and importance of this air route, I request that in order to expedite its development you authorize an American airplane to make a survey and experimental flight from Alaska over the proposed route for the purpose of ascertaining what equipment and supplies would be needed to construct the necessary landing fields and to establish the essential navigational services. Civilian clothes would be worn by the personnel making this flight and they would in fact conduct the flight as personnel of a commercial agency. Furthermore, all necessary measures would be taken to make sure that the personnel in no way would be identified with the military services of the United States. One or two Soviet officers or officials could, of course, be taken on the American plane at Nome, Alaska.

The flight would not be in lieu of the conversations of the joint Army, Navy and Air representatives of the United States and the Soviet Union as recommended in my message of June 17. It would be conducted for the sole purpose of enabling these representatives to enter into their discussions with more accurate and detailed information of the problems involved than would otherwise be the case.

June 23, 1942



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Sent on July 1, 1942

J. V. STALIN TO F. ROOSEVELT

With reference to your latest messages I should like to tell you that I fully concur with you as to the advisability of using the Alaska-Siberia route for U.S. aircraft deliveries to the Western Front. The Soviet Government has, therefore, issued instructions for completing at the earliest possible date the preparations now under way in Siberia to receive aircraft, that is, for adapting the existing air fields and providing them with additional facilities. As to whose pilots should fly the aircraft from Alaska, I think the task can be entrusted, as the State Department once suggested, to Soviet pilots who could travel to Nome or some other suitable place at the appointed time. An appropriate group of those pilots could be instructed to carry out the survey flight proposed by you. To fully ensure reception of the aircraft we should like to know the number of planes which the U.S.A. is allocating for despatch to the Western Front by that route.

As to your proposal for a meeting between U.S. and Soviet Army and Navy representatives to exchange information if necessary, the Soviet Government is in agreement and would prefer to have the meeting in Moscow.



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Received on July 6, 1942

F. ROOSEVELT TO J. V. STALIN

The Egyptian crisis which is threatening the supply route to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics has caused Prime Minister Churchill to direct to me an urgent inquiry whether forty A-20 bombers which are now in Iraq en route to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics can be transferred to the Egyptian front. Because of limited information here, it is impossible for me to express judgment on this matter. For this reason I have thought it better to request you to make a decision, taking into consideration the interests of the war effort of the United Nations as a whole.



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Sent on July 7, 1942

J. V. STALIN TO F. ROOSEVELT

In view of the situation in which the Allied forces find themselves in Egypt I have no objection to forty of the A-20 bombers now in Iraq en route to the U.S.S.R. being transferred to the Egyptian front.



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F. ROOSEVELT TO J. V. STALIN

As the American representatives at the conferences to be held in Moscow which were suggested in my cable to you of June 17, I am designating Major-General Follet Bradley, our Naval Attaché, Captain Duncan, and our Military Attaché, Colonel Michela. General Bradley is the only representative who will be sent to Moscow from the United States. He will come fully prepared and authorized to discuss all plans in relation to the conference.

We are prepared to have at Nome within the next few days an American four-engine plane to make the survey trip, three or four Soviet officers to accompany it. On the other hand we would be very glad to have American officers accompany a Soviet plane.

July 7, 1942



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F. ROOSEVELT TO J. V. STALIN

I am deeply appreciative of your telegram authorizing the transfer of forty bombers to Egypt. I have arranged for one hundred and fifteen medium tanks with ammunition and spare parts to be shipped to you at once in addition to all tanks being shipped in accordance with the terms of the July protocols

July 9, 1942



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Sent on July 18, 1942

J. V. STALIN TO F. ROOSEVELT

Your message on the designation of Major-General F. Bradley, Captain Duncan and Colonel Michela as the U.S. representatives at the Moscow conference has reached me. The U.S. delegates Bill be given every assistance in carrying out their assignment.

On the Soviet side the conference will be attended by, Major General Sterligov, Colonel Rabanov and Colonel Levandovich.

As regards the survey night, we could in the next few days send a plane from Krasnoyarsk to Nome-I mean an American twin-engine aircraft-which could take on the U.S. officers on its way back from Nome.

I take this opportunity to thank you for the news about the despatch of an additional hundred and fifteen tanks to the U.S.S.R.

I consider it my duty to warn you that, according to our experts at the front, U.S. tanks catch fire very easily when hit from behind or from the side by anti-tank rifle bullets. The reason is that the high-grade gasoline used forms inside the tank a thick layer of highly inflammable fumes. German tanks also use gasoline, but of low grade which yields smaller quantities of fumes, hence, they are more fireproof. Our experts think that the diesel makes the best tank motor.



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F. ROOSEVELT TO J. V. STALIN



I have received your message regarding the proposed survey flight from Alaska and the Moscow conference. Members of the survey flight will be in Alaska and ready to depart by August first. In this connection a four-engine bomber will be at Nome in the event that it is required.

I greatly appreciate your report on the difficulties experienced at the front with American tanks. It will be most helpful to our tank experts in eradicating the trouble with this model to have this information. The fire hazard in future models will be reduced, however, as they will operate on a lower octane fuel.

July 23, 1942



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Sent on August 2, 1942

J. V. STALIN TO F. ROOSEVELT

I have received your latest message about the survey flight from Alaska. Our B-25 aircraft will arrive at Nome probably between August 8 and 10 and before taking off for the planned survey flight will pick up the three American members of the flight.



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F. ROOSEVELT TO J. V. STALIN

I have asked Mr. Harriman to go to Moscow to be at your call and that of your visitors to render any help which he may possibly give.

August 5, 1942



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F. ROOSEVELT TO J. V. STALIN

Knowledge has come to me which I feel is definitely authentic that the Government of Japan has decided not to undertake military operations against the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics at this time. This, I believe, means postponement of any attack on Siberia until the spring of next year. Will you be kind enough to give this information to your visitors.

August 5, 1942



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Sent on August 7, 1942

J. V. STALIN TO F. ROOSEVELT

I have received your messages dated August 5. Thank you for advising me of Mr. Harriman's forthcoming arrival in Moscow. I read with interest your information on Japan, and shall not fail to pass it on to my visitors



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Received on August 19, 1942

F. ROOSEVELT TO J. V. STALIN

I regret indeed that I was unable to have been with you and Mr. Churchill in the conferences which have recently taken place in Moscow. The urgent needs of the military situation, especially insofar as the Soviet-German front is concerned, are well known to me.

I am of the opinion that it will be difficult for the Japanese to dislodge us from the vantage point which we have gained in the area of the South-west Pacific. Although the naval losses of our forces were considerable in that area, the advantages which we have gained will justify them and I can assure you we are going to press them in a vigorous manner. I well realize on the other hand that the real enemy of both our countries is Germany and that at the earliest possible moment it will be necessary for both our countries to bring our power and forces to bear against Hitler. Just as soon as it is humanly possible to assemble the transportation you may be sure that this will be done.

In the interim there will leave the United States for the Soviet Union during the month of August over 1,000 tanks and at the same time other strategic materials are going forward, including aircraft.

The fact that the Soviet Union is bearing the brunt of the fighting and losses during the year 1942 is well understood by the United States and I may state that we greatly admire the magnificent resistance which your country has exhibited. We are coming as quickly and as strongly to your assistance as we possibly can and I hope that you will believe me when I tell you this.



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Sent on August 22, 1942

J. V. STALIN TO F. ROOSEVELT

Your message of August 19 received. I, too, regret that you were unable to take part in the talks which Mr. Churchill and I recently had.

With reference to what you say about the despatch of tanks and other strategic materials from the United States in August I should like to emphasize our special interest in receiving U.S. aircraft and other weapons, as well as trucks in the greatest numbers possible. It is my hope that every step will be taken to ensure early delivery of the cargoes to the Soviet Union, particularly over the northern sea route.



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FROM PREMIER STALIN TO THE PRESIDENT, Mr. ROOSEVELT

In taking this opportunity to send you a personal message through the courtesy of Mr. Standley, who is leaving for Washington, I should like to say a few words about U.S. military deliveries to the U.S.S.R.

The difficulties of delivery are reported to be due primarily to shortage of shipping. To remedy the shipping situation the Soviet Government would be prepared to agree to a certain curtailment of U.S. arms deliveries to the Soviet Union. We should be prepared temporarily fully to renounce deliveries of tanks, guns, ammunition, pistols, etc. At the same time, however, we are badly in need of increased deliveries of modern fighter aircraft-such as Aircobras-and certain other supplies. It should be borne in mind that the Kittyhawk is no match for the modern German fighter.

It would be very good if the U.S.A. could ensure the monthly delivery of at least the following items: 500 fighters, 8,000 to 10,000 trucks, 5,000 tons of aluminium, and 4,000 to 5,000 tons of explosives. Besides, we need, within 12 months, two million tons of grain (wheat) and as much as we can have of fats, concentrated foods and canned meat. We could bring in a considerable part of the food supplies in Soviet ships via Vladivostok if the U.S.A. consented to turn over to the U.S.S.R. 20 to 30 ships at the least to replenish our fleet. I have talked this over with Mr. Willkie, feeling certain that he will convey it to you.

As regards the situation at the front, you are undoubtedly aware that in recent months our position in the South, particularly in the Stalingrad area, has deteriorated due to shortage of aircraft, mostly fighters. The Germans have bigger stocks of aircraft than we anticipated. In the South they have at least a twofold superiority in the air, which makes it impossible for us to protect our troops. War experience has shown that the bravest troops are helpless unless protected against air attack.

October 7, 1942



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Received on October 16, /942

F. ROOSEVELT TO J. V. STALIN



I am glad to inform you, in response to your request, that the items involved can be made available for shipment as follows:

Wheat; two million short tons during the remainder of the protocol year" at approximately equal monthly rates.

Trucks; 8,000 to 10,000 per month.

Explosives; 4,000 short tons in November and 5,000 tons per month thereafter.

Meat; 15,000 tons per month.

Canned Meat; 10,000 tons per month.

Lard; 12,000 tons per month.

Soap Stock; 5,000 tons per month.

Vegetable Oil; 10,000 tons per month.

I will advise you at an early date of the aluminum shipments which I am still exploring.

I have given orders that no effort be spared to keep our routes fully supplied with ships and cargo in conformity with your desires as to priorities on our commitments to you.



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FROM PREMIER STALIN TO U.S. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT

I have received your message of October 16. I am behind in answering because front affairs held my attention. The thing now is to have the promised cargoes delivered to the U.S.S.R. as scheduled by you.

October 19, 1942



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F. ROOSEVELT TO J. V. STALIN

I have just received from Admiral Standley your personal note, a copy of which you had previously sent me. The Ambassador has also given me a very full report of his views on the situation in the Soviet Union. He confirms reports we have already received of the fighting qualities and strength of the Soviet Army; and the urgent need of the supplies which you have indicated. These needs I fully recognize.

October 24, 1942



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Sent on October 28, 1942

J. V. STALIN TO F. ROOSEVELT

Your message of October 24 received. Thank you for the information.



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Sent on January 5, 1943

PERSONAL AND SECRET MESSAGE FROM PREMIER STALIN TO PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT

Your message concerning the Far East received. I thank you for the readiness to send 100 bombers to the Far East for the Soviet Union. I must say, however, that what we need at present is aircraft, not in the Far East, where the U.S.S.R. is not fighting, but on a front where a most cruel wear is being waged against the Germans, that is, on the Soviet-German front. The arrival of those aircraft without pilots-because we have a sufficient number of pilots-on the South-Western or Central Front would play a notable part in the most important sectors of our struggle against Hitler.

As regards the course of the war on our fronts, so far our offensive is, on the whole, making satisfactory progress.



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F. ROOSEVELT TO J. V. STALIN

I have arranged that two hundred C-47 transport planes be assigned to you in 1943 beginning in January.

Your mission where is being advised of the dates of delivery by months.

I am going to do everything I can to give you another one hundred but you can definitely count on the two hundred planes referred to above.

January 9, 1943



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Sent on January 13, 1943

PERSONAL AND SECRET MESSAGE FROM PREMIER STALIN TO PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT

Thank you for the decision to send 200 transport planes to the Soviet Union.

As to sending bomber units to the Far East, I have already pointed out in my previous messages that what we need is not Hair force units, but planes without pilots, because we have more than enough pilots of our own. Secondly, we need your help in the way of aircraft not in the Far East where the U.S.S.R. is not in a state of war, but on the Soviet-German front, where the need for aircraft aid is particularly great.

I was rather surprised at your proposal that General Bradley should inspect Russian military objectives in the Far East and elsewhere in the U.S.S.R. It should be perfectly obvious that only Russians can inspect Russian military objectives, just as U.S. military objectives can be inspected by none but Americans. There should be no unclarity in this matter.

Concerning General Marshall's visit to the U.S.S.Et. I must say I am not quite clear about his mission. Kindly advise me of the purpose of the visit so that I can consider the matter with full understanding and reply accordingly.

My colleagues are upset by the fact that the operations in North Africa have come to a standstill and, I gather, for a long time, too. Would you care to comment on the matter?



p. 71


SECRET AND PERSONAL MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT TO PREMIER STALIN

I wish to reply herewith to your special request in connection with the supply of aluminum.

In July, August and September the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics will receive from Canada and the United States the following shipments: (Long tons) Primary aluminum, 5,000 tons per month; Secondary aluminum, 1,000 tons per month.

The secondary aluminum is of a high quality and we use it in the construction of airplanes.

The monthly shipments of primary aluminum which is 1,000 tons over the agreement for 4,000 tons as contained in the Protocol may possibly make it necessary that succeeding shipments after September will have to be cut down in compensation. I hope that this will not be necessary. I regret that due to a shortage of primary aluminum we find it impossible to increase the Protocol Agreement amount. The secondary aluminum is, however, an additional offering. We will inform you again within the next two months regarding the schedule of shipments for October, November and December. We will also try to give you information on shipments for the rest of the protocol yearns at the same time.

June 16, 1943



p. 72


SECRET AND PERSONAL MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT TO PREMIER STALIN

I have given instructions that you are to receive during the remainder of 1943 the following additional planes over the new Protocol Agreement:

18 B-25 bombers,

600 P-40-N fighters.

We have no fighters that are more maneuverable than the P-40-N type which was used with excellent results in the recent fighting in Tunisia. This plane proved to be our best protection against dive bombers. It also proved to be highly useful in covering low-level strafing attacks of the P-39's.

We will be in a position to furnish you in November with a shipping schedule covering the last half of the protocol year as we will by that time have again reviewed the aircraft situation.

June 16, 1943



pp. 117-118


PERSONAL AND SECRET FROM PREMIER J. V. STALIN TO THE PRESIDENT, Mr. FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT, AND THE PRIME MINISTER, Mr. WINSTON CHURCHILL

The joint messages signed by you, Mr. President, and you, Mr. Prime Minister, concerning the transfer of Italian vessels to the Soviet Union, arrived on January 23.

I must say that after getting your joint favourable reply to my question in Tehran about transferring Italian ships to the Soviet Union before the end of January 1944, I had considered the matter settled; it never occurred to me that that decision reached and agreed to by the three of us could be revised in any way. All the more so because we agreed at the time that the matter would be fully settled with the Italians during December and January. Now I see that this is not the case and that nothing has been said to the Italians on this score.

However, in order not to delay settlement of this matter, which is so vitally important to our common fight against Germany, the Soviet Union is willing to accept your proposal for the battleship Royal Sovereign and one cruiser being transferred from British ports to the U.S.S.It. and for the Soviet Naval Command using the two ships temporarily, until corresponding Italian ships can be made available to the Soviet Union. In the same way we are ready to accept from the U.S.A. and Britain 20,000 tons of merchant shipping apiece, which we shall likewise use until we are provided with the same amount of Italian shipping. The important thing is that there should no longer be any delay in the matter and that the ships mentioned above be handed over to us before the end of February.

However, there is no mention in your reply of the transfer to the Soviet Union at the end of January of the eight Italian destroyers and four submarines to which you, Mr. President, and you, Mr. Prime Minister, consented in Tehran. Yet this question of destroyers and submarines is of paramount importance to the Soviet Union, for without them the transfer of one battleship and one cruiser would be pointless. You will agree that cruisers and battleships are powerless unless accompanied by destroyers. As the whole of the Italian Navy is at your disposal, it should not be difficult for you to carry out the Tehran decision for the transfer of eight destroyers and four submarines from that Navy to the Soviet Union. I also agree to accept, instead of Italian destroyers and submarines, as many U.S. or British destroyers and submarines for the Soviet Union. The transfer of the destroyers and submarines should not be delayed, it should be effected simultaneously with the transfer of the battleship and cruiser, as agreed by the three of us in Tehran.

January 29, 1944



pp. 118-119


Received on February 24, 1944

MOST SECRET AND PERSONAL JOINT PERSONAL MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AND Mr. CHURCHILL TO MARSHAL STALIN

The receipt is acknowledged of your message in regard to the handing over of the Italian shipping to Soviet Russia.

It is our intention to carry out the transfer agreed to at Tehran at the earliest date practicable without hazarding the success of "Anvil" and "Overlord," which operations we all agree should be given the first priority in our common effort to defeat Germany ; at the earliest possible date.

There is no thought of not carrying through the transfers; agreed at Tehran. The British battleship and American cruiser can be made available without any delay and an effort will be made at once to make available from the British Navy the eight destroyers. Four submarines will also be provided temporarily by

Great Britain. We are convinced that disaffecting Italian Navy at this time would be what you have so aptly termed an unnecessary diversion and that it would adversely affect the prospects of our success in France.

February 7th, 1944



pp. 121-122


Received on February 18, 1944

SECRET AND PERSONAL FOR MARSHAL STALIN FROM PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT

I am glad to inform you, in response to your message of the 29th of January, that the United States vessels listed below are available to the Naval Command of the U.S.S.R. for temporary use until adequate Italian tonnage can be placed at the disposal of the Soviet Union to replace them:

The cruiser Milwaukee scheduled to arrive on March 8 in the United Kingdom at some port not yet designated.

The 10,000-ton merchant ships John Gorrie and Harry Percy now at Liverpool and Glasgow respectively.



p. 122


PERSONAL AND SECRET FROM PREMIER J. V. STALIN TO PRESIDENT F. D. ROOSEVELT

I am in receipt of your message of February 18. Thank you for the news.

It does not, however, exhaust the matter as it says nothing about Anglo-American destroyers and submarines in lieu of the Italian ones-eight destroyers and four submarines-as decided at Tehran. I look forward to an early reply on these points, mentioned in my message of January 29.

February 21, 1944



p. 122


Received on February 24, 1944

PERSONAL AND SECRET FOR MARSHAL STALIN FROM PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT

Your message of the twenty-first of February about the loan of British and American ships to the Soviet Navy has been received.

According to my understanding, Great Britain would provide the battleship, the four submarines and the eight destroyers. I have cabled to the Prime Minister about this. When I hear from him, I will let you know.



p. 244


To THE PRESIDENT, Mr. H. TRUMAN

The White House, Washington

On the third anniversary of the Soviet-American Agreement on the Principles Applying to Mutual Aid in the Prosecution of the War against Aggression,92 I beg you and the Government of the United States of America to accept this expression of gratitude on behalf of the Soviet Government and myself.

The Agreement, under which the United States of America throughout the war in Europe supplied the Soviet Union, by way of lend-lease,4 with munitions, strategic materials and food, played an important role and to a considerable degree contributed to the successful conclusion of the war against the common foe-Hitler Germany.

I feel entirely confident that the Friendly links between the Soviet Union and the United States of America, strengthened in 'the course of their joint effort, will continue to develop for the benefit of our peoples and in the interests of durable cooperation between all freedom-loving nations,

J. STALIN

You've ended any possibility that your post has cachet by writing "Notice how politicalchic doesn't post any documentation to support her lie."

And exactly what do you suggest all post of yours means?

So....what were you searching for....a note that said "Yes, boss, whatever you say....signed Franklin.'???

You don't make much sense.

You post like a person I encounter on a different message board. You're probably the same person.

I don't suggest anything in my post. I clearly prove your claim that Stalin didn't allow communication from FDR is nothing but garbage. You post things that aren't true and then attack me for providing the truth.

I just proved you wrong and a liar.

Here's a suggestion, why not do some honest research before you post?

I mostly scroll past your posts, you don't have anything substantive to contribute to this or any thread. You can reply to this if you want but I'm not going to read it. People like you don't have any grasp of truth or honesty and it's impossible to discuss or debate with people who aren't honest.

 

[regent]

It's merely intended as a commentary on your superficial reasoning. I wonder if you would hold other Presidents to your standard of political honesty.

Okay....so YOUR standard is lying is okay. My standard is different.

If you bothered to read any of my posts, you would know my standards are not based in which party is lying.

Yes quite shocking. I was horrified watching the newsreels of Japanese troops liberating camps in Wyoming, the gas chambers, ovens, medical experiments.......

Your attempt at deflecting is becoming a bit too abstract now, champ. Better call back your straw man, because he is just exposing you.

It's you who makes all the childish absolutist remarks, not me. People who make shallow half wit comparisons between FDR, Hitler, and Stalin really can't be taken seriously.

Only because you've never been exposed to education.


"Three New Deals: Reflections on Roosevelt's America, Mussolini's Italy, and Hitler's Germany, 1933-1939,"
by Wolfgang Schivelbusch

It must be very frustrating for you to be nearly smart enough to almost realize how stupid you are.

Also, the Empire State Building, the Tennessee Valley Authority, Golden Gate Bridge and the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, Shasta Dam in California, and the nation's first freeway in Los Angeles.

What the fuck did Ronald Reagan ever build?

Hmmm...ask the East Germans, and the Poles, and the Lithuanians, and the Latvians, and the Estonians, and...well, you get the picture...I hope. Hope! That's what Ronald Reagan built. Hope!

Well, maybe some hope, but a lot more debt than hope. Reagan managed to triple the debt.

You're a lying sack of shit.

Wow you really are so uninformed.

When reagan, the traitor to America, took office the national debt was around 900 billion. When reagan, the traitor to America, left office the national debt was around 2.7 trillion dollars.

Just in case you can't multiply that's tripling the debt.

Government - Historical Debt Outstanding - Annual 1950 - 1999

When ronald reagan, the traitor to America, took office America was the largest creditor nation in the world. When reagan, the traitor to America, left office America was the largest debtor nation in the world.

Around 90% of the debt America faces today was forced on us by 3 republican presidents. They being, reagan, bush and the bush boy.

You can deny it and call people liars all you want but the honest historic facts prove you're either very delusional or a liar. Or both.

"When reagan, the traitor to America, took office the national debt was around 900 billion. When reagan, the traitor to America, left office the national debt was around 2.7 trillion dollars."

You are truly stupid.

1. Under Reagan, the debt went up $1.7 trillion, from $900 billion to $2.6 trillion.
2. But….the national wealth went up $ 17 trillion
3. Reagan's near-trillion-dollar bulge in defense spending transformed the global balance of power in favor of capitalism. Spurring a stock-market, energy, venture-capital, real-estate and employment boom, the Reagan tax-rate cuts and other pro-enterprise policies added some $17 trillion to America's private-sector assets, dwarfing the trillion-dollar rise in public-sector deficits and creating 45 million net new jobs at rising wages and salaries.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444914904577621083163383966.html


Reaganomics - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

So are you saying Reagan had a stab at Keynes and Keynes worked? Was that Reagan's goal proving Keynes right or did he just stumble on it? But you do need to get in touch with the historians and economists and have them change their Reagan debt figures, and of course, we already know the commies juggled the figures.

 

[Unkotare]

I mostly scroll past your posts, you don't have anything substantive to contribute to this or any thread. You can reply to this if you want but I'm not going to read it. People like you don't have any grasp of truth or honesty and it's impossible to discuss or debate with people who aren't honest.

Who are you again?

 

[PoliticalChic]

Okay....so YOUR standard is lying is okay. My standard is different.

If you bothered to read any of my posts, you would know my standards are not based in which party is lying.

Your attempt at deflecting is becoming a bit too abstract now, champ. Better call back your straw man, because he is just exposing you.

It's you who makes all the childish absolutist remarks, not me. People who make shallow half wit comparisons between FDR, Hitler, and Stalin really can't be taken seriously.

Only because you've never been exposed to education.


"Three New Deals: Reflections on Roosevelt's America, Mussolini's Italy, and Hitler's Germany, 1933-1939,"
by Wolfgang Schivelbusch

It must be very frustrating for you to be nearly smart enough to almost realize how stupid you are.

Hmmm...ask the East Germans, and the Poles, and the Lithuanians, and the Latvians, and the Estonians, and...well, you get the picture...I hope. Hope! That's what Ronald Reagan built. Hope!

Well, maybe some hope, but a lot more debt than hope. Reagan managed to triple the debt.

You're a lying sack of shit.

Wow you really are so uninformed.

When reagan, the traitor to America, took office the national debt was around 900 billion. When reagan, the traitor to America, left office the national debt was around 2.7 trillion dollars.

Just in case you can't multiply that's tripling the debt.

Government - Historical Debt Outstanding - Annual 1950 - 1999

When ronald reagan, the traitor to America, took office America was the largest creditor nation in the world. When reagan, the traitor to America, left office America was the largest debtor nation in the world.

Around 90% of the debt America faces today was forced on us by 3 republican presidents. They being, reagan, bush and the bush boy.

You can deny it and call people liars all you want but the honest historic facts prove you're either very delusional or a liar. Or both.

"When reagan, the traitor to America, took office the national debt was around 900 billion. When reagan, the traitor to America, left office the national debt was around 2.7 trillion dollars."

You are truly stupid.

1. Under Reagan, the debt went up $1.7 trillion, from $900 billion to $2.6 trillion.
2. But….the national wealth went up $ 17 trillion
3. Reagan's near-trillion-dollar bulge in defense spending transformed the global balance of power in favor of capitalism. Spurring a stock-market, energy, venture-capital, real-estate and employment boom, the Reagan tax-rate cuts and other pro-enterprise policies added some $17 trillion to America's private-sector assets, dwarfing the trillion-dollar rise in public-sector deficits and creating 45 million net new jobs at rising wages and salaries.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444914904577621083163383966.html


Reaganomics - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

So are you saying Reagan had a stab at Keynes and Keynes worked? Was that Reagan's goal proving Keynes right or did he just stumble on it? But you do need to get in touch with the historians and economists and have them change their Reagan debt figures, and of course, we already know the commies juggled the figures.

Hmmmm.....so you believe Keynes to be correct???

Shocker....I mean, you're wrong on so very may issues, why should this be any different.


Now...I want you to get a pencil and paper....and take notes on this thread....

learn it....love it....live it.

It will save you future embarrassment.


Stimulus To Solve Unemployment US Message Board - Political Discussion Forum

 

[Camp]

Is there something specific about the Ken Burns documentary that people find inaccurate or is the complaint or negativity about it related to the omission of particular areas that they think should have been covered? If so, what are they?

 

[Discombobulated]

I mostly scroll past your posts, you don't have anything substantive to contribute to this or any thread. You can reply to this if you want but I'm not going to read it. People like you don't have any grasp of truth or honesty and it's impossible to discuss or debate with people who aren't honest.

Who are you again?

 

[Flopper]

Like Lincoln, FDR faced challenges not faced by Presidents before or since. Each rose to the challenge, and made this a better nation. Had Eisenhower had these kinds of challenges, I believe he had the character to also became one of the very great Presidents.

Agreed he had the character but he did not have the political savvy of Roosevelt. Just to be president, you must be smart, tough, and driven but to be a great president, you must have a clear vision, confidence to the point of arrogance, and the ability to manipulate people. Roosevelt had all this and more.

Eisenhower was pushed into the presidency. He had no desire to be president. Roosevelt on the hand was planning on being president when he enter politics.

IMHO, Roosevelt was seriously flawed as a person. He was not a dedicated husband, father, or friend. In person, he was often distant but in public he inspired confidence and loyalty. In his fireside chats, he came across as as a trusted friend but in reality he used those chats to manipulate public opinion.

What politician doesn't??

IMHO, I would say most don't. I supported Obama but don't think his ability to inspire trust is above average. George W, was more likely to inspire sympathy than trust. I think Clinton came across as friendly but I don't think people really trusted him that much. I'm certainly not a Reagan fan, but I do think he comes across as a trusted friend. I don't think anyone watching tricky Dick would be be likely to trust him. Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, & Johnson were all above average presidents but I don't think any of them related well to the public.

 

[Moonglow]

Like Lincoln, FDR faced challenges not faced by Presidents before or since. Each rose to the challenge, and made this a better nation. Had Eisenhower had these kinds of challenges, I believe he had the character to also became one of the very great Presidents.

Agreed he had the character but he did not have the political savvy of Roosevelt. Just to be president, you must be smart, tough, and driven but to be a great president, you must have a clear vision, confidence to the point of arrogance, and the ability to manipulate people. Roosevelt had all this and more.

Eisenhower was pushed into the presidency. He had no desire to be president. Roosevelt on the hand was planning on being president when he enter politics.

IMHO, Roosevelt was seriously flawed as a person. He was not a dedicated husband, father, or friend. In person, he was often distant but in public he inspired confidence and loyalty. In his fireside chats, he came across as as a trusted friend but in reality he used those chats to manipulate public opinion.

What politician doesn't??

IMHO, I would say most don't. I supported Obama but don't think his ability to inspire trust is above average. George W, was more likely to inspire sympathy than trust. I think Clinton came across as friendly but I don't think people really trusted him that much. I'm certainly not a Reagan fan, but I do think he comes across as a trusted friend. I don't think anyone watching tricky Dick would be be likely to trust him. Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, & Johnson were all above average presidents but I don't think any of them related well to the public.

I should have stated , what politician doesn't try to be??...

 

[Moonglow]

Is there something specific about the Ken Burns documentary that people find inaccurate or is the complaint or negativity about it related to the omission of particular areas that they think should have been covered? If so, what are they?

I don;t, but i read many books about the Roosevelt family and the series was just a reiteration of what I had known..The rest are complaining cause they hate FDR, what's silly is they hate Teddy, even though he was a republican..
The series did not delve into every issue about their politics in an in depth investigator would, but the program was only budgeted with so much time and money...

 

[Camp]

Is there something specific about the Ken Burns documentary that people find inaccurate or is the complaint or negativity about it related to the omission of particular areas that they think should have been covered? If so, what are they?

I don;t, but i read many books about the Roosevelt family and the series was just a reiteration of what I had known..The rest are complaining cause they hate FDR, what's silly is they hate Teddy, even though he was a republican..
The series did not delve into every issue about their politics in an in depth investigator would, but the program was only budgeted with so much time and money...

My impression was that it is more about the three of them on a personal level and used their political actions as conduits to explore their personalities and character.

 

[Flopper]

Is there something specific about the Ken Burns documentary that people find inaccurate or is the complaint or negativity about it related to the omission of particular areas that they think should have been covered? If so, what are they?

Although the personal aspects of the Roosevelt lives are interesting and I enjoyed those parts, I would have liked to have seen more information and commentary on legislation, not just successes but the failures. It would have made the series more balanced.

 

[Camp]

Is there something specific about the Ken Burns documentary that people find inaccurate or is the complaint or negativity about it related to the omission of particular areas that they think should have been covered? If so, what are they?

Although the personal aspects of the Roosevelt lives are interesting and I enjoyed those parts, I would have liked to have seen more information and commentary on legislation, not just successes but the failures. It would have made the series more balanced.

Burns likes to avoid controversy. He uses impeccable resources that leave little room for critics to dispute his facts. Rather he spices up his works with little known facts. Eleanor driving by herself into the countryside to inspect a relief project and make face to face contact with the recipients to get first hand accounts of how the programs were working. Imagine what it would be like to have the first lady show up and start asking about how the program was working and how it could be improved. FDR doing the same with the car he had modified so he could drive with hand controls, and randomly stopping to chat with farmers. Imagine working in your field and having a car pull up and the driver wave you to come to the car and when you get there see the President. Imagine what it must have been like for that farmer to be asked by FDR how you are doing. And Teddy Roosevelt predicting a war in the Pacific with the Japanese. Even predicting that the Japanese would start the war with an attack on America.

 

[regent]

Is there something specific about the Ken Burns documentary that people find inaccurate or is the complaint or negativity about it related to the omission of particular areas that they think should have been covered? If so, what are they?

Although the personal aspects of the Roosevelt lives are interesting and I enjoyed those parts, I would have liked to have seen more information and commentary on legislation, not just successes but the failures. It would have made the series more balanced.

Burns likes to avoid controversy. He uses impeccable resources that leave little room for critics to dispute his facts. Rather he spices up his works with little known facts. Eleanor driving by herself into the countryside to inspect a relief project and make face to face contact with the recipients to get first hand accounts of how the programs were working. Imagine what it would be like to have the first lady show up and start asking about how the program was working and how it could be improved. FDR doing the same with the car he had modified so he could drive with hand controls, and randomly stopping to chat with farmers. Imagine working in your field and having a car pull up and the driver wave you to come to the car and when you get there see the President. Imagine what it must have been like for that farmer to be asked by FDR how you are doing. And Teddy Roosevelt predicting a war in the Pacific with the Japanese. Even predicting that the Japanese would start the war with an attack on America.

Don't know if Burns put in the story of the Veterans bonus army. The same army that Hoover sent in MacArthur to chase them out of their encampments. I think one or two veterans were killed in the melee. In any case the vets gathered again, and this time, FDR didn't send MacArthur to confront the vets but sent Eleanor--alone. Eleanor had lunch with the vets, talked with them, sang a few war songs and left.

 

[Unkotare]

Teddy Roosevelt predicting a war in the Pacific with the Japanese. ...

Why wouldn't he? He played a role, however unwittingly, in ensuring it would happen.

 

[Flopper]

You base your assertion on a comment made by Marshall. He made that comment you use as your fact, but he made it knowing FDR had prepared the nation by developing and readying the production of the most sophisticated and technologically advanced weapons in the world. After developing them he produced limited numbers of them, but enough so that the producers were ready to swing into mass production as soon as funding became available. Marshall didn't have to deal with that facet of building up the military.

All three Yorktown Class carriers were built under FDR's administration, Yorktown CV 5, Enterprise CV 6 and Hornet CV 8. Not satisfied with these new carriers, FDR put the Navy to work in development of the Essex Class carrier and began producing them. Three would be built, the last, the would be started only six days before Pearl harbor. The important thing about this is that the ship building yards were ready to swing into production after having built the first ones. As soon as the funds became available the began producing more of them, 19 more to be exact. They are what gave us control of the Pacific.
If you're saying FDR wanted war with Japan and Germany, I disagree. First, no president wants war. Well maybe
Cruisers were advanced and the development of the New Orleans Class cruisers were added to the fleet. Seven of them were built under FDR ready for the War. Add to this the Farragut Class destroyers. Six of them were produced. Once again, the importance of producing these warships was secondary to getting the ship yards prepared to mass produce them.

Apparently building six modern aircraft carriers, seven modern cruisers and six modern destroyers is doing "nothing" to some. How convenient it must be to be able to omit and disregard facts when attempting to rewrite history.

FDR prepared for war and created a military doctrine that is used to this very day. Develop and produce the most sophisticated and technologically advanced weaponry in the world. When you send your forces off to war, send them with the best weapons and support possible. Send them with weapons that out class and out shoot the enemy.

FDR did the same advanced development and limited production method of preparing with everything from the Sherman Tank to the M-1 Garand. The B-17's and B-24's and B-26 as well as the fighters like the P 38 and P 51 and the Navy/Marine F4U Corsair all went through FDR's method of development, limited production and eventual mass production
with industry prepared to meet the challenge of arming the nation as soon as they were asked to do so. And they did.

"You base your assertion on a comment made by Marshall."

1. So....the quote is accurate..."George Marshall's words to FDR in May 1940: "If you don't do something...and do it right away, I don't know what is going to happen to this country"...

Well....either Marshall knew what he was talking about....or you do.

And you, being regularly revealed to be a Roosevelt boot-licking dunce....leaves little in the way of puzzlement.



2. Once the veracity of Marshall's statement is seen.....the absurdity of your attempt to shield Roosevelt from well deserved vituperation is risible.

Your claim is that, yes, Marshall said it...but FDR was already taking care of business.
No...he wasn't....that's why Marshall said that to him....you dope.

Marshall made his statement in May of 1940 and FDR finally got congress to approve over a billion dollars to fund the military at the same time. Over a billion dollars was being appropriated to prepare for the war and Marshall wanted a say in how it would be spent. He wanted it to build US forces in specific ways, and not to be used assisting the British with aircraft and equipment. FDR took his advice. In addition he accomplished what most thought was impossible, he got the draft approved by Congress four months later.
You use the Marshall comment to seem like he was asking for funds and action and FDR was ignoring him. Marshall's comment and the funding as well as FDR's implementation of measures to grow the military all came at the same time.

Much of the resources was going to the Philippines, Guam, Wake and Midway..

Hmmm. That's a funny way of saying you're sorry and admitting you were wrong, but I'll take it. Bet you were surprised by all those facts and history, huh?

Now stop your hero worship, and quit spreading those lies. Teach your children and grandchildren the truth. Investigate what is REALLY going on in the Middle East right now. The lies and misinformation are being repeated once again for the benefit of those who rule, generation after generation at the expense of all mankind.

Only peace, freedom, free markets, and a government not involved in banking or commerce will keep the people from being slaves. Anything else inevitably leads to a monoply on violence and war.

So now you support ISIS and other extreme terrorist groups....Peace and free markets ain't worth shit if you have disruptions in the whole system by those that seek to destroy it..

Where did you get THAT from?

No, if you bothered to read any of the information I posted, you would see that the political elites always manipulate events so that the desired outcome always favors US commerce, industry, banking and trade on Wall street. It has absolutely nothing to do with "national security."

One would have to be obtuse to believe that ISIS poses any significant threat to America. Just as one would have to be daft to believe that either the Germans or Japanese posed any serious threat to America. The intelligence services would have known long before they would have had sufficient navel power to invade either the East or West coast. Hell, Germany didn't have the Navel power to invade England. It sure as hell didn't have what it would have taken to get across the Atlantic.

And Japan? Forget about it.

By the time either Axis nation even came close to getting up the strength to invade, the US would've been prepared.

As far as ISIS? The US, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar MADE ISIS. With out help from the CIA and Turkey, and with out the cooperation of the global markets? ISIS would wither away and die next month. ISIS was created to help achieve a goal. The US and it's allies are playing both sides.

Just as it FDR played the Americans to get them into WWII, OBAMA is playing them to get them to fund an effort to redraw the whole middle east to make it more suitable for American corporations to develop and create American proxy governments friendly to Israel and Western business interests.

Google: Project for a New Middle East, if you don't understand yet.

WWII was the Anglo-American world bankers plan to set up the UN and international financial markets, the middle East game is about a global rearrangement of the energy deck chairs.

If you can't see the bigger picture? Don't come whining to me.

More BS.

Members of both the House and the Senate
periodically called upon Roosevelt to declare war on Japan

Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 22 November 1941, p. 1.

"Much of the resources was going to the Philippines, Guam, Wake and Midway.."

Roosevelt couldn't have cared less about our forces in that theatre.....not as long as Stalin called for his attention.

1. What was the cost of FDR's unswerving dedication to the Soviets? One example, found in Paul Johnson's "Modern Times," 'included 200 modern fighter aircraft, originally intended for Britain's highly vulnerable base in Singapore, which had no modern fighters at all. The diversion of these aircraft, plus tanks, to Russia sealed the fate of Singapore."
Johnson, Op.Cit., p. 386.

a. Singapore fell February 15, 1942.

6. "He (FDR) left no doubt of the importance he attached to aid to Russia. 'I would go out and take the stuff off the shelves of the stores,' he told [Treasure Secretary Henry] Morganthau on March 11, 1942, 'and pay them any price necessary, an put it in a truck and rush it to the boat...Nothing would be worse than to have the Russians collapse."
George C. Herring, "Aid to Russia," p. 42,56.

a. Be clear as what 'nothing' meant. Japan attacked 151,000 Americans and Filipinos stationed in the Philippines. Think Bataan and Corregidor. The 200 modern fighters originally meant for Singapore would have been there...but were in Russia.

b. Roosevelt: "I would rather lose New Zealand, Australia or anything else than have the Russian front collapse."
Robert Dallek, "Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945," p. 338.


When one begins to consider FDR's 'Russia Uber Alles' policy, evidence form KGB archived, opened in 1991, and the Venona Papers, sheds dispositive light on the reasons for said policy.


Was FDR a dupe of Soviet influence?


No doubt.

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Japan attacked 151,000 Americans and Filipinos stationed in the Philippines. Think Bataan and Corregidor. The 200 modern fighters originally meant for Singapore would have been there...but were in Russia.


In July, 1942, a supply convoy called PQ-17 was sent to supply the USSR at Murmansk. Only 11 of the 35 merchant ships in the convoy survived German attacks. Robert Sherwood, "The White House Papers of Harry L. Hopkins: An Intimate History," vol.2, p.634-645.

Could an attempt to supply MacArthur have cost more men and material?

The explanation: an unnoticed, unimagined crime of Communist penetration and influence on American policy, not only during the war....but after.

There was the infamous "betrayal at Yalta" that handed Eastern Europe to the Soviet.

Perhaps a greater betrayal was the besmirching of America's shining moment: at the end of WWII when our leaders allowed the lesson of our great moral and noble achievement to sink from memory to be replaced by postmodern doubt and multicultural division. West, "American Betrayal," p. 48.

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Even before Bataan fell, MacArthur had bulldozers working around the clock to build 4 airstrips in the Philippines, and 9 on Mindanao...he believed Roosevelt would send help. Generald Hap Arnold told an RAF commander that if 80 nB-17s and two hundred p-40s could get to the islands, he believed 'we could regain superiority of the air in the theater.' "American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880 - 1964," William Manchester

I can go with this. Conditionally of course.

There is NO WAY, absolutely NO WAY FDR was ever going to get Hitler to attack us. Sure, he didn't give two shits about Japan. But Japan was his meal ticket. He knew that around nearly 80% of the public didn't care about the war, and rightly so.

The war had nothing to do with us, and it wasn't a threat to us. It was an opportunity for profit only. Germany had been goaded in so many ways and just hadn't taken the bait.

During World War II's early days, the president offered numerous provocations to Germany: freezing its assets; shipping 50 destroyers to Britain; and depth-charging U-boats. The Germans did not retaliate, however. They knew America's entry into World War I had shifted the balance of power against them, and they shunned a repeat of that scenario. FDR therefore switched his focus to Japan. Japan had signed a mutual defense pact with Germany and Italy (the Tripartite Treaty). Roosevelt knew that if Japan went to war with the United States, Germany and Italy would be compelled to declare war on America — thus entangling us in the European conflict by the back door. As Harold Ickes, secretary of the Interior, said in October 1941: "For a long time I have believed that our best entrance into the war would be by way of Japan."

But he knew that the Japanese high command might be stupid enough to think they could take the US on. The Germans tacticians had already learned their lesson in WWI, had publicly written in journals and war colleges, and Hitler and stated as much.

On balance, FDR sold out American interests, was a Globalist shill, just like the idiots we get today.

In contrast to President Hoover, who believed that the Depression arose from international circumstances, Roosevelt believed that the nation's economic woes were largely home-grown. As a result, FDR rejected Hoover's numerous entreaties (delivered during the period between FDR's election and inauguration) that the incoming administration support Hoover's approach to the upcoming London Economic Conference. Hoover hoped that in London the United States and other leading industrial nations would devise a currency stabilization program and pledge its support for the international gold standard.

In rejecting Hoover's approach, FDR essentially embraced a form of economic nationalism and committed the United States to solving the Depression on its own. He scuttled the London Economic Conference in the summer of 1933 and devalued the dollar by removing the United States from the international gold standard. With this latter maneuver, Roosevelt sought to artificially inflate the value of the American dollar in the hope of putting more currency into the hands of cash-poor Americans. Unfortunately, this measure further destabilized the world economy. Roosevelt soon recognized his mistake and his administration worked with England and France to stabilize the international economic system, negotiating monetary agreements with those nations in 1936.

Despite his early approach to foreign economic policy, FDR quickly demonstrated his internationalist leanings. In 1934, FDR won passage of the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act, which allowed him to grant "most favored nation" trade status to countries with which the United States worked out trade agreements. In 1933, Roosevelt dramatically altered America's relationship with the Soviet Union, establishing official ties between the two nations. FDR hoped that improved relations with the U.S.S.R. would expand American trade opportunities and deter Japanese expansion. Ultimately, the agreement accomplished neither. Another indication of FDR's commitment to international cooperation came with his unsuccessful fight in 1935 for U.S. membership in the World Court.
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Roosevelt's sympathies clearly lay with the British and French, but he was hamstrung by the Neutrality Acts and a strong isolationist bloc in American politics. Upon the outbreak hostilities in September 1939, FDR re-asserted American neutrality, noting, however, that he could not "ask that every American remain neutral in thought as well." He did his best, then, to nudge the United States towards supporting Great Britain, supplying that nation with all aid "short of war." This strategy had three main effects. First, it offered Britain both psychological encouragement and materiel aid, though often more of the former than the latter. Second, it bought the United States time to shore up its military preparedness, which was inadequate for a world war. Finally, it made the United States an active, if undeclared, participant in the war.

In the fall of 1939, FDR won a slight revision of the Neutrality Act, which now allowed belligerents to buy arms in the United States, but only with cash and only if they transported their purchases themselves, a provision called "cash and carry." Nearly one year later, the United States and Great Britain struck a deal in which the Americans loaned the British fifty mothballed destroyers in return for the use of eight British military bases. And in March 1941, FDR won enactment of a Lend-Lease program that allowed the British and other allies continued access to American arms and supplies despite their rapidly deteriorating financial situation. The huge sum of $7 billion that Congress appropriated would eventually reach more than $50 billion.

The war took a vital turn that same year. After failing to subdue the British through the air—the so-called "Battle of Britain" in which the Royal Air Force emerged victorious over the German Luftwaffe—Hitler made two fateful decisions. First, he launched a massive invasion of his former ally, the Soviet Union. Second, he tried to conquer the British by choking that island nation from the sea, ordering Nazi submarines to attack British shipping in the North Atlantic. The two decisions only drew the United States more deeply into the war. FDR extended lend-lease aid to the Soviets. More important, he ordered the American Navy to the North Atlantic first to "patrol" that region and then to "escort" British ships. This latter order allowed the Navy to fire on German subs at sight. By the fall of 1941, Germany and the United States were at war in all but name.

American President Franklin Delano Roosevelt Foreign Affairs

Like Lincoln, FDR faced challenges not faced by Presidents before or since. Each rose to the challenge, and made this a better nation. Had Eisenhower had these kinds of challenges, I believe he had the character to also became one of the very great Presidents.

That fucking scumbag FDR "rose to the challenge"? Rose to the challenge of prolonging the Great Depression? Rose to the challenge of saddling future generations with unsustainable economic obligations? Rose to the challenge of lying to the American people - and his own wife? Rose to the challenge of undermining the basic foundations of our Republic in order to gather power unto himself? Rose to the challenge of throwing over 100,000 innocent people into his concentration camps - including a great many of the bravest and most loyal US citizens? Rose to the challenge of surrendering half the world to communist oppression?

Yeah, a real fucking peach.

• 1. Established the FDIC and Security Exchange Commission
• 2. Rebuilt American infrastructure creating jobs for 8.5 million jobs - 572,000 miles of rural roads, 67,000 miles of urban streets, 122,000 bridges, 1,000 tunnels, 1,050 fifty airfields, and 4,000 airport buildings. It also constructed 500 water treatment plants, 1,800 pumping stations, 19,700 miles of water mains, 1,500 sewage treatment plants, 24,000 miles of sewers and storm drains, 36,900 schools, 2,552 hospitals, 2,700 firehouses, and nearly 20,000 county, state, and local government buildings.
• 3. Social Security
• 4. Selective Service
• 5. Won the Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating the end of the Russo-Japanese War
• 6. Lend-Lease Act which saved the two countries that would become our most important allies in WWII.
• 7. Passed the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act to better regulate food production and labeling
• 8. Continued Hoover's Federal Emergency Relief Administration and created the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Works Progress Administration (WPA) and Tennessee Valley Authority, which hired hundreds of thousands of unemployed men to work on rural local projects
• 9. The Good Neighbor Policey which redefined US relations with Latin America.
• 10. Protected the livelihoods of laborers and farmers through the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) and Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)
• 11. Establish the Securities and Exchange Commission
• 12. Drastically decreased unemployment from 25% to 2% over his tenure.
• 13. Created the Fair Employment Practices Committee which was the most important federal move in support of the rights of African-Americans between Reconstruction and the Civil Rights Act.
• 14. Approved the development of the Atomic Bomb which ended WWII.
• 15. Led the US into WWII after the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor in December and formulated strategy as part of the "Big Three" with Churchill and Stalin to defeat the Axis powers.
• 16. Endorsed the creation of the United Nations and the Bretton Woods system of monetary management among states

For most presidents any one of the above would have been pointed to as a crowning achievement of his administration.

 

[Unkotare]

• 5. Won the Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating the end of the Russo-Japanese War....

Wrong Roosevelt. And why did you leave out his concentration camps and the Tuskegee Syphilis experiments?

 

[Flopper]

Burns spent much time on FDR's bout with polio. However, one thing he didn't really cover was the effect it had on his election to the presidency and his whole term in office. In 1931 election, Republicans tried to make his disability the major issue of the campaign but it backfired badly.

If you were disabled In the 20's and 30's you were considered to be a burden to your family, unemployable, and object of pity. No one expected a man with such a serious affliction as Roosevelt to be able to hold down a job. And to be president, that was just impossible according Republicans. However, Roosevelt sought out to prove that not only could he do it but do it with ease. He campaigned in every state and almost ever major city in the country, something no candidate had ever done. Every newspaper was filled with news of Roosevelt. This poor cripple was outpacing President Hoover. With his election, ever American knew one thing about Roosevelt. He had tremendous drive and confidence When he said he would put America back to work, the people believed it and supported him.

 

[Synthaholic]

It's only a "riddle" you, genius.

^^^ Can't even spew nonsense intelligibly.

 

[Synthaholic]

There was no Roosevelt 'military buildup' in the 1930s.

1939
January: FDR's State of the Union address requests nearly $1.5B for defense (in national budget of $9B) and says arms embargo is unfair and must be reformed: "the frontiers of the United States are on the Rhine," he tells a Senate committee, to "stony silence."

I just LOVE it when you contradict yourself!

You imbecile....that was some one else's post.


Foot in your mouth again, huh?

It's not from one of your links?

I've already exposed how 'galactically stupid' you are....and now you've added 'totally dishonest' to your resume.

I did not write what you claimed I did.

The proper response would have been an apology, and a correction.
Who taught you manners?

again: is it from one of your links?

You have difficulty answering direct questions. Every time I ask you one and you tap dance instead, it's just more proof that I'm winning the argument.