"Men will thank God on their knees a hundred years from now

[dflprincess]

that Franklin D. Roosevelt was in the White House. It was his hand, more than that of any other single man, that built the great coalition of the United Nations. It was his leadership which inspired free men in every part of the world to fight with greater hope and courage. Gone is the fresh and spontaneous interest which this man took, as naturally as he breathed air, in the troubles and the hardships and the disappointments and the hopes of little men and humble people."

http://www.delanoye.org/FDR/

This is from the New York Times editorial at the time of FDR's death. I thought of it tonight while watching "The War" and they played Roosevelt's address to the nation on the evening of June 6, 1944.

I wonder what the Times will write when President Zippy dies - after what I ask God on my knees is a very, very long and very, very painful illness that he suffers through in a prison hospital ward.

[Xipe Totec]

1. Men will thank God on their knees for a hundred years

when you know who goes you know where.


:evilgrin:

[liberalmuse]

2. If I weren't an atheist...

I'd thank god for him, too. Thank whoever for FDR. He was an awesome President.

[Fed_Up_Grammy]

3. There were plenty that hated FDR,and The Times wasn't one of them.

Bush is an ass,but FDR was no saint. He was the best we had at the time and times were different.

No one could get"free men in every part of the world" to fight today-----no one.

[Glorfindel]

5. Welcome to DU!

Most of us are also fed-up, so you're in good company. :hi:

[TheDoorbellRang]

9. Hey, Welcome to DU, Fed_Up_Grammy

:hi:

Out of curiosity, what was it that folks didn't like about FDR?

[Glorfindel]

4. My wish is that B*shit should live a long, long life

and come to understand, as did Herbert Hoover and Richard Nixon before him, that he is the most despised person on the planet. He'd need to grow quite a few more brain cells in order to grasp that reality, but anything's possible. O8)

[madrchsod]

8. combine nixon and hoover and they still could`t

come to the level of revulsion the world feels toward bush.

[sailor65]

6. I know a lot of

people here right now who barely made it out of Poland, whose family members never got out, and who would very much disagree with the worship FDR seems to get.

[madrchsod]

7. my mom listened to the fdr address on dec 7 1941

and bush`s 9/11 address to the nation....she absolutely appalled bush`s address