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Archae

(46,340 posts) Tue Oct 22, 2013, 08:09 PM Oct 2013

FDR's biggest mistake...

Still ongoing, as of most of the country.
Herbert Hoover appoibnted this jackass to head the DEA, FDR kept him.

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FDR's biggest mistake... (Original Post) Archae Oct 2013 OP

His biggest mistake was internment camps. Rex Oct 2013 #1

The War on Drugs has destroyed and disrupted many more lives than the internment camps Uncle Joe Oct 2013 #2

jayzis, the Third Way seems to hate FDR as much as the republicans do. nt Zorra Oct 2013 #3

I believe FDR was the greatest President of the 20th century but he wasn't immune to human frailty Uncle Joe Oct 2013 #5

And what does that tell us about the Third Way types? dflprincess Oct 2013 #7

The DEA did not exist until 1973, Anslinger headed the FBN Bluenorthwest Oct 2013 #4

3rd biggest... Cooley Hurd Oct 2013 #6

Rex

(65,616 posts)

1. His biggest mistake was internment camps.

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Tue Oct 22, 2013, 08:12 PM

Oct 2013

nt.

Uncle Joe

(58,389 posts)

2. The War on Drugs has destroyed and disrupted many more lives than the internment camps

Reply to Rex (Reply #1)

Tue Oct 22, 2013, 08:16 PM

Oct 2013

which lasted only a few years.

Zorra

(27,670 posts)

3. jayzis, the Third Way seems to hate FDR as much as the republicans do. nt

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Tue Oct 22, 2013, 08:22 PM

Oct 2013

Uncle Joe

(58,389 posts)

5. I believe FDR was the greatest President of the 20th century but he wasn't immune to human frailty

Reply to Zorra (Reply #3)

Tue Oct 22, 2013, 08:43 PM

Oct 2013

and making mistakes in some policies or decisions, just as every other President in U.S. history.

dflprincess

(28,082 posts)

7. And what does that tell us about the Third Way types?

Reply to Zorra (Reply #3)

Tue Oct 22, 2013, 10:10 PM

Oct 2013

Perhaps they should try and take their own party back rather than ruining the Democratic party.

Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts)

4. The DEA did not exist until 1973, Anslinger headed the FBN

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Tue Oct 22, 2013, 08:40 PM

Oct 2013

Federal Bureau of Narcotics 1930-1962. Yeah.

Cooley Hurd

(26,877 posts)

6. 3rd biggest...

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Tue Oct 22, 2013, 08:46 PM

Oct 2013

The Japanese Internment camps and the attempt to pack the Supreme Court come to mind. But Anslinger was a true abomination...

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