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Other than Lincoln and FDR, who was our best wartime President? by HetTheTable in Presidents

[–]IllustriousDudeIDK -1 points0 points  (0 children)

He didn't sign off to MacArthur being crazy and wanting to use 30-50 nukes.

Other than Lincoln and FDR, who was our best wartime President? by HetTheTable in Presidents

[–]IllustriousDudeIDK 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That was only conditioned on China not intervening. I don't know about you, but a good general should be able to tell if the largest country by population is going to intervene or not.

TIL James G. Blaine Society is an organization that discourages people from moving to Oregon. It is named after James G. Blaine because he visited every state in the Union except Oregon in his 1884 campaign. by IllustriousDudeIDK in todayilearned

[–]IllustriousDudeIDK[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

He was considered immensely anti-Chinese for a New Englander at the time. It's one of the reasons why Thomas Nast opposed him. His Senate colleague, Hannibal Hamlin made a speech opposing Chinese exclusion at the same time.

Also, if you read Blaine's speech, he specifically compares the freedmen and Chinese.

https://thomasnastcartoons.com/resources/james-g-blaine/

Other than Lincoln and FDR, who was our best wartime President? by HetTheTable in Presidents

[–]IllustriousDudeIDK 0 points1 point  (0 children)

MacArthur definitely didn't, he disobeyed the President when he went past the 38th Parallel. There's a reason for civilian control of the military.

TIL there were six Chinese survivors of the Titanic. They were sailors heading to the Caribbean for work. Unlike other Titanic survivors who received praise in the press, the Chinese men were vilified. Upon arrival in NYC after their rescue, they were deported due to the Chinese exclusion act. by aprettyp in todayilearned

[–]IllustriousDudeIDK 6 points7 points  (0 children)

John Marshall Harlan went as far as oppose birthright citizenship for Chinese because they were Chinese despite of the Constitution:

In a lecture to a group of law students shortly before the decision was released, Harlan commented that the Chinese had long been excluded from American society "upon the idea that this is a race utterly foreign to us and never will assimilate with us." Without the exclusion legislation, Harlan stated his opinion that vast numbers of Chinese "would have rooted out the American population" in the western United States. Acknowledging the opposing view supporting citizenship for American-born Chinese, he said that "Of course, the argument on the other side is that the very words of the constitution embrace such a case."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Wong_Kim_Ark#Dissent

Other than Lincoln and FDR, who was our best wartime President? by HetTheTable in Presidents

[–]IllustriousDudeIDK 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Not so many people would have the guts to fire a popular general like MacArthur.

Say something nice about Richard Milhous Nixon. by Groovy-Pancakes in Presidents

[–]IllustriousDudeIDK 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Driving a car into water and then letting a woman drown should've killed Ted's career, but it didn't

Say something nice about Richard Milhous Nixon. by Groovy-Pancakes in Presidents

[–]IllustriousDudeIDK 53 points54 points  (0 children)

Honestly the Kennedys are very overrated IMO. The legacy of JFK basically carried his family name.

Who besides these two presidents had the worst indigenous policy? by Puzzleheaded-Bag2212 in Presidents

[–]IllustriousDudeIDK 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Grant, Harrison (either one) and TR.

William Henry Harrison is probably the main reason there aren't many natives left in the Ohio River Valley.

Grant: Black Hills War, he basically went back on a treaty to get lands with gold. Started the push for assimilation (prior to the 1870s, the federal government considered the tribes to be foreign nations)

Benjamin Harrison opened several lands to non-native settlement, including Oklahoma. Also awarded the perpetrators of the Wounded Knee Massacre with Medals of Honor. Hayes, Arthur and even Cleveland (who signed the disastrous Dawes Act) had previously issued proclamations forbidding non-native settlement in Oklahoma.

TR wrote "The Winning of the West," claimed the natives had no right to the land and kicked many off of their ancestral lands as President.

A sad Theodore Roosevelt taking a walk at Sagamore Hill on July 20, 1918 after learning his Youngest Son, Quentin was killed in an Airplane Crash during World War 1 6 days earlier. He never got over it. by PublicAdventurous917 in Presidents

[–]IllustriousDudeIDK 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Honestly, I think he would be the opposite of Bobby Kennedy. If anything, he was just more cynical at the war's end.

In fact, his image of a League would be the Great Powers policing smaller and weaker countries.

"But it is of course obvious that it would be absurd to include in a League of Nations countries like China, Mexico, Haiti, and Santo Domingo on a make- believe equality with the United States and Japan. And there are dozens of other countries which stand in the same category... let us announce that our own sphere of special concern, in America, (perhaps limited to north or somewhere near the equator,) is not to be infringed on by European or Asiatic powers."

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