Should FDR be removed from the dime?

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Yes. He doesn't deserve to be on there since he put Japanese-Americans in concentration camps during WWII.

Lincoln was a racist too, but for both of these Presidents the good definitely outweighs the bad. We've had plenty of 3rd rate bottom of the barrel Presidents. FDR was definitely not one.

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First off, let me make it clear that I believe the Japanese internment was a horrible thing that shouldn't have happened. However, though the conditions were bad for the Japanese they weren't bad enough to outright cause the deaths of people. I believe you're misleading the statistics a bit here.

1862 deaths out of a population of 120,313, over the four years the Japanese were interred, is a crude death rate of 16.15 per year; about equal to the United States at the time (not counting the war deaths o/c).

So yes, while the Japanese were horribly mistreated by being put into camps, there's really no evidence that the government's actions led to anyone's deaths (though it was still a horrible horrible policy).

More US citizens of Japanese ancestry died in Hiroshima. BTW, Rep. Doris Matsui was born in a camp.

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Altho, if Jackson is to be on any denomination, the $20 bill is the one he should be on, as one of the stands he took during the Bank War was that there should be no bill smaller than a $20 bill.  At the time, the highest value coin minted by the U.S. was the gold Eagle with a face value of $10. In other words, he was against the use of paper money when specie coins could in theory do the job.

Adjusting for inflation, his position is that there should be no bill smaller than a $500 bill.