Opinion of Henry Wallace

[RIP Robert H Bork]

Well?

[Darth Maul]

HP

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

Definite FF.

[Dereich]

Naive but well intentioned.

[Gass3268]

I hope that we all can agree that Wallace knew agriculture!

[TNF]

Naive but well intentioned.

[Goldwater]

Naive but well intentioned.

[justfollowingtheelections]

He would have been a better president than Truman.

[Maxwell]

He would have been a better president than Truman.

Probably, but thats not really saying much.

[TNF]

He would have been a better president than Truman.

lol nope

[justfollowingtheelections]

He would have been a better president than Truman.

lol nope

lol yep

[Antonio the Sixth]

He would have been a better president than Truman.

lol nope

lol yep

Not in 1948. Foreign policy was too crucial at that time, and clearly Wallace did not have the right foreign policy.

[TNF]

He would have been a better president than Truman.

lol nope

lol yep

If you think that letting western Europe and South Korea become Stalin's playthings was a good idea, that is. Truman did what was necessary to prevent the spread of communism.

[© tweed]

he had a second incarnation as a repentant cold warrior, which is too often forgotten.

[Darth Maul]

He would have been a better president than Truman.

lol nope

lol yep

If you think that letting western Europe and South Korea become Stalin's playthings was a good idea, that is. Truman did what was necessary to prevent the spread of communism.

Agreed.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

He would have been a better president than Truman.

lol nope

lol yep

If you think that letting western Europe and South Korea become Stalin's playthings was a good idea, that is. Truman did what was necessary to prevent the spread of communism.

I with there was a Co-Presidency in American system so Wallace can handle domestic affairs while Truman foreign policy.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Anyway Wallace was genuinely good man, truly concerned about improving lives of his fellow citizens. As Secretary of Agriculture he was simply brilliant. Regarding foreign policy he was simply naive. He wasn't a communist and such accusations are absurd. FF.

[Torie]

Pretty much a useless idiot.

[justfollowingtheelections]

He would have been a better president than Truman.

lol nope

lol yep

If you think that letting western Europe and South Korea become Stalin's playthings was a good idea, that is. Truman did what was necessary to prevent the spread of communism.

Western Europe would have become Stalin's plaything?  Seriously?  You cannot possibly believe that.
One thing is for sure:  If Wallace was the president, he would have never used the atom bomb on a non-white nation.

btw, the Marshall Plan, probably the best thing Truman did, was Wallace's idea (from when he was Secretary of Commerce).  Truman was also very much responsible for the Cold War, the main reason the US military budget is so huge 70 years later, while there's no money for infrastructures, education or health care.

[Kitteh]

He would have been a better president than Truman.

lol nope

lol yep

If you think that letting western Europe and South Korea become Stalin's playthings was a good idea, that is. Truman did what was necessary to prevent the spread of communism.

Western Europe would have become Stalin's plaything?  Seriously?  You cannot possibly believe that.
One thing is for sure:  If Wallace was the president, he would have never used the atom bomb on a non-white nation.

btw, the Marshall Plan, probably the best thing Truman did, was Wallace's idea (from when he was Secretary of Commerce).  Truman was also very much responsible for the Cold War, the main reason the US military budget is so huge 70 years later, while there's no money for infrastructures, education or health care.

Yeah, this. In hindsight the Soviet system was destined to collapse anyway and there was no need for the massive military expansion during the Cold War.

[© tweed]

there was no need for the massive military expansion during the Cold War.

the reason for it was the same reason "military" expenditure did not fall a drop after the dissolution of the Eastern bloc.

[William Poole]

Someone who seeked to befoul the legacy of this great and nobel land and the native true born bled americans living amongst it.

[TNF]

He would have been a better president than Truman.

lol nope

lol yep

If you think that letting western Europe and South Korea become Stalin's playthings was a good idea, that is. Truman did what was necessary to prevent the spread of communism.

Western Europe would have become Stalin's plaything?  Seriously?  You cannot possibly believe that.
One thing is for sure:  If Wallace was the president, he would have never used the atom bomb on a non-white nation.

btw, the Marshall Plan, probably the best thing Truman did, was Wallace's idea (from when he was Secretary of Commerce).  Truman was also very much responsible for the Cold War, the main reason the US military budget is so huge 70 years later, while there's no money for infrastructures, education or health care.

Wallace never expressed any problems with Truman using the bomb and pretty much anyone who was President at the time would have made the same decision. FDR planned on dropping it, too. Whether you like it or not, dropping the bomb was the right thing to do because it stopped the senseless slaughter across the Pacific. Truman made the best decision possible, given the circumstances.

As for the Cold War, that's revisionist history to the utmost. Truman didn't provoke the Cold War, Stalin and the Communists did. Truman simply reacted to what the Soviets were up to in Eastern Europe (i.e. attempting to colonize it) the way any rational actor concerned about America's geopolitical interest would have done. Wallace figured this out after his stint as a presidential candidate, it's a shame his latter-day supporters never have.

[© tweed]

As for the Cold War, that's revisionist history to the utmost. Truman didn't provoke the Cold War, Stalin and the Communists did.

the US did in the West what Stalin did in the East -- albeit in a liberal fashion.

[Antonio the Sixth]

As for the Cold War, that's revisionist history to the utmost. Truman didn't provoke the Cold War, Stalin and the Communists did.

the US did in the West what Stalin did in the East -- albeit in a liberal fashion.

And that makes a heck of a difference.