Then and Now

[crafters_corner]

[squern]

It's called "progress".

[sucadot]

Lol! Doesn't inspire confidence does it?!

[moonwitch]

I prefer the new version

[madelaine]

Well, Stalin was a totally ruthless dictator with no respect for human life.
Roosevelt lied to his public - not admitting that he couldn't walk

Churchill was the right man for the hour but he did not retire and was still "in power" while suffering from dementia

But today's lot are mostly even worse!

[JaBek1]

Well, Stalin was a totally ruthless dictator with no respect for human life.
Roosevelt lied to his public - not admitting that he couldn't walk

Churchill was the right man for the hour but he did not retire and was still "in power" while suffering from dementia

But today's lot are mostly even worse!

I thought that Churchill lost an election after the war. Something about him not being the right man for the job in a peacetime Britain.

I believe, FDR lied about more than his polio to the voters of this country. If he hadn't, Britain would probably have had a somewhat harder time without lend-lease. Of course, I've never been able to understand how that was remotely legal while the US was claiming neutrality.

[madelaine]

Yes, he did - but he was re-elected again later.

[JaBek1]

I wasn't aware that he was re-elected later. Wasn't his mother American born?

[madelaine]

Yes.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Jerome-1

Part of a movement - they brought money and, in exchange, acquired titles/status!