{"id":11727,"date":"2019-03-18T12:02:57","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T19:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11727"},"modified":"2019-04-03T15:03:49","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T22:03:49","slug":"when-presidential-character-once-mattered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/when-presidential-character-once-mattered\/","title":{"rendered":"When Presidential Character Once Mattered"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s why I did&nbsp;<em>not&nbsp;<\/em>vote for Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Ronald Reagan\u2014despite their records.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1944:&nbsp;<\/strong>Sorry, I am not voting for a fourth term for Franklin D. Roosevelt. He\u2019s a vindictive character and has brought disrepute into the White House. When he didn\u2019t get his way, he pouted and tried to pack the Supreme Court. When critics went after him, he threatened them with targeted regulations and taxes to silence them. He signed the order putting Japanese-Americans in internment camps\u2014another one of his \u201cexecutive orders\u201d that he so often has abused.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then there are those rumors. Have we ever had a president who used his own daughter as a conduit to conduct an affair while in the White House? And who knows what Eleanor was doing at the time? Why hide the truth about his health? Anybody who sees or hears the president, knows his army of conspiratorial aides are lying about his ailments as they always do. We\u2019ve known all along that he was paralyzed\u2014and not simply partially disabled, when his braces and aides staged his standing up to make us believe he could almost walk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2019\/03\/17\/when-presidential-character-once-mattered\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Here\u2019s why I did&nbsp;not&nbsp;vote for Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Ronald Reagan\u2014despite their records. 1944:&nbsp;Sorry, I am not voting for a fourth term for Franklin D. Roosevelt. He\u2019s a vindictive character and has brought disrepute into the White House. 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