(07-03-2014 10:54 AM)UCGrad1992 Wrote:  The biggest travesty of all may have been the following:

Quote:Owens said, "Hitler didn't snub me – it was FDR who snubbed me. The president didn't even send me a telegram." Hitler sent Owens a commemorative inscribed cabinet photograph of himself. Honors were not bestowed upon Jesse Owens by either President Franklin D. Roosevelt or his successor Harry S. Truman during their terms.

It is truly stunning to me how the FDR's image in the media and in the public memory is so utterly/drastically different from the reality. Name the issue: civil rights for minorities, economic policies, leadership during the war (and military preparedness before the war), political ethics, separation-of-powers and constitutional government, on down the line… his presidency was virtually the opposite of what most people seem to think it was.