re: #261 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

And there was Wendell Wilkie, one of the most remarkable people in the history of American politics. He was an almost unknown corporate lawyer and CEO when he won the Republican Presidential nomination in 1940, completely out-manuevering the conservative/isolationists wing of the party in the process. He proved to be an ardent anti-fascist, an internationalist and a champion of racial justice. After the election, he and Roosevelt reportedly discussed forming a new liberal party after the war. Neither man lived to see it. Wilkie died suddenly in October, 1944, aged 52, just a few months before Roosevelt himself.

Wilkie was a good man. Better than FDR on many issues.