re: #382 HappyWarrior

Right if we had the 22nd in 1940, who knows who takes FDR’s place as the Dem standard bearer. The irony is the Republican opponent that year wasn’t really bad of a guy on both domestics and international relations but there’s no way Willkie would have been able to handle the lead up and then start of WWII.

In hindsight, we got awfully lucky all around, didn’t we?

Although I quite agree that Willkie holds up much better in hindsight than he did at the time. (But then, ANY Republican of that era would be almost unrecognizable in the light of today’s politics. Even the Furby’s beloved Coolidge.)