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Roosevelt is a person with significant achievements, but he also had negative aspects. He may have held racially discriminatory beliefs.
In a private conversation with the British Ambassador to the United States, Ronald Hugh Campbell, he asserted that 'the Japanese skull is about 2,000 years behind us in development,' and he told Campbell, 'Once we defeat Japan, we should encourage intermarriage with other races by all means to evolve their backward brains.
Thorne, Christopher G. (1979). Allies of a kind: the United States, Britain, and the war against Japan, 1941-1945. Oxford University Press. pp. 158-159,167-168.
The existence of Japanese internment camps in the United States and in countries in Central and South America under U.S. influence may have been driven by racially discriminatory beliefs. How evaluate ones this is a matter of personal choice, but at the very least, it is desirable to leave Roosevelt's statements as material for discussion.
Pan24423 (
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In the description about FDR’s presidency 1933-45, the second image of territory control during WW2 does not mention “territory controlled by” making Norway look as if it was part of the Axis Of Power. It most certainly was not and was only occupied by the Axis. Please add the additional information. Thanks. 2600:4040:9D3C:8300:FC70:BA8D:E4BF:6091 ( talk) 01:25, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
Hey Nikkimaria, if I may ask, what was your reasoning for removing the mention of the Tornado outbreak of April 12, 1945 in your condensing edit? Since there is no edit summary explanation, I thought it best to ask here.
The section removed was in the death section with the following text:
"Coincidentally, on April 12, 1945, a
devastating tornado outbreak occurred in the United States, which killed 128 people and injured over a thousand others. The tornado outbreak included the fourth deadliest tornado in Oklahoma history, which leveled a third of the town of
Antlers. Roosevelt's death overshadowed what would have "commanded national media attention" for a while.
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[2] Tornado expert
Thomas P. Grazulis said that, "even nearby newspapers had more information on the death of the President than on the tornado".
[1]
I will note, even the U.S. government acknowledged his death overshadowing the tornado (2nd source).
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February 4, 1932 as governor of New York, Franklin D. Roosevelt opened the 1932 Winter Olympics, nine months before he would be elected president of the United States. The information is on this site: /info/en/?search=1932_Winter_Olympics 80.65.68.66 ( talk) 02:59, 3 March 2024 (UTC)
"In 1903, Franklin proposed to Eleanor. Following resistance from Roosevelt's mother, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt were married on March 17, 1905."
They both had the same last name, so it's unclear who's mother resisted the marriage. 50.202.229.150 ( talk) 16:13, 3 April 2024 (UTC)