Forgotten

It seems to me that some US Presidents who once were held up are fading out of interest.

I think that the partisans of Franklin Roosevelt wished to portray civilization as starting with him, something like the First Emperor of China who had all of the books destroyed. So Woodrow Wilson and William Jennings Bryan (never President but he tried hard) were sort of suppressed.

The same people sort of regretted Harry Truman, since he wasn't Roosevelt, but rehabilitated him as better than Eisenhower during those dark years. But John Kennedy eclipsed all in their minds, but the time was short. And he went eyeball to eyball witht eh Soviets, something we don't want to encourage today. And he cut taxes. Let's not talk about it. Lyndon Johnson? Was he ever President? When? Was he a Democrat? He is in oblivion.

Nixon, of course, cannot be forgotten because he is the example of all that is bad. Remember that. Ford was nothing. And Carter is only brought out when a senior statesman is needed. But let's not talk about his single term. Too many bad things happened then, Inflation, Gas Lines, Iran.

Roosevelt provoked the Fascist and Imperial powers of his day, until they finally declared war. Good for him. It would have been more honest to be up front about it, but that was not politically workable. Not today either. But we condemn Presidents who do that now, so it is best not to bring up War President Roosevelt. Then there is the Internment of the Japanese -Americans in 1942, much condemed, but we won't mention what President did it. Or the one who authorized the Atomic Bom program. Or for that matter, the one who dropped it and who put America in the Korean War. We condemn these things now.

When are we pulling out of Germany and Japan? When are the troops coming home from Korea? Let's not talk about it, or the Presidents who put them there. Let's look to the future. Change.