Getting Rid of All Those Suspect Roosevelts - News Summed Up

Getting Rid of All Those Suspect Roosevelts


Regarding your editorial “Teddy Gets Canceled” (June 23): The offended parties should logically move on to expunging Theodore Roosevelt’s oppressive cousin Franklin Roosevelt. FDR was a president who marched tens of thousands of American citizens of Japanese descent into concentration camps. Historians politely labeled them “internment camps” but the Japanese survivors and the courts have restored the rightful label, and survivors have been paid $1.6 billion in reparations. It will be difficult to remove FDR’s name from the...


Source: Wall Street Journal June 28, 2020 19:07 UTC



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