“What a comfort,” Franklin Delano Roosevelt said one day back in 1936, “to get away from the damn newspapers … I wish I had enough money to start a newspaper, confined to news without interpretation, colouration, twisting or downright lying – I think it would be a financial success.”
"The vested interests and big newspaper barons inveighed against him [FDR]. Like the Twitter-storming Mr. Trump of today, Mr. Roosevelt had a new communications tool to fight them – fireside chats via radio."
"Like today’s President, Mr. Roosevelt went against the grain in seeking warm relations with the Russians. His alleged giveaway of Eastern Europe to Joseph Stalin at Yalta did not win him many converts."
"Like Mr. Trump, Mr. Roosevelt liked to spring surprises. Contradictions were common. “Never let your left hand know what your right is doing,” was a guiding principle for him. He was bold enough to take on his own party, attempting at one point to purge several Senate incumbents."
" He [FDR] was a disruptor who, like Ronald Reagan, generated warmth and optimism as opposed to division, distrust and fear." - LIKE TRUMP!!!
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opi...rn-something-from-another-disruptor-in-chief/
