I wonder if watching how Biden is turning out is sort of like what it was to see LBJ

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54. FDR was racist toward Japanese, Jewish people and maybe American Indians

(though for American Indians, most all presidents were racist). FDR’s position toward African Americans was more “out of sight, out of mind”. He didn’t risk anything to better the lives of Blacks, Truman did a lot more in that area.

As a young man, FDR was a White House staffer for Woodrow Wilson, who was definitely very racist toward Blacks. So that experience may have impacted how FDR approached the issue of civil rights.

I had an uncle who got conscripted into the Army near the end of WWII. He was very young and didn’t see action in Europe, but he did have to guard some German prisoners. He talked a few times about how they got treated better than him. Our shared history has some wonderful chapters, but it also has some tragically sad and morally empty ones also - that is why the Trump effort to re-whitewash our history was so insulting.