Talk:Wendell Willkie
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The intro could use some rewording. It says he was born in Virginia but is the only nominee from Indiana.. Zdv 04:41, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)
This page needs more info about Willkie's opposition to the new deal, especially the TVA. It also needs rewording in the first body paragraph, which mentions the TVA very early on. Bonus Onus 18:42, Mar 25, 2005 (UTC)
For an alternative view of the emergence of Willkie on the national political scene, see Desperate Deception: British Covert Operations in the United States 1939-44 by Thomas E. Mahl. The following observation comes from a review of the Mahl book by Dr. Stephen Sniegoski at http://www.thornwalker.com/ditch/mahl.htm :
British intelligence, as Mahl aptly illustrates, had the ability to destroy, transform, or advance American political figures, according to the dictates of British military policy. For example, he shows how British intelligence tried to destroy staunch non-interventionist congressman Hamilton Fish of New York by concocting bogus scandal stories. Seductive female British agents were used to transmute the political position of the influential Republican Senator Arthur Vandenberg from non-interventionist to interventionist. And the nomination of Wendell Willkie as the 1940 Republican presidential candidate was the collaborative work of British intelligence, American interventionists, and the Roosevelt White House. Making Willkie the Republican nominee required Herculean effort since he had never before held public office and had actually been a Democrat. The purpose of his nomination was not to defeat Roosevelt but to make sure that no non-interventionist alternative existed. Willkie himself consciously participated in this deception, maintaining close ties with British agents and the White House.
Additional reviews of Mahl's book can be found at http://www.dcdave.com/article3/001116.html and http://www.fff.org/freedom/1198f.asp. Oct. 21, 2005 (GDM)
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[edit] Willkie and the TVA
The page indicates that the TVA had access to unlimited government funding, which enabled it to buy out the privately held C&S Corp. The TVA did not recieve Federal funding; rather it had to subsidize its acquisitions through its own profits, and then hand the excess over to the Treasury.
[edit] Fascist Influence
Willkie was the German Nazi candidate of choice against FDR. German money, $15 Million Dollars worth, was funneled through William Rhodes Davis, Texas Oil Man and registered German spy agency, into the Republican Party.
While the Nazis may have supported Willkie, I have a problem with the insinuation that Willkie knowingly accepted Nazi support or sympathized in any way with their objectives. To the contrary, Willkie repeatedly denounced Hitler and the Nazis, and many Republican isolationists opposed Willkie because of his strong stand on aid for the Allies. The historian William Manchester, a liberal Democrat, noted in his book The Glory and the Dream that "Friends of Britain could hardly have picked a better man" than Willkie, and "above all, he [Willkie] should never had been subjected to the accusation from Henry Wallace, FDR's running mate, that Willkie was the Nazi's choice." I believe the article as written unfairly implies that Willkie was secretly and deliberately taking Nazi support in the 1940 campaign, or at least held pro-Nazi views. The most respected books on Willkie's 1940 campaign - Herbert Parmet's Never Again: A President Runs for a Third Term and Steve Neal's biography Dark Horse, simply do not support those accusations. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.145.229.162 (talk) 23:14, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Image
Could anybody find a better image of Willkie?--Southern Texas 03:19, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] More, please?
I would like to read more of this:
In a humorous reference in the Bugs Bunny animated cartoon Falling Hare, Bugs is pestered by a gremlin while trying to fly a World War II bomber. When Bugs realizes what the gremlin is, he timidly asks, "Could it be a - [whispering] gremlin?" In a foreign accent, the gremlin shouts in Bugs' ear, "It ain't Vendell Villkie!" This recalls an incident at the 1940 Republican National Convention when the head of a state delegation from the Midwest announced "two votes for Villkie" in a Scandinavian accent. This sound bite, broadcast on nationwide radio, enjoyed a brief vogue as a humorous catchphrase.
As an example, Midwest? What? Whom? There is likely a record of whom, from where.
I would, further, like more of his connection[s] to freedomhouse:
< http://freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=1 >.
Thank You,
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