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In reply to the discussion: This is what a REAL Democrat sounds like. [View all]merrily
(45,251 posts)Whether it was cancer specifically that he was fighting while in office or another deathly illness was not at all the most relevant part of Reply 130, yet you zeroed in on it because you could not refute anything in the post about FDR, so you took a cheap shot at me instead.
Anyone reading my Reply 130 for meaning, especially in the context of the entire thread, should realize the point was that FDR did an enormous amount during a difficult time for this country despite significant physical limitations and terminal illness. No sane person would deny either of those things. Your seizing on my mention of cancer in Reply 130 to claim that I don't know FDR's history is cheesey, at best, and probably wrong on history, too.
Many historians believe that FDR in fact did die of cancer, possibly a brain tumor, even though he never publicly admitted having it. And, based on my own analysis of their writings, his photos, and some of his speeches, I agree. Reading his history is the only way I would even know to connect cancer to him.
If you can be the one to prove he did not have cancer, as many suspect, be my guest.* But, as stated, whether he was fighting cancer or some other deadly illness does not matter at all as far as the point of Reply 130 let alone being the most relevant point to zero in on. His being deathly ill was what relevant to the post.
*I have not researched this point specificially, but I have not happened across any denial by his widow, or children.