Why I Prefer Democrats (A brief summary)

I was born in 1923 under the “Harding Star.” By rejecting the League of Nations idea approved by Woodrow Wilson, Republicans had just assured a WW-II.

The 1920s was replete with backward looking economic and foreign policies of Republican presidents Coolidge and Hoover, and the antediluvian ideas of a Republican Congress. Hoover assured an economic disaster at home and abroad by approving the Hawley-Smoot tariff legislation in the late 20s. As a child I remember that it was Hoover, not Satan that had horns!

The Republicans tried to thwart every progressive piece of legislation of Franklin D. Roosevelt in the Depression 1930s. As a farm lad, he impressed me. FDR kept our family alive, almost literally, through farm programs and relief legislation, such as the WPA. When I went off to Mississippi State in 1938, I worked my way through college on NYA funds which, along with the CCC, helped save the nation