Talk:Henry A. Wallace

message: Wallace for many years was closely associated with a mystic whom he called Guru. A hostile journalist Westbook Pegler published some of the letters:
"In March 1948 Pegler began to publish some of the actual letters in his widely syndicated column. One letter asked, "Have you heard from the horoscope?" Some contained references to "the Flaming One," "the Sour One," "the Tigers," and so on. Still others displayed the strange ethereal language in which much of the early correspondence had been couched: "I look at the locket from out of the past and wonder if I shall see it in the far distant future. Apparently we are fighting always a new battle. Shall our hearts sing at the fighting? Do we never create that sweet land of beauty and justice?" Or again: "Disappointments are 
frequent and difficulties great, but we hope for much because of the obvious imminency of the times. The earth beat, the Indian rhythm of ancient America, haunts me like a faint fragrance from the past while I strive to center my complete forces on the pressing problems of the day." [Henry A. Wallace: His Search for a New World Order. by John Maze & Graham White University of North Carolina Press. page 273]
Historians conclude they are authentic, though  Wallace refused to comment on them.
::: Historians? What historians? Culver and Hyde say they were doctored to make Wallace look bad. It is an early example of Swiftboating. Pegler, an anti-Semite, famous for his over-the-top invective against New Deal, FDR, and Eleanor in particular, made jokes about assassination. He also hated the Kennedy family. Hardly an unbiased authority. In his later years he was expelled from the John Birch society for being too "extremist." Mballen (talk) 23:00, 3 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: What was the cause of Wallace's death? I've read somewhere (can't quite remember), it was Lou Gehrig's Disease. If so, can anyone find a verifiable source on this & add it to the article? I can't find a source. GoodDay 01:00, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Someone had already added that. I made the reference tag visible. Also added him to [Category:Deaths from motor neurone disease].--195.137.93.171 (talk) 17:54, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thankyou all. GoodDay (talk) 21:11, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Henry A. Wallace RIP 

message: " Historians Schapsmeier and Schapsmeier argue (1970 p 181)
:"The Progressive party stood for one thing and Wallace another. Actually the party organization was controlled from the outset by those representing the radical left and not liberalism per se. This made it extremely easy for Communists and fellow travelers to infiltrate into important positions within the party machinery. Once this happened, party stands began to resemble a party line. Campaign literature, speech materials, and campaign slogans sounded strangely like echoes of what Moscow wanted to hear. As if wearing moral blinkers, Wallace increasingly became an imperceptive ideologue. Words were uttered by Wallace that did not sound like him, and his performance took on a strange Jekyll and Hyde quality—one moment he was a peace protagonist and the next a propaganda parrot for the Kremlin." "
All right: that's what these two gentlemen think. Perhaps I do not agree: should my own opinions be quoted too?
: Are you an historian, do you have a published work to which reference can be made? --ukexpat 01:20, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You would have to disagree with Wallace himself, in his 1952 study "Where I was Wrong". 76.102.48.24 (talk) 07:16, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Well, must we agree? 

message: The man was an early proponent of civil rights and a progressive. Why is that not reflected in his bio?
:It could be, as long as it's cited in reliable sources, so it can be verified. Be bold!  Frank  |  talk  15:58, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Civil Rights Icon

message: The references to Duggan and Harry Dexter White being proven Soviet agents have been changed and changed back far too many times.  It's clear that the dispute is over ideology, not historical veracity. --Wabobo3 (talk) 01:13, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Furthermore, Duggan and White, as well as their proven or unproven connections, are irrelevant to this article. If there is any evidence to support the claim that Wallace wanted two Soviet spies in his cabinet, let's see it. Otherwise, this item does not belong in the article at all. I am deleting it. Altgeld (talk) 15:37, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Claimed Second-Hand Complicity with Soviet Espionage 

message: Just read in a Sunday Times review of The Forsaken by Tim Tzouliadis, that Wallace visited gold-mining labour camps in the USSR in 1944 and was impressed by a Potemkin Village. He then gave radio broadcasts in the US praising those in labour camps for their 'patriotic' and 'voluntary' work. Malick78 (talk) 12:34, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: 1944 Soviet visit

message: Is this the same President of the Senate who came in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington?  The President in the movie was referred to as "Henry."Leo-Isaurus-Rex (talk) 18:01, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 

message: More details need to be given about Wallace's personal contribution to agriculture outside of government. His extensive work in plant breeding and his works on agricultural economics and agricultural history need to be addressed. Orville Eastland (talk) 21:21, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Wallace and Agriculture

message: Apparently, in order to make Mike Pence's tie vote on the Betsy Devos even more historic, the tie vote by Harry Truman on Wallace's confirmation as Secretary of Commerce has been deleted from the historical record, at least here on Wikipedia. Can one find out where that anonymous got his figures on the vote? Is he/she faking history with "Alternate facts?"Arglebargle79 (talk) 12:46, 9 February 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I have added the citation. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 13:41, 9 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Faking history?

message: This claim appears to be untrue; Chester Arthur had never held elective office prior to having been nominated for, and subsequently elected to, the office of Vice President in 1880, and Hoover also had only appointed office prior to attaining the Presidency. I'm withholding editing for now in case somebody has a suggestion for what should be done with that line, other than simply deleting it. There is a point to be made about the relative controversy of having somebody stand for an Executive office who has no previous experience, but it would have to be put into the proper historical context of 1940 reactions for this to be a valuable addition to the article.
As is, I'd propose just deleting the line. Comments?
- Maria MariaMitchell (talk) 19:20, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: The article says only that Wallace was "the last vice president of any party who had not previously held any elected office" (emphasis added), which is accurate. Ewulp (talk) 22:43, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Claim of being only Vice President not to have held elected office previously 

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message: The lead paragraph says that "after the death of his father in 1924, Wallace increasingly drifted away from the Republican Party, and he supported Democratic presidential nominee Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1932 election." 
A Republican by family tradition, in 1924 Wallace supported the third party Progressive Party presidential candidate, Bob La Follette, but as the article says further down, "Dissatisfied with both major party candidates in the 1928 presidential election, Wallace tried to get [Republican] Governor Frank Lowden of Illinois to seek the presidency". Therefore, in 1928 he was still a Republican, though ultimately he voted for the Democratic candidate Al Smith over Republican Herbert Hoover. 
As a member of FDR's cabinet Wallace, is usually referred to as one of the "Republicans" in the cabinet. If you are going to say he had "drifted away" from the party during the 1920s, it should be explained why he did so further down in the article, but no explanation is offered. 
The reason I have always read is the (chiefly Wall Street driven) economic boom of 1920s completely bypassed the farm sector, which experienced the Great Depression ten years earlier and therefore 10 years longer than the nation as a whole. Wallace was desperately disillusioned because neither the Republican, nor the Democratic party cared what the farmers were going through, much less offered them any assistance, but La Follette did. The Republicans of the boom era, Coolidge and Hoover, especially, were egregious in their neglect of agriculture, which they considered a "special interest". 72.80.107.93 (talk) 00:55, 28 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disillusioned with Republicans