Talk:Henry Morgenthau Jr.

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This should be reworded with speculation removed. Plus, POV refs.:
:moved slowly to meet this unique tragedy
:failed at times to measure up
:lateness of the hour, ruthless determination
Copied from Hurwitz? Either way, should be reworded. --Sasoriza 23:06, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: POV & speculation

message: The Morgenthau portion w/quote: Burton Folsom quotes Morgenthau, testifying before the House Ways and Means Committee in May 1939: "We are spending more money than we have ever spent before and it does not work. I want to see this country prosperous. I want to see people get a job. We have never made good on our promises. I say after eight years of this administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started and an enormous debt to boot."
How exactly can he--Folsom--have Morgenthau making this quote about "after eight years of this administration" when FDR had only been in office for six at that time. One would think a Treasury secretary dealing with a national budget would get his date correct or this has been misquoted somehow. Virgil61 (talk) 00:53, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: New Deal

message: A review of the Congressional Record fails to reveal this quote; removed because it could not be verified with the official record.
: Just my two cents... that certainly sounds like something Henry "The Morgue" would say.  While many of the economist aides around him were Keynsians, Morgenthau was "conservative."  DEddy (talk) 00:04, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: New Deal

message: The "never made good on our promises" quote is said to have come from Morgenthau's diary.  See John Morton Blum, "From the Morgenthau Diaries."  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.246.125.13 (talk) 18:22, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: New Deal

message: Surely one does not take a campaign jab ("worth ten divisions") as fact?  Besides, FDR UNILATERALLY declared "unconditional surrender" at the 1943 Casablanca conference.  Churchill was reportedly NOT pleased. DEddy (talk) 04:11, 16 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ten Divisions 

message: Much of this article seems to be based on a right-wing polemic by Amity Shlaes, which has been utterly dismissed by mainstream historians.  It also contains a Morgenthau quote derived from the right-wing blogger Patterico.  These are not appropriate sources for a wikipedia article. john k (talk) 15:56, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dubious sources 

message: a large amount of text which seems to be inflammatory has just been added to this article under the "Fiscal Responsibility" section.  Not being an expert in this area nor wishing to go edit-warring, I am asking that someone familiar with verifiable reliable secondary sources review the text of that section.  Wickedjacob (talk) 02:05, 12 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fiscal responsibility 

message: I added text with two cites about his defending the New Deal using tax issues. Geraldshields11 (talk) 17:57, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Disscussion about tax issues in defending the New Deal

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thread_title:  Anti-Zionism 

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thread_title: Assessment comment

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message: The article says that Morgenthau was briefly first in the line of succession to the Presidency.  Actually he was second.  The line is: 1) Vice President 2) Speaker of the House 3) Cabinet secretaries in the order the department was created.  So the Speaker would have been ahead of Morgenthau.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 23.251.68.246 (talk) 15:46, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: He was first in the line because the law in place at the time excluded the speaker of the House and the president pro tem of the Senate. See United_States_presidential_line_of_succession#Act_of_1886. Calidum 15:51, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Line of Succession