This day in History and its Relevance to today

Sixty years ago today, the Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces, Europe, Dwight Eisenhower along with fellow generals Patton and Bradley visited Ohrdruf a German Concentration Camp. It was the first such place that Eisenhower visited. Eisenhower who proved to Hitler that not only did the United States have better manufacturing than the Germans, but better Germans than the Germans, was staggered by what he saw. According to historian Steven Ambrose, he uncharacteristically snapped at an officer who nervously laughed at the incredible scene, "Still having trouble hating them?", meaning the Nazis.

Eisenhower quickly had the press and as many third parties as possible (including Congressional Leaders) visit the camp and others so that no one could later deny why they had witnessed (farsighted there).

The evening of April 12th a solemn and reflective Eisenhower retired to his camp and tried to contemplate the depths of the horrors he had scene.

It was at that time that he, Patton and Bradley all discovered that another great blow had occurred that day. The greatest President of the 20th century, Franklin Delano Roosevelt had died of a cerebral hemorage. Dying before he could see the conclusion of the war, but long enough to know its probable outcome.

In this era, sixty years, later when the Bush Administration tries to undermine everything that FDR did, remember that with the exception of Washington no person has ever cast a longer reflection on the office. All subsequent Presidents, including, ironically Eisenhower himself, would be measured in the shadow of the great man.

His policies, his stewardship, created modern America. America the land of civil justice, the land of economic opportunity; America where no one should go hungry; America the savior of Western Europe; America the world's greatest military and economic power.

And Franklin Delano Roosevelt was one more thing.

HE WAS A LIBERAL!