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TommyC1776
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« on: August 10, 2008, 09:41:33 PM »
Was James Cox a liberal?  I had thought so but wasnt sure.

What was Al Smith politically:  liberal or conservative?  I have heard both answers in different places.  I figured someone here would know for sure.
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« Reply #1 on: August 10, 2008, 10:03:15 PM »
Quote from: TommyC1776 on August 10, 2008, 09:41:33 PM
Was James Cox a liberal?  I had thought so but wasnt sure.

What was Al Smith politically:  liberal or conservative?  I have heard both answers in different places.  I figured someone here would know for sure.

The Smith question I can answer: he was a Tammany politician, but as liberal a politician as the Tammany machine could produce, and an opponent of the Ku Klux Klan.
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« Reply #2 on: August 10, 2008, 10:05:36 PM »
Quote from: Lord Tolloller on August 10, 2008, 10:03:15 PM
Quote from: TommyC1776 on August 10, 2008, 09:41:33 PM
Was James Cox a liberal?  I had thought so but wasnt sure.

What was Al Smith politically:  liberal or conservative?  I have heard both answers in different places.  I figured someone here would know for sure.

The Smith question I can answer: he was a Tammany politician, but as liberal a politician as the Tammany machine could produce, and an opponent of the Ku Klux Klan.

But he also opposed much of the New Deal.
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« Reply #3 on: August 10, 2008, 10:46:17 PM »
Quote from: Warner for Senate '08 on August 10, 2008, 10:05:36 PM
Quote from: Lord Tolloller on August 10, 2008, 10:03:15 PM
Quote from: TommyC1776 on August 10, 2008, 09:41:33 PM
Was James Cox a liberal?  I had thought so but wasnt sure.

What was Al Smith politically:  liberal or conservative?  I have heard both answers in different places.  I figured someone here would know for sure.

The Smith question I can answer: he was a Tammany politician, but as liberal a politician as the Tammany machine could produce, and an opponent of the Ku Klux Klan.

But he also opposed much of the New Deal.

That's the part that made me not sure and so that's why i asked.
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« Reply #4 on: August 11, 2008, 12:33:20 PM »
Quote from: Warner for Senate '08 on August 10, 2008, 10:05:36 PM
Quote from: Lord Tolloller on August 10, 2008, 10:03:15 PM
Quote from: TommyC1776 on August 10, 2008, 09:41:33 PM
Was James Cox a liberal?  I had thought so but wasnt sure.

What was Al Smith politically:  liberal or conservative?  I have heard both answers in different places.  I figured someone here would know for sure.

The Smith question I can answer: he was a Tammany politician, but as liberal a politician as the Tammany machine could produce, and an opponent of the Ku Klux Klan.

But he also opposed much of the New Deal.

That was the 1930s Smith. The 1920s Smith was as liberal as the 1920s came.
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« Reply #5 on: August 11, 2008, 01:42:25 PM »
To simplify beyond the point of the reasonable, Smith was an economic conservative (at least by 30s standards) and a social liberal (again, by the standards of the age).

Cox was just some guy I suppose. Internationalist, anyhow.
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