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and hillman not only being involved with labor organizations, but hillman was born in lithuania and was viewed by many as a socialist or a communist and he has the backing of labor unions and he's using that backing to support democratic candidates. and so supposedly, too, i have this at the very bottom of the screen, roosevelt before signing off to a truman bid for vp told his aides, clear everything with sidney. make sure it's okay with him before we go forward with a truman vice presidential candidacy. so that remark "clear everything with sidney" became kind of a major battle cry for republicans in 1944, saying, see, roosevelt is indispensable. he's indispensable to the communists. the rhetoric was also intense. and here is an image of republican congresswoman clare elected in 1942, the wife of henry luce the publisher of "time" magazine and the author of the "life" editorial or essay in 1941, "an american century." but she accuses fdr that fall of little by little distorting our democracy into a dictatorial bubbledom and insisted he's the only american president who lied us into a