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1. What arguments do Feingold and Heuvel offer in defense of Roosevelt?

2. What does Michael Beschloss mean when he describes Roosevelt’s response to the Holocaust as a "strange lapse?"

3. Why does David Wyman call it "the worst failure of his presidency"?

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1. The arguments that these people put forward was to exonerate the president by saying the situation was beyond his control.

The argument that Feingold put forward

He argued that there were many situations that occurred that were beyond the capacity of Roosevelt's administration. These were

  • The determination to liquidate Jews by Berlin.
  • The decision to rescue a minority in a foreign land that the US did not owe any responsibility.

The argument that Heuvel put forward

Heuvel sternly said that it was ironic to put any blames on Roosevelt because he was not the one that caused the holocaust.

According to him, no one had any backgrounds to fault him for what was being done by Hitler because he was not the cause.

2. What Michael meant was that it was not a common occurrence for the president to be silent on issues that are as pressing as this.

According to him, the president was a person that would speak up fast on serious world issues. He meant it was not in the character of the president to be late in issues of this sort.

3. Wyman called it the worst failure of his presidency because he refused to act for a long time during the extermination.

From what he said, the president only stepped in to save the Jews out of pressure.

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