Even Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a liberal hero, admired Robert E. Lee

The left is targeting anything that has to do with the Confederacy. Robert E. Lee has had a target on his back for a long time in that respect, as we have seen here in San Antonio with the decision to rename Robert E. Lee High School.

“I am very happy to take part in this unveiling of the statue of General Robert E. Lee,” FDR said at the dedication ceremony in 1936.

“All over the United States, we recognize him as a great leader of men, as a great general. But, also, all over the United States I believe that we recognize him as something much more important than that. We recognize Robert E. Lee as one of our greatest American Christians and one of our greatest American gentlemen.”

You cannot change history by taking down statues, changing names of schools, or deleting history books. Lee’s stamp on history cannot be erased. The fact that a liberal hero, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was an admirer of Lee’s should help the left reconsider it’s approach to Confederate heroes and monuments.