| | Membership dues can vary widely between jurisdictions and individual lodges, which frequently raise money for charity. | | Membership dues can vary widely between jurisdictions and individual lodges, which frequently raise money for charity. |
| − | Historically, Freemasons played a pivotal role in the [[United States]] in blocking [[communism]] from taking control of the [[White House]] or [[U.S. Supreme Court]]. In 1944, the dying Freemason President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] put a fellow Freemason [[Harry Truman]] on his ticket to replace his Vice President, [[Henry Wallace]], a communist sympathizer. This enabled the Freemason Truman to become president in 1945 and he subsequently appointed four Freemasons (Burton, Vinson, Clark, and Minson), all anti-communists, to the Supreme Court. | + | Historically, '''''Freemasons played a pivotal role in the [[United States]] in blocking [[communism]] from taking control of the [[White House]] and the [[U.S. Supreme Court]]'''''. In 1944, the dying Freemason President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] put a fellow Freemason [[Harry Truman]] on his ticket to replace his Vice President, [[Henry Wallace]], a communist sympathizer. This enabled the Freemason Truman to become president in 1945 and he subsequently appointed four Freemasons (Burton, Vinson, Clark, and Minson), all anti-communists, to the Supreme Court. |