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====Support for Henry Wallace====

====Support for Henry Wallace====

Although Bilbo by 1945 broke with a number of Roosevelt Administration–spearheaded initiatives, namely price controls, due to his own old-school progressivism coming to a clash with the new direction of modern liberalism shaped during the war years, he was a staunch supporter of far-left [[Comsymp|Communist sympathizer]] [[Henry A. Wallace]], Roosevelt's vice president during his third term subsequently nominated for [[Secretary of Commerce]]. Although his less liberal Southern colleagues disdained Wallace, Bilbo announced:<ref name=finalsenateyears,p.114>"Theodore Bilbo's Final Senate Years," p. 114.</ref>

Although Bilbo by 1945 broke with a number of Roosevelt Administration–spearheaded initiatives, namely price controls, due to his own old-school progressivism coming to a clash with the new direction of modern liberalism shaped during the war years, he was a staunch supporter of far-left [[Comsymp|Communist sympathizer]] [[Henry A. Wallace]], Roosevelt's vice president during his third term subsequently nominated for [[Secretary of Commerce]]. Although his less liberal Southern colleagues disdained Wallace, Bilbo announced:<ref name=finalsenateyears,p.114>"The Final Senate Years," p. 114.</ref>

{{cquote|I am for Henry Wallace in the committee, in the Senate, and all out-of-doors at home and abroad.|||Bilbo, January 23, 1945}}

{{cquote|I am for Henry Wallace in the committee, in the Senate, and all out-of-doors at home and abroad.|||Bilbo, January 23, 1945}}