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FDR did not like Jews. He thought that when you had too many Jews in one place, they inevitably tended to dominate things and thus it was completely fair that other groups disliked Jews for this. See here. His views on Jews (among other things) were pretty horrifying.

In 1923, as a member of the Harvard board of directors, Roosevelt decided there were too many Jewish students at the college and helped institute a quota to limit the number admitted. In 1938, he privately suggested that Jews in Poland were dominating the economy and were therefore to blame for provoking anti-Semitism there. In 1941, he remarked at a Cabinet meeting that there were too many Jews among federal employees in Oregon. In 1943, he told government officials in Allied-liberated North Africa that the number of local Jews in various professions “should be definitely limited” so as to “eliminate the specific and understandable complaints which the Germans bore towards the Jews in Germany.”

Al Smith's top aide for almost 20 years was Belle Moskowitz. She was his 1928 Campaign Manager and press agent for nomination in 1932. Joseph Proskauer, another top adviser of his, would later be president of the American Jewish Committee. Smith certainly was no antisemite.

Smith was an early opponent of German antisemitism, supported the 1933 anti-Nazi Boycott, spoke at anti-Nazi rallies, denounced Nazi brutality, and supported joining the war in Europe.


What sort of specific actions might him being President instead of FDR have resulted in? I'm going to assume his VP is John Nance Garner, as that'd still make for a very balanced ticket.
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