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One Third of the Nation
On January 20, 1937, in his Second Inaugural Address, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt said “I see one third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, and ill-nourished. The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance...
Tags: FDR, New Deal, Obama, economy, Great Depression, Harold A. Ickes, Roosevelt&, Henry Wallace, allnews, Lawrence Summers, Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Timothy Geithner, Employment, Unemployment, Business cycle, Social Security, Labor, Labor economics, Harry Hopkins, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Frances Perkins
John Bogert: FDR book shows today's politics are nothing new
Lomita :: CA :: USA | 15 days ago
Credibility
Brands' exhaustive and fascinating biography of Franklin Roosevelt, "Traitor to His Class." And all it did was remind me of our apparent willingness to repeat history. There's a lot in the book, including the first insight I've heard on FDR's accent,...
Tags: Lewis Millett Jr., right things, FDR, Hank, Lomita, Human Interest
Opinion: Obama must focus on jobs
Tarp :: Germany | 21 days ago
Credibility Zelizer is a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School. His new book, "Arsenal of Democracy: The Politics of National Security -- From World War II to the War on Terrorism," will be published in December by...
Tags: deficit reduction, Henry Morgenthau, Obama, FDR, spending cut, White House, Franklin D. Roosevelt, midterm elections, Germany, Tarp, United States federal budget, Deficit, Recession, Henry Morgenthau Jr., Fiscal conservatism, Business Finance, New Deal, Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Politics
FDR: On Protest Movements..
Here is a great quote from FDR. ""FDR once met with a group of activists who sought his support for legislation. He listened to their arguments for some time and then said, "You've convinced me. Now go out and make me do it." """ In the case of Obama...
Tags: Health care reform, FDR, political protests
Put another Frances Perkins on the Obama Team
When Franklin Delano Roosevelt asked Frances Perkins to be his Secretary of Labor in 1932, she said she would accept only if he would support her social justice agenda: Federal relief and large-scale public works programs to help victims of...
Tags: FDR, New Deal, Depression, Obama, liberal
Tied to the Tracks
Recently the Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka were defeated by the national army. Troy Davis was convicted to death for the fourth time in two years – leaving only the Supreme Court to appeal to. In Israel, freedom of speech is facing...
Tags: FDR, Israel, Politics, Roosevelt, Tamil Tigers, Troy Davis
Obama's early efforts spur FDR memories
Roosevelt :: NY :: USA | 7 months ago
Credibility The first 100 days of Barack Obama's presidency have gone down the right path for asphalt workers. Over the next two months, local workers will see $22 million in road projects funded through stimulus funds provided by the Obama administration, said Steve...
Tags: Barack Obama, Obama Fills Cabinet, Franklin D. Roosevelt, FDR
'You will make a change for the better' unseats 1st Obama fortune cookie winner
SEE IMPORTANT UPDATE BELOW!!! Voter turnout was lighter than expected, but 28 people voted and the results are in. From the evening of Jan. 20 through the afternoon of Jan. 23, FORTUNE COOKIE NO. 3 (One JFK, Four FDRs and Two Jeffersons) was the apparent...
Tags: Obama, inauguration, fortune cookies, Bush, participatory democracy, suitable for forwarding, The Punditty Project, U.S. coins, John F. Kennedy, Jefferson, FDR, Lincoln, Washington
Steven Guess: Equating socialism with orthodox state activity is a mistake
New York City :: NY :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Down in the polls, McCain probably sees no reason to hold back, but such rhetoric will only further poison the political discourse we desperately need to resist ideological purity in such troubling economic times. Indeed, true socialists would probably...
Simple question for McCain-Palin: Do you think FDR was a socialist?
With the McCain-Palin campaign now focusing all its energy on obscuring the meaning of the word "socialist" and relying on the pathetic "Joe the Plumber" figure to paint Obama as one, an obvious question that the mainstream press has failed...
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