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SOURCE: New York Times
4/16/2021
F.D.R. Didn’t Just Fix the Economy
Times columnist Jamelle Bouie draws on the work of historian Eric Rauchway to argue that Franklin Roosevelt envisioned the New Deal as a renewal of core democratic principles that the government should serve the needs of the people and be accountable to them.
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SOURCE: Medium
2/8/2021
The Difference Between a Great President and a Terrible One is Empathy
by Lindsay Chervinsky
"As President Trump begins his post-presidential life, Americans will start to reckon with his legacy. They need look no farther than his callous indifference to human life — his response to the crisis marks the ultimate failure of presidential leadership."
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SOURCE: Washington Post
1/13/2021
Wealthy Bankers And Businessmen Plotted To Overthrow FDR. A Retired General Foiled It
by Gillian Brockell
Major General Smedley Butler (USMC) told Congress in 1933 that a group of business leaders had asked him to lead a coup against FDR. He insisted the plot was serious and credible. Has this episode faded from awareness because it was a hoax, or because Roosevelt and Congress all wanted to conceal how close it came to succeeding?
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SOURCE: The New Republic
11/18/2020
An FDR-Size Executive Order for Biden
by Thomas Geoghegan
Joseph Biden should issue an executive order requiring federal contracts go to firms with collective bargaining agreements in place, boosting wages, strengthening organized labor, and stimulating economic recovery.
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11/1/2020
Reconsidering "Court Packing" as Restoring Governing Norms
by Greg Bailey
The Republicans' choice to push through Amy Coney Barrett's nomination with the backing of a minority of the country means a new Congress must consider corrective action in the name of justice and democracy.
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10/25/2020
FDR Was Right to Propose Enlarging the Court
by James D. Robenalt
Franklin Roosevelt's error in 1937 was not to propose expanding the court, it was to fail to explain and defend his popular political reasons for doing so.
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SOURCE: TIME
6/2/2020
The Search for the Truth About the Nazi Plot to Assassinate FDR
by Howard Blum
The events surrounding Operation Long Jump, as the Nazi assassination mission that targeted the Tehran Conference was known, remained a deeply buried official secret.
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SOURCE: Yale University Press Blog
5/29/2020
Fake News, Then and Now
by Tracy Campbell
Rumor and gossip during World War II reflected currents of racism in American society, as well as many citizens' unwillingness to make deep sacrifices to the war effort.
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SOURCE: WBUR
5/27/2020
What We Learn From FDR's New Deal
"A president alone can't do everything," says historian Lizabeth Cohen, "that president needs a supportive Congress."
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SOURCE: Washington Post
5/15/2020
If Trump had Been in Charge during World War II, this Column would be in German
by Max Boot
What if FDR had speculated that mobilization might be unnecessary if we can develop a “death ray” straight out of a Buck Rogers comic strip?
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SOURCE: Washington Post
4/30/2020
The Country has been Through a Draining, News-Packed April Before
by Christopher B. Daly
By the end of April 1945, the institutions of American journalism generally met the challenges of an overwhelming torrent of news and helped other American institutions manage military, political and economic transition.
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4/12/2020
The President vs. The Epidemic: FDR's Polio Crusade
by Dave Welky
No president can end an epidemic single handedly, but they can inspire a popular movement that eradicates a disease. Such was the case with Franklin Roosevelt and polio.
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4/5/2020
New Deal or Nazism? Historical Comparisons to Trump's Performance as a Leader in Crisis
by Walter G. Moss
Comparing the first 100 days in power of Franklin Roosevelt and Adolf Hitler offers a sobering reminder of the consequences of decisions pursued by leaders in crisis.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
3/30/2020
The Conservative Campaign Against Safety
by Lawrence Glickman
How did we get to the point where ministers, the president, many Republican politicians, and a variety of media outlets are calling for people to risk death to save the economy?
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SOURCE: National Interest
3/31/2020
America Has a History of Pandemic Denial
by Joseph Loconte
Donald Trump wasn't the first president to misunderestimate a national threat. Franklin Roosevelt played his part in the collective denial and dishonesty of the age—until the "ideology of fascism" contagion came knocking.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
3/30/2020
In Fighting Covid-19, Remember That America’s WWII Mobilization Was Hardly Flawless
by Richard B. Frank
Mobilizing all Americans is a lofty challenge. Some will resist, just as they did 80 years ago.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
3/12/2020
How the Fireside Chat Provided a Model for Calming the Nation that President Trump Failed to Follow
by Michael J. Socolow
Without respecting the Presidential message to the nation as a structured format, Trump's address failed to achieve its mission of clearly informing, and calming, the anxious nation.
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1/12/20
Do Morals Matter in Foreign Policy?
by Joseph S. Nye, Jr.
Examining 14 presidencies since 1945 shows that a radically skeptical view of morality is bad history. Morals did matter.
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12/15/19
What Joe Biden and Franklin Roosevelt Have in Common
by James Robenalt
And how it explains the differences between FDR and Donald Trump.
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12/22/19
Subsidies Can't Solve Farmers' Trade War Losses
by Jared Levinson
Subsidies during the Great Depression and in the current trade war.
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