PoliticalChic
Diamond Member
" Whole generations have been "educated" to believe that the Roosevelt administration is what got this country out of the Great Depression. History text books by famous scholars like Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., of Harvard and Henry Steele Commager of Columbia have enshrined FDR as a historic savior of this country, and lesser lights in the media and elsewhere have perpetuated the legend."
Guess Who? by Thomas Sowell on Creators.com - A Syndicate Of Talent
1. Historians, in fact, have the highest regard for Roosevelt. Commager, Morris, Leuchtenburg....and the best known such historian, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr....all praise FDR.
Why?
Well, most often the basis offered is what the first two have written:
"The character of the Republican ascendancy of the twenties has be pervasively negative; the character of the New Deal was overwhelmingly positive." Guess Who? by Thomas Sowell on Creators.com - A Syndicate Of Talent
a. That view must mean that the 1920s were an economic disaster, that led to the Great Depression, and the Roosevelt policies and foresight provided the programs, tools, which mitigated, relieved, reformed the economy, leading to economic recovery.
Is there any other way to understand that statement???
b. Schlesinger writes glowingly of Roosevelt's policies....for example:
" Who can now imagine a day when America offered no Social Security, no unemployment compensation, no food stamps, no Federal guarantee of bank deposits, no Federal supervision of the stock market, no Federal protection for collective bargaining, no Federal standards for wages and hours, no Federal support for farm prices or rural electrification, no Federal refinancing for farm and home mortgages, no Federal commitment to high employment or to equal opportunity - in short, no Federal responsibility for Americans who found themselves, through no fault of their own, in economic or social distress?"
The 'Hundred Days' of F.D.R.
No wonder Schlesinger's polls find Franklin Roosevelt at the very top of the list of Presidents!
All wrapped up and tied with a bow!
How can there possibly be any who don't agree with Roosevelt's historians????
Guess Who? by Thomas Sowell on Creators.com - A Syndicate Of Talent
1. Historians, in fact, have the highest regard for Roosevelt. Commager, Morris, Leuchtenburg....and the best known such historian, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr....all praise FDR.
Why?
Well, most often the basis offered is what the first two have written:
"The character of the Republican ascendancy of the twenties has be pervasively negative; the character of the New Deal was overwhelmingly positive." Guess Who? by Thomas Sowell on Creators.com - A Syndicate Of Talent
a. That view must mean that the 1920s were an economic disaster, that led to the Great Depression, and the Roosevelt policies and foresight provided the programs, tools, which mitigated, relieved, reformed the economy, leading to economic recovery.
Is there any other way to understand that statement???
b. Schlesinger writes glowingly of Roosevelt's policies....for example:
" Who can now imagine a day when America offered no Social Security, no unemployment compensation, no food stamps, no Federal guarantee of bank deposits, no Federal supervision of the stock market, no Federal protection for collective bargaining, no Federal standards for wages and hours, no Federal support for farm prices or rural electrification, no Federal refinancing for farm and home mortgages, no Federal commitment to high employment or to equal opportunity - in short, no Federal responsibility for Americans who found themselves, through no fault of their own, in economic or social distress?"
The 'Hundred Days' of F.D.R.
No wonder Schlesinger's polls find Franklin Roosevelt at the very top of the list of Presidents!
All wrapped up and tied with a bow!
How can there possibly be any who don't agree with Roosevelt's historians????