[NU Sports] Roosevelt

[Jim Bendat]

Okay, while we're talking about Roosevelt and politics, let me add that 
when he took office in 1933, it was already eight years after the Scopes 
Monkey Trial in Tennessee.  Even in 1933, that trial was looked back 
upon with a bit of amusement, the obvious national feeling being that 
William Jennings Bryan and the state of Tennessee were a tad backward in 
their thinking.  It wasn't until recently -- 70 years later -- that the 
issue of so-called "intelligent design" has been brought up from the 
grave by a variety of reactionaries. 

Gee, we are getting a bit away from NU sports aren't we -- and isn't it 
fun?!!


Dennis W. Brandt wrote:
> <Interesting that FDR is considered one of our greatest presidents and
> <according to my NU Poly Sci prof (Ken Janda)and many others  probably 
> saved the
> <Capitalist system
>
> Actually, the capitalist system was saved by World War II and the 
> industrial boon necessary to support it.  Roosevelt's economic 
> policies did little to uplift a depression-bound economy.  He won a 
> third term - by the smallest margain of his four victories, by the way 
> - not on his record of economic gains but by promising to keep the 
> United States out of war even though he knew that was almost certainly 
> impossible.  (My maternal grandfather did some WPA work, and it did 
> help tide over his large family for a while, but economically it 
> offered him nothing in the long term.  Only in the economic glow 
> following the war did he begin to gain financially.)  Roosevelt was a 
> stellar war time president who nonetheless would have been crucified 
> had the press of his time had the same attitudes as today's fourth 
> estate.  Tell Ken Janda he needs to read some more history books.
> _______________________________________________
> nwu-sports site list
> nwu-sports at tssi.com
> http://romaine.tssi.com/mailman/listinfo/nwu-sports
>
>