[NU Sports] Roosevelt

[Mark Ament]

So, that means our Presidential streak is about as good as our Super 
Bowl streak.

Jim Bendat wrote:

> Absolutely -- and thank you, Joe, for "reminding" us that there is 
> indeed a Northwestern connection within this thread.  Bryan attended 
> NU Law School.
>
> Joe Thiegs wrote:
>
>> Doesn't William Jennings Bryant have an NU connection of some sort?  
>> I could
>> be way off base, but that seems to ring a bell, somehow.  -Joe
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com 
>> [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On
>> Behalf Of Jim Bendat
>> Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 4:54 PM
>> To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
>> Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Roosevelt
>>
>> 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.
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