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CatWoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-13-08 08:44 PM Original message |
Watching FDR on the History Channel |
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monmouth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-13-08 08:48 PM Response to Original message |
1. I just tuned in and yes I think Eleanor was right, and often thought |
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CatWoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-13-08 08:49 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Doris isn't the narrator |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-13-08 09:41 PM Response to Reply #2 |
16. In her book No Ordinary Time, Doris Kearns missed a MAJOR source... |
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GOPisEvil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-13-08 08:51 PM Response to Original message |
3. I do not believe it was necessary. |
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CatWoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-13-08 08:53 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. I can't believe the living conditions they endured |
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GOPisEvil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-13-08 08:59 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. Simply appalling. |
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CatWoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-13-08 09:02 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. now |
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GOPisEvil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-13-08 09:05 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. Simpletons have their place. |
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dflprincess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-13-08 08:59 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. It was racism and a way to grab the land and other assets |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-13-08 09:43 PM Response to Reply #5 |
19. The DID intern Italians and wanted to intern Germans. |
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dflprincess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-13-08 11:09 PM Response to Reply #19 |
31. Do you have a link? |
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izquierdista (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-13-08 09:59 PM Response to Reply #3 |
23. Ever hear of the 1942 riots? |
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gravity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-13-08 08:59 PM Response to Original message |
6. No |
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fla nocount (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-13-08 09:16 PM Response to Original message |
10. FDR had a pen, the country had an Eleanor. |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-13-08 09:36 PM Response to Reply #10 |
13. And no one here gave a shit when I posted the 60th Anniv. of the Univ Delcaration of Human Rts... |
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fla nocount (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-13-08 10:09 PM Response to Reply #13 |
26. Mookie, I give a shit. |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-13-08 10:46 PM Response to Reply #26 |
29. I get all these e-mails from the FDR library. But NONE about the 60th anniversary... |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-13-08 09:17 PM Response to Original message |
11. At the time they said Roosevelt was 90% Eleanor |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-13-08 09:38 PM Response to Reply #11 |
15. The anti-lynching thing really stinks, doesn't it? |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-13-08 09:46 PM Response to Reply #11 |
21. Harry Truman was once asked why he didn't trash James Roosevelt, the eldest son... |
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anonymous171 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-13-08 10:01 PM Response to Reply #11 |
24. He had to maintain his coalition. |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-13-08 09:35 PM Response to Original message |
12. You've got to read this, Catwoman... |
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CatWoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-13-08 09:41 PM Response to Reply #12 |
17. thank you, Mookie |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-13-08 09:37 PM Response to Original message |
14. Italians were also rounded up. Including Enzio Pinza, the Broadway star. |
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CatWoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-13-08 09:43 PM Response to Reply #14 |
18. damn |
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Faygo Kid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-13-08 09:44 PM Response to Original message |
20. I met and spent a few days with Fred Korematsu and his wife in 1996. |
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Octafish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-13-08 09:47 PM Response to Original message |
22. John McCloy (Mr. Establishment and Warren Commission) memo... |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-13-08 10:04 PM Response to Original message |
25. Hey - here's a half hour video interview with ER by Mike Wallace |
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rockymountaindem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-13-08 10:25 PM Response to Original message |
27. Of course not |
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margotb822 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-13-08 10:27 PM Response to Original message |
28. Great show...watched all four hours |
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blue_onyx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-13-08 10:46 PM Response to Original message |
30. It was not necessary |
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question everything (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-13-08 11:18 PM Response to Original message |
32. No, it was not. And it was not the only thing that FDR did that he should not have |
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UTUSN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-13-08 11:19 PM Response to Original message |
33. Despite the show's occasional snarky comments about his "vindictiveness" & such, they |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-14-08 05:16 PM Response to Reply #33 |
36. Someone once said to Eleanor that FDR was "the most self-centered man..." |
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anonymous171 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-13-08 11:21 PM Response to Original message |
34. I loved that. Showed that FDR was not a progressive saint. |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-14-08 05:15 PM Response to Reply #34 |
35. When he sold out to Hearst on the World Court to get the nomination... |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-14-08 05:21 PM Response to Original message |
37. "If you harm them, you must harm me. " Colorado Gov. Ralph Carr |
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