[IncPen]

Somebody give Hank a kerchief.

He’s got a little on his chin.

[Fiji Hill]

You’re sorry a certain expression of American ideals is, or often appears to be, completely over.

The legacy of the Roosevelts--big government, imperial presidencies, New Dealism and welfare-state socialism--is far, far from over.

[skeeter]

and finally when Eleanor, the best of the bunch, died peacefully in her bed in November 1962.

Read this far.

[2ndDivisionVet]

I miss the time before they came along, myself. Capitalism, prosperity, no gibmedats, low taxes.

[TADSLOS]

Libs gotta have something inspiring to watch besides Obama playing golf.

[tomkat]

             

[oh8eleven]

when you make it through the marathon that is Ken Burns’s beautiful
You mean Ken Burn's DEPRESSING. Everything he touches - even baseball - makes you want to jump off a bridge.

[rockrr]

Nope - not even 14 minutes.

[Gay State Conservative]

I'll say two positive things about FDR...1) he didn't lose the war....2) he was opposed to government employees being unionized and,IIRC,he had a damn good explanation for that position.

But he *did* have an open Communist as a VP.McCarthy would have been wrong to claim that everyone in government was a Commie but he was right to say that all too many were,including FDR's VP.

[Gay State Conservative]

Our tax dollars are funding this little Nancy!

[cripplecreek]

I’ll go to my grave a happy man if I can know that progressivism has been erased from the face of the earth.

[Bogey78O]

Any bio of Roosevelt is lacking if it doesn’t include Gabriel Over the Whitehouse. It was Roosevelt’s ideal situation on film. Meant to support his power grabs.

[martin_fierro]

[martin_fierro]

* facepalm *

[BwanaNdege]

Well, Hank Stuever, you can always HOPE that PBS will do a week long marathon on “Camelot”.

Perhaps they might even do a “Documentary” on the Warren Commission Report...

The FULL report...

NO redactions!

Careful now, you are turning blue..DON’T HOLD YOUR BREATH!

[ansel12]

Most people aren’t aware of the political coalitions that kept FDR in office for 4 elections instead of just his first two, it is the same political breakdown as today, and why the 1965 Immigration Act was passed.

[IronJack]

If you’re sorry to see them go, it’s only because you were sorry to see them come in the first place.

[BenLurkin]

14 hours?

I wouldn’t give them 14 minutes.

[left that other site]

One thing I will NEVER forgive Ken Burns for was this:

In the Civil War Series, the camera was panning over the aftermath of Gettysburg with the usual period music in the background. The music was a quick-step called “Mockingbird”. The tune became a theme song less than 100 years later for a burlesque trio known as The Three Stooges (sing the theme song in your head right now!)

Although I love the Stooges, and although “Mockingbird” was a legitimate melody of the period, it was stupid and insensitive for Ken Burns to play that particular piece of music while showing the famous photos of bloated bodies on the Hallowed ground.

Anyone who grew up in the latter half of the Twentieth Century would have recognized the tune as the Three Stooges theme. Either Ken Burns is SO out of touch with reality and popular culture that he did not recognize this, or he is an idiot of the first order. After that, I couldn’t take any of his “documentaries” seriously.

It would have been like playing “Ahab the Ayrab” while showing pictures of 9/11/01.

[BenLurkin]

And may I add, FDR’s policies were patterned after those of Benito Mussolini.

FDR did not represent and will never rpresent ANY kind of “American ideals.”