http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/04/AR2009100401743.html?
No Rush to Escalate
By E.J. Dionne Jr.
Monday, October 5, 2009
At a White House dinner with a group of historians at the beginning of the summer, Robert Dallek, a shrewd student of both the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, offered a chilling comment to President Obama.
“In my judgment,” he recalls saying, “war kills off great reform movements.” The American record is pretty clear: World War I brought the Progressive Era to a close. When Franklin D. Roosevelt was waging World War II, he was candid in saying that “Dr. New Deal” had given way to “Dr. Win the War.” Korea ended Harry Truman’s Fair Deal, and Vietnam brought Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society to an abrupt halt.
TM’ers, new project:
Who IS Robert Dallek? Where is he NOW? In the BO admin?
~Inquiring minds need to know