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To: ValenB4; Scenic Sounds; Sir Gawain; gcruse; geedee; Chad Fairbanks; Dan from Michigan; Sparta; ...
For 70 years there has been a holy creed--spread by academia until accepted by media and most Americans--that Franklin D. Roosevelt cured the Great Depression. That belief spurred the growth of modern liberalism; conservatives are still on the defensive where modern historians are concerned. Not so anymore when the facts are considered. Now a scholar at the libertarian Cato Institute has demonstrated that (a) not only did Roosevelt not end the Depression, but (b) by incompetent measures, he prolonged it.

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4 posted on 08/30/2003 12:04:44 PM PDT by Cathryn Crawford
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To: Cathryn Crawford
Must the libertarians always chip away at our nation's history? Must every American icon be torn down?

History is an argument! ;-)
42 posted on 08/30/2003 1:16:43 PM PDT by Scenic Sounds
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