The FReeper Foxhole Profiles Charles Lindbergh - Oct. 25th, 2004

www.charleslindbergh.com ^

[snippy_about_it]

It's great to see that flagpole going up PE.

Happy (belated) Birthday Msdrby. I'm a little late reading PE's tagline

[Professional Engineer]

1903 Senate begins investigating Teapot Dome scandals of Harding admin

They traveled back in time?

Twenty-Ninth President 1921-1923

[Professional Engineer]

Hi miss Feather

[Professional Engineer]

Flag-O-Gram pole

LOL! Hiya Sam

[Professional Engineer]

Howdy ma'am

[Professional Engineer]

I'm a little late reading PE's tagline

Oops, me too! Msdrby's b-day was saturday.

[Valin]

Don't know if people have heard about this

Chief Justice Rehnquist in hospital for cancer
CBSmarketwatch Oct 25th, 2004 Maggie McNeil

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1256281/posts
Posted on 10/25/2004 11:15:30 AM CDT by The_Republican


WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) -- U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist is being treated in a Washington area hospital for cancer of the thyroid, according to CNN. The 80-year-old Rehnquist, appointed to the court by President Richard Nixon and elevated to chief justice by President Ronald Reagan, was admitted to Bethesda Naval Hospital last Friday, said the report.


One more reason why George Bush MUST win.
You also might what to mention William Rehnquist in your prayers.

[Valin]

That's because you have good taste.

[msdrby]

thank you! It was a happy one too!

[PAR35]

You signed up today to share your ignorance with us? Most trolls start their own posts. Oops, sorry, you were posting about someone named "Lindberg", not Charles A. Lindbergh. Who managed to fight for the Americans during World War II despite the vindictive nature of Roosevelt and his team of International Socialists

And you are aware, aren't you, that his tour of European aircraft facilities resulted in reports back to the US military?

If you are interested in learning, start here:
http://www.charleslindbergh.com/americanfirst/index.asp

[Iris7]

Lindburgh's politics are generally misrepresented. Writing a history of the American Right in the Twentieth Century has never interested me, and is a huge subject besides. Lindburgh is an important figure in that history.

The Founders, certainly Washington, believed that "foreign entanglements" (foreign entanglements certainly included foreign wars) would destroy the Republic. See his Farewell Address. Lindburgh was trying to preserve the Republic by staying out of a European war. Myself, I think he was misguided, because even in his time the Republic was as dead as a doornail. Nowadays almost no one even has the faintest what he Republic meant, much less was. The Republic in reality is so long gone that even the nostalgic engage mostly in fantasy. Me, I see the "Free Republic" as consisting of the Foxhole people and some others using this website, and a few other people engaged in sentimentalism. The Republic is, sadly, of the heart, not of the mind nor of reality.

The America First movement is hard to examine nowadays, being profoundly non-PC. The whole business is taboo, requiring that no one talk about it. As far as you will see in "normal" sources is stuff like the first section of the main posting, "(Lindburg) criticized President Franklin D. Roosevelt's foreign policies. He also charged that British, Jewish, and pro-Roosevelt groups were leading America into war." I just don't want to get into revisionist history in the face of violent social taboos.

[Aeronaut]

Hey Sam.

[snippy_about_it]

Thanks for the alert on Rehnquist.

[snippy_about_it]

Charles Lindbergh is a part of our American History. He's not the only historic figure to have had socialist views. At the Foxhole we report history whether good, bad, ugly or indifferent. We let our readers have their own opinions and then intellegently discuss them if they so choose.

[snippy_about_it]

That's because you have good taste.

LOL. That's also why you can always find me at the Foxhole.

[snippy_about_it]

You're right of course. Things aren't usually so clear cut or black and white. I can say I'm an isolationist but that isn't entirely true, I have some caveats but it would take forever to explain. I may even have some socialist views but I am a staunch conservative. Lindbergh was misguided but not a traitor, imo. Leftists and socialist today seem like traitors.

Anyway, that's why we have polite and open discussions here. We cannot always believe what we read as history rewrites itself!

[colorado tanker]

Hello to all in the Foxhole. A beautiful fall day here, temperature near 70, dry and sunny.

Lindbergh is a complex subject. You can't help but admire his courage and flying skill and what he achieved.

You can't help but feel sad for the loss of their child in that bizarre kidnapping. I read the trial transcript. No doubt in my mind Hauptmann was guilty.

I sure disagreed with his isolationism in the face of fascism, but his views probably reflected the views of 60-70% of Americans before Pearl Harbor. IMHO he was wrong to blame Jewish interests for FDR's foreign policy, but before everybody gets sanctimonious about that, how many times have you heard from people today that "Israel" is wrongly influencing American policy in the Middle East, modern code for the same old ideas. I hear that all the time from alleged "progressives" as well as Brigadier isolationists.

BTW, The Spirit of Saint Louis is a really good movie.

[Samwise]

My cousin flew across the Atlantic in a single engine plane.

[Samwise]

Happy Birthday from this edge of the Shire!