Posted on 11/03/2011 7:45:17 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Oops. Should be “Democrats’ god...” (small ‘g’)
I don’t agree. What was done during the first Hundred Days of his administration resulted in a great boast in the morale of the people.My Dad, who was not a fan, felt this way. It was not until 1935, IMHO, when he began to try to outbid radicals like Huey Long and began to demonize the rich, that he went off beam.
Morale is nice and all, but it was economically harmful in the short and long term, at least according to recent publications on the subject.
You have to go back to the summer of 1931. That whole year and a half following was a just scary. . Hoover had totallylost the confidence of the country, and Roosevelt just got people pulling together. Think about the first year after 9/11. Unlike the guy we have now, FDR was a leader.
I was born in 1966.
My great-uncles were lifelong Roosevelt fans, but they gave up being Democrats in the Clinton years - it was just too vulgar.
Well, I wasn’t around either, but my Dad was. he personally was not affected, since he was in the oil business, drilling in the East Texas field.But he said it was a scary time, because people came from all over looking for work. He was at Hobbs before than, and people would get off the train and sleep at night under the gas flares. He was out hunting and had killed a jack rabbit. A guy came up to him and offered to buy the rabbit for a dime—my Dad didn’t dress up while hunting. The man offering wore patent leather shoes. A man down on his luck. Dad gave him the rabbit, and he took it back to the camp by the railroad. Hard times.
My relatives were mostly farmers (in Missouri, not the Dust Bowl) so they had enough to eat themselves, but money was tight.
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