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Monday, August 31, 2009
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the thirty-second President of the United States and was well respected for the way he lead America through the great depression and World War II. He also spent the later part of his life, including his terms as President, in a wheelchair.
Roosevelt was born in Hyde Park, a small town in what is now part of Duchess County, New York. Hew was born on the 30th of January in 1882 and his parents were of Dutch and French heritage. He grew up in a privileged environment, frequently traveling to Europe where he learned to speak in German and French.
His fifth cousin Theodore Roosevelt became president in 1902 and Franklin Roosevelt looked up to him. At one of his cousins White House receptions, he met Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, who was his fifth cousin once removed. They married in 1905 and in 1910 he ran for and was elected to the New York State Senate. Over the course of the next 10 years he remained politically active and was appointed the Assistant Secretary of The Navy.
Roosevelt unsuccessfully ran as Vice President in 1920, but he and his running mate were defeated by the Republican Party. He chose to retire to practice law in New York after the defeat and in 1921, while on vacation, he contracted a disease that was believed at the time to be polio. The disease resulted in the loss of movement of the lower part of his body.
He did not let his disability stop him though, and was elected Governor of New York in 1928. When Roosevelt appeared in public he used a set of iron braces on his legs and was able to walk for short distances with the use of a cane. In private he used a wheelchair, but was rarely seen or photographed in the wheelchair. He tried many types of treatments to help restore his mobility, but was never able to walk without assistance again.
Despite loosing the ability to walk, Roosevelt went on to serve 4 terms as President, which is no longer possible due to changes to the law. His leadership of the country during the depression and the subsequent war was in great part responsible for making the US the superpower that it is today.
Roosevelt also helped to further research and treatment of diseases that cause paralysis. He helped to found the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, which is today referred to as the March of Dimes and his leadership is part of the reason that his face is found on the dime.
His legacy of being the first President to rely on a wheelchair, was never fully embraced or known during his time here on Earth, but he should be an inspiration to all those who live with a disability.
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Monday, August 24, 2009
The Four Freedoms
"We look forward to a world founded upon four essental human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression -- everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way -- everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want ... everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear ... anywhere in the world." Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Message to Congress [January 6, 1941], From Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Rewriting History - A Review of the Book
By Sigrid Hazel Salucop
The book Rewriting History by Dick Morris tells of the semi-shocking tale on who the real Hillary Rodham Clinton is. The former first lady is described by Morris as someone who shows only a certain part of her face or persona to attract voters, not only during the time prior to her candidacy for the senate seat but a long time before that.
The dismaying thing is the question raised if the former first lady is really a devoted public servant or is just somebody who rides the tides and goes where the demographics lead her like for example, she ran for Senator in a state where the minority population is strong and this population likely to vote for a democrat.
It must have been devastating for many women out there who idolized or respected Mrs. Clinton and read the said book, I myself was devastated a little because I have always believed in her compassion and her utter belief in an ideal model for her programs i.e. the health care fiasco. The health care policy she stubbornly believed in is one of her downfalls in politics but one should see that it is her belief in something ideal is genuine enough to drive her to do what she did. I respect that quality in her, a character not quite discussed in the book, something we always overlook. That however is also one of her biggest character flaw because if it is coupled with her naivete or her being easily swayed, this is rather dangerous. These are of course discussed in length in the book.
I have read the book from front to back even the indexes that is how engrossing it is. Apart from that history buffs would love the book as well, maybe more than I do.
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Monday, August 17, 2009
If all men are created equal, why do I pay more taxes than you?
It is a strange phenomenon that no good deed goes unpunished. Entrepreneurs work to make good only to find they must pay larger sums in taxes and reap less of there hard won income so that someone not as industrious can live better. Get the facts: http://www.pippoproducts.com/products
Thursday, August 13, 2009
The Ex-Presidents of the United States of America - Bill Clinton, Part One
Bill Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe III in Hope, Arkansas, in 1946; his father died before he was born and he later took his stepfather's name. His childhood home was a troubled one; his stepfather, a gambler and alcoholic, was abusive to his mother and stepbrother. When Bill was fifteen, he made it clear that he would mete out violence if the abuse continued.
The young Bill had a great love for music and tampered with the idea of being a saxophonist, but in 1963 he visited the White House as part of a delegation of the American Legion Boys' Nation, met JFK and decided on a life of public service. With the aid of scholarships, Clinton attended the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in Washington DC. At university, he became involved with the civil rights movement and the movement against the Vietnam war. In 1966, he worked as an intern for a summer in the offices of the Arkansas Senator J. William Fulbright, who was at that time the leader of the anti-war movement in the Senate. He graduated from Georgetown University in 1968 with a B.S. in International Affairs, he was awarded a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford University where he studied philosophy, economics and politics. He developed an interest in rugby union, playing for Oxford and later for Little Rock Rugby Club in Arkansas. In later life, he admitted to smoking cannabis but insisted that he did not inhale.
After Oxford, Clinton attended Yale Law School obtaining a Juris Doctor degree in 1973. While at Yale he met law student Hillary Rodham, they married in 1975 and their only child, Chelsea, was born in 1980.
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Monday, August 10, 2009
Wood Wilson's Opinion - Quote
"You deal in the raw material of opinion, and, if my convictions have any validity, opinion ultimately governs the world." - Woodrow Wilson
Address to the Associated Press [April 20, 1915] From Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Thursday, August 6, 2009
This Military Historian Records the Heroic Acts of Unheralded Heroes
Bud Feuer is a pretty prolific military historian, having written more than a dozen military history books. But what makes Feuer stand apart, in my opinion, is his histories of little known, unheralded, unusual military units. A case in point is the Australian coast watchers who performed heroic duty when the Japanese were advancing through the South Sea Islands during World War II.
In Feuer's book, Coast Watching in WWII: Operations Against the Japanese on the Solomon Islands 1941-43, the author details the activities of up to 400 coast watchers scattered along the coastal areas of the Solomon Islands. These units would hide away in the jungle/mountain areas, keep an eye on Japanese ship movements, and then radio reports to headquarters on what ships were moving into the area.
The Japanese most likely would never have been halted if they were able to maintain the element of surprise. But that was taken away, unknowingly to them, by the coast watchers. Feuer makes a good argument when he states that "coast watching alone was responsible for the success of the air war. During the early and uncertain days of the American struggle to wrest Guadalcanal from the Japanese, the reports and timely warnings from Stations JEF and STO on Bougainville were directly responsible for the enemy's defeat."
To perform their tasks, the coast watchers relied on "teleradios" which were relatively large, heavy and clunky radio communications equipment that had to be hauled from one hiding spot to another. The teleradio had a voice range of about 400 miles and had a range of an additional 200 miles if you used the telegraph key. Besides having to lug this heavy machine around, the men in the unit had to lug around the batteries, charging engine, and benzene fuel. It took several men to carry the teleradio from one site to another. Imagine what these guys could have accomplished today with micro-electronic technology?
Feuer points out why propaganda is so important in wartime, recording the successes of the coast watchers and failures of the Japanese who angered the natives by arresting men and women in the villages and using them as free laborers. The Japanese also knew little about mountains and were unskilled in tracking.
While I enjoy history, most of the time I am bored silly by voluminous military histories that fail to record the lives of the soldiers involved or capture the overall picture of what is taking place. Bud Feuer accomplishes what many military historians fail to do - Feuer writes a compelling, riveting history that grabs your attention early and keeps it. Bud Feuer is a great story teller and an accurate historian.
Emory Daniels, freelance writer, publicist, web content specialist, owner of The Daniels PR Group.
Monday, August 3, 2009
Yes, its True About History
History does repeat it self and its happening right now. Learn more: http://www.pippoproducts.com/products
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