At 15:29 10/09/2012, you wrote:
Wow! I guess I have to accept that you didn't like him.
Ed
It's not for me to like him or dislike him. He was a superb
manipulator. But America could have done with a far better, more
discriminating President during those dire times. Over here, we
(finally) devalued the pound and we grew our way out of the Great
Depression fairly quickly. Instead, Roosevelt went the other way from
1936. He had some weird ideas and weird friends. One of his principal
economic advisors was a poultry farming neighbour. The person he
chose to be the principal negotiator at an important international
monetary conference held in London at that time was someone who shot
up the street lights in one street, chased another negotiator around
the corridors of the Clarence Hotel with a gun and, after one
particularly convivial evening session was found to be sitting stark
naked in a kitchen sink at the Clarence Hotel pretending to be a Greek statue.
Keith
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At 13:01 09/09/2012, you wrote:
Hey, what about Franklin D. Roosevelt?!
Ed
He was a ditherer who neither understood the simplest concepts in
economics, nor ever wanted to. In the worst years of the Great
Depression he chose "Happy Days are here again" as his campaign
song, as though being cheerful would solve the problem. His policies
ran as much backward as forward -- according to the latest idea that
caught his eye. Despite US exports (and thus employment) beginning
to re-establish themselves again by 1936, he then clobbered them in
his second term by allowing the Fed to tighten the dollar.
Unemployment never started to reduce seriously until America was
forced into war in 1941 by the Japanese (and hadn't even fully
recovered by the end of the war).
Keith
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Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2012 1:55 AM
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At 20:23 08/09/2012, you wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5knEXDsrL4&feature=related
I just got a chance to listen to Bill Clinton's speech to the DNC. A truly
masterful political speech...
. . . and from one of the few truly great American Presidents of
the last century (the others being Teddy Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower).
Keith
Almost, but not quite as good as some of those by Tommy Douglas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2oUInTUlAM
M
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