BS: Anybody watching 'The Roosevelts' on PBS

Subject: RE: BS: Anybody watching 'The Roosevelts' on PBS
From: LadyJean
Date: 20 Sep 14 - 10:45 PM

I hadn't thought about it until today, but it was learning about the New Deal in school that made me decide I was going to be a Democrat when I grew up.

Subject: RE: BS: Anybody watching 'The Roosevelts' on PBS
From: Ebbie
Date: 21 Sep 14 - 01:13 AM

Those three people... The USA is a much different country today because of them. For the last few years there have been political elements that have tried to wipe out the Roosevelts' achievements and influences but I dearly hope in the long run they will not succeed.

Subject: RE: BS: Anybody watching 'The Roosevelts' on PBS
From: Airymouse
Date: 21 Sep 14 - 11:32 AM

"For the last few years there have been political elements that have tried to wipe out the Roosevelts' achievements and influences."
Their mouthpiece is Fox News. I consider the assertion that Roosevelt sent a destroyer, at great taxpayer expense, to the Aleutian Islands to retrieve his dog, which he had carelessly left behind, Foxworthy.

Subject: RE: BS: Anybody watching 'The Roosevelts' on PBS
From: Bill D
Date: 21 Sep 14 - 12:20 PM

There was an amazing amount of information in the series that was new to me. Some of the 'private' family matters, of course, which is interesting as background... but also details of what FDR & Eleanor did as public policy and in the war effort.

I shudder to think what would have happened if FDR had died in, say, early 1944, without being re-elected with Truman. Dewey might well have served 2 terms..... and..... hmmmm

Subject: RE: BS: Anybody watching 'The Roosevelts' on PBS
From: Greg F.
Date: 21 Sep 14 - 03:46 PM

For the last few years there have been political elements that have tried to wipe out the Roosevelts' achievements

Actually, the Republicans have been campaigning against FDR and trying to wipe out the New Deal since the day Roosevelt died. They're just having more success starting with the Reagan administration.

I consider the assertion that Roosevelt sent a destroyer, at great taxpayer expense, to the Aleutian Islands to retrieve his dog, which he had carelessly left behind, Foxworthy.

Difference being that most folks at the time didn't believe the bullshit, especially once proven to be untrue. Today millions actually BELIEVE the FOX-ian bullshit despite conclusive evidence to the contrary.

We've raised up a nation of morons.



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Subject: RE: BS: Anybody watching 'The Roosevelts' on PBS
From: GUEST,DaveRo
Date: 14 Oct 14 - 04:59 AM

Starts on Sunday19th October on PBS in the UK
http://pbsamerica.co.uk/the-roosevelts

Subject: RE: BS: Anybody watching 'The Roosevelts' on PBS
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 14 Oct 14 - 01:18 PM

I was still in the Army when Roosevelt died (1945), not being discharged till the end of that year.

WW2 wrought large changes in American society, and war industries caused movement of many from rural to city habitats.

A valuable series. I thought I already knew too much about the Roosevelts, but I was reminded of a lot I forgot about what I had heard and thought in those years.