FDR

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• 8/4/19
  

  FDR's Token Jewish Refugee Shelter

  by Rafael Medoff

  Granting temporary refuge was a way of addressing the life-and-death crisis that Europe’s Jews faced, without incurring the wrath of those who opposed permanent immigration.

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• SOURCE: Washington Examiner
  7/9/19
  

  Roosevelt versus the refugees: One FDR policy that Bernie Sanders never mentions

  by Rafael Medoff

  Sanders favors a much more liberal U.S. immigration policy. Not Roosevelt. In fact, FDR’s immigration policy was so strict that if Sanders’s father, Eli, had not arrived from Poland before Roosevelt became president, he probably would not have been admitted.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  6/21/19
  

  Which of the F.D.R. Wannabes Actually Understands New Deal Liberalism?

  by Jonathan Alter

  Suddenly, Franklin D. Roosevelt is all the rage. But many Democrats don’t understand what his legacy means.

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• SOURCE: FDR Foundation
  Accessed 5/15/19
  

  The End of History? FDR, Trump and the Fake Past

  by Cynthia Koch

  Trump is thinking more about history than we imagine and he is doing so in a way very different from former presidents.

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  6/9/2019
  

  Eric Rauchway tracks the progress from The New Deal to The Green New Deal

  His latest book, “Winter War: Hoover, Roosevelt And The First Clash Over The New Deal” ― is an engaging, character-driven tour through the philosophical debates and political knife-fighting at the nadir of the Great Depression.

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• 6/9/19
  

  What We Can't Forget As We Remember Anne Frank

  by Rafael Medoff

  Today would have been her 90th Birthday. Here's how FDR could have done more to save Holocaust victims like her. 

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• 4/28/19
  

  Why FDR Wouldn't Condemn Hitler

  by Rafael Medoff

  A few words from the White House directly taking issue with Hitler’s aggressive actions and persecution of the Jews could have helped alert the public to the Nazi danger. 

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• 3/24/19
  

  Political Leadership and the Need for a New American Story

  by Walter G. Moss

  Both Lincoln and FDR understood that to reach people, to motivate them, to win them over, a president had to appeal to their emotions, and storytelling was one way of doing so.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/12/19
  

  FDR’s court-packing scheme was a ‘humiliating’ defeat

  Yet the idea has been revived by some of the liberals seeking the presidency.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/12/19
  

  How presidential empathy can improve politics

  by Jeremi Suri

  The legacy of FDR and his fireside chats. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  3/6/19
  

  The New Deal Wasn’t What You Think

  by Louis Hyman

  If we are going to fund a Green New Deal, we need to acknowledge how the original actually worked.

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• SOURCE: Politico Magazine
  2/24/19
  

  The Lost History of FDR's Court Packing Scandal

  Some Democrats are talking about adding justices to the bench. But the revelations show almost no one understands what really happened back in the 1930s. 

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• 1/30/19
  

  Bold Experimenter FDR Was Born 137 Years Ago

  by Joseph A. Esposito

  Unquestionably, Roosevelt is the most consequential American president since Abraham Lincoln.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  12-26-2018
  

  The remarkable — and secret — first presidential visit to troops fighting overseas

  Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first commander in chief to fly in an airplane during his 1943 trip to North Africa.

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• 11/25/18
  

  What Do the Democrats Need in 2020?

  by Walter G. Moss

  A Progressive unifier like FDR.

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• 11/4/18
  

  FDR Gets Credit for His Response to Kristallnacht. He Shouldn’t.

  by Rafael Medoff

  80 years after the horrific events of Kristallnacht it’s time to acknowledge his inadequate response.

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• 9/15/18
  

  Are We at a 1932-Like Juncture?

  by Walter G. Moss

  Voters are crying out for a leader who can unify the country.

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• 9/15/18
  

  How the U.S. Holocaust Museum's New Calendar Distorts the Holocaust

  by Rafael Medoff

  It whitewashes FDR's response to the Holocaust.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  8-1-18
  

  Private world of Franklin D. Roosevelt unveiled in newly found film footage

  The films were donated last year by the family of Marguerite A. “Missy” LeHand, a largely forgotten figure who was FDR’s longtime aide, rumored lover and the woman behind the camera in many of the shots.

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  7-16-18
  

  The Supreme Court Doesn't Need 9 Justices

  by Jacob Hale Russell

  It needs 27.