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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/13/2021
  

  Wealthy Bankers And Businessmen Plotted To Overthrow FDR. A Retired General Foiled It

  by Gillian Brockell

  Major General Smedley Butler (USMC) told Congress in 1933 that a group of business leaders had asked him to lead a coup against FDR. He insisted the plot was serious and credible. Has this episode faded from awareness because it was a hoax, or because Roosevelt and Congress all wanted to conceal how close it came to succeeding?

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  11/18/2020
  

  An FDR-Size Executive Order for Biden

  by Thomas Geoghegan

  Joseph Biden should issue an executive order requiring federal contracts go to firms with collective bargaining agreements in place, boosting wages, strengthening organized labor, and stimulating economic recovery. 

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• 11/1/2020
  

  Reconsidering "Court Packing" as Restoring Governing Norms

  by Greg Bailey

  The Republicans' choice to push through Amy Coney Barrett's nomination with the backing of a minority of the country means a new Congress must consider corrective action in the name of justice and democracy.

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• 10/25/2020
  

  FDR Was Right to Propose Enlarging the Court

  by James D. Robenalt

  Franklin Roosevelt's error in 1937 was not to propose expanding the court, it was to fail to explain and defend his popular political reasons for doing so.

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• SOURCE: TIME
  6/2/2020
  

  The Search for the Truth About the Nazi Plot to Assassinate FDR

  by Howard Blum

  The events surrounding Operation Long Jump, as the Nazi assassination mission that targeted the Tehran Conference was known, remained a deeply buried official secret.

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• SOURCE: Yale University Press Blog
  5/29/2020
  

  Fake News, Then and Now

  by Tracy Campbell

  Rumor and gossip during World War II reflected currents of racism in American society, as well as many citizens' unwillingness to make deep sacrifices to the war effort. 

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• SOURCE: WBUR
  5/27/2020
  

  What We Learn From FDR's New Deal

  "A president alone can't do everything," says historian Lizabeth Cohen, "that president needs a supportive Congress."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/15/2020
  

  If Trump had Been in Charge during World War II, this Column would be in German

  by Max Boot

  What if FDR had speculated that mobilization might be unnecessary if we can develop a “death ray” straight out of a Buck Rogers comic strip?

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/30/2020
  

  The Country has been Through a Draining, News-Packed April Before

  by Christopher B. Daly

  By the end of April 1945, the institutions of American journalism generally met the challenges of an overwhelming torrent of news and helped other American institutions manage military, political and economic transition.

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• 4/12/2020
  

  The President vs. The Epidemic: FDR's Polio Crusade

  by Dave Welky

  No president can end an epidemic single handedly, but they can inspire a popular movement that eradicates a disease. Such was the case with Franklin Roosevelt and polio.

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• 4/5/2020
  

  New Deal or Nazism? Historical Comparisons to Trump's Performance as a Leader in Crisis

  by Walter G. Moss

  Comparing the first 100 days in power of Franklin Roosevelt and Adolf Hitler offers a sobering reminder of the consequences of decisions pursued by leaders in crisis. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  3/30/2020
  

  The Conservative Campaign Against Safety

  by Lawrence Glickman

  How did we get to the point where ministers, the president, many Republican politicians, and a variety of media outlets are calling for people to risk death to save the economy?

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• SOURCE: National Interest
  3/31/2020
  

  America Has a History of Pandemic Denial

  by Joseph Loconte

  Donald Trump wasn't the first president to misunderestimate a national threat. Franklin Roosevelt played his part in the collective denial and dishonesty of the age—until the "ideology of fascism" contagion came knocking.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/30/2020
  

  In Fighting Covid-19, Remember That America’s WWII Mobilization Was Hardly Flawless

  by Richard B. Frank

  Mobilizing all Americans is a lofty challenge. Some will resist, just as they did 80 years ago.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  3/12/2020
  

  How the Fireside Chat Provided a Model for Calming the Nation that President Trump Failed to Follow

  by Michael J. Socolow

  Without respecting the Presidential message to the nation as a structured format, Trump's address failed to achieve its mission of clearly informing, and calming, the anxious nation.

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• 1/12/20
  

  Do Morals Matter in Foreign Policy?

  by Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

  Examining 14 presidencies since 1945 shows that a radically skeptical view of morality is bad history. Morals did matter.

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• 12/15/19
  

  What Joe Biden and Franklin Roosevelt Have in Common

  by James Robenalt

  And how it explains the differences between FDR and Donald Trump. 

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• 12/22/19
  

  Subsidies Can't Solve Farmers' Trade War Losses

  by Jared Levinson

  Subsidies during the Great Depression and in the current trade war. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  11/4/19
  

  The Wagner Act and Why It's A Liberal President Is Not Sufficient To Create Democratic Change

  by Jamelle Bouie

  And without reform, neither is a Democratic Senate.

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• SOURCE: The Times of Israel
  11/4/19
  

  Rafael Medoff's New Book Suggests new evidence shows FDR’s bigotry derailed many Holocaust rescue plans

  In his book about Franklin Roosevelt and the Holocaust, Rafael Medoff finds links between the US president’s anti-Japanese stances and his policies against Jews fleeing Hitler.