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| | From:  Jennie6990 (Original Message) | Sent: 9/1/2007 3:47 AM |
Here are some interesting photos of The Great Depression. I know it is a lot of photos, but I think the people who had to live through this terrible time should be remembered. My grandmother tells me lots of stories about what kinds of things they had to do to survive. She says that since there was not much food, they put together unlikely combinations of foods to make supper and sometimes it turned out great. Like fried green tomatoes. She also tells me how they lived in a tent city for years. Hope I am not breaking group rules by posting them. Enjoy....Jenny |
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Excellent book by Alistair Cook called "Hard Travellin" which is a history of the bums and ridin' the rails. There is a rod which supports the axle box and runs forward at about 30 deg to end in a plate screwed into the wagon floor. You wrapped your arms and legs around and prayed you didn't fall. Wasn't all one sided, there were some pretty murderous tramps who delighted in killing guards and railroad Police. Alistair Cook was an Englishman who worked for the BBC and lived in New York for 30+ years. |
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i can only recognize only 2 of these pictures (perhaps cause of their being historic). they are great photos and thanks for sharing them. my parents were born during the depression. i can imagine what people went through (not counting the rich/wealthy) from what people told me. though i am still young myself (my parents had me later in their life) i must say since then times have changed here in america & other places. that doesnt count for every country out there. what we went through during the depression, seems like there are still place that are still/now going through it. only today its not called depression. |
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THOSE PIC'S WERE TAKEN DAY ONE SEUSS, SO YOU CAN IMAGINE WHAT THE PIC'S TAKEN 5 YRS INTO THE DEPRESSION LOOK LIKE. THE DEPRESSION WAS WORLD WIDE. |
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i can only recognize only 2 of these pictures>>> I have one of them in a book about Oklahoma. |
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I don't think anyone can argue that those 3 presidents were not terrible. They are not, however, typical of the Republican Party. Two of them made the 10 worst presidents list published by U.S. News. My understanding is that Harding was pretty much a puppet president. The party wanted to put someone in office that they could control. Harding even made the comment that he didn't understand how he got a job that he wasn't competent enough to do. Coolidge made some decisions that favored a few industries and hurt the agriculture industry. He favored the auto industry. Soon the gap widened between the wealthy and the working class to the point that no one could afford to buy what the factories were producing. Hoover didn't respond and just allowed it to get worse. I agree with you that those 3 presidents contributed to the Depression. I don't agree that they are typical Republicans. |
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| Of all the men who have served as US Presidents, Herbert Hoover was considered one of the most intelligent, by strict academic standards. Goes to show that pure intellect is no standard by which to pick a President. Conversely, it should also underscore that lack of high IQ is no guarantee of failure for the job. One needn't be a genius to display good leadership qualities, ie., Geo Washington, Andrew Jackson, Theo Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan can be considered effective POTUSs who all managed important accomplishments despite their academic shortcomings. |
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Bowlegged, I guess you didn't say the men on your list were "good" presidents, but effective ones, so I can't exactly disagree with what you said. Several on your list had shortcomings that weren't academic. Nixon made the 10 worst list by U.S. News. JFK lied to the public about having Addison's disease and put our country at risk by abusing drugs he took for synptoms of that disease. He got prescriptions from several doctors and took far more than he was supposed to and they caused an increased sex drive and risk taking behavior. Andrew Jackson started or excellerated partisan wars. He told his cabinet that if there was a job that a Democrat couldn't do to get rid of that job. He also set in motion Manifest Destiny and the war on Indians. Washington, Reddy, and Reagan were terrific presidents! |
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I didn't say I liked all those guys, but I do think that Nixon should get better shrift for his foreign policy acumen. His resignation is what merits his ranking. I think he should have fought it out with Congress, but his personality was often of a knee-jerk reactionary type - he took the easy way out. His successors learned from his mistakes, unfortunately few of them learned anything from his successes.
Personally, I don't like any of the Kennedy's either, but JFK greatly raised the profile of the US Space Exploration program which, in my mind was his great and lasting legacy.
I mentioned Andy Jackson because left us with one of the most enduring symbols of American politics. His political opponents had nicknamed him "Jackass" during the 1828 election. He liked it, adopted it as his symbol, which in turn became the symbol for his newly formed Democrat party, which it remains to this day.
But beyond that, Jackson as one of the most polarizing political figures of his day comes across to me as a man who managed to get things done mainly by force of personality, of which he had quite a bit. He was physically attacked twice while serving as POTUS, the 2nd time by a deranged man who approached him in the Capital Rotunda with two pistols aimed and cocked. Both misfired, and Jackson promptly caned the man before being restrained by Davy Crockett, amongst others. His statue in the Rotunda stands at the spot where this occurred. I probably would not have liked this man in person, but I'm sure I'd have jumped when he barked. |
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Jackson was in quite a few duels. In one, the other man fired his shot and only wounded Jackson and then had to stand there for Jackson to kill him. |
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Tiger wrote some interesting comments about JFK on another board. I'll see if I can find it. |
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Bowlegged, I thought this message Tiger wrote about JFK was really good. |
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It was both, Tiger. He got his morals (or lack of them) from his father. I read that when his brother Bobby got married, John took him aside at the reception and told him that just because he was married didn't mean he couldn't continue to have other women. I doubt he needed to remind his brother of the behavior their father modeled for them. It wasn't the pain medicine that aggravated that. It was steroids. He much prefered steroids and amphemines to the pain medicine. It took care of the pain and gave him energy. It also increased his sex drive and need for high risks. Just what someone with the sexual morality of a Kennedy needed. An increased need for high risk is not what our country needed a president during the cold war to have. |
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LOL Tiger. I thought you wrote it. After I read your #26, I saw the same article posted on another board. Good article. |
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