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SOME VERY INTELLIGENT people spent a great deal of time trying to distinguish between "authoritarian" and "totalitarian" regimes. (FDR '04 once succinctly endorsed a dictator friend: "He may be an S.O.B., but he's our S.O.B.," essentially what these very intelligent people were attempting to intellectualize.) Other very intelligent people spent even more time discoursing on "winnable" nuclear war. The Middle East affords just one specific example of the 1981 tendency toward pointlessness. The United States, friend of democratic Israel, strikes a deal with authoritarian (or was it totalitarian) Saudi Arabia, avowed enemy of Israel, for the largest arms sale...
What happened, he says, is simple. "The universities, Harvard and MIT, drove them out by bringing in their people and by expanding their properties." Mickey the Dude grew up on Plympton St (indeed, he acquired his nickname when FDR and others would dress him in tuxedos and take him to the final clubs), then lined with three-deckers housing ethnic families. Now it is lined with Quincy House. "You look at Mather House--that whole area down by Banks St. used to be all Irish, a lot of four-deckers and the like...
Battles over Social Security, local aid, and defense spending, (which, with its paradoxical enormity, remains Reagan's hardest cross to bear), are safest for the Democrats. After all, as much of FDR's heritage has been made untouchable as has been rejected; people cried "socialism" and "get government off our backs" when Social Security was first suggested, but no American politician would ever advocate an end to the program today. If the Democrats are determined to fight other battles, they should follow the lead of Mo Udall and others on the tax cut vote and make them honorable duels. Instead...
Once, in 1934, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, then at the height of his powers, tried to get rid of Moses. It wasn't a clash of principles; Moses and Roosevelt had hated each other since FDR's days as governor of New York. The President simply wanted his own men distributing the construction money into the nation's biggest city. Using Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes as the hit-man. Roosevelt pressured Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia to fire Moses from the Triborough Board. Fearing a huge outcry in the city if he fired the man "above politics," La Guardia...
Yesterday's rally was "the greatest show of solidarity with the people of El Salvador." the FDR spokesman said...