“I see the publishers association has chosen a ’20s theme,” began the emcee. “What is wrong with you people? Don’t you know what came after the ’20s? The ’30s!”
It doesn’t seem like the ’30s…yet. Ask the man on the street and he will tell you what he’s heard on TV: the worst of the crisis is over.
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In 1930…as in 2009…the Average Fellow Thought the Crisis had Passed
President Barack Obama and Franklin Roosevelt Are Becoming Akin
The President-Elect, Barack Obama, seems to become more Rooseveltian day by day. He has established a close personal relationship with the American public. Roosevelt used the “fireside chat” on radio to create a very similar personal following. It seems quite possible that, at some stage, President Obama will have to face the same denigration which Roosevelt suffered…
December 23rd, 2008 | William Rees-Mogg | 1 comment | Continued