Re: Distantly GR-related: New Documents Reveal FDR’s Eugenic Project to ‘Resettle’ Jews During World War II

[David Morris]

Slothrop has decided that FDR is "his" president because S thought FDR
brave "with that polio and all."  Is S identifying with a disability
inflicted in childhood?

But wasn't FDRs physical disabilities kept hidden by the media?  Celebrity
and myth are intimate partners.  Was FDR being wheelchair bound common
knowledge back then?

David Morris

On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 5:26 PM Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>
wrote:

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> "Slothrop was going into high school when FDR was starting out in the
> White House. Broderick Slothrop professed to hate the man, but young Tyrone
> thought he was brave, with that polio and all. Liked his voice on the
> radio. Almost saw him once too, in Pittsfield, but Lloyd Nipple, the
> fattest kid in Mingeborough, was standing in the way, and all Slothrop got
> to see was a couple wheels and the feet of some guys in suits on a
> running-board. Hoover he'd heard of, dimly---something to do with shack
> towns or vacuum cleaners---but Roosevelt was HIS president, the only one
> he'd known. It seemed he'd just keep getting elected, term after term,
> forever."   (pp. 373-374)
>
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> http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/260862/m-project-franklin-delano-roosevelt-jews
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