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

[Mark Kohut]

>From a book called Argumentation and Advocacy:

For the generation of Americans who came to know Roosevelt through his
public persona as a president dealing with the crises of the Great
Depression and World War II, his physical impairment was not his
identifying characteristic. FDR did not attempt to hide his infirmity, but
he actively sought to keep it from limiting his public identity. There are,
for example, only three extant photographs in the public domain that show
him in a wheel chair. Through years of laborious therapy he had ...

On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 10:03 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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:
>
> >
> > "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)
> >
> >
> > http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/
> 260862/m-project-franklin-delano-roosevelt-jews
> >
> >
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