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Posted by trainsarefun on Sun Feb 15 20:35:35 2009, in response to Re: WSJ interview with Jeb Bush: GOP must be national party, moderate on immigration, push school ch, posted by SMAZ on Sun Feb 15 19:31:43 2009. Its strange how it was all related to race except for the FDR Era.Yeah I don't think that one can leave out the urban/rural divide, and I also think that I left out suburbanization (although that had racial overtones in the postwar era). I mark the moment when the reversal really started was when Truman unambiguosly put his Presidency on the line as a matter of principle and principle only by integrating the military and so triggering Strom Thurmond's Dixiecrat candidacy and by appointing the most liberal Justices to the SCOTUS before or since. Truman's stand on integrating the armed forces was brave. His appointments to the Supreme Court were quite mediocre, though. The great appointments were made by FDR and Eisenhower: Hugo Black, Felix Frankfurter, William Douglas, Robert Jackson, Wiley Rutledge, Frank Murphy, Earl Warren, William Brennan, and John Harlan. (There were others, but those were the great ones). To my mind, Harlan was the last great judge appointed to the Court. I didn't know that he had offered the Secretary of State position to Bunche. You learn something everyday! |
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