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Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Roosevelt & Roosevelt

In response to Matt's question yesterday, I checked out the "midnight forests" proclamation (Milkis & Nelson 220). The legal authority came from an earlier law, not the Antiquities Act.

See here for information on how Clinton and other presidents used the Antiquities Act.

See here for information on how President Bartlet used the Antiquities Act.

I do not mean to pick on Joe Biden, but spot the mistakes in the following comment: "When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'look, here's what happened."

Assassination Attempt:



FDR inauguration:




Ike Farewell:

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