Tuesday 16 March 2010
Excerpts From the New Texas History Textbooks ☀
Study Questions:
1). When the FDR Memorial opened in 1997 near the Tidal Basin in Washington, successful protests by liberal activist groups led to the removal of Roosevelt’s cigarette holder from his statue and also had his wife, Eleanor, depicted without her trademark fur coat. Explain other ways that liberal pressure groups distort history today.
2). Discuss, based on your own life experience, whether Ivy League-educated bureaucrats in Washington understand how real Americans live and the values they cherish.
3). Compare the questionable legislative tactics used by Roosevelt in the passage of the Emergency Banking Act with the techniques employed by President Barack Obama in 2010 to try to pass his health care reform bill.
