maybe my memory's gone, but I don't remember all this fuss for FDR's 100th birthday in 1982

[eShirl]

(a.k.a. The greatest US President of the 20th Century)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt

[sinkingfeeling]

1. There wasn't any.

[OHdem10]

2. 1982---Too busy pushing Reagan in an effort to discredit FDR

[bulloney]

3. It's that librul media, I tell you!

Oh, never mind.

If it wasn't so maddening, I'd laugh every time I hear Reagan's sheep praise the guy for what they think he accomplished and stood for. In fact, what he actually accomplished in office and what his sheep think he did are 180 degrees apart.

[young_at_heart]

4. All but forgotten----Reagan called in the National Guard against students at UCSB

This happened at UCSB a few years after I left. The year was 1970 and anti-war ideals were very strong (especially after the Tet offensive). Ronald Reagan flew out to Santa Barbara. During his visit, Reagan called the student demonstrators “cowardly little bums” and declared an “extreme state of emergency” in Isla Vista. Furthermore, he placed National Guard units on alert and threatened that he would declare martial law if necessary. Police were instructed to scatter groups of three or more and prohibit people from loitering on the streets.

Reagan made a speech to a Growers Convention on April 7, in which he made the following infamous
statement about campus disorders: “If it’s to be a bloodbath, let it be now.”