{"id":241,"date":"2003-12-06T11:14:29","date_gmt":"2003-12-06T15:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2003\/12\/06\/stopping-on-a-dime\/"},"modified":"2003-12-06T11:14:29","modified_gmt":"2003-12-06T15:14:29","slug":"stopping-on-a-dime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2003\/12\/06\/stopping-on-a-dime\/","title":{"rendered":"Stopping on a Dime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a140'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know how serious <A href=\"http:\/\/sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2003\/12\/06\/MNG0S3HNA41.DTL\">this proposal<\/A> is, but according to the paper the I malign so much, there are some Republican lawmakers who want to replace FDR&#8217;s image on the dime, with that of Ronald Reagan.&nbsp; This is an example of partisanship at its worse.&nbsp; Despite the fact that Roosevelt represents big government to them, I cannot understand their failure to recognize Roosevelt as one of the greatest American&nbsp;presidents ever (at the very least, he is the greatest president of the 20th century).&nbsp; Roosevelt dealt with the Great Depression and World War II.&nbsp; Without his leadership and the success of the Allies, we would all be working in some German or Japanese forced labor camp right now.&nbsp; I blame this bill on the fact that the older generation of WWII lawmakers are few and far between in Congress now.&nbsp; Certainly, veterans like former Senator Bob Dole, would rise about partisanship, to silence all calls for bills like this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know how serious this proposal is, but according to the paper the I malign so much, there are some Republican lawmakers who want to replace FDR&#8217;s image on the dime, with that of Ronald Reagan.&nbsp; This is an example of partisanship at its worse.&nbsp; Despite the fact that Roosevelt represents big government to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legalese"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}