20070406 April 7 1947 Life Magazine

April 6, 2007

April 7^th, 1947 Life Magazine

http://www.jitterbuzz.com/lif0407.html

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LIFE hired eminent historian Arthur M. Schlesinger to write an article about the Roosevelt family two years after FDR's passing. The article began with this statement: "The existence of Franklin Roosevelt relieved American liberals for a dozen years of the responsibility of thinking for themselves. Some of his followers now feel a terrified need to consult him from the grave. Politicians seeking his place try to drape themselves in his memory. The heat is on the family to indicate somehow where FDR would stand today."

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There was a two-page ad for The National Guard, because they were trying to raise 682,000 men in 27 dividions (sic). The ad said, "In an era of world uncertainties, peace cannot be preserved by wishful thinking. The basic insurance against future war is national preparedness. That's the thing that counts." …

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