FDR image contradicted
Franklin D. Roosevelt was much more conservative than he is generally thought to have been, said David A. Shannon in a University Lecture last night in the Kansas Union.
Shannon, chairman of the University of Maryland history department, and sponsored by KU's history department, s poke on "The Conventional Wisdom—Dissent and the New Deal."
"ROOSEVELT NEVER actually supported many of the major New Deal measures," Shannon said. "The whole idea of FDR's congresses as "rubber stamp" obviously isn't true."
Shannon described the New Deal years and FDR's support and opposition during them.
"In the 1930's, dissent was strong. It was the heyday of the Marxist left in America, with large segments of socialists, Communists and Trotskyists.
"FDR WAS SO POPULAR personally, though, that even people who disapproved of his measures tended to blame only his subordinates. In fact, probably one of the reasons FDR kept unpopular people around him was so they could act as political lightning rods."
Commenting on the sort of dissent evident in Roosevelt's administration, Shanon said, "When dissent appears in an open society, usually enough of it is embraced to quiet the dissenters down.
"The radical left of the 30's became the conventional wisdom, or accepted thought, by 1945.
"I think it's high time that there be a reassessment of the
FLORIDA PARKS ARE VISITED
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. —(UPI)
—Florida State Parks draw 13 per cent more visitors from July 1 to Dec. 31, 1966, than in the corresponding six-month period of 19-65, reports the Florida Development Commission.
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New Deal era," Shannon concluded.
Of the more than 3 million persons visiting the parks,478,971 camped overnight.
SHANNON IS the author of "The Socialist Party of America—A History" and "20th Century America." The latter is now in use as a KU history text.
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