WISDOM OF THE WARRIORS
Correspondence WISDOM OF THE WARRIORS MARK BAUERLEIN’s review of Soldier’s Heart by Elizabeth Samet was brilliant (“The Write Stuff,” December 24). As an alumnus of the Citadel, the Military...
...Hull’s partJewish background “would be raised” by his opponents...
...In his reply, he defended FDR’s statement as “a neutral comment about people of mixed ancestry...
...Discussing the presidential aspirations of Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Roosevelt said to Wheeler that if Hull ran, Mrs...
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...As an alumnus of the Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina, and a retired military offi cer, I can attest to the intellectual earnestness of military cadets and military personnel in general...
...We know there is no Jewish blood in our veins, but a lot of these people do not know whether there is Jewish blood in their veins or not...
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...But Schlesinger knew more than he was letting on...
...Yet, the greater distinction lies in the fact that by joining the military they let go to become part of something larger than themselves...
...Had I not been there to immediately turn off the switch it would probably have started a fi re and/or caused dangerous gases to be released into my home...
...However, unlike an incandescent bulb, where a broken fi lament acts as an off-switch to the current, a shorted-out CFL can start to burn...
...It does indeed refl ect the greater earnestness of their lives they are prepared to sacrifi ce in the service of their country...
...But the issue of FDR’s views on race did not go away...
...DIM BULBS CATCH FIRE MY COMPLIMENTS to Andrew Ferguson for informing us in “A Nation of Dim Bulbs” (December 31/ January 7) about the federal government forcing compact fl uorescent light bulbs (CFLs) down our throats...
...In my case, smoke started pouring out of the CFL bulb...
...Most people, including me, are using them where they make sense while sticking with incandescent bulbs where they don’t...
...Military personnel constitute a curiosity simply because of their relatively small numbers...
...S.K...
...In various articles and in his 2000 memoir, Schlesinger claimed FDR “did more than anyone else to save” Jews from the Nazis...
...But far worse was Schlesinger’s willingness to sometimes omit from his history books facts that refl ected poorly on his heroes...
...Hull is about one quarter Jewish,” FDR said...
...Unfortunately, Arthur Schlesinger did more to cloud the issue than to clarify it...
...You and I, Burt, are old English and Dutch stock...
...GIBSON III Mobile, Ala...
...This federal law is a prime example of liberal do-goodism crashing into the law of unintended consequences...
...Consider how Schlesinger handled the question of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s response to the Holocaust...
...Still there was no comment from Schlesinger on the role of race in FDR’s thinking...
...She has served her cadets well by inspiring in them dedicated scholarship well beyond their undergraduate days and the rest of us by writing her book...
...Like most things in the world, CFLs have positive and negative characteristics...
...Mrs...
...Making that leap requires faith, humility, resolve, and a certain sense of romance...
...RAFAEL MEDOFF Director The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies Washington, D.C...
...We know who our ancestors are...
...In 1959, while working on his laudatory history of the New Deal, Schlesinger interviewed former U.S...
...SCHLESINGER ON FDR ARTHUR SCHLESINGER JR.’s Journals may indeed reveal him to have been an egoist and name-dropper, as P. J. O’Rourke asserts in “Dear Diary, I Think I’m in Love” (December 31/January 7...
...In his writings about Roosevelt, anti-Semitism, Jewish refugees, and the Holocaust, he never mentioned that he knew of FDR’s remark about the undesirability of “Jewish blood...
...I suspect that was part of Professor Samet’s epiphany, too...
...senator Burton K. Wheeler and obtained a memorandum Wheeler prepared after speaking with FDR on August 4, 1939...
...TOM ABERT Manchester, N.H...
...Maybe so...
...Or maybe it was additional evidence that Roosevelt’s views on race could have played a part in shaping his closed-doors refugee policy during the Holocaust...
...Roosevelt “did not have an antisemitic bone in his body,” Schlesinger approvingly quoted Trude Lash as saying...
...But Schlesinger kept the document under wraps...
...Professor Samet ostensibly approached her assignment to West Point with curiosity...
...This is another example of why no good law is worth rushing through Congress...
...Two years ago, I wrote Schlesinger to ask his view of the “Jewish blood” remark...
...In 2001, Professor Greg Robinson revealed articles Roosevelt wrote in 1923 and 1925 claiming “the mingling of Asiatic blood with European or American blood produces, in nine cases out of ten, the most unfortunate results,” and urging restrictions on the citizenship and property rights of “nonassimilable immigrants...
...I know from personal experience that if you use CFLs in a humid environment, like a bathroom or near a cooking area, there is a high likelihood a CFL will short out...
...In addition to cosmetic issues and producing light that causes eye strain for many people, CFLs don’t work in cold environments and are also a fi re hazard...
Vol. 13 • January 2008 • No. 17
