Upside down iceberg. Echoes LBJ's Great Society. Figurative conversation FDR Reagan. (Page 1/1)
rinselberg MAY 10, 02:18 AM
This has been inspired by the "Democrats vs Republicans" subtext that emerged within that other "The narrative that the Capitol protest was a 'deadly insurrection' is falling apart" forum topic.

‘He’s like an upside down iceberg’: historian Jon Meacham on Joe Biden
David Smith for the Guardian (U.S. edition); May 9, 2021.

How it starts:

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With Biden what you see is what you get, says the Pulitzer prize winner, who has advised the president, but FDR informs his approach to democracy in peril

He has been described as Joe Biden’s “historical muse”, an occasional informal adviser to the US president and contributor to some of his major speeches including the inaugural address.

In March, Jon Meacham put together a meeting between Biden and a group of fellow historians at the White House that lasted more than two hours. What did he learn about the 46th president?

“He’s like an upside down iceberg,” the Pulitzer prize-winning historian says by phone. “You see most of it and that’s not spin: there’s just not a lot of mystery to Joe Biden. The last four or five minutes of his press conference in the East Room [on 25 March] when he talked about democracy and autocracy, that was pretty much it.”


A slice from the middle:

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Faced with multiple crises including the coronavirus pandemic, Biden has sought to rebuild trust in both government and democracy with an audacious [$6 trillion] spending project that also echoes Lyndon B Johnson’s “Great Society”.

Some have hailed it as a death blow to four decades of Ronald Reagan’s trickle-down economics. But Meacham, a biographer of Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson and George HW Bush, would not go so far: “One way to think about 1933 to 2017 was as a figurative conversation between FDR and LBJ on one side and Reagan and George W Bush on the other. Every president was somewhere in that conversation.

“Trump was not a sequential chapter to that. I think Biden is back in that conversation. He’s clearly in the FDR/LBJ mode but I see that as a resumption of a conversation about the means to commonly agreed upon ends. Biden is not creating new government agencies. Is it a pendulum swing? Certainly from George W Bush, yeah, but it’s not outside the American mainstream.”


Read-o-Meter: almost 7 minutes.

Internet page link to the complete article at the Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com...eacham-joe-biden-fdr

The article is not behind a subscription or paywall.
randye MAY 10, 03:21 AM
"Sourmash's" observation about you continues to be prescient.

There is nothing to be learned from the propaganda pieces that you continually post on this forum and you never do a "deep dive" on anything.

If you took even a shallow wade in the kiddie pool, just 5-10 short minutes would have revealed that:

" Jon Meacham was asked to speak at the 2020 Democratic National Convention on the Soul of America. He endorsed Joe Biden, saying, "history, which will surely be our judge, can also be our guide. From Seneca Falls to Selma to Stonewall, we're at our best when we build bridges, not walls".

According to The New York Times, Meacham has been part of the team, writing some of Joe Biden's speeches for the 2020 United States presidential election, including Biden's acceptance speech."

During your "shallow water snorkel trip" you would have also discovered that:

Jon Meacham is NOT a "historian". He has a BA in English Literature.

Of course none of those facts help your propaganda so it's not surprising that your Aquaphobia continues unabated.

[This message has been edited by randye (edited 05-10-2021).]

rinselberg MAY 10, 08:14 AM
sourmash MAY 10, 09:51 AM
It's sorta like one of those NPR shows for millennials.