Word: lindberghism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Roosevelt & Lindbergh...
...desire to point out what I think is an error in your judgment. In TIME of Feb. 19 under Aeronautics you compare Roosevelt's popularity and Lindbergh's. Among all my friends I know not one who has more than a passing interest and little admiration for Colonel Lindbergh, but they are all enthusiastic about our President...
...would be a wonderful thing if the President and Colonel Lindbergh would get together, because Lindbergh is so well informed in such matters. The thing I was getting at was that people shouldn't get the idea that Colonel Lindbergh was acting as a shield for the company he represents and that he'd been paid for that...
...talked with Colonel Lindbergh about ten minutes and I could tell he wouldn't do a thing like that. His knowledge of aviation and his value as a technical adviser was worth every nickel that he got. He would have been worth every bit of it even if he'd never flown in his life...
Hardly less spirited than the Herald Tribune was the Boston Herald: "The President's executive order is an amazing document . . . argumentative, bad-mannered, and offensive. . . . The alleged discourtesy of Colonel Lindbergh in giving out his letter to the President prematurely seems an act of studied, Chesterfieldian deference in comparison...