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...Obama isn’t the first to decorate his Cabinet with narrow-minded academics. In 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed several professors to his administration, including the University of Chicago’s Paul Douglas and Columbia’s Rexford Tugwell. Like Obama’s aides, these scholars shared a common nightmare: a depression like the one that devastated Midwestern farmers in the 1920s...
Franklin Roosevelt wondered frequently during the 1932 electoral campaign at what he saw as the surprising docility of the American people in the face of the Depression. "Repeatedly he spoke of this," his aide Rexford Tugwell recalled, "saying that it was enormously puzzling to him that the ordeal of the past three years had been endured so peaceably." That odd passivity has intrigued historians, who have noted that it forced Roosevelt to simultaneously invent the tools to combat the Depression and establish their very legitimacy in the eyes of the people...
...DeLong, Cornell (Jr., G) Rexford...
...devoted to the needs of the people. His lieutenants are singularly suited to carry forth a progressive program; they would well merit the name "brain trust," were that name not in such ill repute. And who would not prefer William Allen White and Charles Taft to [Rexford] Tugwell...
...FIST operation was also cost effective. The Federal Government paid $1.7 million for the program, or about $800 per fugitive captured. Most of that expense might be made up by the arrest in Sonoma County of accused Drug Trafficker Rexford Andrew Ramsey, 42. Agents confiscated his Sonoma ranch, valued at $1.5 million, two properties in Miami, three Formula One race cars and $500,000 in cash. If Ramsey is convicted, the Marshals Service auctions off the booty and hangs on to the proceeds...