[lbo-talk] *The Professional*

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 Stalinist propaganda

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http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100201/foner

The Nation
February 1, 2010 edition

*The Professional*

By Eric Foner

The first year may not be the best way to judge a president. After one year
in office, Abraham Lincoln still insisted that slavery would not become a
target of the Union war effort, Franklin D. Roosevelt had yet to address the
need for social insurance in the wake of the Great Depression and John F.
Kennedy viewed the civil rights movement as an annoying distraction. If we
admire them today, it is mostly for what happened during the rest of their
presidencies.