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Hekate

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29. My mother remembers her RW father saying that Social Security was the only good thing FDR did

Reply to Proud Southern Belle (Reply #6)

Thu Oct 26, 2023, 11:26 PM

Oct 2023

He also said that Congress would never be able to keep their hands out of the cookie jar, and would wreck it if not kept in check. As I have grown old, I have certainly seen the truth of his comment about Congress.

Historical timeline for context: Grandpa was born in the 1880s and Mom (his 5th child) was born in 1924, so FDR’s administration was in his adulthood and in her childhood. She had a lot to say about her father, not all of it complimentary. Mom said he was a right-winger, and I could see she learned to shun his core prejudices. On the other hand, he lost everything in the Great Depression, and went on the road with the CCC as an electrician with the crews building the CCC camps, and that was certainly an FDR program.

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