Of modern civilization. She also according to her youngest child, ultimately, became an anagnostic. They did not attend church which is quite unusual for a u. S. Senator and her family. To protect her husbands in this area. Bob delighted in telling Family Friends that as belle guided a wealthy couple through washington dc, they asked pointblank, which church to la follette. Told them we entered the congregati congregational. This is a lie and as a minister, we have known well and preached in the Congressional Church on sunday and bob and i would go to hear it. Belle advocated cleaner road cars and schedules designed for short and lay overs. She also postponing the inaugural ceremony in april. Must we go on forever . Suffering the convenience of so badly adjusted to our daily lives just because they were written in the constitution or over a hundred years ago. She saw women lack of political experience as working to their favor as they were left conditions to accept traditions. Lesson t
Say something about robert la follette jr. And how he what his career in the u. S. Senate was like. I presume he was one of the socalled isolationist senators. Correct me if im wrong. Junior like what was la follette junior like as a senator. La follette junior did not want to be a senator. This was his obligation as a member of his family. His younger brother wanted desperately to be senator, but he was too young. So he is a dutiful senator. Yes, he opposes u. S. Entry into world war i. Hes a solid senator. He does good work. All of these years, but he hates campaigning. At one point hes campaigning, someone brays out from the audience, youre not as good as your paw and you never will be. And he said, no one knows that better than i, my friend, no one knows that better than i. But he does his duty and he stays in the senate for 21 years. And then hes supposed to go back to wisconsin and do some campaigning. So he doesnt and is defeated by joe mccarthy. Which as you can imagine is pret
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But how people have interpreted it has changed dramatically since the end of the war. So how can we understand, how we recognize that text, says a lot about the transformation of culture. I should say, when i was asked to do this, one of the many reasons i decided to do it was that i remain curious about the wonderful title, a fire never extinguished. David white and a few others of us it was such a literary phrase, we tried to figure out, who said that . Is that whitman, emerson . Who said a fire never extinguished . I have been doing a Little Research and have one possible source. One is Edward Everett hale, a wellknown unitarian minister during the civil war in boston a writer especially of short stories. He is best known for his short story the man without a country, published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1863. It is about a man who goes on the ship, disavows his country and loses his whole sense of identity. It is designed as a story to rally support for the union cause. The union c
The text itself stays the same, but how people have interpreted it has changed dramatically since the end of the war. So how can we understand, how we recognize that text, says a lot about the transformation of culture. I should say, when i was asked to do this, one of the many reasons i decided to do it was that i remain curious about the wonderful title, a fire never extinguished. David white and a few others of us it was such a literary phrase, we tried to figure out, who said that . Is that whitman, emerson . Who said a fire never extinguished . I have been doing a Little Research and have one possible source. One is Edward Everett hale, a wellknown unitarian minister during the civil war in boston a writer especially of short stories. He is best known for his short story the man without a country, published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1863. It is about a man who goes on the ship, disavows his country and loses his whole sense of identity. It is designed as a story to rally support