Patt Morrison
Entries from February 1, 2010
Being FDR's Grandson, and Could There Be a Personal Foul Called on Pro Football?
I'm a sucker for history, and living history? I'm swooning! Curtis Roosevelt was three when his grandfather, FDR, was elected president, and so he virtually grew up in the White House with ''Papa,'' the president, and ''Grandmere,'' Eleanor Roosevelt -- herself the niece of one President Roosevelt [Teddy] and the wife of another.
It was like stretching a hand across the decades, to think, ''This man I'm talking to once played in the pool with his grandpa, FDR, to get him to exercise and relax.'' For the rest of America, the Roosevelts were the First Family -- to ''Buzzie'' Roosevelt, ''Buzzie,'' they were just family.
The prospect of ending the Bush administration's ''No Child Left Behind'' occupied us for a long while; the Obama adminstration has its own ideas about federal education programs, some of which teachers like -- and some of which, like certain performance standards, they're not all that happy about. It's all of a piece with the Obama budget, and more on that as it unfurls.
Next time, the research is piling up like points on a Brett Favre offense -- all those head-smacks that pro footballers take can add up to early dementia and other problems. What does the science show, and what is the NFL doing about it? The Super Bowl's a few days away, so let's hear about findings that could change the nature of football ... next time at one o'clock.
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