McElvaine literally wrote the book on the Great Depression. Here the professor draws parallels between 1929 and our present economic dilemma.

From Huffingtonpost.com, 28 October 2008 post, by Robert S. McElvaine.:
…We are beyond discussions of whether we are in a recession; the antecedent of “it” in the above question is “Depression,” and there are enough parallels between then and now to induce sleeplessness in many of us…

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While people focus on a couple of terrible days in 1929, in fact the market collapse leading into the Depression was a long downward slide, punctuated by days of drastic drops and occasional gains–much like what has been going on for the last six weeks, including yesterday’s huge gain.

As the Crash on this date in 1929 was a lagging indicator for a severe economic downturn that was already underway, the current Grizzly Bear Market is a lagging indicator for an economy that was already in serious decline before Wall Street noticed…

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George W. Bush hopes history will see him as a president who liberated millions of Iraqis and Afghans, who worked towards peace and who never sold his soul for political ends. Seriously…

From The Raw Story, 28 November 2008 post, by way of Agence France-Presse:

WASHINGTON (AFP) — George W. Bush hopes history will see him as a president who liberated millions of Iraqis and Afghans, who worked towards peace and who never sold his soul for political ends.

“I’d like to be a president (known) as somebody who liberated 50 million people and helped achieve peace,” Bush said in excerpts of a recent interview released by the White House Friday.

“I would like to be a person remembered as a person who, first and foremost, did not sell his soul in order to accommodate the political process. I came to Washington with a set of values, and I’m leaving with the same set of values.”…

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More could be lost

From The Raw Story, 24 November 2008 post, by Nick Juliano:

The plans to retain and store records from George W. Bush’s eight years in office is lacking in specifics and raises the possibility that millions of missing White House e-mails will be lost permanently, a independent government watchdog warned Monday.[snip]

…”The American people are at risk of losing the Bush administration’s electronic records,” warned Anne Weismann, CREW’s top lawyer. “It is appalling that less than two months before the administration ends, the agency entrusted with preserving our nation’s historical records still has very little information about what records it will be receiving. True to form, the White House is keeping both NARA and the public in the dark up to the very end.”…

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See also:

Cheney secrecy laying groundwork for ‘history heist?’

Should we feel sorry for the Republicans?

Stephen dismantles right wing efforts to “rewrite history” in an effort to portray the GOP as hapless victims of bully Democrats.

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Frost explains his methodology of breaking Richard Nixon down over a 12-day period.