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Source: Associated Press
AP foreign, Thursday January 30 2014
NEW YORK (AP) A Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer is apologizing for saying on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that Franklin Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln did not attempt to "rebuild" the country through executive orders, which President Obama advocated this week as an alternative to getting legislation enacted.
Jon Meacham wrote in an email Thursday to The Associated Press that he was at best "imprecise" and at worst "just plain wrong." Many commentators noted that Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation was an executive order and that Roosevelt advanced numerous New Deal initiatives through executive orders.
Meacham appeared Thursday on "Morning Joe." He told the AP that he had meant to say that presidents cannot lead only through executive orders, but must also get laws passed and influence public opinion.
Meacham has written books about Andrew Jackson and Thomas Jefferson.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/feedarticle/11173166
Earlier thread: Jon Meacham Says Lincoln, FDR Never Tried To 'Rebuild America On An Executive Order'
Rex
(65,616 posts)nt.
He's just a liar.
Rex
(65,616 posts)nt.
fadedrose
(10,044 posts)Maybe he should just watch current news and find out what's going on...
ladym55
(2,577 posts)I read his book on Andrew Jackson, but I'm done with someone who is so publicly ignorant of the history he purports to have "expertise" in.
Too late, Jon. You should have kept your mouth shut on something you OBVIOUSLY knew NOTHING about.
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)monmouth3
(3,871 posts)spanone
(135,831 posts)Skidmore
(37,364 posts)During the Bush years he was super disgusting in his unctiousness.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)Obama has the LEAST!
I'd say "just plain wrong" is much more ACCURATE, Mr. Meacham.
blm
(113,061 posts)throughout his term. He was a disgusting, lying piece of sh!t throughout the 2000 and 2004 elections.
okaawhatever
(9,462 posts)Release The Hounds
(467 posts)KoKo
(84,711 posts)malaise
(268,997 posts)Meacham is a well know ReTHUG hack
BainsBane
(53,032 posts)He is a journalist with a BA in English Literature. He has no training as a historian. Even so, you don't have to be a historian to know that FDR issued far more executive orders than Obama or any other president.
MagickMuffin
(15,942 posts):kick:
People who no nothing about what they are talking about should keep their ill-informed talking points to themselves.