The End Of An Era: John Kenneth Galbraith Died Yesterday

[cali]

in Cambridge MA, at age 97. Galbraith was a brilliant man; an unabashed liberal, world renowned economist, author and Ambassador to India. He served in several administrations, going as far back as Roosevelt. He was twice awarded the medal of freedom.

Here's a link to more information at Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kenneth_Galbraith

Rest in peace, Ambassador Galbraith. And thanks.

[cali]

1. Absolutely shameless kick for a great man.

It's kind of a sad reflection that we can have 50 threads on Colbert and the WH press dinner, and that Galbraith's death attracts no notice whatsoever.

[mark11727]

2. Kick from me, too...

:kick:

Rosevelt, eh? Oh, the stories JKG could tell...

[Benhurst]

3. Recommended

[MADem]

4. Brilliant, indeed. A good life, well-lived

John Kenneth Galbraith with President
Clinton at the Medal of Freedom award
ceremonies. (Staff photos by Justin
Ide, Harvard News Office


Galbraith, hospitalized in Honolulu with a severe
intestinal ailment, with the visiting
Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, 1962.



Galbraith escorting Jacqueline Kennedy at a
state dinner in New Delhi in 1962.


With Kennedy


With Johnson

[cali]

5. Thanks for the photos

he had such a great craggy face. He was also very tall- 6'8"

[MADem]

10. Gotta let the young 'uns get a peek at a hero of our times!

We can't let them forget history...!

[cali]

11. My fear is that the reason this thread

is getting so little attention is that a lot of DUers don't know who he was, but I find that really hard to believe.

[MADem]

13. We have to face reality; some folks today look at JFK like we looked

at Lincoln...a figure from the distant past. And they don't recognize a lot of the heroes that were associated with his, and other, administrations.

Hopefully the media will give him SOME coverage. They are usually more inclined to so do when there is film footage, and there does exist plenty of good footage of him. The primitive quality of some of the kinescopes can actually be a draw, simply because of the different look of it, and there's more recent stuff, as well, for those addicted to color. So long as there isn't some faux crisis, perhaps he will be given a bit of airtime...

[malaise]

6. RIP JK Galbraith n/t

[ananda]

7. But no Nobel...

... which is shameful though not surprising I guess.

Sue

[RepublicanElephant]

12. amazing.

:shrug:

[johan helge]

8. John Kenneth Galbraith - you will never be forgotten

No one has fought more convincingly for our ideas than John Kenneth Galbraith. We can be proud of this - having such a man as the spearhead.

[cali]

9. My sentiments exactly

He had a huge impact on me. He was one of my first political heros.

[newyawker99]

14. kick

[cali]

15. Colbert, Colbert, Colbert

He'll never be a tenth as vital to the causes we believe in as Galbraith was. Kickkickkick.

[dogday]

16. K&R

Rest In Peace.......

[kineneb]

17. I posted this on the LBN thread

but it bears repeating here:
 
The man who helped save the nation during the Depression


FDR was afraid that social unrest would tear the US apart, and asked JKG to assist in developing policies to prevent a revolution. I remember hearing interviews where he discussed this. He was an advisor to most of the Dem. presidents in the 20th century (after FDR), in formal or informal capacities.

RIP, Mr. Galbraith. We will miss you.

[cali]

18. Glad to hear you posted

this in LBN. What does it say about us that we can go on endlessly about a TV personality, and yet fail to note the passing of such a truly great man? This thread has lingered with few posts- many of them mine in order to keep it kicked. Sad.

[barb162]

19. The Affluent Society was/is a great book

written by a great man