March of Dimes asks help in keeping FDR (not Reagan) on dime

[hlthe2b]

Several weeks ago, when the news that the RWers were going to introduce legislation to remove FDR from the dime and replace with Reagan, several of us brought the history of FDR and his support for the polio effort through the March of Dimes to your attention. A request to contact both Congress and the March of Dimes to give support was made.

While I think the March of Dimes was caught off guard ininitially, I just received an email from them that they are mobilizing to stop this.

Please check out this request for help and do what you can. The good news is that the USATODAY poll was overwhelmingly in favor of keeping FDR when I last checked. But we all know that that hasn't stopped the Martyr Reagan movement before. Thanks for your help

http://www.marchofdimes.com/aboutus/855_10592.asp?BrCs=153&BrCg=7701249&BrRc=677656405&BrCv=639832328


Message from the March of Dimes follows:


Help Us Keep FDR on the Dime!

There is currently an effort in Congress to remove March of Dimes founder President Franklin D. Roosevelt from the dime. The March of Dimes strongly opposes this effort and urges you to contact your Member of Congress and vote in the USA Today poll to keep FDR on the dime.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2003-12-05-reagan-dime_x.htm

The profile of President Franklin D. Roosevelt was placed on the dime in 1946 to memorialize his 4 term Presidency, his fight to find a vaccine to prevent polio, and the volunteer movement epitomized by the March of Dimes. The coin is symbolic of the struggle to end polio through the "March of Dimes" campaign and the worldwide eradication of polio is expected in 2005. The FDR dime is a vehicle through which to explain what the volunteer spirit in America means, it would be tragic to lose that.

Please call or write your Representative and ask that he or she oppose any effort to remove FDR from the dime. Your Representative can be reached through the Capitol Switchboard at [phone] or visit the U.S. House of Representatives Web site to obtain the address for your Representative.

[Cooley Hurd]

1. Jeez, haven't the Reagan Dime proponents gotten the message?

The March of Dimes is against it, the American people are against it, even NANCY REAGAN is against it!!!

a little reminder for those behind the Reagan Dime...

C-Span's Ranking of the Presidents by Historians
1) Abraham Lincoln
2) Franklin Delano Roosevelt
3) George Washington
4) Theodore Roosevelt
5) Harry S. Truman
6) Woodrow Wilson
7) Thomas Jefferson
8) John F. Kennedy
9) Dwight D. Eisenhower
10)Lyndon Baines Johnson
11)Ronald Reagan

[acmavm]

2. The only reason that Reagan looks good is because of two

idiots named Bush.

[hlthe2b]

6. Don't kid yourself: this only requires a Congressional VOTE:

AND since when has a REPUG-dominated Congress cared what the people think? How many things have they blindly passed out of the watch of the media--regardless of the visceral outrage that followed....?

They COULD do this, if we don't put them on notice.

[Cooley Hurd]

3. More historian surveys/rankings...

Siena Research Institute Historian's Ranking of the Presidents

http://www.siena.edu/sri/results/95%20Presidency%20Survey.htm

1) FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT

2) ABRAHAM LINCOLN

3) THEODORE ROOSEVELT

4) GEORGE WASHINGTON

5) THOMAS JEFFERSON

6) WOODROW WILSON

7) HARRY TRUMAN

8) DWIGHT EISENHOWER

9) JAMES MADISON

10) JOHN F. KENNEDY

11) ANDREW JACKSON

12) JOHN ADAMS

13) LYNDON JOHNSON

14) JAMES K. POLK

15) JAMES MONROE

16) BILL CLINTON

17) JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

18) WILLIAM MCKINLEY

19) GROVER CLEVELAND

20) RONALD REAGAN

[blondeatlast]

4. Pulled us out of the Great Depression and we won a justifiable

world war under his watch, versus "I don't dye my hair?"

No problem.

[blondeatlast]

5. Did you notice the 2 pictures in the story--Raygun is smiling,

affable, in color? FDR is serious, not airbrushed, not so attractive? Well, which one had more to deal with during his administration???

I keep thinking it's a joke, but I know better.

[hlthe2b]

7. Kick

[hlthe2b]

8. Getting lost in the political wars and Super Bowl discussion: Kick