Oldtimer said:
Comical because going back 20-30 years and before that to FDR's day- President Roosevelt was the most popular President in our area... Many folks up here considered themselves Roosevelt Democrats and claimed they owed being alive and surviving the Great Depression to FDR...
But now most of the old Roosevelt Democrats are dying off...
If you get a chance to watch the PBS show Fort Peck Dam, do so... Interesting story of the huge task of the building of the dam and the shantytowns that sprung up around it when folks from all over Montana and the northwest moved in to work at the only job available at the time...
I know that you absentmindedly give credit to FDR for the Ft.Peck Dam but what you probably don't know is that the dam was already on the drawing board and was planned to be built anyway with, or without him.
FDR didn't go into office until 1933 and the Ft.Peck dam project started that same year. An impossiblity that engineer plans be assembled and work started in such a short period of time given the scope of the project.
So.............giving FDR complete credit for the dam is pretty danged short sighted and downright ignorant given someone familiar & geographically close the the site.
Congress had expressly ordered the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in
the 308 reports, to investigate “those navigable streams in the United States, and
their tributaries, whereon power development appears feasible and practicable . .
power, clearly gave the Corps the direction to think in terms of entire river basins
rather than isolated projects. Congress put the investigations into law by act in
study right away. District Engineer Captain Theodore Wyman submitted his
555 page report (with 243 charts and a 634 page appendix) in late September
1932 to his Division Engineer in St. Louis.6 Long before that, the Corps began
Peck Dam.7
The Corps made preliminary surveys for the dam in 1928 and then detailed
ones over the next three and one-half years. These were largely made to
discover the natural processes of basin behavior, the most important of which
did separate studies of each of the 23 major tributaries, and Wyman summarized
the second to the minor tributaries, and the third part summarized all work and
plans for the entire basin.
I suppose FDR had the "Hoover Dam" built also? :lol: :lol: :lol:
Just for your info, the Hoover Dam project was initiated in 1920. :roll: