Origins and Politics of the 1971 Eisenhower Dollar Design

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Academically speaking, this wouldn't be a valid criticisms. However, if your wish to make the effort to share an academically and intellectually valid criticisms, I'd be the first to read it and to enjoy the process of discovery that such valid criticisms produces: Namely - to increase the enlightenment and education of the subject for the public at large and to increase our collective understanding of the topic.

Ruben

 

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Well said old boy.....glad you're back.

 

"...to increase the enlightenment and education of the subject for the public at large and to increase our collective understanding of the topic."

This is up to the author of the article to do, not me. It is your interest, and you will learn much more by doing the work necessary to "get it right." With persistence and luck you might be done in a year.

 

Rhetoric....

 

I enjoyed the article, and think it thread of the week worthy, I would like some more information what was the thinking behind a "friendlier" eagle? Was it some sort of thinking that our national symbol should be approachable and benign, and by extension the government would also be seen as benign and approachable?
Was it that during the cold war the soviet union was accusing our lunar expeditions as being sinister and imperialistic, and a friendlier eagle was a response to the characterization?
When I think of an eagle the characteristic of friendliness is not there. The eagle connotes to me majesty, strength, power, economy of motion in flight. I remember quite a few years ago when my wife was expecting our son, I was walking home from work, I would cut through a golf course on the way home, and then I saw an eagle flying under some tall trees, it was impressive especially since it was the first in the wild eagle I had seen. Seeing an eagle in flight evokes an emotion of awe, how can something so large, seem to take to flight so effortlessly?

 

Back is a relative term. I wrote this prior to the family break up and I doubt it will be soon that I'll be able to invest that kind of time again into the board. I don't have money for coins, or emotional energy for the ups and downs of internet boards at the moment. But I felt obligated to respond responsibly to this thread. I try to write a number of things that withstand the test of time. These Ike articles were of that ilk.

Ruben

 

Your bordering on insulting at this point. You haven't made a valid point, and you've now made a few stupid ones. Most critically is that somehow in your logic you've come to believe that the 1000 year old academic tradition of research, publish, and research, verify, and then research and response has been wrong, and that you have a new better model of snipe from the sidelines, add nothing of important or substance to the discussion, refuse to publish, and then stick you thumb in everyones chest with self declarations of your greatness.

I'll pass. Let everyone here know when your prepared to post something worthy of serious consideration.

Ruben

 

They live on the Hudson right near the George Washington Bridge and have returned to the Bear Mountain area and on the upper Delaware River. And I see a lot of other raptors now in the city, which would never had been the case when I was a child.

Ruben

 

Ruben, I know what you have been going through and the pain that you've been feeling of late. I also know that this particular thread holds a great deal of significance to you....as well as many of the members here. Forgive me for my happiness at seeing an old friend posting....

 

Try doing it. Then come back and post what you have really learned.
I'll even "give" you your first stops on the journey:

Richard M. Nixon Presidential Library, Yorba Linda, CA (and entries for John B Connally, George B. Shultz and David M. Kennedy, Eva Adams, Mary Brooks, others)
National Archives, College Park, MD
National Archives, Philadelphia, PA (Center City)
David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies;
Pubic Papers of the Presidents;
Archives of American Art. (Hint: might have something to do with the designs and sculptor!)
Library of Congress
Texas State Archives
University of Montana
University of Nevada

It is your interest, and you will learn much more by doing the work necessary to "get it right." With persistence and luck you might be done in a year... well, maybe two or three.

 

OK your /dev/nulled -- and I would bet most of this board will follow...

 

Thanks for the kind thoughts. Enjoy it what it is worth, and I hope it inspires you to learn more.


Ruben

 

Real research is fine. What you did was copy-cat junk on the internet without checking its accuracy, then add links with a large pile of assumptions and more copy-cat stuff. That is not research.

It’s a nicely written article and many parts are accurate – others aren’t. As the author it is your responsibility to do the real work necessary to make the article as historically faithful as you can. Relying on warmed over wiki-puke and far-flung assumption cheapens your final product.

As noted above, go do the REAL work, then post what you've learned.

“OK your /dev/nulled -- and I would bet most of this board will follow...”

What a funny, infantile comment. At least spell it correctly.

Ignorance might be your choice, but others might follow some of the suggestions and look deeper than superficiality and mere copying.

 

Sad.
You want the praise but not willing to do the work. You are an adult, you are responsible for your work. Neither I nor anyone else will do your work for you...or, is it too difficult a task you set?

Such woeful whining and lamentation…haven’t heard such a tale of sorrow since I flunked a Junior for plagiarizing a paper. “But…but…professor, I won’t get credit for the course.” “Well, is this the paper you turned in? If so, why does it read exactly like this one from an on-line source.”

You have a starting list of resources (posted above). You have to decide to do the rest, or sit back and copy-cat something else

 

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Ruben, I know what you have been going through and the pain that you've been feeling of late. I also know that this particular thread holds a great deal of significance to you....as well as many of the members here. Forgive me for my happiness at seeing an old friend posting....

Thanks for the kind thoughts. Enjoy it what it is worth, and I hope it inspires you to learn more.


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Think how fustrated some will become if this three month old thread won TOTW ROFL

 

BTW - how is your Ike collection?

 

Got a complete Dansco of Ikes along with sizable collection of Brown Box and Red and Blue envelopes Ikes. I'm not so much into varieties other than Type I and Type II but it's threads like this that inspire me to look more closely at what I have in my collection. :thumb: