The National Park Serviceâs recent announcement that a woman would be the new superintendent of the Blue Ridge Parkway is a reminder of the important role Josephus Daniels played in the Parkwayâs location.
Only a few older folks remember that North Carolina would have lost much of the Parkway to Tennessee if Josephus Daniels had not gone to bat in 1934.
We should recognize that although Daniels held and exploited the racist views of his times, his foresight and advocacy are still improving the lives of North Carolinians of all races.
Earlier in April, National Park Service Regional Director Stan Austin announced the selection of Tracy Swartout to be superintendent of the Blue Ridge Parkway, effective May 23.
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Biden s claim that the Capitol Riot was the worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War is ahistorical garbage.
As President Biden wrapped up a 65-minute joint address to Congress to mark his administration s first 100 days, what was shared in the lead-up to his speech sowed discord over the entire affair:
Biden to refer to Jan 6 insurrection as “the worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War” in speech tonight. pic.twitter.com/rW6L2ybDRQ Jim Acosta (@Acosta) April 28, 2021
Sure enough, the President delivered on this. Opening his address, Biden stated, I took the oath of office lifted my hand off our family Bible and inherited a nation in crisis. The worst pandemic in a century. The worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. The worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War.
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On 12 November 1940, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Harold K. “Betty” Stark, undertook to lay out U.S. options in the event of war against Germany, Japan, or both. In a way that is nearly unimaginable today, he wrote it himself, at home, without any staff support or involvement. It took him eighteen hours, working straight through, to complete his analysis. He reviewed several possible scenarios and plans, lettering them from “A” through “D,” and ultimately recommended Plan “D.” At that time, the U.S. Navy’s phonetic alphabet for “D” was “dog”: hence it became known as the “Plan Dog Memorandum.”