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Harold L. Ickes

Geburtstag: 15. März 1874
Todesdatum: 3. Februar 1952

Harold LeClair Ickes war ein amerikanischer Politiker, der von 1933 bis 1946 dem US-Kabinett als Innenminister angehörte.

Ickes machte 1897 an der University of Chicago seinen Abschluss als Bachelor of Arts um anschließend als Zeitungsreporter für den Chicago Record und später für die Chicago Tribune zu arbeiten. 1907 wurde er als Doktor der Rechtswissenschaften promoviert.

Seine politische Karriere begann er bei den Republikanern, bevor er 1912 der Progressive Party von Theodore Roosevelt beitrat.

1933 wurde er von Franklin D. Roosevelt zum Innenminister berufen. Diese Position hielt er bis 1946 inne. Nach ihm benannt sind die Ickes Mountains, ein Gebirge in der Antarktis. Wikipedia

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„In the early days our forefathers could cut down a forest or exhaust the fertility of a farm and then blithely move to a new forest or a new farm… The highest concept of statesmanship was to make it possible for the eager, aggressive pioneer to possess, to despoil and then repeat the process indefinitely. …[Shortsided and unchecked greed resulted in] denuded forests, floods, droughts, a disappearing water table, erosion, a less stable and equable climate, a vanishing wildlife.“

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— Harold L. Ickes

as quoted by Douglas H. Strong, Dreamers & Defenders: American Conservationists (1988) Ch. 7 "Harold Ickes," p.157

„Relations between the United States and the Third Reich opened in 1939 on a distinctly sour and strident note. It began when Harold L. Ickes, the Secretary of the Interior, speaking to a Zionist Society dinner in Cleveland at the end of 1938, declared Hitler had taken Germany back to "a period when man was unlettered, benighted, and brutal." The November pogrom demonstrated Hitler counted "the day lost when he can commit no crime against humanity." Ickes attacked Ford and Lindbergh for accepting decorations from the "same hand" that was "robbing and torturing thousands of fellow human beiongs."“

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— Harold L. Ickes

Zionist Society Dinner Speech, Cleveland, OH (Dec. 1938) as quoted by Michael Zalampas, Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich in American Magazines, 1923-1939 (1989) p.171

„What we were striving for was a kind of modified form of communism.“

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— Harold L. Ickes

Reported in Paul F. Boller, Jr., and John George, They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, & Misleading Attributions (1989), p. 52, indicating that President Ronald Reagan had attributed this quote to Ickes in December 1981.
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„What constitutes an American? Not color nor race nor religion. Not the pedigree of his family nor the place of his birth. Not the coincidence of his citizenship. Not his social status nor his bank account. Not his trade nor his profession. An American is one who loves justice and believes in the dignity of man. An American is one who will fight for his freedom and that of his neighbor. An American is one who will sacrifice… An American is one in whose heart is engraved the immortal second sentence of the Declaration of Independence.“

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— Harold L. Ickes

Americans have always known how to fight for their rights and their way of life. Americans are not afraid to fight. They fight joyously in a just cause.
"What Is An American?" http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/ickes.htm (18 May 1941)

„What constitutes an American? Not color nor race nor religion. Not the pedigree of his family nor the place of his birth. Not the coincidence of his citizenship. Not his social status nor his bank account. Not his trade nor his profession. An American is one who loves justice and believes in the dignity of man. An American is one who will fight for his freedom and that of his neighbor. An American is one who will sacrifice… An American is one in whose heart is engraved the immortal second sentence of the Declaration of Independence. Americans have always known how to fight for their rights and their way of life. Americans are not afraid to fight. They fight joyously in a just cause.“

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— Harold L. Ickes

"What Is An American?" http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/ickes.htm (18 May 1941)

„It is impossible to carry the American people along with you on a program of caution to forestall a threatening position.“

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— Harold L. Ickes

The Prize (1993 Edition) by Daniel Yergin. Original source was Roosevelt's papers, as listed in The Prize's Bibliography.

„This is what the "New Deal" means to me, an era of acute social consciousness and realization of mutual responsibility, a time of reciprocal helpfulness, of greater understanding and willingness to work together for the good of all.“

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— Harold L. Ickes

Speech to the Associated General Contractors of America (Jan. 31, 1936) as quoted by Jason Scott, Building New Deal Liberalism: The Political Economy of Public Works, 1933-1956 (2006)