Parks & Recreation Quotes
In the 1930s, the only practical way to get to and around a National Park was to have an automobile or horses nearby. It was very difficult for the poor and the middle class to enjoy the parks. In poor economic times, it was hard to justify tax money being spent on national parks which would only benefit the upper classes. FDR however, had a more futuristic, egalitarian vision that became a reality with the development of the National Highway System under Dwight Eisenhower. At one time, camping in a National Park was a luxury that only the rich can afford. Today it is a very inexpensive vacation that even all but the poor can afford.
Asked if there was still much racial prejudice in major league baseball:. The remark led to his resignation.
Most Muslims do not agree that play and recreation are anti-Islamic. There are some fundamentalist Christian sects that do not allow dancing or other forms of recreation, The Puritans had such a philosophy.
Legally, Stark was wrong. The sports franchises belong to the owner except for the Green Bay Packers football team. The Dodgers were making very good money but the owner thought he could make even more in Los Angeles, but as many professional teams do, he offered to stay in Brooklyn if the City would provide major subsidies to him. The City would not be blackmailed and the Dodgers were no more.
This line was a takeoff on the famous quotation of Karl Marx: {624064}.
He received $22 a day to photograph all the national parks and exhibit the photos in Washington and other population centers. This was an incredibly low rate for what may be the greatest photographer of all time.
Commenting on Baseball's anti-trust exemption:
The Smithsonian in 1888 had started a “Department of Living Animals” and had 172 at the time whereas earlier all animals were stuffed. At the time no one was quite sure whether or not there would be any public interest in a zoo. This initial request for $200,000 to buy property on which to place the zoo was turned down as historically zoos were created by royalty and the very rich and didn’t seem democratic to many members of the House. Others however, saw the role of democracy as bringing to ordinary people what had historically been available only to royalty and the wealthy. See {629321} . The Speaker was not an enthusiast for the zoo and the House had voted it down in the previous session, but there had been a surge in popular opinion and Congressmen had been extensively lobbied by advcates for the upper and working classes. The Speaker was a realist as the quotation indicates, but he was not as tactful as later speakers were.
The New York Restoration project cleaned up and restored many of the parks of New York City. Most Americans do not realize that New York City has some of the greatest parks in the world and a substantial part of the city’s land is devoted to its parks.
The same line was used by President Ronald Reagan when he was shot in 1981.
The quotation illustrates his lower middle class background. Unlike the majority of all the Union General officers and politicians who were of the upper classes, Grant was very naive about many aspect of American life--especially of the moneyed class and big business.
The Smithsonian had started a “Department of Living Animals” and had 172 at the time whereas earlier all animals were stuffed. At the time no one was quite sure whether or not there would be any public interest in a zoo. This initial request for $200,000 to buy property on which to place the zoo was turned down as historically zoos were created by royalty and the very rich and didn’t seem democratic to many members of the House. Others however, saw the role of democracy as bringing to ordinary people what had historically been available only to royalty and the wealthy. That view eventually prevailed in America, and the National Zoo is a destination for millions of Americans and foreign tourists. In the next session of Congress, the House reversed itself and voted the appropriation for the National Zoo. See {629320}.
