21 d\u00e9cembre<\/a> pourrait figurer comme un commentaire secret de cette souffrance cach\u00e9e.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tApr\u00e8s un mot rapide sur le Washington d’aujourd’hui, qu’on lit en ressentant quelque m\u00e9pris sous la plume de l’auteur (\u00abThere is a certain sense of crisis, yet belief remains that America still leads the world, although national confidence has been shaken.<\/em>\u00bb), Pfaff s’engage dans l’\u00e9vocation de l’Am\u00e9rique de FDR et apr\u00e8s \u00e0 l’occasion de la visite qu’il fit au Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial<\/em>. Il termine par quelques lignes sur la visite de la partie du m\u00e9morial consacr\u00e9e \u00e0 la Grande D\u00e9pression, la plus terrible crise moderne qu’ait connue l’Am\u00e9rique et la plus grande uvre de FDR, lorsqu’il parvint \u00e0 en faire sortir son pays.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00abMost affecting, for me, at the Tidal Basin memorial, was the room given over to the Depression, with George Segal statues of men standing in a breadline, utterly accurate representations of the ragged jobless men and hardscrabble farmers one saw every day in small southern towns and cities.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbSegal also has such a man, in overalls, seated on a kitchen chair, bending forward to listen to a radio the instrument of Roosevelt’s communication with the people. That really brought the past back. Tears came into my eyes. I found it hard to speak to my wife, and to the old friends with us, until we had finally left this memorial to FDR’s America, which was also mine more than I today knew.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tIl est difficile de ne pas ressentir, dans cette \u00e9vocation, une comparaison implicite entre l’Am\u00e9rique de ces ann\u00e9es-l\u00e0 et celle d’aujourd’hui, entre la crise de ces ann\u00e9es-l\u00e0 et celle d’aujourd’hui. Il y a quelque chose qui est plus significatif qu’une crise elle-m\u00eame affectant un pays, et c’est la fa\u00e7on dont ce pays r\u00e9agit contre cette crise, et l’homme que ce pays se choisit pour vaincre cette crise. Il est difficile de ne pas trembler \u00e0 la comparaison qui s’impose alors, entre le FDR de 1933 et le GW d’aujourd’hui, entre l’Am\u00e9rique de la Grande D\u00e9pression et l’Am\u00e9rique de la guerre contre l’Irak.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tIl est difficile de ne pas lire dans les cinq derniers mots bien plus que du regret ou de la nostalgie, mais une perception d\u00e9sesp\u00e9r\u00e9e et noire comme de l’encre de l’Am\u00e9rique d’aujourd’hui.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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\tMis en ligne le 25 d\u00e9cembre 2006 \u00e0 17H47<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Nous connaissons William Pfaff. Ce remarquable chroniqueur et \u00e9ditorialiste am\u00e9ricain est \u00e9galement un historien aux qualit\u00e9s rares, sensible aux \u00e9l\u00e9ments humains et aux forces qui \u00e9chappent aux cat\u00e9gories et \u00e0 la vision m\u00e9caniste du monde. Il y a chez lui de la pr\u00e9cision, un beau style, une vision critique qui ne repousse pas la fermet\u00e9… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2947,3083,3184,6265,1131],"class_list":["post-68340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-amerique","tag-depression","tag-fdr","tag-memorial","tag-pfaff"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}