Franklin Delano Roosevelt

March 9, 1937: Responding to criticism about his proposal to restructure the Supreme Court, Roosevelt criticizes conservative judges who blocked important New Deal programs and advocates a restructuring of the judiciary. Ultimately, the President's plan deteriorates, but, nonetheless,…

In 1935-36, the Supreme Court struck down eight of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal programs, including the National Recovery Act (NRA) and the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA). By 1937 the Court was widely regarded by the public as an enemy of working people.

Many…

<p><span class="deck"> Though war with Japan was expected momentarily, and four carriers of the Imperial Navy were ominously unaccounted for, no one thought to protect our most important Pacific base from surprise attack. Why?</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">President Roosevelt had failed to “pack” a hostile Supreme Court, and now the first New Dealer he named to that high bench stood accused of being a lifetime member of the infamous Ku Klux Klan</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">FDR and Eleanor could do just about anything—beat a Depression, win a world war—except please each other.</span></p>