Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (170 page)

“The art of carrying water”: Column, Jan. 8, 1932, in Walter Lippmann,
Interpretations, 1931–1932
(1932), 259–62.

“He became quite heated”: Finan,
Alfred E. Smith,
270.

“If the Democratic National Convention”:
New York Times,
Feb. 8, 1932.

“Why in hell don’t he speak out?”: From Howell, Dec. 2, 1931.

“large source of additional revenue”:
New York Times,
Feb. 21, 1932.

“In common with millions…American participation”: Ibid., Feb. 3, 1932.

“Because I am at least an adopted Georgian”: To
Atlanta Constitution,
Feb. 20, 1931.

“We’ll vote for Jack Garner…one more national election”: Freidel, 3:309–10.

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“Curiously unworn…anything else”: Tugwell, 21–27.

“You ask what he is like…his visitor said”: Moley, 3–11.

“sturdy and rugged character”:
New York Times,
July 3, 1932.

“As Mr. Roosevelt advanced”: Ibid.

“The Democratic party…its own people”: Acceptance address, July 2, 1932.

“I have a streak of Dutch stubbornness”: Farley, 1:164.

“Industrial prosperity”: Speech, Sept. 14, 1932,
Public Papers.

“the entire absence of national planning”: Speech, Sept. 17, 1932,
Public Papers.

“This principle of tariff by negotiation”: Speech, Sept. 20, 1932,
Public Papers.

“The question of power”: Speech, Sept. 21, 1932,
Public Papers.

“We are paying…can make to business”: Campaign address, Oct. 19, 1932,
Public Papers.

“He had no business…essence of revolution”: Stephen E. Ambrose,
Eisenhower,
vol. 1 (1983), 98–99.

“A considerable part of those remaining”: Hoover statements, July 28 and 29, 1932.

“Well, Felix”: Donald J. Lisio,
The President and Protest: Hoover, Conspiracy, and the Bonus Riot
(1974), 285.

“God damn it, Frank!…his own way”: Tugwell, 430–34.

“Give me a lift or I’ll vote for Hoover”: Richard Norton Smith,
An Uncommon Man: The Triumph of Herbert Hoover
(1984), 143.

“It is a catastrophe for us”: Ibid., 143–44.

“labyrinth of inaccurate statements…to be preserved”: Hoover statements, Oct. 4, 12, 22, and 31, 1932.

“As the campaign moved down the homestretch”: Farley, 1:184.

“Our case has been stated…of its accomplishment”: Campaign address, Nov. 5, 1932,
Public Papers.

“Give my regards”: Farley, 1:187.

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“I wish I knew what you are really thinking”: ER, 2:69, 74.

“Before the end of our years”: Ibid., 56.

“When we finally got home”: Roosevelt and Shalett, 231–32.

“very simple religion”: ER, 2:69.

“My education was that of an engineer”: Smith,
Uncommon Man,
153.

“I am loath to proceed”: Hoover to Roosevelt, Nov. 12, 1932 (released Nov. 13, 1932).

“The President’s telegram”: Moley, 68.

“I have a number of things”: Freidel, 4:27.

“When we arrived in Washington”: Moley, 72–73.

“I’ll be in the White House”: Tugwell, 411.

“My chief fear”: Stimson diary (Yale University microfilm), Nov. 22, 1932.

“My view is that the most convenient”:
New York Times,
Nov. 24, 1932.

“very much excited”: Stimson diary, Nov. 23, 1932.

“Serious problems”: Hoover message to Congress, Dec. 19, 1932.

“It is my view”: To Hoover, Dec. 19, 1932,
Public Papers.

“The best reason”: Tugwell, 297–98.

“In taking leave of you”: Address, Jan. 2, 1933,
Public Papers.

“from the mountains of Virginia”: Extemporaneous remarks, Jan. 21, 1933,
Public Papers.

“That means that among the other duties”: Remarks, Feb. 15, 1933,
Public Papers.

“Had you tried to kill in Italy?”: “Sworn Statement of Joseph Zangara,” Feb. 16, 1933,
Franklin D. Roosevelt Assassination Attempt
(FBI report released under Freedom of Information Act; available at University of Miami Libraries Web site).

to save $2,500: C. D. McKean to J. Edgar Hoover, Feb. 16, 1933, FBI report.

“I heard what I thought”:
New York Times,
Feb. 17, 1933.

“Was anybody with you?”: “Sworn Statement of Joseph Zangara,” Feb. 16, 1933, FBI report.

“Roosevelt’s nerve”: Moley, 139.

“My client has insisted…to check crime”:
New York Times,
Feb. 21, 1933.

“Damn fool, worthless shot”: Letter from informant whose name was deleted upon declassification, March 21, 1933, FBI report.

“Lousy capitalists”:
New York Times,
March 21, 1933.

“Mr. President, as you know”: Roosevelt and Shalett, 252.

“Though the city was gay”:
New York Times,
March 5, 1933.

“This is a day”: Ibid.

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“all banking transactions shall be suspended”: Proclamation, March 6, 1933.

“A common adversity”:
Wall Street Journal,
March 4, 1933.

“I have been so occupied”: Extemporaneous remarks, March 6, 1933.

“I got the sense”: Moley, 112.

“I was really almost thunderstruck”: Hull, 1:156.

“It’s an open secret”: Moley, 114.

“with fervent good wishes”: Rixey Smith and Norman Beasley,
Carter Glass
(1939), 333.

“Prefer a wooden roof”: Moley, 122.

“Which one of you is Ikes?”: Freidel, 4:154–55.

“As you will eventually meet anyhow”: Moley, 127.

“Generally speaking”:
New York Times,
Feb. 26, 1933.

“So far as I was able to judge”: Tully, 172–73.

“My hope is that these conferences”: Press conference, March 8, 1933.

“Will you go to Congress”: Ibid.

“Mr. Hoover always had a smile”: Washington
Sunday Star,
March 4, 1934, excerpted in
Public Papers,
2:45.

“I realize that if these declarations”: Hoover to David Reed, Feb. 20, 1933, William Starr Myers and Walter H. Newton, eds.,
The Hoover Administration: A Documented Narrative
(1936), 341.

“my friend Robey”: Myers and Newton,
Hoover Administration,
341.

“until further proclamation”: Proclamation, March 9, 1933.

“I want to talk for a few minutes”: Fireside Chat, March 12, 1933.

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“Granny endured it”: Roosevelt and Shalett, 55.

“I shall leave my son…to be thankful for”: Ibid., 271–73.

“I was lucky”: ER, 2:90.

“I have great respect”: Ibid., 104.

“What kind of a joint is this?”: Roosevelt and Shalett, 265.

“This is my little boy…he offered me”: Ibid., 230, 253–54.

“I guess I’ve worked myself out of a job”: Alfred B. Rollins Jr.,
Roosevelt and Howe
(1962), 454.

“Tell the president to go to hell”: Ibid., 435.

“I hope to God you drown!”: Roosevelt and Shalett, 226.

“She is one of the best groomed women…harder than anybody else”:
Washington Post,
June 28, 1936, and Aug. 1, 1944.

“A little too large to be cozy”: Perkins, 65–66.

“I’d love to, Mr. President”: Tully, 311–12.

“I’ve never heard”: Ibid., 23–25.

“It’s a damn lie…what was she like?”: Ibid., 79–87.

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“The president drove the moneychangers”: Leuchtenburg, 44.

“Capitalism was saved in eight days”: Moley, 155.

“With the utmost seriousness”: Message to Congress, March 10, 1933.

“that great marble building”: Campaign address, Oct. 19, 1932,
Public Papers.

“If you don’t support this bill…approval of Congress”: Freidel, 4:245.

“shut the doors of the chambers…depression burden”:
New York Times,
March 12, 1933.

“It will be exercised”: Message, March 10, 1933.

“courageous…permanent recovery”: Summary of editorials in
New York Times,
March 10, 1933.

“Last week marked an end”:
Wall Street Journal,
March 13, 1933.

“I guess at your next election”: Schlesinger, 2:13.

“If this currency results”:
San Francisco Chronicle,
excerpted in
New York Times,
March 10, 1933.

“Pathetic letters…get one started first”: Freidel, 4:84–85.

“I am going to call farmers’ leaders together”: Christiana McFadyen Campbell,
The Farm Bureau and the New Deal: A Study of the Making of National Farm Policy, 1933–40
(1962), 51.

“Things were complicated”: Tugwell diary, Dec. 31, 1932, FDRL.

“No permanent relief is possible”: Freidel, 4:315.

“Purely discretionary”: Press conference, April 21, 1933.

“The chief purpose of the order”: Statement, April 5, 1933.

“This order served to prevent”: Note to Executive Order 6102, April 5, 1933.

“Congratulate me…instead of permissive”: Freidel, 4:333; Moley, 159–60.

“designed for the purpose”: Note to Executive Order 6111, April 20, 1933.

“When you send out this army…today to Hitler”:
New York Times,
March 22 and 23, 1933.

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“You know”: Press conference, May 19, 1933.

“I was rather surprised…Roosevelt sent his wife”: ER, 2:112–13; Lash, 367.

“Instead, he began to describe”: Moley, 173–74.

“The idea is to put people…Can’t tell you”: Press conference, March 15, 1933.

“The overwhelming majority”: Message to Congress, March 21, 1933.

“of fascism, of Hitlerism”:
New York Times,
March 25, 1933.

“No, because I might seem…no clothing”: Press conference, March 22, 1933.

“The peace conference”: Moley, 176.

“The big objective”: Press conference, March 29, 1933.

“a tortuous dance”: Moley, 183.

“This measure at last translates”: Statement, May 27, 1933.

“the most wonderful real estate speculation”: Richard Lewis Neuberger and Stephen Bertram Kahn,
Integrity: The Life of George W. Norris
(1937), 207.

“What are you going to say”: Eric F. Goldman,
Rendezvous with Destiny
(1956 ed.), 263.

“It was a glorious fight”: Freidel, 4:354.

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26

“You realize”: Moley, 189.

“The country was dying”: Fireside Chat, May 7, 1933.

“There was a certain little sweater factory”: Press conference, April 12, 1933.

“slight but definite upturn…well-rounded national recovery”: Address, May 4, 1933.

“We’re fiddling along”: Freidel, 4:437, 445.

“How much longer…expect it to be used”:
New York Times,
June 1, 1933.

“There is a revolt in the air”: Freidel, 4:447.

“by now a thorough hodge-podge”: Moley, 190.

“In my Inaugural…of public disapproval”: Message, June 16, 1933.

“sincere and whole-hearted cooperation”: To Henry Rainey et al., June 16, 1933.

“Now that Congress has gone”:
New York Times,
June 18, 1933.

“Ray, that fellow in there…confidence and power”: Raymond B. Fosdick,
Chronicle of a Generation
(1958), 247.

“None of us close to F.D.R…. seemed to worry him”: Moley, 191–92.

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27

“Last week”:
Time,
Feb. 6, 1933.

“as everyone knew”: Moley, 199.

“It was never the purpose”: Joint statement by FDR and MacDonald, April 23, 1933,
FRUS: 1933,
1:491.

“Pay as much as you can”: Memo of conversation, April 27, 1933,
FRUS: 1933,
1:497–99.

“first, the desire…ultimately blocked”: Message, May 16, 1933.

“All problems at present…harm the world”:
New York Times,
May 18, 1933.

“If we are to succeed”: Hull address, June 13, 1933,
FRUS: 1933,
1:637.

“I felt almost physically ill”: Moley, 219, 227.