Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (169 page)

“Any man who resists”: Wilson speech, Feb. 24, 1919,
Papers of Wilson.

“Not on your life”: Diary entry of Cary T. Grayson, July 10, 1919,
Papers of Wilson.

“There will come some time”: Wilson address, Sept. 5, 1919,
Papers of Wilson.

“It seems a safe assertion”:
New York Times,
Sept. 15, 1919.

“He looked as if he were dead”: Irwin Hood (Ike) Hoover,
Forty-two Years in the White House
(1934), 99.

“Things have been so quiet”: To Daniels, April 3, 1919, FDRL.

“I wish it were possible”: To H. Morton Merriman, March 5, 1919, FDRL.

CHAPTER
12

“I went over to the Attorney General’s”:
New York Times,
June 3, 1919;
Washington Post,
June 3, 1919.

“although a Democrat”:
New York Times,
July 5, 1917.

“As we came in sight”: FDR quoted in letter from Claude Bowers to Cox, in
Personal Letters,
2:496–97.

“Modern civilization”: Acceptance speech, Aug. 9, 1920,
Personal Letters,
2:500–08.

“It would have done”: Daniels to ER, July 7, 1920, in ER, 1:310.

“I was glad…of little value”: ER, 1:311–20.

“Thank the Lord”: To Early, Dec. 21, 1920.

CHAPTER
13

Black and Fidelity threw a dinner:
New York Times,
Jan. 8, 1921.

“Never have I imagined”: To Black, Jan. 13, 1921, FDRL.

“Lay Navy Scandal…dead history”:
New York Times,
July 20, 1921; U.S. Senate, Committee on Naval Affairs,
Alleged Immoral Conditions at Newport Naval Training Station
(1921).

“I thought he looked quite tired”: Missy LeHand to ER, Aug. 23, 1921, FDRL.

“I’d never felt anything so cold”: Earle Looker,
This Man Roosevelt,
111.

“We thought yesterday”: ER to James R. Roosevelt, Aug. 18, 1921.

“He can do so much more”: Lovett to Bennett, Sept. 2, 1921.

“Thank heavens”: ER to James R. Roosevelt, Aug. 14, 1921.

“for $600!”: ER to James R. Roosevelt, Aug. 18, 1921.

“Dearest Mama”: ER to Sara Roosevelt, Aug. 27, 1921.

“He is a cripple”: David M. Oshinsky,
Polio: An American Story
(2005), 32.

“I am glad you are back…hear them all laughing”: Ward,
First-Class Temperament,
594; Sara Roosevelt to Dora Delano Forbes, Sept. 3, 1921, FDRL.

“F. D. Roosevelt Ill”:
New York Times,
Sept. 16, 1921.

Dr. Louis Harris, reported: Ibid., Sept. 18, 1921.

“Fellow Sufferer”: From Elizabeth Carleton, Sept. 17, 1921.

“If I could feel assured”: To Carleton, Sept. 23, 1921.

“This is just a line”: From Walter Camp, Sept. 19, 1921.

“I can assure you”: To Camp, Sept. 28, 1921.

“The psychological factor”: Davis, 1:665.

CHAPTER
14

“He hauled off”: Daniels,
Wilson Era: Years of Peace,
131.

“dirty, ugly little man”: Roosevelt and Shalett, 148.

“Granny, with a good insight”: ER and Anna Roosevelt, 31.

“most trying…gone to pieces”: ER, 1:338–39.

“I became conscious…injure someone”: Ibid., 342–43.

“I had a very bad habit”: Ibid., 352.

“The legs work wonderfully”: Ward,
First-Class Temperament,
645.

“A grand and glorious occasion”: Ibid., 651–52.

“The old hotel”: ER, 2:26.

“I spent over an hour”: To Sara Roosevelt, undated (Oct. 1924),
Personal Letters,
2:564–65.

“The doctor says”: Ibid.

“We have gone motoring”: To ER, undated (Oct. 1924),
Personal Letters,
2:566.

“I remember the first house…to its owner”: ER, 2:27–28.

“On Wednesday the people”: To Sara Roosevelt, undated (Oct.–Nov. 1924),
Personal Letters,
2:566.

This Logbook: Quoted in Roosevelt and Brough, 159–60.

“Resourcefulness and good humor”: Ibid., 165.

“Where are your husbands?”: Lash, 298.

“But aren’t you girls silly?…Love Nest on the Val-Kill”: Kenneth S. Davis,
Invincible Summer: An Intimate Portrait of the Roosevelts, Based on the Recollections of Marion Dickerman
(1974), 34–36, 50; Cook, 1:325. As Davis points out, there is some reason to believe that Dickerman remembered the date inaccurately and that the suggestion to build the cottage came earlier.

“She wanted to use methods…in a text book”: ER, 2:33, 36.

CHAPTER
15

“I was
informed
”: ER and Anna Roosevelt, 33.

“Sis was in a hurry”: Roosevelt and Brough, 238.

“Eleanor dear”: Lash, 301.

“In the summer of 1926”: Roosevelt and Shalett, 176–77.

“I remember staying mad…and faults quiet”: Ibid., 178–84.

“Last night we caught”:
Larooco
log, March 22, 1924,
Personal Letters.

“My own knees”: To James R. Roosevelt, April 28, 1925.

“I had a nice visit”: To Sara Roosevelt, March 7, 1926.

“I know how you love creative work”: From ER, May 4, 1926.

“The first thing to be done”:
Atlanta Constitution,
May 9, 1926.

“The waters of Warm Springs”: Ibid., April 21, 1926.

“Mrs. Ford and I”: From Edsel Ford, March 15, 1928.

“Roosevelt, the Reliever”:
Atlanta Constitution,
Aug. 23, 1927.

“We’ll grow no cotton”: Bernard Asbell,
The F.D.R. Memoirs
(1973), 140.

“was treated as a simple fact of life
…impotentia coeundi
”: Roosevelt and Brough, 198–205.

“It was way back in 1924”: Remarks, March 8, 1937.

“So I went down to the station”: Remarks, March 30, 1939.

CHAPTER
16

“making big money”:
New York Times,
May 25, 1922.

“In every county”: Ibid., Aug. 15, 1922.

“It appears”: Freidel, 2:117.

“I had quite a tussle”: Steve Neal,
Happy Days Are Here Again
(2004), 58.

“very successful summer”: To James Cox, Dec. 8, 1922, FDRL.

“I stand four square”: Lee N. Allen, “The McAdoo Campaign for the Presidential Nomination in 1924,”
Journal of Southern History
29 (1963), 218.

“I am not wholly convinced”: To Cox, Dec. 8, 1922, FDRL.

“Society of Nations”: Reprinted in ER, 2:353–66.

“Shall We Trust Japan?”:
Asia
23 (July 1923), 476–77, copy in FDRL.

“The paramount ambition”: Maury Klein,
Rainbow’s End: The Crash of 1929
(2001), 29.

“I have no trouble”:
The Autobiography of William Allen White
(1946), 619.

“Go up and shake it”: Roosevelt and Brough, 218.

“To meet again”:
New York Times,
June 27, 1924.

“A noble utterance”: Lindley, 223.

“the one man whose name…holds observers enchained”:
New York Herald Tribune,
July 1, 1924, and
New York Evening World,
July 7, 1924, in
Personal Letters,
2:562–63.

“I am here to make”:
New York Times,
July 9, 1924.

“The most popular man in the convention”:
New York Times,
July 10, 1924.

“I met your friend Franklin Roosevelt”: Freidel, 2:180.

CHAPTER
17

“The Democracy must make it clear”: To Thomas J. Walsh, Feb. 8, 1925,
New York Times,
March 9, 1925.

“throw away”:
New York Times,
April 9, 1925.

“He was, at first, fearful”: To William Oldfield, April 11, 1925, FDRL.

“God aimed at Darrow”: Edward John Larson,
Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate over Science and Religion
(1997), 200.

“Strictly between ourselves”: To Daniels, June 23, 1927, FDRL.

“not a war of revenge…which matters”: “Our Foreign Policy: A Democratic View,”
Foreign Affairs,
July 1928.

“It is that quality of soul”:
New York Times,
June 28, 1928.

“Tammany is Tammany…to the people of this country”: Christopher M. Finan,
Alfred E. Smith: The Happy Warrior
(2002), 206–13.

“They told me how much…I had not been calling”: ER, 2:44–46.

“Damn the Foundation!…any more questions”: Lindley, 19–20.

“Mess is no name for it”: Davis, 2:29.

“Smith has burned his bridges”: To Van Lear Black, July 25, 1928, FDRL.

“Somewhere in a pigeon-hole”: Address of Oct. 20, 1928,
Public Papers,
1:30–31.

“I have just come from the South”: Address of Oct. 17, 1928,
Public Papers,
1:19–21.

“One of the most oppressing things…your miserable soul”: Addresses of Oct. 20 and 22, 1928,
Personal Papers,
1:32–38, 43.

“Tell the candidate”: Rosenman, 17.

“This is Franklin Roosevelt”: Ibid., 26.

CHAPTER
18

“In the past, wish, want, and desire”: William Leach,
Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture
(1993), 375.

“Advertising is the spark plug…of one year”: Klein,
Rainbow’s End,
121–24.

“Wherever one went”: Ibid., 190.

“Hardly a week now passes”:
New York Times,
Aug. 11, 1929.

“Business is entering…prosperous coming year”: Klein,
Rainbow’s End,
163.

“One of the oldest and perhaps the noblest”: Frederick Lewis Allen,
Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s
(1957 ed.), 303.

“We have reached a higher degree”: Hoover inaugural address, March 4, 1929.

“It looks like”: To Archie Roosevelt, Nov. 19, 1928, FDRL.

“definitely remain in the people…reasonable and friendly”: Annual message, Jan. 2, 1929,
Public Papers,
1:80–86.

“Elections were won or lost”:
New York Times,
Jan. 18, 1929.

“not a single move”: Radio address, April 3, 1929,
Public Papers,
1:541–46.

“The business community”: To Herbert Pell, Jan. 28, 1929.

“You’re sitting on a volcano”: Klein,
Rainbow’s End,
193.

“A crash is coming”:
New York Times,
Sept. 6, 1929.

“lunatic fringe of reckless speculation”: Ibid., Oct. 24, 1929.

“Wild-eyed speculators”: Ibid., Oct. 25, 1929.

“We believe that present conditions”: Klein,
Rainbow’s End,
215.

“The fundamental business of the country”: Hoover news conference, Oct. 25, 1929.

“East side, west side…unstable equilibrium”:
New York Times,
Dec. 11, 1929.

“The stock market and business”: Klein,
Rainbow’s End,
182.

“The very existence of the Federal Reserve System”: John Steele Gordon,
Hamilton’s Blessing: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Our National Debt
(1997), 116–17.

“I do not assume the rate structure”: Hoover statement, June 16, 1930.

CHAPTER
19

“The tremendous vote for Governor Roosevelt”:
New York Times,
Nov. 5, 1930.

“It is a joy to cooperate with him”: From House, March 23, 1931.

“He has a wholesome breeziness of manner”: Howe to House, Aug. 17, 1931,
Personal Letters,
3:210.

“Bill was a canny politician”: Farley, 1:83–85.

“He seemed glad to see me…damn fool friends”: From Howell, Dec. 2, 1931.

“Though the people support the government”: Richard E. Welch Jr.,
The Presidencies of Grover Cleveland
(1988), 80.

“The economic depression…latitude and discretion”: Message to legislature, Aug. 28, 1931,
Public Papers.

“It is the simple duty”: To F. W. McLean, Jan. 22, 1932,
Public Papers.

“forgotten man…mobilize to meet it”: Radio address, April 7, 1932,
Public Papers.

“Two weeks ago…adjunct of manhood”: Address, April 18, 1932,
Public Papers.

“As you have viewed this world”: Speech, May 22, 1932,
Public Papers.