Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (171 page)

“Such reports cannot be founded in fact”: Statement, June 15, 1933.

“absolutely off the record”: Press conference, June 16, 1933.

“permanent lack of accord…of the New World”:
Le Monde
and German papers excerpted in
New York Times,
June 21 and 22, 1933.

“If you love us at all”: From Cox, June 22, 1933,
FRUS 1933,
1:654.

“I want to ask you…to cooperate about”: Moley, 234–36.

“liaison officer”:
New York Times,
June 21 and 22, 1933.

“Moley’s reception in London”: Hull, 1:260.

“specious fallacy”: Wireless message, July 3, 1933.

“A Manifesto of Anarchy”: Schlesinger, 2:224.

“America is the bonfire boy”:
Daily Express
excerpted in
New York Times,
July 5, 1933.

“All stated very clearly”: From Hull via Phillips, July 4, 1933,
FRUS: 1933,
1:683.

“I have rarely seen a man”: Moley, 263.

“going on the rocks”: Press conference, July 5, 1933.

“We have enough grousing”: Press conference, Aug. 5, 1933.

“That piss-ant Moley…from Moley’s back”: Schlesinger, 2:230–32; Moley in Bingham to Phillips, July 4, 1933,
FRUS: 1933,
1:680.

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28

“If public opinion…and immediate action”: Hugh S. Johnson,
The Blue Eagle from Egg to Earth
(1935), 57, 68, 75, 93–94, 114, 123–25.

“I think he’s a good number-three man”: Perkins, 200–01.

“Stick with Hugh”: Ibid., 202–03.

“It will be red fire at first”: Johnson,
Blue Eagle,
208.

“I am now asking”: Statement, July 9, 1933.

“In war, in the gloom…the American people”: Fireside Chat, July 24, 1933.

“There were, on both sides…by a professor”: Johnson,
Blue Eagle,
226–28.

“It must have been amusing”: Press conference, Aug. 5, 1933.

“a pretty tough baby”:
New York Times,
Sept. 19, 1933.

“If you do not give us price regulations”: Daniel Yergin,
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
(1991), 256.

“General,” the newsman asked:
New York Times,
Aug. 30, 1933.

“I don’t think he has put it quite that way”: Press conference, Aug. 30, 1933.

“Can you tell us anything”: Press conference, Oct. 27, 1933.

“I want to avoid even the smallest semblance”: Schlesinger, 2:110.

“Women do 80 percent…the whole situation”: Johnson,
Blue Eagle,
264–65.

“Swollen by streams of passengers”:
New York Times,
Sept. 14, 1933.

“But it wasn’t my arm”: Johnson,
Blue Eagle,
267.

“There have been more brilliant processions”:
New York Times,
Sept. 15, 1933.

“This is off the record…third of the way back”: Press conference, Sept. 13, 1933.

“I have been dissatisfied”: Press conference, Sept. 16, 1933.

“From the standpoint of human welfare…union of his youth”: Schlesinger, 2:138–43.

“I want
personally
to check on the location”: John A. Salmond,
The Civilian Conservation Corps
(1967), 30.

“It is clearly impossible”: Ibid., 35.

“I wish I could spend a couple of months here”:
New York Times,
Aug. 13, 1933.

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29

“It was like being on top of the world”:
New York Times,
April 21, 1933.

“No one is worth $500 a minute”:
Time,
June 4, 1934.

“They predicted
…Never!
”: Lorena A. Hickok,
Eleanor Roosevelt: Reluctant First Lady
(1962, 1980), 120, 161, 172–76.

“I’ve been wondering…feel very empty”: Cook, 2:175, 190–200.

“the color of a sunburn coming on”: A. J. Liebling,
The Earl of Louisiana
(1970), 8.

“It is here under this oak”: Huey P. Long,
Every Man a King: The Autobiography of Huey P. Long
(1933; 1996 reprint), 99.

“I used to try to get things done…I’ll be for him”: Alan Brinkley,
Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression
(1982), 25, 28, 39, 46.

“Seven motor trucks”:
Saturday Evening Post,
Oct. 15, 1932.

“I want to stay on good terms”: Brinkley,
Voices,
60.

“It was a morning appointment”: Farley, 1:240–42.

“While you are at it”: T. Harry Williams,
Huey Long
(1981 ed.), 639.

“God invited us all”: Brinkley,
Voices,
71–72.

“a voice of such mellow richness”: Ibid., 92.

“The New Deal is Christ’s deal”: Leuchtenburg, 101.

“Dr. Townsend’s error”: Column, Jan. 3, 1935, in Lippmann,
Interpretations: 1933–1935
(1936), 374.

“My plan is too simple”:
Time,
Jan. 14, 1935.

“The zeal of those promoting the plan…get back home”: Ibid.

“Capitalism has served its time”:
New York Times,
Aug. 30, 1934.

“When I got up at 7:30”: Hickok to ER, Nov. 11 and 12, 1933,
One Third of a Nation,
91–92.

“A few hundred funerals”: Leuchtenburg, 113.

“Her quoted speed is 30 knots”:
New York Times,
July 1, 1934.

“In the field of world policy”: Inaugural address, March 4, 1933.

“the definite policy of the United States”: Address, Dec. 28, 1933.

“They constitute an integral part”: Address, July 28, 1934.

“It will put the president”: Frances Perkins oral history (Columbia University microfilm), 6:311.

“both old friends of mine”: Address, Aug. 9, 1934.

“No country, however rich”: Radio address, Sept. 30, 1934.

“He has been all but crowned”:
Time,
Nov. 19, 1934.

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30

“There is no reason”: Perkins, 281–83.

“I felt sure that the political climate…are obliged to”: Ibid.

“Unemployment insurance will be in the program”: Address, Nov. 14, 1934.

“If the federal aspects of the law…insurance system”: Perkins, 286–94.

“I guess you’re right on the economics”: Schlesinger, 2:308–09.

“You will hurt Bob Doughton’s feelings”: Perkins, 296.

“ultimate socialistic control…will be felt”: Schlesinger, 2:311–12.

“We have tried to frame a law”: Address, Aug. 14, 1935.

“You go first”: Hickok report to Hopkins, Oct. 2–12, 1933,
One Third of a Nation,
47–48.

“Action had to be immediate”: Sherwood, 44–45.

“The half-billion dollars”:
Washington Post,
May 23, 1933.

“they were young, thin”: Hallie Flanagan,
Arena
(1940), 25.

“It takes a lot of nerve”: Ibid., 26.

“There is not in the state”: Hickok to Hopkins, Aug. 16–26, 1933,
One Third of a Nation,
20.

“They are a curiously appealing people”: Hickok to Hopkins, Aug. 31–Sept. 3, 1933,
One Third of a Nation,
25–26.

“Everything I own”: Hickok to Hopkins, Oct. 30, 1933,
One Third of a Nation,
56–57.

“I worked every Sunday”: U.S. Senate,
Nomination of Ebert K. Burlew: Hearings before the Committee on Public Lands and Surveys
(1938), 7.

“All day planning the work program”: Hopkins diary, May 13, 1935, FDRL.

“It is becoming ever clearer”: Ickes, 1:378.

“Ickes is a good administrator”: Schlesinger, 3:344.

“Hopkins will fly off on tangents”: Ickes, 1:352.

“He has a mind like a razor”: Sherwood, 80.

“Hell,” he said: Ibid., 57.

“We voted millions upon millions…Franklin D. Roosevelt”: Ickes, 1:425–29, 589–94.

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31

“Oh, I’ve kidded myself”: Hickok to Hopkins, April 11, 1934,
One Third of a Nation,
217.

“absolute state socialism”: Schlesinger, 2:121.

“The excessive centralization”: Walter Lippmann,
Interpretations, 1933–1935,
98–99.

“Men have died”: Schlesinger, 2:120; Johnson,
Blue Eagle,
265.

“hitting below the belt”: Schlesinger, 2:153.

“complete and perfect buffer”:
New York Times,
Sept. 28, 1934.

“You can treasure in your hearts”: Ibid., Oct. 2, 1934.

“We must keep the NRA going…that ever was achieved”: Schlesinger, 2:166.

“We must continue”: Fireside Chat, April 28, 1935.

“The NRA law was enacted…under the Constitution”:
New York Times,
May 4, 1935.

“Extraordinary conditions…legislative power”:
Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States,
295 U.S. 495.

“The Bank, Mr. Van Buren…let him enforce it”: H. W. Brands,
Andrew Jackson
(2005), 500, 493.

“His theory”: Ickes, 1:373–74, 524.

“Wealth in the modern world”: Message to Congress, June 19, 1935.

“burst on most of Congress”:
New York Times,
June 23, 1935.

“I just want to say ‘Amen’”: Schlesinger, 3:328.

“For the time being he has silenced Huey…to have his way”: Summary of editorials,
New York Times,
June 21, 1935.

“Pat Harrison’s going to be so surprised”: Schlesinger, 3:327.

“I don’t subscribe to the soak-the-rich idea…in the fall”:
New York Times,
June 20–21, 1935.

“That certain elements of business”: From Howard, Aug. 26, 1935; released by White House, Sept. 6, 1935.

“This basic program”: Open letter to Howard, Sept. 2, 1935; released by White House, Sept. 6, 1935.

“The statement that his basic program”:
New York Times,
Sept. 7, 1935.

“I always laughed Huey off”: Ickes, 1:462.

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32

“The menace of Bolshevism”: Leuchtenburg, 205–06.

“canonization of impudence”: H. W. Brands,
Inside the Cold War: Loy Henderson and the Rise of the American Empire, 1918–1961
(1991), 39–42.

“His face lit up with a big smile”: Dallek, 79; Morgenthau, 1:57.

“Litvinov and I continued to argue”: From Bullitt, Nov. 15, 1933,
FRUS: Soviet Union, 1933–1939,
25–26.

“I trust that the relations now established”: To Litvinov, Nov. 16, 1933.

“Not even off the record”: Press conference, March 29, 1933.

“The movement to make international justice practicable”: Message, Jan. 16, 1935.

“I appeal to every solid American”:
New York Times,
Jan. 28, 1935.

“From the strictly constitutional standpoint”: Press conference, Jan. 23, 1935.

“I am speaking to you tonight”:
New York Times,
Jan. 28, 1935.

“Any comment to make”: Press conference, Jan. 30, 1935.

“As to the 36 gentlemen”:
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Foreign Affairs,
2:381.

“highly unethical, a discredit to American business”:
Report of the Special Committee on Investigation of the Munitions Industry
(Nye Report), U.S. Senate, 74th Congress, 2nd sess., Feb. 24, 1936.

“Abolish the ROTC!”:
New York Times,
April 13, 1935.

“These are without doubt”: To Long, March 9, 1935,
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Foreign Affairs,
2:437–38.

“No one today knows”: From Pittman, Feb. 19, 1935,
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Foreign Affairs,
2:423.

“We do want and ought to have”: Press conference, July 19, 1935.

“I have approved this Joint Resolution”: Signing statement, Aug. 31, 1935.

“It was a curious experience”: Ickes, 1:477.

“either possess great wealth”:
New York Times,
Dec. 5, 1935.

“Whether or not he read”: Ickes, 1:480.

“In March 1933”: Annual message, Jan. 3, 1936.

“I speak tonight to this Democratic meeting”: Address, Jan. 8, 1936.

“The listeners in the dining room”:
New York Times,
Jan. 26, 1936.

“I was born in the Democratic party”: Ibid.

“Unless the Republican party is delivered”: Ibid., Nov. 9, 1934.

“Our problems have been intensified…win the election”: Schlesinger, 3:539–41.