He became disenchanted with Roosevelt and the New Deal following FDR's unsuccessful attempt to increase the size of the Supreme Court.

Truman, who had served nearly all of FDR's unexpired fourth term and who had been elected to a full term in 1948, thought it better to resume the tradition of leaving office after two terms, rather than run for reelection in 1952.

While his paternal family had become prosperous early on in New York real estate and trade, much of his family's wealth had been built by FDR's maternal grandfather, Warren Delano, in the China trade, including opium and tea.

Numerous party leaders privately told Roosevelt that they would fight Wallace's renomination as VP and proposed Missouri Senator Harry S. Truman, a moderate who had gained favorable publicity as the chairman of a Senate wartime investigating committee, as FDR's new running mate.

Sunrise at Campobello depicts the debilitating effects of FDR's illness to a greater extent than had been previously disclosed by the media.

Carlson still had the President's ear as well as FDR's son James Roosevelt, who was now a Marine Captain and was his friend and protégé.

" FDR's campaign manager used that information as the basis for saying that the League had behaved so badly that it " had to be repudiated by the regular Republican organization ," further drawing the League into protestations of nonpartisanship that highlighted its partisan role.

Senator Bennett Clark asserted that Morris Ernst, attorney for the New York Post, had contacted the White House trying to engage the administration to smear FDR's opposition.

While Roosevelt's adversaries feared the possibility of " totalitarian New Dealism ," some of FDR's supporters had no such qualms: though he resented the suggestion, Roosevelt was often seen in the 1930s as a " benevolent dictator.

A factor that may have led to her illness was stress stemming from fears that the exiled Princess Martha of Norway, a Washington-area resident during World War II, had replaced her as FDR's favorite companion, occupying the seat next to him that had long been hers in automobile rides.

Early's tenure as press secretary was also marked by stringent restrictions on photographers, largely aimed at hiding the severity of FDR's polio or his worsening immobility.

During this period, she also published a memoir of her time in FDR's administration called The Roosevelt I Knew, which offered a sympathetic view of the president.

Published in 1973, the biography also contains valuable insights into FDR's run for vice-president, his rise to the governorship of New York, and his capture of the presidency in 1932, particularly with the help of Louis Howe.

After being sworn in on October 14, 1940, Ball stunned his fellow conservatives in his first speech on the Senate floor, calling for the United States to aid Britain as " a barrier between us and whatever designs Hitler and his allies may have on this continent ," Though he was an opponent of the New Deal, he supported FDR's foreign policy, voting in favor of the lend-lease program on March 8, 1941 in spite of letters from his constituents that ran " 25 to 1 against the bill ".

He was a major foreign policy adviser to President Franklin D. Roosevelt and served as Under Secretary of State from 1937 to 1943, during FDR's presidency.

In 1947 she bought from the FDR estate Val-Kill farms, the home she lived in after FDR's death, and deeded the property to Roosevelt.

Farley was an appointed official and resigned his post from General Builders when he joined FDR's cabinet.

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Hickok became the executive secretary of the Women's Division of the Democratic National Committee ( DNC ) in 1940, and from early January, 1941 until shortly after FDR's fourth inauguration in 1945, she lived at the White House.

Called ' Roosevelt and the Revisionists ' and based on his earlier biography of Roosevelt, it argued that FDR's New Deal was intended to save capitalism, and so deserved conservative support.

In the House of Representatives he opposed the isolationism of many of his conservative Republican colleagues, opposed anti-lynching legislation on state's rights grounds, rejected minimum wage laws and most of FDR's domestic policy.

Others read the situation politically and blamed FDR's " appeasement of Southern Democrats.

This included the Southern Democrats, who were an important part of FDR's New Deal coalition.

According to the Pew Research Center study, Conservative Democrats are 15 % of registered voters in the U. S., voted for Kerry over Bush by a 65 %- 14 % margin in 2004, and were identified in past Pew Research Center studies as New Dealers rather than Conservative Democrats, making this group of voters the ideological heirs to FDR's New Deal coalition and the " Vital Center " ideology of the 1950s.

FDR's admirers such as Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. have argued that New Deal policies, developed in response to the crash of 1929 and the miseries of the Great Depression under Herbert Hoover, represented an entirely new phenomenon in American politics.

Later the same year, Congressman John J. Boylan jumped off FDR's starting point and urged Congress to create the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Commission.

* Leuchtenburg, William E. In the Shadow of FDR: From Harry Truman to Barack Obama ( 2009 ), traces FDR's influence

Because of her work on FDR's campaigns ( and ER's intense lobbying ), Dewson was appointed head of the Democratic National Committee's Women's Division ( DNC ).

* Welles, Benjamin, Sumner Welles: FDR's Global Strategist: A Biography, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute Series on Diplomatic and Economic History ( NY: St. Martin's Press, 1997 ), ISBN 0-312-17440-3

Willkie claimed that he would keep most of FDR's New Deal welfare and regulatory programs, but that he would make them more efficient and effective, and that he would work more closely with business leaders to end the Great Depression.

" However, the abuse went both ways, as historian William Manchester noted: " above all, he should never have been subjected to the accusation of Henry Wallace, FDR's new vice-presidential candidate, that Willkie was the Nazis ' choice.

The far left ( comprising Communist Party members and fellow travelers ) wanted to continue détente with Russia, and followed FDR's vice president Henry Wallace in a quixotic crusade in 1948 that failed to win broad support and, indeed, largely destroyed the far left in the Democratic party.

However, according to Russell D. Buhite and David W. Levy, in their introduction to FDR's Fireside Chats, " The term ' Fireside Chat ' was not coined by Roosevelt, but by Harry C. Butcher of CBS, who used the two words in a network press release before the speech of May 7, 1933.

The veterans ' organizations mobilized support in Congress that rejected FDR's approach and provided benefits only to veterans of military service, including men and women.

Hillman and Dubinsky founded the American Labor Party in 1936, an ostensibly independent party that served as a halfway house for Socialists and other leftists who wanted to support FDR's reelection but were not prepared to join the Democratic Party, with its alliance with the most reactionary white elites in the South.

The first modern slates of unpledged electors were fielded in the 1944 election as a protest against FDR's New Deal and support for desegregation.

Hillman used the ACWA as a base, along with the ILGWU led by David Dubinsky, in founding the American Labor Party in 1936, an ostensibly independent party that served as a halfway house for Socialists and other leftists who wanted to support FDR's reelection but were not prepared to join the Democratic Party.

This coalition brought together labor unions, southern Dixiecrats, progressives, and others in support of FDR's economic program, even though these groups strongly disagreed on other issues.

Energized by his personal victory over paralytic illness, FDR's unfailing optimism and activism contributed to a renewal of the national spirit.

FDR's New Deal Coalition united labor unions, big city machines, white ethnics, African Americans and rural white Southerners.

Wallace, who was FDR's second Vice President, was regarded by most conservatives as being too left-wing and personally eccentric to be next in line for the Presidency.

The fight over the vice presidential nomination proved to be historic, as FDR's declining health led to his death in April 1945, and Truman thus became the nation's 33rd President instead of Wallace.

FDR and Eastland developed a working relationship that enabled Eastland to oppose New Deal programs unpopular in Mississippi while he supported FDR's agenda on many other issues.

Because of his opposition to FDR's plan to inflate the dollar by controlling gold prices, he was forced to resign in November 1933 and resumed his law practice.

A leftist populist, he was preparing to challenge FDR's reelection in 1936 in alliance with radio's influential Catholic priest Charles Coughlin, or run for president in 1940 when Franklin Roosevelt was expected to retire.

With a little fear and a lot of racial hostility, the Federal Government sent Japanese and Japanese Americans to internment camps according to FDR's Executive Order 9066.

Local ranchers, outraged at loss of lands they wanted to graze and comparing this action of FDR's to Hitler's taking of Austria, were led by the aging Beery as they protested by herding 500 cattle across the monument lands without a permit.

Some writers and editors took issue with this strip's criticisms of FDR's New Deal and 1930s labor unionism.

He supported Prohibition, opposed FDR, and worked against FDR's New Deal.

Congress challenged the legality of FDR's recess appropriation, but construction of the new airport continued.

Suddenly stricken with fever and then paralysis, subsequent scenes focus on the ensuing conflict in the following weeks between the bedridden FDR, his wife Eleanor, his mother Sara, and his close political adviser Louis Howe over FDR's political future.

Although FDR's disease was earlier attributed to poliomyelitis, a 2003 peer-reviewed study found that six of eight Bayesian posterior probabilities favored a diagnosis of Guillain-Barré syndrome over poliomyelitis.

FDR's attending physician, Dr. William Keen, believed it was polio and commended Eleanor's devotion to the stricken Franklin during that time of travail, as portrayed in Sunrise at Campobello.