Forgotten Man, the
“press conference, a little-noticed event took place at the White House. Felix Frankfurter moved in.
The arrival of Frankfurter signaled a shift in Roosevelt’s outlook. He was tired of utopias, he now decided. They had not necessarily helped the economy. The hope that experiments like the NRA would bring full recovery had not proven valid. Roosevelt had played around with economics, and economics hadn’t served him very well. He would therefore give up on the discipline and concentrate on an area... he knew better, politics.
The president formulated a bet. If he followed his political instincts, furiously converting ephemeral bits of legislation into solid law for specific groups of voters, then he would win reelection. He would focus on farmers, big labor, pensioners, veterans, perhaps women and blacks. He would get through a law for pensioners, and one for organized labor, with the aid of Frances Perkins and Robert Wagner. Rex Tugwell would take care of the poor and homeless of the countryside—Tugwell was to have a staff of more than 6,000, $91 million, and options on ten million acres of land, all to try out suburban and rural resettlement.MoreLess
The arrival of Frankfurter signaled a shift in Roosevelt’s outlook. He was tired of utopias, he now decided. They had not necessarily helped the economy. The hope that experiments like the NRA would bring full recovery had not proven valid. Roosevelt had played around with economics, and economics hadn’t served him very well. He would therefore give up on the discipline and concentrate on an area... he knew better, politics.
The president formulated a bet. If he followed his political instincts, furiously converting ephemeral bits of legislation into solid law for specific groups of voters, then he would win reelection. He would focus on farmers, big labor, pensioners, veterans, perhaps women and blacks. He would get through a law for pensioners, and one for organized labor, with the aid of Frances Perkins and Robert Wagner. Rex Tugwell would take care of the poor and homeless of the countryside—Tugwell was to have a staff of more than 6,000, $91 million, and options on ten million acres of land, all to try out suburban and rural resettlement.MoreLess
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