He Ran the
NRA

Published some time after the demise of the NRA, this article presents a thumbnail profile of Hugh S. Johnson (1882 – 1942), FDR's fair-haired boy who ran that shop from start to finish. He was once again in the news after having compared the New Deal to a corrupt, fascist dictatorship:

"Under the seduction of ballyhoo, bribery and charm, we are moving away from the democracy imagined by the Constitution and straight toward as rigid a dictatorship as there is on earth."