John Garner on F.D.R. (Collier's, 1948)
A printable article by John Nance Garner (1868 – 1967), FDR's first Vice-President (1933 -1941), who wrote a number of pieces for the readers of "Collier's" magazine in 1948 outlining the various reasons for their contentious relationship. This four page article is a segment of a longer one that laid out the cause for one of their most bitter arguments: the Flint Sit-Down Strike (1936 - 1937).
"Cactus Jack" Garner bickered with F.D.R. on a number of issues; primarily supporting a balanced federal budget and opposing F.D.R.'s efforts to pack the Supreme Court. Within these attached pages, Garner tells how Roosevelt lost the support of his Democratic Congress.
| FDR and the African-American Vote of 1944 (Yank, 1944)
A segment from a longer article regarding the 1944 presidential election and the widespread disillusionment held by many Black voters regarding the failings of Roosevelt's New Deal:"...the Negro vote, about two million strong, is shifting back into the Republican column."The report is largely based upon the observations of one "Harper's Magazine" correspondent named Earl Brown.
| Leon Trotsky Speaks About FDR and the Depression (Script, 1938)
There were only two and a half years left for the exiled Leon Trotsky (né Lev Davidovich Bronstein: 1879 – 1940) until he would keep his his rendezvous with an icepick in Mexico - and while living it up on this borrowed time he granted an interview to this one correspondent from a Beverly Hills literary magazine in which he ranted on in that highly-dated and terribly awkward Bolsheviki language about President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his social programs.
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| The Okies and the Dust Bowl (Ken Magazine, 1938)
"The other half of California's 200,000 migratory workers are farmers who trekked from the dust bowl area; they found work on farms, but not farming; it's seasonal piecework, like in a mill. Each Oklahoma nomad dreams of a cottage and a cow, but he's just sitting on a barbed wire fence. With the publicity over, the government has forgotten the dust bowl refugees. At Depression depth, a man might make $8 a week; now, $5 is lucky. They are the bitterest folk in America; blood may flow..."
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