The Shadow of FDR

For Wednesday, read the Schoen chapters on Nixon (Canvas).

Questions on the paper?

Coolidge:

Hoover

Connections

FDR a distant cousin of TR, who gave away Eleanor at their wedding. The connection helped him get the VP nomination in 1920 but he also moved away from the Roosevelt Corollary with The Good Neighbor Policy.

FDR and Wilson

• FDR served as Woodrow Wilson’s Assistant Secretary of the Navy from 1913–1920: was also in touch with his British counterpart, Winston Churchill
• Wilson's "New Freedom" program was a template for the New deal and war leadership provided a model for FDR, who later adopted similar interventionist approaches to economic crises and global conflict. 
• WWI precedents for WWII;  financing through bonds, extensive use of propaganda; J. Edgar Hoover.
• League of Nations was both a model and a cautionary tale.

FDR expands presidential hard power:

• Comparisons with Trump
• Inaugural address (4:00)
• The New Deal and Administrative State
• Influence over Congress and the 100 Days
• Executive Office of the President and WH staff
• Supreme Court
• Failed court-packing scheme
• But eventually got a liberal majority
• War Powers: 
• Rationing and economic control
• Military establishment
• Internment of Japanese Americans under Executive Order 9066. 

FDR Soft Power

• Rhetorical presidency and "Fireside Chats" -- not always on specific policy
• Portrayal of POTUS in newsreels and movies -- concealing his disability

Ike does not repeal the New Deal, instead warns of the military-industrial complex that had started to grow under FDR

JFK

• Joe Kennedy was first head of the SEC and Ambassador to Britain
• 1960 campaign, clutching the hem of FDR's garment