The Forgotten Man is a very interesting book. I found it fascinating that liberalism of the 1930’s stemmed from the former Soviet Union’s communism. In the 1920’s a group of academics and union men traveled to visit Stalin and Trotsky. Stalin welcomed them and put on an impressive show for th...
THE MEETINGS TOOK PLACE once a week. He scheduled them at 9:30 A.M. on Fridays, before the session with the full cabinet at eleven. That was not really enough time, especially when the cabinet meetings began at 10:30 instead of eleven. He and the budget director actually needed more minutes, not ...
Yet the four septuagenarians made their way through it on January 20, 1937, wading across soggy red carpet to wet seats. Pierce Butler, Willis Van Devanter, George Sutherland, and James McReynolds joined two others and listened as their colleague, Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, administered ...