When he took office Franklin D. Roosevelt may have hoped that his political honeymoon could be made to last forever. Few new Presidents had hoped for less. For a full twelve months he successfully held Congress in a state of passionate adoration. The country at large got the firm-fixed impression that he was invincible, that he was destined to go through one term and probably two the complete master of himself and Washington. But last week brought two events in close succession which showed that even a Franklin D. Roosevelt cannot win a...
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