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Gleaming pink, starkness, he gave the president a full shot, frontal shot. The president was embarrassed and started to back out. Think nothing of it, thundered churchill. The Prime Minister has nothing to hide, from the president of the United States. Hopkins, whether true or not, some say its not, hopkins behind out on that story for years. He was a gambler on horses and cars, even the time of day. Married three times, between the second and third marriages, he dated glamorous womenhave movie ...

Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily BeastAbout the authors: James Roosevelt, Jr. is a grandson of President Franklin Roosevelt and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Henry Scott Wallace’s grandfather, Henry A. Wallace, served President Franklin Roosevelt as Secretary of Agriculture, Vice President, and Secretary of Commerce.Pop quiz: Who said this?“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”Well, most recently, it was Donald Trump, in an angry Truth Social post on th...

New Deal hampered recovery by causing businessmen to fear policy changes that might render their investments unprofitable.) Insulls Monstrosity The 1935 Revenue Act wasnt the only measure that had businessmen and investors shuddering that August. Less than a week after it became law, FDR signed the still-more controversial Public Utility Holding Company Act, granting the SEC the power to break up the nations utility holding companies. On the eve of the Depression, Paul Mahoney explains, most U....

The New Deal and Recovery, Part 12: Fear Itself SHARE "This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. …[T]he only thing we have to fear is fear itself." —FDR, in his first inaugural address. "There is no place for industry; because the fruit thereof is uncertain." —Thomas Hobbes, on the state of nature, in Leviathan. Not the Sum of its Parts So far, Ive tended to look at the New Deal as a set or sequence of distinct government policies and programs,...