On this day in history, Feb. 5, 1937, FDR planned to pack the Supreme Court to create support for his New Deal agenda, which sought to give government broader authority to help Americans recover post-Depression.
" and reforms in"industry, agriculture, finance, waterpower, labor and housing" to respond to the woes the Great Depression had wrought, that site notes, and would greatly increase the federal government’s activities and reach. to address the"ravages" of the Great Depression, American voters had"overwhelmingly" voted for the idea of a New Deal for the"forgotten man" proposed by Roosevelt, that site also says.
Shown above, President Franklin Delano delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Jan. 6, 1941. It would be remembered as his "Four Freedoms" speech. He continued,"A weapon which, in the hands of another president in times of war or other hysteria, could well be an instrument of destruction.""A weapon that can cut down those guarantees of liberty written into your great document by the blood of your forefathers and that can extinguish your right of liberty, of speech, of thought, of action and of religion.
Roosevelt’s reorganization plan was deemed unnecessary — and in July the Senate struck it down by a vote of 70 to 22.
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