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...President. Secretive he can be (about Third Term, for instance). But he is not isolated. Around him, on the pedestal where Presidents must live, are men on whom he relies. In seven years the make up of that group has changed several times. In 1933 it centred on Raymond Moley, in 1935 Rexford Guy Tugwell was one of its leading figures, and Corcoran and Cohen were in the ascendant. As the President sets out on his Third Term odyssey, the complexion of the group has changed again...
Harry Hopkins possibly excepted. Franklin Roosevelt has no one, general adviser, no "Assistant President" (Raymond Moley tried to fill the role, got booted out for his pains). Such facile young "killers" as Corcoran & Cohen understand this facet of their chief, do not sulk when they are neglected for days on end. Harold Ickes does not understand, wrings his heart because he cannot be all things all the time to Franklin Roosevelt, who nevertheless esteems and frequently consults explosive Mr. Ickes...
These had been Mr. Willkie's Farley, Moley, Frankfurter, Rosenman, Howe, Hull, Wallace, Woodin and Tugwell; his braintrust and his backers, working for him-at least at first-against his will. Neither Davenport nor Root knew anything practical about winning votes and influencing people, but they did have faith, and it nearly burned them...
Everybody was an Isolationist, regardless of party. The first New Dealers who went to Washington with Franklin Roosevelt were the New Isolationists, intent on a Brave New World. Raymond Moley, impatient with the fuddy-duddy, international-cooperation ideas of Tennessee's Cordell Hull, was horrified at the President's willingness to consult with Herbert Hoover's world-minded Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson. "Three thousand miles of good green water" on each coast seemed an ample guaranty of security forever...
...first, in the glittering company of Raymond Moley and the other brilliant original New Dealers, Mr. Hull's homespun generalities and international outlook seemed dreamy idealism. But over the years Cordell Hull showed staying-power, and gradually Franklin Roosevelt became a Hull man, carrying out Hull doctrines, whereas nowhere was there evidence that Mr. Hull was a New Dealer. "I just tends to ma inte'national affairs," he always said when chums tried to needle him into criticisms of the gyrating show around...