Word: rooseveltisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moley, Moley, Moley, Lord God Almighty" was a much-quoted squib in Washington during the first New Deal, when Professor Raymond Moley was indeed mighty in the Brain Trust. While Mr. Moley was serving Franklin Roosevelt and accumulating a reputation for vanity, he was also storing away a vast stock of personal notes, memoranda and unwritten recollections. Last week the written sum of it appeared in book form, a good 20 years before Franklin Roosevelt might normally have expected himself and his early administration to be thus exposed from within...
...Franklin Roosevelt is a changeable, charming, warmhearted, gullible, formidable man. ". . . When crossed he is hard, stubborn, resourceful, relentless," Moley wrote to his sister Nell in 1932. ". . . He seems quite naturally warm and friendly . . . because he just enjoys the pleasant and engaging role, as a charming woman does. . . . The frightening aspect ... is F. D. R.'s great receptivity. So far as I know he makes no effort to check up on anything I or anyone else has told him. I wonder what would happen if we should selfishly try to put things over...
...Janizary Tom Corcoran, whom Raymond Moley introduced to palace councils, appears as a perennial sophomore. Author Moley blandly notes a private talk with Corcoran. Said Corcoran, explaining how he would get around Franklin Roosevelt's implied promise to put the late Joe Robinson on the Supreme Court: ". . . There aren't any binding promises in politics. There isn't any binding law. You just know that the strongest side wins...
...After Raymond Moley began to edit Today (now, with him, merged with Newsweek), he had a chat with Franklin Roosevelt. "Did I realize, I was asked, that when I made a speech or wrote an editorial I was quoted by the Republican press only because of the fact that I was formerly a member of his administration? It took a minute to answer that one as gently as I knew I must...
...Harper ($3). Columnist Walter Winchell this week gossiped that when a Cabinet member asked Mr. Roosevelt what he thought of the Moley memoirs, the President replied: "... I trusted...