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...Second-term Freshmen...
...Gained in Pollster Gallup's popularity index as a second-term President-up to 64%; still lagged below 50% as a Term III executive...
...business slump of last fall, (the Roosevelt Recession), had by winter weakened President Roosevelt's hold upon Congress to the slipping point. Entering an election year, no Congress obeys a second-term President whose popularity is on the skids. But the Recession gave Franklin Roosevelt a reason for thinking about other things besides reforms, and a long, windy, fruitless digression by Congress on the subject of lynching gave him time to calculate. In late January, he created a diversion by calling for a Big Navy. In February, he called for $250,000,000 extra money for Relief. In April...
...That in the heat of battle he had lost his head; that he had determined to quell once and for all the spirit of revolt that is apt to affect second-term Congresses; that he was ignorant or heedless of the fact that by his course he was permanently splitting an already divided party and risking everything to gain little, even if he won on the immediate Court issue...
...Those interested in immediate or routine questions-inauguration ceremonies (Admiral Gary T. Grayson), CCC continuation (Director Fechner), tax revision (Senator Pat Harrison, Representative Bob Doughton), budget (Secretary Morgenthau, Chairman Eccles of the Federal Reserve)-got immediate answers. But Franklin Roosevelt, having waved aside for a whole month matters of second-term policy, gave no sign that he was ready promptly on return to give cues on such major projects as reviving the substance of NRA, or undertaking new adventures in foreign policy...