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In reply to the discussion: Please say no to Hillary Clinton in 2016! [View all]BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)detractor of President FDR from his Left.
This is what Schlesinger wrote about what Gov. Long said in early 1935:
"Long retained deep suspicions of some of Roosevelts associates. A day or two before the inauguration, he came to (FDR advisor and braintruster Raymond) Moleys room at the Mayflower, kicked the door open, chewed on an apple, and said pugnaciously, "I dont like you and your goddamned banker friends!"...and in May denounced the administration on the ground that it was dominated by the same old clique of bankers who had controlled Hoover. "Parker Gilbert from Morgan & Company, Leffingwell, Ballantine, Eugene Meyer, every one of them are here whats the use of hemming and hawing? (Schlesinger, The Politics of Upheaval 54-55)
Sound familiar to you, Riverlover?